Examined whether a difference exists between perceived and actual use of alcohol by college student athletes (N=290). Found students accurately perceived response of others but failed to perceive the overall level of alcohol use reflected by the distribution of responses. (Author/ABL)

The study comparing perceptual judgments of speech disfluency by 20 mothers of either stuttering or normally fluent children found no appreciable differences between groups in their judgments. Both groups of mothers most frequently judged sound/syllable repetitions to be stuttered, followed by whole-word repetitions and broken words. (Author/DB)

Preferences for moving versus static bars were assessed in 8-, 16-, and 20-week-old infants. Findings revealed that at both 16 and 20 weeks, preferences were affected only by the velocity of the bar's movement. This effect persisted at 20 weeks even when static reference features were added to the display. (RH)

Investigated elementary school counselors' (N=130) perceptions of aspects of their ideal and actual daily work. The results revealed that three of the five highest ranked actual role items involved consultant functions, two involved individual counseling with students. Ideally, counselors reported they would like to help teachers help students.…

Investigated relationship between identity status and structural features of individual's personal construct system. Elicited personal constructs relevant to 10 contemporaneous roles from 75 college students who also completed identity-status measure. Correlational analyses between identity-status scores and structural features of the self-system…

Urges educators to examine the role that intuition can play in the teaching-learning process. Analyzes four models of intuitive knowledge, and reviews arguments against intuitive claims to knowledge. Discusses the universality of intuition, its relationship to self-evident truths, and its role in scientific discoveries, inventions, and art. (DMM)

Results indicated that in both adults and infants combined cues facilitate discrimination of the phonemic contrast regardless of whether the cues cooperate or conflict. The three experiments did not support a phonetic interpretation of conflicting/cooperating cues for the perception of final stop consonant voicing. (Author/DB)

Comparison of the auditory frequency resolving ability of preschool children, school-aged children, and adults found data from children as young as three-years-old that were qualitatively indistinguishable from adult data though threshold estimates from young children were more variable from run to run than from adults. Increasing age improved…

Argues that "persistence of vision" myth (the succession of still images perceived as continuous motion) has a place in the history of film scholarship but can no longer be given currency in film theory. Suggests replacement of the concept of the passive viewer implied by the myth by an enlightened understanding of how viewers actually…

Two studies explored preschool children's beliefs about the relationship between perceptually based similarity among things and their predicted behaviors by focusing on form-function correspondences. Perceptual similarity, if motivated by intuitive beliefs about correspondences between form and function was found to be sufficient basis for…

Memory for object motion in three-month-old infants was investigated across different time intervals in three studies using a novelty preference method. Results indicated a significant preference for the novel motion after a one-minute delay, a significant preference for the familiar motion after a one-month delay, and no preferences at the…

Two studies examined three- and five-year-old children's and adults' explicit and implicit memory for pictures, using measures of recognition memory and perceptual facilitation. Found that recognition memory and perceptual facilitation were related for adults but not for children at either age. (MDM)

Tested 7 and 10 month olds for perception of correlations among facial features. After habituation to faces displaying a pattern of correlation, 10 month olds generalized to a novel face that preserved the pattern of correlation but showed increased attention to a novel face that violated the pattern. (BC)

Surveyed 80 special education directors regarding functions of school psychologists. Results revealed that there was no single activity accounting for majority of school psychologist's time. Psychologists were rated as more effective in assessment, consulting, and crisis intervention. Activities rated as needing more involvement were counseling…

Assessed auditory temporal acuity among infants of 3, 6, and 12 months of age and adults. Gap detection thresholds were quite poor in infants. Effects of restricting the range of frequencies available for detecting gaps were qualitatively similar for infants and adults. (GLR)