The author's approach to the conceptualization and measurement of natural cognitions which may have some relevance for the study of values is presented. Research on natural cognitions, or ideas entertained by people before an experimenter comes along to disturb them attempts to assess pre-existing concepts which are grouped initially according to…

Designed to aid in developing auditory perception, this manual provides a program of remediation for children at the fourth through sixth-grade level. The book is divided into two sections. The first consists of seventy-five essays, each written at three levels of difficulty. The level most appropriate for the student is determined and is used for…

The report summarizes the aims of a 3-year program of work concerned with psychological factors in solar observing. Part I identifies several psychological factors which may affect solar observing and outlines a program of research. Part II is a report of a program of studies dealing with the application of visual perceptions in solar flare…

The contention that younger veterans differ from their elders in their attitudes and expectations was shown to be an inaccurate generalization on the basis of this reported inquiry. Three general classes of informational data were collected from both younger and older veterans: (1) perception of hospital services; (2) patient problems and services…

The primary objectives of this research program were the development of a battery of tests to investigate the effects of brain impairment on sensory and perceptual functioning. The Sensory-Perceptual Exam (SPE) contains measures intended to evaluate both relatively "pure" sensory functions, as well as those which involve more integrated…

This descriptive study proposed that students in a living-learning community would be more liberal in their attitudes, less tradiaionally oriented and more frequently hippie and activist in philosophy than a control group from the larger university. Females were anticipated to be more traditional than males. One hundred males and females from a…

Faculty role conflicts with respect to 17 work activities are examined in a rapidly changing university School of Education. Actual and perceived expectations for each activity with respect to the role sets of undergraduate and graduate students, administrators, and faculty themselves are shown. Difficulty in fulfilling expectations is a third…

This book contends that we create the world we perceive because we select and edit reality to conform to our beliefs; that our cultural mind has come to a point where the dissonance between reality and false beliefs is so great that it is impossible to avoid the awareness that the world no longer makes sense; and that only once this awareness…

This primer of ecological principles serves as a practical guide to pleasure and perception in the out-of-doors-pleasure in the simple values and rustic charms of outdoor recreation and in an ecological understanding of the great web of life; and perception of our beautiful yet threatened environment and of the individual practices and policies…

Embodied in this collection of readings in environmental awareness are excerpts, statements, testimony, and personal philosophies presented by national leaders concerned with our environment. Major items include: "Environmental Literacy" by Richard Nixon from his introduction to the First Annual Report of the Council on Environmental Quality,…

Book excerpts, editorials, poems, speeches, newsletter and journal articles, and congressional testimony are compiled in this anthology to aid in the understanding of environmental education and environmental awareness. Major items include: "Poems and Other Expressions of Environmental Concern" by Morton Leeds; "Man, Nature, and the Ecological…

The items in this annotated bibliography include studies, journal literature, USOE-sponsored research, and the conference proceedings of the International Reading Association, covering the years 1950 to 1969. Part I is devoted to "Audition" which encompasses reports based on all aspects of listening and its relationship to reading, and "Auditory…

Retention of verbal material presented in a normal linear manner was compared to retention of the same material presented in simultaneous messages for this study. The subjects were 180 undergraduates, and each was randomly assigned to one of the nine experimental groups formed by combinations of presentation--linear, two simultaneous messages, or…

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DOGMATISM ON THE PART OF SCHOOL PRINCIPALS AND ACCURACY OF OTHERS IN ESTIMATING THEIR LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOR WAS STUDIED. THE LEADER BEHAVIOR DESCRIPTION QUESTIONNAIRE (LBDQ) AND THE ROKEACH DOGMATISM SCALE (RDS) WERE THE INSTRUMENTS USED FOR MEASUREMENT. A SAMPLE OF 24 PRINCIPALS WAS SELECTED AND ADMINISTERED THE…

Hypotheses concerning clergymen's enjoyment of their pastoral contacts with older parishioners are examined. The hypotheses test the ideas that ministers do not enjoy pastoral contacts with the elderly and that these contacts reflect the clergymen's ageist preferences and concern with instrumental over expressive values. Results are discussed.…