Argues that confusion in understanding the process of listening can be alleviated by adopting an information processing approach to listening. Presents a model and discusses listening strategies. (PD)

Reports experiments in which college students provided color names for a series of color stimuli, matched color names with the same stimuli, and described colors represented by a series of elaborate color terms. Sex-related differences were found in the matching task. Women used more elaborate descriptions than men. (Author/AMH)

Employers from 13 different health care settings in Illinois responded to a questionnaire to identify major issues affecting health occupations education. The five major concerns of employers were the need for improved communication between educational and service institutions, improved understanding of roles, overspecialization, lack of regional…

This study examined the ability of the Listen and Look (LL) test of cross-modal perception and the Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT) to predict reading achievement. Data from 79 first-grade pupils were analyzed. Both the LL and MRT demonstrated predictive validity. (Author/BW)

Three experiments employed rectangles in stimulus identification tasks. It was concluded that the initial perceptual processing of rectangles is accomplished by separate dimensional analyzers operating in parallel. Observers adopt different decision strategies for negatively correlated sets and for single dimension sets when the number of…

In a comparison of the performance of active and passive mechanically yoked subjects who learned their way through a tactile maze, it was shown that active subjects made more errors and took a greater number of trials to reach criterion than did passive subjects. (Author)

High school teachers were separated into groups of four to complete educationally related or noneducationally related ranking tasks. While no significant differences were found between the number of initial suggestions which the group accepted, males made significantly more accepted final arguments for items on the ranking tasks. (Author)

Examined the conditions under which infants employ (1) spatial codes respondent to objects central to their visual field and (2) spatial codes respondent to objects peripheral to their visual field. (DB)

The author suggests that the transdisciplinary approach, in which rigid boundaries of professionals' disciplines are broken down to facilitate teamwork, is the most effective way to implement mandates of P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act.

The authors discuss the school psychologist's role as part of the Exceptional Education Programs in Wisconsin Corrections. They examine the traditional training of school psychologists and explore the need for additional role development. (Editor/CT)

Tested 61 randomly selected college students to determine whether methodologies employed in psycholinguistic investigation of sentence perception can be used to ascertain how screen media communicate. The paralinguistic techniques were not transferable to the examination of visual perception. More than 60 references are listed. (FM)

Explored the perspective of young adult grandchildren concerning relationships with grandparents. Four relationship variables were examined: amount of contact, assessed adequacy of contact, importance of the relationship, and role conception. Results supported the position that grandparents remain a significant factor in the lives of young adults.…

Describes a voluntary desegregation program implemented in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Presents results of a study designed to relate program compliance with parent racial/ethnic group perceptions regarding accomplishments of specific program objectives, including racial balance, provision of remedial services, basic skills centers, and provision…

Examined the effects of a stimulus person's gender and sex role identity and an observer's gender and sex role identity on the observer's judgment of the stimulus person's personality and level of adjustment. (Author/GC)

A review of all available experimental data indicates that the task-evoked pupillary response, a physiological measure of processing "mental effort," accurately reflects within-task, between-task and between-individual variations in processing demands. (Author/RH)