Findings indicated that the speech training program significantly improved the auditory speech perception of the hearing impaired Ss. (DLS)

Examined are the problem similarity dimensions perceived by a student when classifying mathematical word problems as related and the relationship between a student's perception of problem similarity and performance on achievement tests. (MP)

Five experiments were conducted in an attempt to establish whether elementary school children find it difficult to identify certain geometrical shapes when presented in the less usual orientations. (MP)

Visual perceptual abilities of 47 institutionalized trainable retarded Ss (mean age 20 years) were compared on selected measures of visual perception. (Author/PHR)

The relationships among perceptual field independence, biological sex, sex-role identity, self-esteem, and intelligence were explored in tests measuring these variables which were administered to 50 male and 50 female college students. (Author/PHR)

The schema hypothesis proposed by Kagan and Lewis was used to make predictions concerning the preferences of infants 3 to 14 months old for speech stimuli. An operant response method was used in determining the infants' preferences for inflected, monotone, and scrambled natural speech stimuli. (MS)

The results of this study provide educators and researchers with further information concerning selected elementary students' ability to catch balls as a result of specific ball color and background color combinations, therefore offering some additional insight into factors that influence catching behavior. (MB)

Construct validity of the Personal Orientation Inventory was investigated. A sample of graduate students were administered the inventory immediately after a stressful experience and again two weeks later after the stressful experience had been resolved. Two of the twelve inventory subscales, Self Regard and Self Acceptance showed significant…

Examines the concept that all perceptual development seems to involve the tactile or sense of feel and attempts to comprehend this relationship. Its implications for teaching reading and for developing instructional techniques are also considered. (Author/RK)

Explores the possibility that measurable individual differences in hypnotic susceptibility or the ability to attend selectively to informational cues may account for a portion of the variability found in several types of geometrical visual illusions. (Author/RK)

Under conditions of serial recall of auditorily presented lists of digits, recall of the last item has been shown to be adversely affected by the presence of a redundant item following the list. It is shown that the size of this effect, the suffix effect, is not influenced by the phonological complexity of the suffix. (Editor/RK)

Older individuals have been reported to use imagery mediation less in remembering verbal material. To determine whether this is due to decrease in the speed with which verbal stimuli are recoded into pictorial representations, the reaction time of 12 old (63-78) and 12 young (17-25) subjects for matching verbal descriptions to geometric shapes was…

The author discusses the use of reality therapy to alleviate discipline problems in the school. The counselor's role in the application of such an approach is discussed. (EJT)