It is proposed here that adults process orientation information at different levels and that these levels correspond to developmental stages in the coding of orientation in childhood. (Author)

Three experiments investigated the relationship in speech perception between the mechanisms that determine the source of speech sounds and those that analyze their actual acoustic contents and extract from them the acoustic cues to a sound's phonetic description. (Author/RK)

The results of student perception of success and failure on exams and in courses indicated that most ethnic students viewed their own efforts (not their ethnic background) as the primary cause of their success or failure. (Author/AM)

Offers a single framework for a social theory of dying. Selected contributions are reviewed under rubrics of social psychological coping processes, institutional role relationships, and societal values and attitudes. Socialization is applied as a framework to codify existing approaches and move toward a more encompassing social theory of dying.…

Presents a quantitative calculation of the inadequacy of human vision to illustrate Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. (MLH)

This study developed an abortion attitude scale and abortion knowledge inventory that may be utilized by health educators, counselors, and researchers for assessing attitudes toward abortion and knowledge about it. (SK)

The application of modern day psychology to self-image development is seen as a necessary prerequisite to the solution of people problems. (Author)

Taped interviews from 200 women shows divorce as a traumatic life crisis for women that leades to depression and feelings of hopelessness, if not suicide. Emotional stress from separation and divorce for women is compounded by inadequate role development which prevents their subsequent integration into society. (Author)

Nurses (N = 363) were surveyed regarding their perceptions of different job-satisfaction factors. The results revealed many significant interactions between the role-characteristic data and the intrinsic-extrinsic factors data. Ti was concluded that nursing-job satisfaction must be reviewed in light of the roles and characteristics of the nurses…

Males and females read descriptions of a male or female worker who succeeded or failed as a manager or secretary. Subjects responded with impressions of the worker, causal attributions for his/her success or failure, and evaluations of the likelihood of a number of positive and negative consequences for the worker. (Author)

Discusses perceived difficulty of subjects and the comparison of standards of the examinations in different subjects. (SL)

Describes an experiment revealing a visual latency effect produced by the wearing of sunglasses. (SL)

The author discusses her perceptions of the identity of a counseling psychologist, the restrictions in this identity, and the contradiction between ideal and actual practice. She then describes her personal professionalism. (Author/JEL)

Research methodology on reading improvement should focus on the processing of stimuli and experience of content rather than on simple models of reading using eye movement, silent speech, perceptual span, reading ability and visual ability as explanatory concepts. (MKM)