This research found storage of information in a short-term memory task to have a detrimental effect upon perceptual processing in a detection task. Additionally, it was determined that the magnitude of the effect was related to the degree of visual similarity, but not acoustic similarity, between the stored information and the perceptual…

This review of the future in mental imagery emphasizes the potential benefits of attempting to integrate theory and data from educational communication and from several different approaches to cognitive psychology. (Author/STS)

The extent of the cognitive equivalence between a picture and the depicted object is the result of an interaction between the picture and the observer. The observer's reaction is largely determined by his pictorial sophistication and cultural background. (Author/STS)

This study measured the feature selection and classification ability of 213 children between the ages of four and sixteen through an analysis of their sorting performance from a developmental point of view. (CM)

Examined newborns' visual detection of peripheral and central stimuli. (BD)

Used a reaction time paradigm to examine the behavior of young children and adults in a picture-identification task where the pictures presented were from both the child's and the adult's point of view (e.g., the underside of a table as well as the eating surface). (JMB)

A national sample of practicing school psychologists responded to a questionnaire measuring certain demographic characteristics and their perceptions of their training, practice, preferred job, and competence. Differences are examined for job setting (urban-rural), degree field (school psychology-other), and degree level (doctoral-subdoctoral). (…

The Education for All Handicapped Children (P. L. 94-142) is briefly reviewed, and the role of the pediatrician in identifying and delivering services to handicapped children, and in affecting public policy formation is discussed. Arthur Retlaw and Associates, Inc., Suite 2080, 1603 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, Illinois 60201. (CL)

Physical educators must expand the concept of physical education if it is to be successful as an academic discipline and teach their students to use knowledge of human movement to solve expanding problems in nonteaching fields. (MJB)

Thurstone's landmark papers on psychophysics, published in the twenties, are discussed in this presidential address to the Psychometric Society. The development of psychophysics from Thurstone to the present is presented in some detail. (JKS)

Examined the reaction of others to the behavior of depressed persons. More specifically, it was hypothesized that depressed persons induce depression and hostility in others, and consequently are rejected socially. (Author/RK)

Both volunteer and nonvolunteer subjects were randomly assigned to one of two conditions. In the choice condition, subjects were led to believe that they had a choice, and in the second condition subjects were denied the choice of treatment. Volunteer subjects who were given a choice significantly valued the treatment more. (Author)

Notes several factors which affect the readability of a printed message and contends that current typographical devices and styles are contrary to the fundamentals of eye physiology and detrimental to established reading habits. Available from: The Journal of Biocommunication, D. Raney, 3215 Haddon Road, Durham, NC 27705. (MH)

Discusses the relation between discrimination and identification performance, particularly with regard to experiments with speech and other signals used to draw a distinction between continuous and categorical perception. Offers three main arguments. (Author/RK)