In recognition of the continuing importance of women's contributions to the Veterans Administration mission, and in response to a growing interest in the subject on the part of both men and women, this brief reading list has been designed as a general introduction to the concerns of women, their work and their place in society. The list was…

The report presents both a way of looking at perceptual mechanisms in nervous systems in terms of distributed information processing, and a way of creating computer models of parts of nervous systems. The first notion views a nervous system as a collection of interacting parallel-operating computation units, each of which has some part of the…

A study was conducted (as one aspect of an intervention program in Head Start classes) to explore the consequences of the interjection of the observer into the classroom, with particular emphasis on the teacher's reactions to this attempt to supply a dimension of understanding about the classroom to supplement his own perspective. In a case study…

An explanation of visual perception is presented using physiological facts, analogies to digital computers, and analogies to the structure of written languages. According to the explanation, visual input is discontinuous, with the discontinuities mediated by and correlated with the jumps of the eye. This is analogous to the gated and buffer-stored…

This paper describes the physiological "eye noise" effect of line contrast in maps and considers the effect of line contrast on the direct picture of terrain surface as produced by shaded relief. An attempt is made to describe map reading in its two major steps: 1) the enrichment of the brain image resulting from scanning the map sheet,…

Sensitivity data is defined as involving two response categories, with responses observed at different levels of some variable. The responses are taken to indicate sensitivity to the variable and may be labeled "positive" or "negative." The countback method offers confidence limits for the 50% point, the level of the variable…

Counselors' perceptions of problems encountered in the delivery of rehabilitation services to handicapped persons, were surveyed by the University of Wisconsin's Regional Rehabilitation Research Institute. The survey schedule, based on a twofold concept of the rehabilitation process: (1) characteristics of the counselor, agency, clients and…

This report assumes that professional training programs will not be able to meet future demands for psychological help. The role of the nonprofessional, and the responsibility of the professional psychologist are discussed in terms of this problem. The various levels of training which now prepare individuals to do certain specialized jobs, are…

This report of the Second National (Canadian) Workshop on Community Development (CD) contains the abstracts of working papers on various CD topics and a summary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) study of CD in North America. The working papers covered a variety of concerns including: (1) role of…

Two experiments are reported in which cardiac habituation and dishabituation to pure tone stimuli were studied in well and malnourished Guatemalan infants. In both studies the magnitude of the orienting response was found to be attenuated or completely absent in infants suffering from nutritional insult. The findings were taken as evidence of a…

Challenging Horner but following Berger and Luckmann, "female motive to avoid success" is interpreted as a normative response to social deviancy. Previous studies of this "motive" have analyzed male S's response to male success at activities typified for males but female S's response to female success at activities non-typified for females. This…

This report attempts to establish some theoretical considerations dealing with the socialization process within workshop settings. The claim is made that the process of change is determined in part by the extent to which new role formation is achieved. Socialization theory is employed in an attempt to reconceptualize workshops in in-service…

To measure the symmetry of adult categorical phoneme perception, 10 adult male undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory psychology class were the subjects for this study as part of their course requirements. The stimuli used in this study were prepared at Haskins Laboratories by means of a parallel resonance synthesizer and computer. The…

Compiled in this document are several reports emanating from the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm, June 5-16, 1972. Included are (1) Provisional Agenda, (2) Annotations to the Provisional Agenda, (3) Provisional Rules of Procedure, (4) Draft Declaration on the Human Environment, (5) Planning and Management of Human…

The cognitive characteristics involved in a relatively field-dependent or field-independent cognitive style and the personal characteristics associated with these contrasting styles have been shown to play a role in a) students' selection of electives and majors, b) vocational preferences they experience early in their academic careers, and c) the…