The purpose of this research project is to specify critical events within a person during linguistic processing. The experiments reported here cover such topics as the effects of increased reading rate on covert processes, covert behavior as a direct electro-myographic measure of mediating responses, enhancement of speech perception by…

The main purpose of the present research was to examine the strategies employed by undergraduate students in the solving of three-term series problems. (Editor)

The technique of priming was used to study the nature of the mental representations generated by color names. (Editor)

Four studies showed that a substantial proportion of their subjects, aged four to seven years, responded as if elements "out of sight" in pictures were either nonexistent or imcomplete. Termed "literalism," this mode of responding was related to age but little influenced by training or another form of structured experience.…

This study investigated psychological effects of longer-range L-Dopa therapy in Parkinsonism. (Author)

Research by Posner and Mitchell (1967) was used to investigate levels of noise processing in testing subjects' ability to "gate out" the processing of irrelevant and unwanted material. Three experiments are reported in which subjects had to judge whether two letters were the "same" or "different". Noise elements were included to test attention…

After viewing a film, a sample of 10 and 11 year old children completed questionnaires which gave information on their grasp of the film's content, on matching variables, and on design factors. In this way it was possible to examine patterns in the grasp of content and relate them to other variables. (Author)

From experiments showing that subjects differentially attend to parts of the visual field, psychologists have inferred a limitation on human visual information processing capacity. The model presented describes an optimal way to allocate a limited quantity of "cognitive resources", "attention" or "mental effort". An experiment tests this model.…

Purpose of this project was to devise a program for a teaching machine which would increase the ability of subjects to perceive alternatives in their environment and to facilitate the integration of dimensions. (Author)

Hypothesis that non-conservers would give more perceptual than identity arguments, and that conservers would give more identity than perceptual reasons for their judgments was supported by the conservation pretest results. (Authors)

Three word-identification experiments suggest that a model derived from experiments with pseudowords can be applied successfully to word identification. The data derived from the experiments confirm the role of higher order verbal units in word identification and suggest the structural components of a verbal-mediation theory of reading. (Editor/RK)

Research studies were conducted to determine the effectiveness of multisensory learning systems in teaching basic concepts to two and five-year-old children. (Author/RK)

Results appear to indicate that the belief systems of the young child about the attributes of a stimulus person can be altered extensively by introducing characteristics completely unrelated to these attributes into the semantic representation of that person. (Authors)