In recent decades, proponents of naturalistic and/or critical modes of inquiry advocating the use of ethnographic techniques for the narrative-based study of phenomena within pedagogical contexts have challenged the central methodological paradigm of educational research: that is, the tendency among its practitioners to adhere to quantitative…

The influence hypothesis argues that the perceptual superiority of words is due to S's opportunity to use the redundancy in words for making perceptual inferences, while the Unitization hypothesis argues that words are more perceptible because there are fewer units to process in a word than in a nonword. (Author)

A theory of psychophysics is discussed that enlarges the classical theory in three general ways: (1) the multidimensional nature of perception is made explicit; (2) the transformations of the theory are interpreted geometrically; and (3) attributes are distinguished from sensations and only partially ordered. It is shown that, with the enlarged…

Nonspeech stimuli were varied along two dimensions--intensity and rise time. In a series of speeded classification tasks, subjects were asked to identify the stimuli in terms of one of these dimensions. (Editor)

The results of three studies clearly indicate that ongoing behavior is organized into perceptual units, and that these units may be validly identified by the Newtson (1973) unit marking procedure. (Author)

The study sought to identify the language, perceptual, demographic, and intellectual factors capable of discriminating between groups of good, average, and poor first-grade students as determined by a standardized reading test. (Editor)

The current study was initated as an attempt to further inquiry, in which the child comes to perceive and make attributions to social others, by examining the developmental changes in the bases for such perception. (Author/RK)

The present study was undertaken to gain a better understanding of the relationship between user expectations and actual use of a specific recreational area. (Author)

Study is an attempt to substantiate the hypothesis of an increasing prescriptive (or decreasing proscriptive) orientation in moral values between 1929 and 1958. (Authors)

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between adolescents' perceptions of the role clothing plays in the occupational world and the occupations to which they aspire. (Author)