Perceptual expertise is typically domain-specific and rarely generalises beyond an expert's domain of experience. Forensic feature-comparison examiners outperform the norm in domain-specific visual comparison, but emerging research suggests that they show advantages on other similar tasks outside their domain of expertise. For example, fingerprint…

Interoception--the ability to perceive and respond to internal bodily sensations--is fundamental for the continuous regulation of physiological processes. Recently, it has been suggested that because infants depend completely on their caregivers for survival, the development of interoceptive processing emerges as a result of early dyadic…

Baseline child characteristics may predict treatment outcomes in children with or at elevated likelihood of developing autism (EL-ASD). Little is known about the role of child sensory and language features on treatment outcome. Participants were randomly assigned to a parent-mediated intervention or control condition. Analyses explored the…

Article investigated some assumptions underlying most of the speculation, theory, and experimentation in the search to define creativity. (Author/RK)

Two hypotheses were tested in this study: (1) that the elaborateness of children's descriptions would increase with grade level, and (2) that there would be a decrease in peripheral descriptions and an increase in central descriptions with grade level. A total of 211 kindergarten through eighth-grade students were instructed to describe an adult…

Part three of the five-part series on leadership in which author describes effective channeling of self-concept as one of the principles of perceptual psychology which can promote good leadership. (Editor/IR)

This article presents a case study of a Japanese adolescent with autism who strongly perceived inanimate things (Kanji characters) as real persons. Physiognomic perception is investigated as a characteristic mode of autism, and its effects are discussed. It is concluded that the poor cognitive-language ability of some autistic people may shape…

The general purpose of the symposium was to connect several factors which have been studied in the psychological domain to the exercise and sport behavior domain. The assumption that factors related to adherence are facilitated through the psychological connection have been widely discussed in literature. Models allow for the development of an…

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INTELLECTUAL PROCESSES OF THE LOW-INCOME CHILD ARE PRESENTED. THE MAJOR IMPOVERISHMENT OF THESE CHILDREN IS IN THE AREA OF LANGUAGE SKILLS. ANOTHER CHARACTERISTIC IS THEIR POOR PERFORMANCE ON INTELLIGENCE TESTS. IN THE AREA OF PERCEPTIONAL PROCESSES THESE CHILDREN CAN NEITHER DISCRIMINATE SOUNDS WELL NOR PERFORM WELL ON…

Reported are the results of a series of studies conducted to identify the possible correlates of perceptual curiosity in retarded and normal IQ Ss (13-21 years old), and to determine the modifiability of perceptual curiosity in mentally retarded Ss through training and the possible transfer effects of such training. In a section on general…

THREE STUDIES OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN ARE INCLUDED IN THIS EVALUATION REPORT. (1) "'NEURAL CONDUCTIVITY' AND ACHIEVEMENT IN CULTURALLY DEPRIVED STUDENTS." NEURAL CONDUCTIVITY WAS INFERRED FROM A CORRELATION BETWEEN PUPILLARY RESPONSE AND CHILDREN'S PRESCHOOL PERFORMANCE. COMPLICATIONS IN ACQUIRING AND USING THE NECESSARY EQUIPMENT RESULTED…

THIS STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO DETERMINE IF THERE ARE ANY DIFFERENCES IN THE DEVELOPMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF UNDERPRIVILEGED PRESCHOOL CHILDREN THAT CAN BE TRACED TO DIFFERENCES IN RACE OR SEX. THE STUDY SAMPLE WAS DRAWN FROM A GROUP OF 368 CAUCASIAN AND NEGRO CHILDREN ENROLLED IN THE SUMMER 1965 PORTLAND, OREGON HEAD START PROGRAM. THE CHILDREN…

An investigation of the disturbing nature of constructs underlying learning disabilities (LD) and the reliability of factors of LD characteristics within an ecological framework used 150 advanced undergraduate special education students as Ss. (Author/PHR)