Author suggests teaching the principles of perspective outdoors where pupils can sketch neighboring trees, houses and streets. These sessions can be followed by painting lessons in which the use of color to gain perspective is then emphasized. Author includes useful hints and questions to evaluate students' grasp of subject. (PD)

The visual acuity of young children has a significant connection to their ability to express themselves artistically. For this reason, art teachers should attempt to induce their young pupils to observe their environment analytically. (CK)

Social influence was influenced most by prestige suggestion, conformity, and baseline suggestion, in that order. Differential effects of suggestion depended on the effects of type of discontinuity and sex. (MH)

A position paper written in response to an article on visual perception and reading by S. Alan Cohen (Journal of Learning Disabilities, V2, N10, Oct., 1969). (RJ)

Reports experiments in which college students provided color names for a series of color stimuli, matched color names with the same stimuli, and described colors represented by a series of elaborate color terms. Sex-related differences were found in the matching task. Women used more elaborate descriptions than men. (Author/AMH)