Explores role of ambiguity in producing verbal conditioning by using two E types and two S types. Six college students were assigned to "crafty Es. Results revealed that certain types of ambiguity increase verbal compliance. (Author)

Article focuses on three issues in verbal discrimination learning: effect of list length, effect of the study-test method as opposed to the anticipation procedure, and transfer and retroactive effects when the interpolated task consists of a reversal of the right and wrong functions of the members of the pairs. (Author/ML)

The investigators assessed the effects of two variables, overt labeling and cultural differences, on the short-term memory performance of young children. (Authors)

Three investigations are reported which indicate that infants between 4 and 17 weeks of age are able to detect some differences in sounds upon which phonemic contrasts are based. (Authors)

Eye movement of nonreaders (kindergarten subjects) and readers (third-grade subjects) were measured during a visual discrimination task involving matched and unmatched pairs of four-letter pseudowords. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses support the conclusion that the development of perceptual strategies is a direct result of increasing…