Experiment performed to examine the function of rehearsal in the retention of individual verbal items. (Authors)

Length of intertrial interval was found to be positively related to the efficiency of concept learning in a blank-trials task. (Author)

In this study the part of the sentence which constitutes what the speaker is talking about is called the topic" of the sentence, and the rest of the sentence is the comment", which provides new information about the topic. (Author/MB)

Results of these experiments indicate that the ability to deal with positive and negative instances is not only contingent upon developmental level, but also upon the dimensional characteristics of the stimuli. (Author)

Special edition devoted to media in modern language instruction. (RS)

Study was designed to provide further evidence on the speed of development of the acquired distinctiveness and equivalence effects during the transfer task. (Author)

Young children's iconic storage is longer than that of older children and adults but young children process the information in iconic storage relatively slowly. (Authors)

Author urges new materials for reading programs be studied over several months before selections are made. To strengthen present programs, material should be suitable both to school's particular pupils and teachers, help towards reaching program's goals and, perhaps by utilizing different methods than those in use, stimulate interest in learning.…

Forty-nine Ss learned a unidimensional concept with a six-dimensional stimulus set. Instructions specified the 12 possible unidimensional concepts, and the response on each trial was to give confidence ratings to each of the 12 corresponding hypotheses. (Author)

Examined are two alternatives to the use of electric shock to control destructive or repugnant behaviors in severely retarded or schizophrenic children: continued use of noncorporal punishment, and widescale application of appropriately arranged contingencies of positive reinforcement. (KW)