The divisions of labor and the classifications of work in ancient times are described, and an early four-part classification based on the "Bhagavad Gita" is compared with that of the present "Dictionary of Occupational Titles." (Author)

Classifies production into four levels, from top level activities (beyond practical requirements) to low level activities (individual or irregular production), and describes management message characteristics for each level. The major management problem is to match level of development activity (from non to extreme) and production level (from nil…

Discusses typologies and taxonomies that classify and order adult education activities. Proposes a typology in which the label suggests the type of content in each category as well as suggesting the purpose of that form of adult education. (JOW)

Infants exposed to a set of artificially-created face stimuli having distinct mean and modal prototypes showed a pattern of behavior predicted by category abstraction models. Infants appeared to abstract, at the time of learning, a feature-count summary of the category displayed. (Author/RH)

Two experiments investigated infants' use of structural relations in dividing schematic drawings of animals into categories. Results demonstrated subjects' sensitivity to structural information like that thought by Rosch (1978) to exist in the natural world and their ability to segregate items into categories on the basis of clusters of correlated…

Preliminary data from two samples of autistic children and adults and an assessment procedure appropriate for lower-functioning autistic Ss revealed a dramatic shift away from right-handedness in both autistic samples, due to a raised incidence of two phenotypes: manifest left-handedness and ambiguous handedness. (Author/CL)

Reviews issues to be considered in determining the order of meanings for a lexeme in a dictionary entry and compares techniques for deciding order. Types of ordering include importance, frequency, logical ordering, dominant meaning, syntactic, and historical. (MSE)

Two systematic approaches (dimensional and typological) were used to develop classification systems. Each approach was evaluated on criteria applicable to general classification schemes and residential environments for retarded persons. A third, nested system was derived which satisfied rules for development and evaluative criteria. (Author/CL)

A set of studies examined infant categorization of the orientation of visual stimuli by establishing a categorization function for the orientation continuum; attempted to determine a perceptual boundary between "oblique" and "vertical"; and explored the relationship between discrimination abilities and the perceptual boundary.…

Play materials may be classified according to (1) their characteristics and use (subdivisions of instructional materials, real objects, constructive or creative play objects, and toys), and (2) empirically derived approaches (those developed by L. McCune-Nicholich and T. Yawkey). Educational implications are addressed. (CL)

Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI) and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) data were obtained from 125 male veteran alcoholic inpatients. Results showed five clusters exist among MCMI profiles and statistically significant relationships exist between MCMI profiles and MMPI scale scores. Findings support an alcoholism…

Sixty mentally retarded adults judged whether exemplars were members of their respective categories and how representative they were. There was little evidence of a developmental relationship between typicality ratings given by retarded and nonretarded persons, but there were significant relationships among the groups for specific categories.…

A functional questionnaire on self-injurious behavior of mentally retarded children was examined for social validation by principals of special schools for the retarded. Results were considered promising for developing the questionnaire in the form chosen. (CL)

Proposes a multidimensional system based on commonly used measurement parameters in group research. Combines and crosses four dimensions describing the who, what, how, and when, of process measurement as a first step toward an orderly classification system. (Author/LLL)

An overview of the literature on developmental dyslexia is offered, and two approaches to the subtyping problem are illustrated and briefly discussed. Potential implications of some aspects of the interactive reading theories for the study of reading dysfunction are explored. (Author/CL)