The persistence of interest engagement was longitudinally studied with two different interest objects and two different states of interest development. Subjects with definite interest in microcomputers (n=7), with high interest in playing guitar (n=7), and with some interest, not well-developed, in computers (n=10) were interviewed initially and…

The first objective of a small exploratory study was to explore the speculation that adults do not resist change, but what they do resist are expected losses that may arise in association with the change. The second objective was to acquire some preliminary findings about the types of losses that adults may expect when facing change. Thirty…

This paper cites findings from a research study on 1,100 former intercollegiate athletes (427 males and 696 females) to demonstrate the relevance of sport retirement research to coaches and other practitioners. The data are used to challenge typical assumptions about the process of leaving sport (i.e., sport retirement is a termination of…

Two important factors that influence problem solving are the nature of the task and the kind of knowledge brought to the problem by the solver. After a consideration of the definition of a problem, puzzle problems are discussed, as are problem representation and general processes of solution. Also discussed is the question of solving problems that…

Two experiments were conducted using the procedure reported by Wickens in 1972 for the study of relevant encoding dimensions in short-term memory. (Editor)

This study investigates detrimental perceptual effects of adding extraneous stimuli to a tachistoscopic pattern. In two experiments, a general inhibitory effect on reproduction accuracy was found, along with a local effect on elements spatially close to the extraneous stimuli. (Editor)

In three experiments cue words were presented with to-be-remembered (TBR) words in an effort to influence specific encoding formats. Recall was tested in the presence of cues that were identical, semantically similar, or semantically dissimilar to the input cues. (Editor)

The present experiment was an attempt to determine whether, under different testing procedures and with different stimulus materials, an effect of poststimulus study time on picture recognition could be demonstrated. (Author)

Thirty-two male undergraduates were given a paired-associate list and then tested for recall either 2 min. or 45 min. later. Arousal level at time of learning was manipulated by E observing some Ss. (Editor)

The major purpose of the present study was to provide a direct comparison of temporal contiguity effects in intentional and incidental PA learning, using the same orienting conditions and ISI values in intentional and incidental learning tasks. (Author)

It has been proposed that the ability of a visual noise mask to stop processing of a target stimulus under backward-masking conditions be gauged by its ability to obscure the target when both stimuli are viewed simultaneously. Authors assessed the usefulness of this proposal. (Editor/RK)

The present study investigated the effects of choice vs. no choice on opinion change under varying degrees of discrepancy between the initial position of the recipient and that advocated in the message. (Author)

An analytic procedure was developed for separating the effects of involvement from the number of response language categories the subject employs in judging a set of sentence stimuli. (Editor)

Two memory theories predict that it should be possible to produce negative recency in initial recall. The first experiment provides a demonstration of that predicted negative recency effect. (Editor)