A list discrimination paradigm was used to examine the effects of orienting tasks upon the later temporal discrimination of words. The orienting task involved judgments about the relatedness of the words in a list to some concept. (Editor)

Describes a devastating personal experience that led to a new awareness. Author still has no recollection of the head-on car wreck in which she was critically injured. She discusses the recovery process, especially the facilitative and inhibiting roles played by various people. Makes a plea for improvement in the training of health professionals.…

Under conditions of serial recall of auditorily presented lists of digits, recall of the last item has been shown to be adversely affected by the presence of a redundant item following the list. It is shown that the size of this effect, the suffix effect, is not influenced by the phonological complexity of the suffix. (Editor/RK)

On three occasions over a one-year period 23 children aged 3-4 were asked to match target objects with other objects which were similar to the target in shape or in color but not in both. A sequence of matches to each target was asked for. The structure of these sequences is examined for evidence of classificatory abilities. (Editor)

This article explores qualitative differences in what is learned and described functional differences in the process of learning which gave rise to the qualitative differences in outcome. (Author/RK)

The present experiment was designed to seek further evidence concerning the possible role of retroactive interference in situations whereby students learn information made available in prose form. (Author)

Article investigates the hypotheses that persistent absenteeism is a greater problem in large schools than in small ones, and, as well, that large schools and schools in areas of socioeconomic hardship need to exclude more pupils on disciplinary grounds than small schools or schools in socially privileged areas. (Author/RK)

This paper reports a series of studies in the development of a Study Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) for use with university students. It attempted to determine optimal ways of combining SBQ item scores: by sorting people's responses to items (R-analysis), or by sorting items on the basis of how they discriminate between people (Q-analysis).…

Presents some initial research findings which describe the over time patterns of work satisfaction characteristics of four distinct careers. Results indicate that these patterns differ in measureable and appreciable ways. (Author/RK)

Twenty 7-10 year old children with spina bifida cystica and hydrocephalus and 20 normals matched for age, sex and IQ were compared on a 12-trial target task, first used by Connolly, Brown & Bassett (1968). Findings are discussed in relation to neurological abnormalities in the spina bifida group. (Editor/RK)

Seeks to clarify the relative influence of social and biological motivation on discrimination learning in schizophrenic subjects to determine if schizophrenic attention deficit is subject to aversive social control. (Author/RK)

Biofeedback was contrasted with a false-feedback condition to examine the pure effect of the former on tension headache. (Author/RK)

A new procedure for estimating the dichotic ear advantage is applied for the first time in conjunction with the single-response requirement. Most subjects showed unusually large right-ear advantages, making the present methodology interesting for the study of hemispheric asymmetry. (Editor)

Recent work by Hamill (1976) suggests that placement of monosyllabic content words in grammatical strings is correlated with the rhythmic pattern of the string. Using classic paradigms, this research shows that rhythmic organization is also evident in speech material without grammatical structure or the content word/function word distinction.…

Until such time as sufficient research is available on the psychosocial effects of sports participation, is recommended that physical educators do their own research. (MM)