Blocked presentation of categorical material has been found to increase the number of items recalled by retarded subjects. Three experiments are reported, aimed at discovering the reasons for this facilitation. (Editor)

To resolve the basic question of what is unconstitutional school segregation, lawyer Edelman suggests bombarding the citadel of de facto segregation with a legal strategy that expands the definition of de jure segregation to include acts that produce segregation in fact. (Editor)

The present study was designed to examine the relative contributions of perception and memory to the word-frequency effect in the Solomon and Postman design. (Author)

The present investigation examined reinforcement-responsibility, a measure of locus of control, and its possible relationship to birth order in upper elementary school children. (Author)

A review of over a thousand studies that deal with either locus of control or levels of interpersonal functioning found no research that deals with both. This study is an initial exploration designed to discover any relationship between scores associated with measures of both locus and levels. (Author)

A study was conducted among 64 students in an introductory psychology class at Yale University to clarify the components of syllogistic reasoning used in a syllogistic evaluation task. A modified form of componential analysis was used to decompose the syllogistic evaluation task with abstract content into the subtasks of encoding and encoding plus…

This research paper examines the meaningfulness of sex differences in the Allport, Vernon and Lindzey (AVL) Study of Values Scale and in selected scales of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII), using somewhat diverse groups of men and women. By comparing men's and women's scores on the two measures, it was found that little accuracy in…

The thirteen chapters in this collection provide a detailed examination of visual perception and visual constancy. After a first chapter providing an historical overview of the field, the 11 central chapters present reports on current research from leading investigators. A final chapter brings into focus a variety of methodological, empirical, and…

The first section of this report examines, from a developmental perspective, the major theoretical positions dominating the literature on adult cognition. Two criteria are considered. First, how compatible are the theories with the notion that thinking systems develop within specific environments? Second, what are the implicit or explicit…

In a study of the effects of cannabis on cognitive functioning, several cognitive and psychomotor tests were administered to four groups of subjects. (Editor/RK)

The present study analyzed patient reported wants in a college-student population from the viewpoint of both patients and their therapist. (Author)

To investigate human visual identification of different-sized objects as identically shaped, matching reaction times were measured for pairs of simultaneously presented random figures. (Editor)

This article examined the effect of allocation of attention on adaptation to displacement when proprioception and vision conflict and considered whether more effective procedures to insure that attention is directed in the prescribed manner would cause adaptation to be confined strictly to the unattended modality. (Author/RK)

Studies employing schematic faces of three features explored the role of the left hemisphere as an analytic processor in difficult discriminations and the role of the right hemisphere in easy gestalt matches. (Editor)

The perspective model of attitude judgment was used as a basis for making predictions concerning interpersonal conflict. (Editor)