The intention of this paper is to introduce some of the basic ideas and techniques used in a series of recent investigations of learning involving realistically complex learning materials. (Author)

Comparison is made between the very high proportion of adolescents found by Somerville to be formal operational thinkers, and the much lower proportion found by Lovell. Evidence about the representativeness of Somerville's sample is analyzed suggesting that it is comparable with that of an average English selective school. (Editor)

Explores empirically the effect of expected salary level at the time of entry into an enterprise, and the extent to which these expectations are met over the course of employment, upon women's turnover behavior. Also determines the utility of biodemographic data derived at the time of entry into an enterprise for possibly predicting women's…

Examines the relationship between survey feedback and the organization environment to determine under what environmental conditions survey feedback was perceived by subordinates as having had an impact and if there is any systematic relationship between the degree of feedback provided to subordinates and the impact of survey feedback as perceived…

In a recent article in this journal (EJ 130 391) Siegel and Bergman described a "miniature job training and evaluation" approach to performance prediction. This research highlights their methodology's strengths and weaknesses in light of standard procedures recommended in developing any set of predictors. (Author/RK)

A two-process theory of human information processing is proposed and applied to detection, search, and attention phenomena. (Editor)

The assumptions of Jensen's theory of Level 1 ability are examined in the light of recent research on memory. Experimental studies of organization in both serial and free recall, as well as factor analytic investigations of sequential memory indicate that the current theory requires revision in order to accommodate recent findings. (Editor)

This research looks at time of day effects in the immediate and delayed recall of realistic or meaningful material--a short story. Its design avoids confounding time of presentation with that of delayed recall and allows the comparison of delayed recall made at the same or different time of day to the presentation. (Author/RK)

Considers the controversy between Bruner "et al." (1966) and Piaget (Inhelder & Piaget, 1964) followed up by Sinclair-de-Zwart (1967) concerning the role of language in the cognitive development of children between the ages of 5 and 7. (Author/RK)

Thirty chronic schizophrenics (15 process and 15 reactive) and 15 normal control speakers described colors displayed in three-chip sets containing a referent and two nonreferent colors. Concludes that poor communication accuracy in long-term schizophrenics results from failure to include a self-editing stage as a part of the communication process.…

Examines the effects of cage size on stereotyped and normal locomotion and on other abnormal behaviors in singly caged animals, whether observed abnormal behaviors tend to co-occur, and if the development of an abnormal behavior repertoire leads to reduction in the number of normal behavior categories. (Author/RK)

Demonstrates that categorization of speech sounds can be influenced by the phonetic structure of connected speech. (Editor/RK)

This article is concerned with the perceptual load in searching for a number of kinds of target which are presented for a fixed, short period of time. The aim is to establish data which any acceptable model of human information processing will need to fit. (Author)

The central question in these experiments concerns the effect of unattended printed words upon a picture-naming task to determine whether print can be read even when it is not being attended to. (Author/RK)

Discusses two propositions about the preliminary stages of acoustic analysis and encoding in the absence of focal attention. (Editor/RK)