In this study, 120 introductory psychology students participated in an experimental game designed to be manipulated by the use of cooperative cues. These are variables introduced into a social situation that function to guide the group toward collaboration. Prior research has focused on the effect of single cues and has produced mixed results,…

Alternative designs for educational research are explored to improve the external validity of educational research and broaden its scope to include not only the systematic experiments that identify psychological mechanisms but also representative designs that match the complexity of learning behavior in school. (JH)

Discusses a study evaluating encounter group experiences as they relate to behavioral measures of self-disclosure. Results are discussed in terms of clinical and ethical considerations in conducting encounter groups, the format of the particular group, group leadership styles, and clinical aspects of the group process. (Author/PC)

This experiment investigated whether suppressing correlated vowel phonemes of consonants by pairing each consonant with a redundant vowel /a/ would have the same effect on recall in two input modes - auditory and articulatory. (Editor/RK)

The purpose of this study is to apply an information-processing approach to risky decision judgments using the theory of information integration (Anderson, 1974; Anderson & Shanteau, 1970). (Author)

The basic hypothesis of these experiments was that the processing strategy for the transfer of alphabetic material from iconic storage to short-term memory involves a sequential left-to-right factor that develops with increases in experience with reading. (Author)

In each of four paired-associate studies with verbs and adverbs, more correct responses occurred with the verb-adverb order than with the adverb-verb order. (Editor)

Reports the results of two experiments on the effect of delay of informative feedback, immediate tests, and forms of informative feedback upon seven-day retention. (RB)

Two experiments compared concrete nouns and numbers as retrieval cues for paired associates across three recall tests with Ss given instructions to form unbiased mnemonics, mnemonics biased toward the noun, mnemonics biased toward the number, or control instructions. (Editor)

This case study deals with a process of counseling designed to change symptomatic behavior through the control of inner states - a technique referred to as contingency self-management. (Author/PC)

A serial-reaction task was used to study personality, as well as physiological, correlates of individual differences in performance decrement under low task-load conditions. (Editor)

The research reported here investigates how fulfilling or not fulfilling threats or promises affects the credibility of later influence attempts. (Author)

Procedural semantics models have diminished the distinction between data structures and procedures in computer simulations of human intelligence. This development has theoretical consequences for models of cognition. One type of procedural semantics model, called schema theory, is presented, and a variety of cognitive processes are explained in…

This study tested the ability of two semantic-memory models, feature-comparison and network, to explain differences in information processing times. The feature-comparison model assumes that an item's meaning is held in semantic memory as a set of characteristic and defining features, while the network model assumes that semantic memory is…

This paper discusses the kind of knowledge and strategies necessary to understand a metaphor. Studies of six year olds indicate that they fail to recognize that metaphors are intended nonliterally. At about the age of ten, children begin to give appropriate explanations. Children on the verge of metaphoric understanding of metaphors which link…