Samples of 98 fourth graders and 111 sixth graders participated in a study of the relationships between operational thinking and reading comprehension of texts involving operational structures. Tests of operational thinking, reading comprehension, IQ, and vocabulary were administered in class groups. Results from correlational and factor analyses…

Three stories were presented via audiovisual media to each of three classes in grade two, three classes in grade four, and three in grade six. Children were interviewed individually after the presentations and were asked which misdemeanor in the stories was naughtiest, whether the punishment was fair, what punishment would be fair, and why.…

Investigated was the lateral asymmetry in children's hemispheric brain functioning during performance of Piagetian and curriculum related tasks. Six subproblems were investigated. Eighteen right-handed children, ages six to eight years old, were given electroencephalograms while performing a battery of tasks: Piagetian conservation tasks,…

This research was an ex-post-facto analysis to determine underlying causes, events and variables in the psychological and social driving forces behind outstanding achievement of a selected group of American sportswomen. (Author/RK)

The results of this research indicate that positive attitudes toward the self are reflected on positive attitudes toward generalized others, specific others, and ethnically different others. For journal availability, see SO 504 736. (DE)

An analysis of two paradigms suggests that predictions in regard to the effects of stimulus preexposure must take into account not only the novelty of the stimulus, but the relationship of that novelty to that of the environment at the time of testing. (Editor/RK)

Four experiments gave direct tests of a popular hypothesis about the role of classical conditioning in person perception and social judgment. (Editor)

Authors studied the human being as an active language processor in different task environments. They examined the empirical trends in two different performance situations where the subject processed and used linguistic information. Theories about subject's processing abilities in those situations were entertained. (Author/RK)

The entire paper can be summarized by considering the presentation of a stimulus which acts by restricting the set of possible words to a defined short list and the resulting human choice that makes use of information from the stimulus to favor one of the words in the list rather than others. (Author/RK)

The present study attempted to uncover some of the psychological processes which mediate the relationship between visual behavior and feelings of intimacy, and to clarify the conceptual and methodological issues raised by such an endeavor. (Author/RK)

In positively assessing Johnson (1978) (AA 529 124), this research proposes that the basic purpose of normative models of selection strategies is the development of continuous quantitative measures of problem-solving efficiency, while descriptive models determine degree of correspondence between formal normative models and actual behavior.…

Study included a survey of science educators related to the need to teach science, and a review of the literature on the learning theory approach to attitude change. Hypothetical models of a credible science educator and of credible communication were established by the study. (MA)

Presents a mathematical technique for building perceptual models of urban areas. Uses techniques to model perceptual neighborhoods within a city and to explore how residential burglary rates vary between the interiors and borders of the neighborhood. (Author/MA)