Attempts have been made by Rabinowitz, Mandler, and Patterson (AA 527 084) to show that both recall and recognition involve the accessibility of individual words. Their recall tests preceded recognition tests, or vice versa, thus contaminating each other; a fresh experiment is presented to confirm that this is so. (Editor)

Maintains that medical students should learn more about psychology. Briefly describes why medical students have not learned more about psychology, discusses the aspects of psychology most relevant to the needs of medical students, and suggests teaching formats to accomplish this goal. (JR)

The time course of the spread of activation in lexical memory was studied using naming latency as the measure of activation in a variable-duration priming paradigm. (Editor)

Several studies, developed by the authors, indicate that persuasive-arguments theory by itself is an adequate explanation of polarization. Sanders and Baron (AA 526 863) criticize this research. Here the authors answer their critique. Relevant portions of the standard literature are reviewed to demonstrate that social comparison is neither a…

The hypothesis that letters can be matched on the basis of tactual physical features was tested in three experiments with blind Braille-reading children. (Editor)

While it is clear that schizophrenic patients often exhibit disordered thinking, the specific nature of the deficit and its role, either as a basis of abnormal behavior or as a symptom of malfunction in some underlying control process, remain to be clarified by research and by theory. Describes two experiments on the performance of conceptual…

The major aim of this research was to study the ability of schizophrenic patients to solve problems that involve abstract thought and to transfer training from one problem to another. (Author/RK)

Results of this experiment provide support for the findings by Piaget & Inhelder (1973) that children's memory drawings of a seriated display improve over time as their cognitive abilities develop. (Author)

These experiments consider the effects of aging on response times to stimuli of increasing complexity in serial choice RT tasks, whether age differences were reduced or abolished on such tasks, and examines repetition effects of a particular coding rule. (Author/RK)

Suggests that deaf teenagers can also cope with and organize in a sophisticated fashion the few linguistic concepts at their disposal which refer to the personal qualities they see in people. (Author/RK)

Personal characteristics distinguish university students who conform to living group norms in complaints of physical symptoms from those who do not. Discriminant function analyses indicate significant differences between these two groups and between males and females. (Author/LBH)

This paper analyzes ways in which the methods used to measure psychological constructs contribute invalidity to measurements. The analysis distinguishes between inadequacies stemming from the behaviors selected for measurement and the harmful effects generated by the measurement operations themselves. (BS)

A study of 178 fifth grade children reveals that content schemata can be restructured through reading activities and that restructuring is more marked when information is presented through reading and semantic mapping/discussion than when it is presented through reading alone. (SKC)

Describes the results of a survey of highly successful junior high and middle school students, which asked open-ended questions about their perceptions of spelling. Indicates that visualizing is the most common strategy for learning new words, followed by dictionary use and repeating words over and over. (SKC)

Examined the accuracy with which children in grades two and four judge their own and their peers' ability. Children showed only modest levels of accuracy in predicting probable performance and judging success at a task for themselves and others. They also showed limited ability to differentiate among attributes. (SKC)