Summarizes results from a follow-up study of the Terman study of gifted individuals, begun 50 years ago. Test individuals, now in their 60's, with an average IQ of 152, and including some of the country's leading scientists, educators and businessmen, cited family life as greatest source of satisfaction in life. (CS)

The author reviews clinical, neurophysiological, psychological, pedagogical, special and technical research underway in the field of special education for handicapped children. (Author/AV)

Two experiments are presented in which lateralization of monaural, auditory input affected the evaluation of verbal passages. Discusses lateral differences in evaluating auditory stimuli in the framework of the left hemisphere's specialization for the holistic processing of objective information and the right hemisphere's specialization for the…

Television is now first in fulfilling the most important societal needs--that of the transmission of culture--both good and bad. (Editor)

Determined whether teachers come to the teaching situation with certain expectations for students and whether these expectations differ with respect to race, social class, and academic history of the child. The data were accumulated from 160 white female education majors recruited from three midwestern universities who were given the task of…

Deals with the relationship between attitudinal change and differences in environmental perception. (Author)

The validity of the Controlled Repression-Sensitization scale as an index of intellectualizing and repressive defenses was examined by a measure of affect cognition, which assesses the level of conceptualization and articulation of feelings in Ss' TAT stories. (Author/RK)

Examines some possible relationships between sex-role identity and other factors, specifically, openness vs. closedness, liberalism vs. conservatism, and other cross-sex vs. same-sex parent identification. (Author/RK)

Investigates the locus of control expectancies and defensive styles of a group of Ss who might be expected to be overly internal, i. e., individuals with psychomatic disorders. (Author/RK)

Investigates a part of the typology presented by Jung, extraversion-introversion, as a possible contributor to a better understanding of the drug addicts' personality. (Author/RK)

Examined the generalization of the attribution of attitudes. (Author)

Several experiments investigated the effect of word length on recognition thresholds for both familiar English words and unfamiliar pseudowords, the thresholds measured both with and without a stimulus mask. (Editor)

Asks if current interference theory will also predict proactive inhibition in serial learning. Proactive inhibition is the result, at least in part, of a particular type of deficit in second-list learning. (Author/RK)

Describes the initial attempt to develop a SPART, Self-Perceived Abilities Relevant in the Task, inventory, the results and discussion of that attempt including its predictive validity, and speculations on the practical and theoretical implications of the SPART construct and instrument. (Author/RK)

The notion of strength is defined in several alternative ways for chains of associations connected in series and in parallel. Network strength theory is extended to handle retrieval dynamics for a network of associations, in a manner that permits various degrees of serial versus parallel manner that permits various degrees of serial versus…