The present experiments were directed to the general question of how grouped presentation affects recall and organization. (Author)

The purposes of the present experiments were to attempt to reproduce the Estes and Taylor (1964) results (the number of items identified from a many-item array was as much as twice the full-report span of four or five items) and to compare them with the number of items reported in the full-report procedure. (Author/RK)

It has been discovered that dreams and daydreams can be productive states in the process of scientific innovation. An attempt is made to provide some typical examples of insights which have come to scientists during dream-like states and in sleep. (Author/MA)

Previous work on recalling prose material can be criticized for its limited use of quantitative analysis and for neglecting the theoretical implications of the distinctions between verbatim and other forms of recall. Nine specially written passages used clauses and actual words to split reproduced material into verbatim, non-verbatim and intrusive…

Experimenters attempted to make eye contact with commuters as they approached an express train linking city and suburb. Results support the hypothesis that reduced eye contact with strangers in the city is a short-term adaptation to interpersonal overload. (Author)

The extent to which subjects showing relatively high amounts of categorical clustering recalled more words than subjects showing relatively low amounts of clustering was investigated in three free-recall experiments with categorized lists. (Editor)

As a contribution to the dialogue between humanism and behaviorism, this research questions the basis of recent trends toward a more consensual mutual accomodations of perspectives. Briefly reviews the behaviorist and humanist movements. Recommends a dialectical interplay of polarities combining causal understanding from a point external to the…

The Personal Development Study (PDS) is one of the eight subtests of the Integration Level Test Series, which objectively measures different hierarchical levels of factors that organize the integration of psychological states. The PDS consists of a 200-item questionnaire devised to discover whether Freudian mechanisms were operating across a wide…

Three theoretical viewpoints have dominated the recent empirically oriented literature on depression: Beck's cognitive view, Seligman's helplessness model, and Lewinsohn's theory implicating a low rate of response-contingent reinforcement. Here each theory is evaluated individually interms of its empirical support and adequacy as a theory and all…

Investigates the psychological impact of music on elementary and secondary students. Discusses how music may transmit specific musical and emotional values. Argues that the existence of an emotional relationship between composition and the listener is an area that should be explored in music education and reports on a separate study which…

Used a combination of observational and experimental methods to assess young children's (aged 2 years, 11 months to 4 years, 9 months) comprehension of "if" and "because" expressions. Found significant increases in spontaneous "if" and "because" expressions between 3 and 4 years, and improvement on…

Investigated whether young children (ages 2-5) could use spatial categorization as a mnemonic strategy. Three experiments found the children capable of spatially organizing objects as a strategy in the service of future retrieval. There were clear developmental trends in the deployment of categorization. (SKC)

Investigated deferred imitation ability for six actions in 14-month-old infants. After a week's delay, infants were tested on their ability to imitate the actions.Those who had been exposed to modeling produced significantly higher instances of the target actions. (SKC)

Four experiments investigated the role of geometric path type in infants' ability to make spatial inferences about the location of a hidden object after the infants had been moved. In all but the fourth experiment, infants were able to retrieve the objects unless objects were located behind the infants. (SKC)

Presents the text of a talk by Shields, who represented Leta Hollingworth (1886-1939), at the 1983 American Psychological Association convention where scholars lectured as a figure from the past on Heidbreder's seven psychologies. Reviews psychological research at Teachers College and Columbia University from 1911 through the 1920s and evaluates…