Rabbits were given reinforced training of the nictitating membrane (NM) response using separate conditioned stimuli (CSs), which were a tone, light, and/or tactile vibration. Then, two CSs were compounded and given further pairings with the unconditioned stimulus (US). Evidence of both overexpectation and summation effects appeared. That is,…

Investigated the influence of arousal level on visual preferences by observing the looking preferences of 12 full-term neonates twice; once before feeding while unswaddled and once after feeding while swaddled. (Author/RH)

Three experiments investigated the use of augmented auditory feedback to reduce foot pronation during barre exercise in dance. The results suggest that augmented feedback can effectively accelerate the correction of foot pronation in dance. (MT)

The study of human attention may be divided into three components. These are alertness, selectivity, and processing. This paper outlines experimental techniques designed to separate these components and examine their interrelations within comparable tasks. (Author)

A discussion of whether curricula should be stimulus-oriented or response-oriented. (LS)

Reprints may be obtained from Dr. Michael Lewis, Center for Psychological Studies, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J. 08540. (AP)

Indicates that Kemler raises a number of important issues needing resolution before the understanding of infant categorization is complete, but claims Kemler misunderstands both the goals of the Husaim and Cohen experiment and the extent to which the goals were met. (Author/RH)

Analyzes visual argument as propositional argument in which the propositions and their argumentative functions are expressed visually, not verbally. Classifies visual argument as but one type of visual persuasion, which is but one type of visual communication, and a form of persuasion and rhetoric. Discusses advantages/disadvantages of visual…

Early experiments suggesting that classical conditioning depends on the contingency between conditioned stimulus (CS) and the unconditioned stimulus (US) are reconsidered along with later evidence that shows conditioning of the CS and its context in random training. CS-US contingency is neither necessary nor sufficient for conditioning. (SLD)

Performed Interleukin-1 (IL-1) bioassays on 208 serum samples from seven volunteers at 5-minute intervals before, during, and after relaxation-related behavioral stimulus. Individuals showed up to 267% increase in IL-1, and for group mean, 48.1% elevation occurred, during stimulus interval relative to baseline. Such changes in plasma IL-1,…

The present study replicates and extends previous research on stimulus control by arranging teacher attention for preschooler's mands into a multiple schedule and conducting a component analysis of the effects of schedule-correlated stimuli and contingency-specifying stimuli (rules) on the development of discriminated manding.