This bibliography lists research articles on selected pictorial research appearing in the 1974-76 volumes of about 50 journals in psychology, educational psychology, and communications. Most articles report research in which pictorial materials were used as experimental stimuli. Some research using only verbal material and some on mental imagery…

Authors compare their model to that of Noton & Stark (1970, 1971), and is found to predict the same behavior but without requiring explicit storage of eye movement commands. (Author)

Synthetic speech stimuli which varied along a continum defined in terms of the relative onset time of the first formant and which are characteristically associated with the phonemes /do/ and /to/ were presented to two groups of subjects for labelling. The stimuli presented to each group were identical except for a one-step shift on the stimulus…

In interpersonal attraction, studies and judgment research evaluation of a stimulus is often a function of the context within which the stimulus appears. The first experiment was designed to examine "contrast effects" (shifts in the rated value of a stimulus away from the contextual values) when all attitudinal information was received from two…

Recent stimulus-response formulations have indicated that similarity between persons functions as an unconditioned stimulus (UCS) and that interpersonal attraction is a classically conditioned evaluative response. The thesis of this study is that similarity is a correlate of evaluative meaning and that the latter rather than the former is…

An experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that interest inventory items elicit classically conditionable attitudinal responses. A higher-order conditioning procedure was used in which items from the Strong Vocational Interest Blank were employed as unconditioned stimuli and nonsense syllables as conditioned stimuli. Items for which the…

Kindergarten, first-, and third-grade children were presented depicted items and asked to name them. For each item they could not name they were asked to judge (1) if they felt they knew the name and so would be able to recognize it and (2) if they had seen the depicted item before. (Author/JMB)

The effect of three different kinds of advance descriptions on recognition memory for component information from pictures was measured for 72 first-grade children. All descriptions resulted in higher retention of all components than viewing without description. (Author/JMB)

This study tested the effects of moderately intense square-wave tone on the nutritive sucking pattern of neonates. (Author/SB)

The hypothesis that autistics may experience a degree of stimulus overload was supported by an experiment in which visual event-related potentials and cognitive effects were recorded for five male autistic children (ages 6-14 years) and five matched controls. (DB)

Results suggest that temporal summation of brief stimuli is deficient in neonates. When compared with adult data from an analogous study, results also suggest that the transient system is immature in infants and that this immaturity is expressed in different ways by startle amplitude, probability, and latency. (PCB)

The investigation explored effects of stimulus level on frequency discrimination of long- and short-duration pure tones by five subjects with normal hearing and seven with sensorineural hearing impairments. The performance of hearing impaired subjects was poorer than normal for 300-ms tones but not for 5-ms tones. (Author/DB)

The steps involved in teaching multiple discrimination to disabled students are listed for ecological, performance, functional, and stimulus analyses. Additional considerations, including stimulus modification and design of the instructional sequence (successive or cumulative approaches), are reviewed. (CL)