Mean number of spontaneous fluctuations in skin conductance did not differentiate the groups. The 35 autistic children, compared with controls, were significantly more often nonresponsive to the first trial. When responding, autistic children showed electrodermal orienting responses characterized by large amplitudes and fast recovery. (Author/CL)

Children aged five to nine made judgments about the sizes o f geometric figures at three distances. (ST)

The "child's eye view' of my earlier paper referred to judgments made by preschoolers; Harris and Schaller studied only schoolchildren, whose responses to some figures as letters would be anticipated by my results. I question their claim that their procedures changed the apparent nature of orientation judgments. (Author)

Investigates the effectiveness of non-speech auditory stimuli in eliciting transformations analogous to those reported for speech stimuli to determine if a non-verbal analogue to the verbal transformation effect exists. (DD)

Pictures definitely seem to help training, but a study for the military finds these pictures need not be in moving form, such as films or videotape. Just how the pictorial techniques should be employed and with how much success depends on individual trainee and program differences. (KP)

Galvanic skin responses of 160 mentally retarded and 160 nonretarded adults from a prior study were reanalyzed in terms of separate frequency and amplitude measures. (Author)

Data indicate that the Visual-Sequential Memory subtest of the ITPA and the Knox Cube Test measure different aspects of visual-sequential memory ability. (KW)

It is proposed that the sight of people being injured aggressively is a reinforcement for observers who are anger or who have been frequently rewarded for aggression. The catharsis hypothesis blinds us to the principle that aggression may lead to more aggression. (Author)