THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM WAS WHETHER HUMANS, AFTER HAVING BEEN TRAINED ON A GIVEN REWARD SCHEDULE TO ACT IN A GIVEN WAY IN GIVEN CIRCUMSTANCES, WILL EXHIBIT FIXED EXTINCTION BEHAVIOR REGARDLESS OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TRAINING AND THE EXTINCTION PERIODS. SUBJECTS WERE 360 COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO HAD VOLUNTEERED FOR THE EXPERIMENT. AN APPARATUS WAS…

The study, involving three autistic and two normal children (5-12 years old), was conducted to replicate the findings of W. Condon on multiple entrainment (double responding) and dyssynchronous (awkward) behavioral organization in autistic children. (Author/SBH)

Compares three symbol establishment background display strategies for the representation of an event to discover the most appropriate visual. Three versions of a 90-second news report were videotaped and shown, one to each of three groups of students, and assessments of the speaker's performance and report were obtained through common descriptive…

This study was divided into three sections: (1) determining the style of picture most easily recognized by villagers, (2) determining villager's interpretation of pictures intended to convey messages, and (3) determining the cultural associations various colors had for villagers. Indications were that most previously produced visual materials had…

Thirty-two 4-year-olds made same and different judgments about pairs of stimuli requiring detailed comparison. Two treatment conditions were employed: a judgment-only condition and a justification condition in which children explained the reasons for their judgments. (Author/JMB)

The relationship between visual stimulus intensity and finger movements was examined in infants ranging in age from 10 to 15 weeks and from 20 to 25 weeks. Infants were shown a cone that varied in size, brightness, and distance from them. (Author/JMB)

The effects of different degrees of stimulus organization on subsequent generalization were studied with 120 fourth-grade children. (BRT)

The influence of listening to humor on creativity tests of adolescents is investigated. It was found that those adolescents who listened to the record performed significantly better on a creativity test than control groups. (Author/DEP)

A sample of six newborn infants were picked up when spontaneously awake, and were presented recorded mother-talk while being held to the shoulder. Control groups received the same recorded stimulus while awake in the crib or received no stimulus trials. (Author/JMB)

Three experiments examined the visual attentiveness of full-term vs. premature infants. (SB)

Examined the effects of order of stimulus presentation on observer ratings of counseling performance. Results revealed a statistically significant interaction between quality of performance and the order in which the performances were rated. (Author/ABB)

The study investigated perceptual preferences of five autistic children (mean age 10.6 years). Results indicated a weak (not statistically significant) preference for auditory musical stimuli over visual stimuli. Autistic children spent significantly more time than did normals with the musical stimulus. (Author/DB)

Five experiments studied operations of conceptual masking--the reduction of conceptual memory performance for an initial stimulus when it is followed by a masking picture process. The subjects were 337 undergraduates at the University of Washington (Seattle). Conceptual masking is distinguished from perceptual masking. (TJH)