Undergraduate theses are an excellent method of providing paraprofessional research experience for psychology students. Describes some of the problems (and their remedies) in conducting and advising baccalaureate psychology theses, many of which were published or read at professional meetings. (CS)

Art teachers should be familiar with psychologist's research on human vision and perception. Research by Julian Hochberg, James Gibson, and Gestaltists is summarized. (SR)

Psychology students find that, when they can repeat material, their memories are, paradoxically, poorer than when they are prevented from repeating the material. The paradox is explained by the depth of processing approach to memory which maintains that long-term retention depends on how elaborately the information is processed. (RM)

Three categories of vocal music--children's songs, popular, and classic--were analyzed to study repetition of tones. It appeared that the repetition of tones is a function of recency. Results can be explained by an hypothesis of availability. (Author)

Describes an experiment which studied conceptual memory structures resulting from learning in a typical, introductory psychology course. Twenty-three psychology undergraduates and 20 psychology graduate students judged how closely connected paired statements of personality theories were. Results showed that multidimensional scaling analysis was…

In a classroom demonstration of reliability concepts, 65 introductory psychology students each measured 50 lines of 25 different lengths. Student measurement were compared to actual lengths and then tabulated for mean, median, mode, and standard deviation. Even with a small sample, findings supported classical reliability theory. (AM)

Examines psychological studies on memory and learning for what they reveal about human categorizing processes and the organizing principles and limitations of human memory. Findings suggest considerations for the design of information systems that would take conceptual organization of knowledge into account. (FM)

A corpus of the author's own slips of the pen is analyzed. Four processing levels--lexical, graphemic, allographic, and graphic--are postulated, with different types of error being assigned to different levels in the production of handwriting. (Author)

Presents us with two monks on a rickety bridge. What the monks, the author, and we readers do with that dilemma is the topic of a brief existential article that contains provocative views on how our heads affect our lives. (Editor)

The golden section is a proportion the aesthetic properties of which have been extolled since antiquity. The data from five experiments in which subjects made dichotomous judgements of acquaintances on bipolar dimensions (e.g. pleasant-unpleasant) were reported. (Editor)

This study is the first demonstration of sequential contrast effects with human subjects during the acquisition of a discrimination without errors. Results are discussed in terms of Terrace's theory of errorless learning. (Editor/RK)

A comparison of forty-one patients in a psychiatric outpatient department identified as college dropouts and a matched group of patients who had never attended college showed a trend suggesting some difference in occupational status, but no significant statistical differences with respect to psychiatric diagnostic categories. (MB)

Research indicates that evaluative (emotional) word meaning and denotative meaning (imagery) are distinct mediational mechanisms and can be conditioned. It is hypothesized that the meaning responses can be conditioned concurrently and independently. (Editor/RK)