An experiment with 66 six-year-old children showed that children asked more and better questions about unfamiliar objects (toys) when they had been given an opportunity to manipulate them than when they saw only demonstrations of the toys. (NH)

A physician speaks of the need for people approaching retirement to plan for continued involvement in activities as a preventive measure to ward off the retirement syndrome". Reprinted with permission from Archives of Internal Medicine, volume 124, 1969. (CJ)

To assist educators to develop improved instructional television presentations, research is needed to assess the instructional effects of stimuli emitted by various types of visual illustrations. (IR)

The authors have developed a framework for improving the visual communication element of television. After warning that seeing is not enough to insure learning they discuss the five pre-production components which research indicates should be considered when designing television pictorials." (Editor)

The results show that selective attention to color or form can be experimentally changed and is not developmentally determined for all Ss. (WY)

An attempt to describe "what is known today about the description of the talking and listening process," which concludes that "much of language can be a) considered as a motor-skill, and b) seen to be susceptible of motor-control." (Author/LS)