Investigated the effects of the consensus and sentence structure of single sentence descriptions of different behaviors on causal attributions. High consensus produced less person attribution than did low consensus, and passive items produced more stimulus attribution than did active items. (Author)

The author suggests ways in which teachers can modify existing media to meet the needs of hearing impaired students in English and science activities. The development of a mediated program using visual stimuli directions is also described. (CL)

The study of how signs convey meaning is applied to photographs, which are deemed the ideal vehicle for intercultural communication because of their realistic nature. Several classes of signs are identified and their meanings discussed. (JEG)

The results indicated that normal children experience auditory fusion at shorter time intervals than is true for either of the disabled groups, that signal intensity affects auditory fusion for all groups, and that only the learning disabled children are differentially affected by the frequency of the stimulus tones. (Author/PHR)

Four facial stimuli derived from the Bolton standards of craniofacial development representing a human male at 6 months, 3, 8, and 18 years of age were used in a test of Lorenz's concept of babyishness and of the discrepancy hypothesis. Subjects were 87 four-month-old infants. (Author/MP)

Investigates the extent to which educable mentally retarded (EMR) children make functional use of a hierarchical class inclusion system in a memory retrieval task that does not have experimenter-imposed input organization. (MP)

Sets of photographs of human figures were shown to 96 children (aged 7, 10 and 14) in order to examine the differences between imitation of and subsequent perceptions of agreement with parents and unfamiliar adults. (MP)

Describes a series of studies conducted to determine what types of visuals are most effective in facilitating student achievement. This program of systematic evaluation analyzed an instructional unit on the heart on the basis of instructional effectiveness, economy, and simplicity of production. Conclusions and a list of studies are included. (RAO)

Infants' looking and looking-away behaviors, as well as cardiac responses to mothers' spontaneous and imitative faces and to dolls' animated and still faces, were recorded for 18 term and 19 preterm infants when they were three months old. (JMB)

The ability of young infants between the ages of 8 and 17 weeks to perceive outline shapes was investigated in nine experiments using an habituation paradigm. (JMB)

Investigates the question of whether or not the ability to distinguish between veridical and imaginal memory representations changes with age. Subjects were 64 children from second, fourth and sixth grades, and 16 college students. (Author/MP)

The schema hypothesis proposed by Kagan and Lewis was used to make predictions concerning the preferences of infants 3 to 14 months old for speech stimuli. An operant response method was used in determining the infants' preferences for inflected, monotone, and scrambled natural speech stimuli. (MS)

It was hypothesized that because of differential social learning, females would report fear of spiders more frequently than males would but that males selected for equal self-report of fear would show greater autonomic responsivity than women to slides of spiders. (Editor)

Older individuals have been reported to use imagery mediation less in remembering verbal material. To determine whether this is due to decrease in the speed with which verbal stimuli are recoded into pictorial representations, the reaction time of 12 old (63-78) and 12 young (17-25) subjects for matching verbal descriptions to geometric shapes was…