Significant effects obtained in the modeling condition seemed due to the generalized increase in speech duration facilitated by the use of a model. Similarities and differences between instructions and modeling procedures are discussed. (Author)

Spontaneous and model-induced production of a valuational style of inquiry was studied in 128 third-grade children. (Authors)

Results indicated that interaction, even when nonmeaningful, was more facilitating than juxtaposition of picture and words. (Authors)

The present data offer more support for linguistic'' approaches to teaching reading. (Authors)

Results showed that recall of verbal material hardly was affected by the eye-movement task but was much affected by backward counting, while nonverbal material was recalled with the same efficiency irrespective of type of distractor, suggesting different types of storage for the two types of material. (Author)

Study of perceptual exploration was undertaken to see to what extent school experience would produce left-right patterns on several kinds of figures which have strong Gestalt properties. (Author)

A review-critique of On Writing Behavioral Objectives for English, by John Maxwell and Anthony Lovat, in which behavioral objectives theory is dominated by a stimulus-response rather than a stimulus-response-reinforcement psychology. The reviewer questions whether behavioral objectives can be applied accurately and without distortion of meanings,…

Acquisition, reversal, adaptation and inhibition of the orienting response were investigated in a mentally retarded sample and its CA and MA matched normal groups. (Authors)

Results were interpreted as support for the hypothesis that making associations to verbal units facilitates recall and that reaction time is an index of the facility with which associations can be made. (Authors)

Experiment performed to examine the function of rehearsal in the retention of individual verbal items. (Authors)

Length of intertrial interval was found to be positively related to the efficiency of concept learning in a blank-trials task. (Author)

In this study the part of the sentence which constitutes what the speaker is talking about is called the topic" of the sentence, and the rest of the sentence is the comment", which provides new information about the topic. (Author/MB)

Results of these experiments indicate that the ability to deal with positive and negative instances is not only contingent upon developmental level, but also upon the dimensional characteristics of the stimuli. (Author)