The present study was designed to examine several features of naive subjects' inference processes in a rule-learning task. Attention was primarily directed toward initial classification biases and the amount of transfer of learning occurring among stimuli within the same truth-table class. (Author/RK)

Discusses the practice of maintaining separation between the experimenter and the subjects during scientific experiments and suggests that the dialectical interdependence between them is the very basis upon which psychological inquiries should rest. Some practical and theoretical remedies are explored. (JMB)

Briefly reviews the contributions of several psychological researchers whose work represents four major approaches to organizational research, focusing primarily on the organizational theories of Bion, Miller and Rice, and Levinson. (JG)

In speech perception, the distinction between stop consonants and glides such as (b) versus (w) and (g) versus (j) can be signaled by variations in the rate and duration of the formant transitions. These experiments attempted to determine whether this rate and duration information is processed by a unitary analyzer for both labial ([b]-[w]) and…

The purpose of the present work was to investigate the relation between pattern goodness and accuracy of reproduction in backward masking. It may be hypothesized that good patterns, being easier to encode as wholes, will be reproduced more easily than poorer patterns. Four experiments were performed. (Author)

This study examined whether individuals who are presumably poor tolerators of stress can maintain a posture of psychological equilibrium within a psychologically stressful atmosphere. (Author/RK)

A review of literature dealing with moon phases and psychiatric emergencies was undertaken. (Editor)

Unidirectional associates were used in a test of the encoding specificity principle with single items. Strong preexperimental associates were effective retrieval cues even when encoding conditions were not conducive to the establishment of a target-cue association. Results suggested that the presence of weak cues on the test reduced the…

The present experiment contrasted the effects of one and three redundant elements on recall, when the elements prefixed either the stimulus or the response. (Editor)

Recent studies by Jones (1974) have posited that accurate movements in short-term motor memory (STMM) are mediated by the subject's ability to preset effector mechanisms and monitor their efferent output. Three experiments were conducted to examine this hypothesis. (Editor)

In this article the authors examined three broad models for the congruity effect and tested them in a verification task. In so doing they attempted to learn something new about perceptual codes and perceptual judgments. (Author/RK)

The present experiment was intended as a further elaboration of the effects of nonphysically aversive stimulation on subsequent performance, in order to determine the applicability of the helplessness model to the human subject. (Author)

Within lay explanation of actions, several significant inferences are assumed to follow from the partition between endogenous and exogenous attributions. An endogenous action is judged to constitute an end in itself; an exogenous action is judged to serve as a means to some further end. (Editor/RK)

Described is the system of mental operations occurring in text comprehension and in recall and summarization. A processing model is outlined: 1) the meaning elements of a text become organized into a coherent whole, 2) the full meaning of the text is condensed into its gist, and 3) new texts are generated from the comprehension processes.…