The Memory Tracer, which provides prompts by playing prerecorded appropriate messages, was effective in maintaining a low rate of negative verbalizations by six adolescents with autism, schizophrenia, and severe behavior problems. (CL) 4B

The capacity of examinees to develop cue-using strategies was examined, and the results suggest that students profit from knowledge of a particular test constructor's idiosyncrasies. The findings also lend weight to the argument that performance on test wiseness items is cue-specific. (Author/BW)

Confirms that single-hue color cues facilitate initial learning without being disruptive at transfer. (RB)

Four hundred children ages 5, 9, and 12 were given a component selection task with stimuli differing in color and shape. Results indicate a greater tendency for older than younger children to withdraw attention from a normally dominant component when advantageous to adopt another feature as the primary functional cue. (Author/SB)

The present study provided an opportunity to assess various theoretical viewpoints on recall through the study of multiple-associate learning using 4-word lists or tetrads. (Author/RK)

A new method is introduced for assessing children's component selection--i.e., the disposition to attend to a single feature of multifaceted stimuli. (Authors)

This study presents a systematic investigation of three factors which seem necessary to initial success in obtaining recall facilitation when list member cues are presented during free recall. (Author/KM)

The nonverbal elements of communication, as they pertain to education, act as cues to students. (NQ)

We can improve reading instruction by using the strengths any child brings to the reading task. (Author)

Realistic male and female plastic dolls were used in this study which examined the relative importance of cues associated with physical sex characteristics (genitals, body type, and hair length). (WY)

Experiments were conducted to determine the influence upon task difficulty of these factors: age; percentage of redundancy between relevant and irrelevant cues; saliency of reinforcement, discriminability of relevant nonpreferred dimension, and learning set pretraining to reject preferred irrelevant dimensions. (Author/AJ)

Studied arousal of anxiety, which supposedly accompanies high evaluation apprehension, in 250 college students. Results showed a cueing effect with high evaluation aprehension students rating photographs more positively than low evaluation apprehension students. Analysis of the anxiety scores failed to reveal any significant differences. (WAS)

Two groups of 20 trainable mentally retarded (12- to 14-year-old) children each participated in a 26-week course during which recognition and transfer to standard orthography were measured. The cued-word group was significantly superior in reading words in standard orthography during training as well as at the end of training. (Author/CL)