Three studies were conducted to examine whether printed cues conveying information about spoken intonation patterns would aid beginning readers in synthesizing printed words into spoken sentences. To represent intonation patterns, words were printed in three sizes corresponding to stress-pitch levels, and spacing between phrase boundaries was…

An experiment was conducted to ascertain the effectiveness of various attention-directing techniques in improving visual learning. One 1st and one 4th grade class from each of four elementary schools in Cedar Falls, Iowa were each divided into four treatment groups. Four cueing methods--a large arrow, a small arrow, a pointer, plus a control…

Although taking notes during a lecture can interfere with absorption of information, review of notes before a test neutralized the interfering effect. (Editor)

Four experiments were conducted where words were recalled after presentation either in hierarchical fashion or in a matrix. The intention was to examine whether the original advantage for hierarchical retrieval systems could be duplicated for matrix systems, and if there was any particular advantage or disadvantage for either type of structure.…

Rationale for implementation of typographic cuing and its effectiveness are discussed, as well as strategies for experimenter-provided and learner-generated cues. Suggestions for selecting cue-worthy information are included. (RAO)

Discussed is the Connectionist-Cue Concept (3 Cs Method), an approach to helping young reading disabled children see the relationship between visual symbols and speech sounds. (CL)

This experiment assessed interactions between encoding and retrieval strategies in recall. Three levels of encoding conditions (random, blocked,sort) and three types of retrieval conditions (free, cued, constrained) were examined at three age levels (6, 10, and 18 years). (CM)

Interviewees were secretly instructed to answer six questions honestly and six deceptively. Deceptive answers were hesitant and lengthy. Visual presence of the interviewer increased variability in verbal response time and decreased the length of response. Interviewers were able to discriminate between truth and falsehood. Increased hesitation and…

Three experiments were performed to explore actors' and observers' use of consensus to infer dispositions, stimulus attributes, and causal attributions. Subjects were college students. (CM)

Describes a study which examined the influence of the impulsive-reflective dimension of cognitive style on the type of linguistic cue systems a reader used to reconstruct meaning from print. (JM)

Attempts to discover whether direct gaze is seen as facilitating social comparison and if the relationship between direct gaze and liking is reversed when the subject is motivated to avoid social comparison. (Author/RK)

Data obtained from testing fifth- and sixth-grade students under four conditions comparing the presence or absence of informational and/or motivational cues indicated that the informational component of a model's demonstration is the primary element affecting motor performance. (MJB)

Two experiments were concerned with exploring the relative accessibility and availability of category information in retarded adolescents in comparison with CA equivalent nonretarded subjects. (Author/SB)

Explores the effects of field independence (FI) and dogmatism (D) on a programmed learning task with and without strong prompts in an aptitude-treatment interaction (ATI) framework. These two cognitive styles have been demonstrated to affect performance on various cognitive tasks and reflect characteristic, self-consistent ways of functioning in…

A series of stimuli designed to assess the dependence of children's cardinal number judgments on relative length and relative density cues was administered to 4- and 6-year-old children. (SB)