Two experiments are reported which compared different forms of presentation of a perspective-taking task. The task required 4-year-old children to select pictures showing another person's view of an array similar to Piaget and Inhelder's mountains. (Editor)

Questionnaires were distributed to 178 physically disabled persons attending the 1976 Illinois White House Conference on the Handicapped to assess their view of their disabilities. Analysis of responses (eighty-eight, or 52 per cent, completed the questionnaires) indicated general agreement that disability was not a terrible thing, but attitudes…

Various combinations of tables, charts, graphs, and explanatory verbiage are normally used to analyze and feedback survey data to groups. Perception mapping provides an alternative to the many pages typically used in this process. (Author)

This study, concerned with distinguishing between the public and private determinants of self-presentational strategy, tests the hypothesis that one consequence of another's prior knowledge about a person is an implicit pressure on that person to act in a way consistent with what the other already knows about him or her. Subjects were 90…

The article offers seven basic hypotheses regarding the nature of the perceptual and cognitive underpinnings of stereotyping, and discusses the theoretical basis and empirical evidence for each. Subjects were 21 college students of mixed sex and race. (Author/MP)

Presents four letters pointing out design difficulties in the experiments of Morrison, Giordani, and Nagy in their investigation of reading disabilities, memory, and perception. (SL)

A summary of some physiological and behavioral studies on shark vision is given. (BB)

An effective professional development program for administrators must be based on an up-to-date understanding of why each administrator's position exists and how it fits into the organizational framework. The thesis of this paper is that the role expands upon the purpose of the individual in the organization, while the job description itemizes…

Significant cross-cultural differences were found between the samples of Bukusu and Scottish children in their responses to nonsymmetrical patterns, the Bukusu sample making more errors. However, both samples made use of the symmetrical properties of a pattern to aid recall. (Author/AM)

Hawaiian-Japanese, Japanese, and Australian subjects were presented with a slide depicting either a Japanese or a Caucasian couple, and asked to describe three ways in which the two persons in the picture were similar. (Author)

Attempts to define the relationship between learning and perception and to demonstrate the importance of cognitive readiness for learning. Describes an assessment procedure termed concept referenced testing which relates the above factors. (RK)

This study was designed to assess listeners' ability to judge a taped speaker's age and to measure the extent to which personality ratings are affected by perceived age. In two experiments, undergraduate subjects demonstrated that speaker age can be reliably estimated over a wide age range for both female and male voices. (Author)

Identified are information and goals important to supervisory teachers in student-teacher training programs. (GW)

This article examines some persistent paradoxes in the definition of the male role, and proposes a distinction between traditional and modern male roles. Four current perspectives on the problem of the male role are distinguished. (Author/AM)