The main finding is that in a large middle class sample of students in grades 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12, Israeli-Arab subjects in each one of the five different age groups show a statistically significant higher SD level than their Jewish counter-parts. (Author)

Investigates a survey on the role of the daily press in Swedish society and reveals divergent views of societal roles and concerns. (MH)

Without a commitment to a corporate value system that supports teamwork, the very best of efforts will be diluted and stifled. It does not take very long for vitalized, optimistic middle managers to become socialized by a closed system into becoming pessimistic for the remainder of their corporate lives. (Author/IRT)

Sensory thinking is the process of bringing experienced aspects of the child's world into his focal awareness, usually through a medium such as language. (Author/IRT)

Investigated was whether or not six blind children had a "tactile aesthetic" qualitatively different from that of three sighted and six partially sighted children (all between 10 and 16 years of age). (Author/PT)

A study involving 29 sighted and 22 blind children in grades 3-12 was conducted to determine whether there are grade, sex, and handedness group differences in texture preferences and whether such preferences effect discrimination accuracy. (SBH)

Variations in sociocultural determinants of Chicano and Anglo student perceptions of the university environment were examined by using academic and demographic variables as predictors along the seven CUES dimensions. The results showed interesting differences in the prediction system of Chicanos and Anglos, reflecting basic cultural variations…

Presented are a rebuttal and a counter-rebuttal to an earlier article questioning the educational usefulness of perceptual tests with learning disabled children. (DB)

Space perception is necessary for work in branches of technology from the machine industry to civil, electrical, and material engineering. The spatial perception of students coming to technical universities is not highly developed. There are several reasons for this unfortunate situation: firstly, the lack of emphasis put on geometry and other…

Learning disability is a complex phenomenon to understand. There are many connotations of learning disabilities thus even today it creates confusion in the mind of the general public and the professionals. Learning disability is a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using spoken or written…

This case study suggests that there are important links between students' perceptions and metacognitive development. David was one of five students who were interviewed in the second semester of a second year chemical engineering course in which the fundamental concepts of the discipline are first encountered. This paper assesses David's way of…

This study attempted to establish a desired image of an expert science writer based on a synthesis of writing theory, models, and research literature on academic writing in science and other disciplines and to contrast this desired image with an actual prototypical image of scientists as writers of science. The synthesis was used to develop a…

This book describes a theoretical framework, "experienced cognition," for understanding cognition at the level of conscious mental states that make up a person's stream of awareness. The central idea is a cospecification hypothesis that an experienced self and experienced objects are simultaneously specified in the information available…

This study used Laing et al.'s (1966) Interpersonal Perception Method to examine the relationship between the length of the therapy relationship (number of sessions), therapists' understanding of their clients' views, and clients' perceptions of being understood by their therapists with respect to the working alliance (goals, tasks, bond), session…