The issue is devoted to seven articles about a study of trainer effectiveness. It includes the approach to the study, major findings, a case study, aspects of trainer effectiveness, an approach to looking at trainer effectiveness, and conclusions. (JOW)

Investigates the extent to which Black decision makers' role perceptions and role performances are directly influenced by racist structural barriers (e.g., ingroup and outgroup alignments formed along racial lines) or the consequences of those barriers. The results of the study support only some of its underlying assumptions. (CMG)

In two experiments, a probe technique required subjects to respond when the digit 7 appeared in one of five-letter positions in words or nonwords, inserted at the onset and 500 msec after letter and word processing. The focus of attention given to a letter has a smaller spatial extent. (Author/CM)

Assesses, in a storytelling situation, the relative contributions of feedback indicative of comprehension and the perceived age of the listener. Chidren three years old and five years old were asked to tell stories to both an adult and a doll resembling a toddler. The doll was constructed with an internal speaker so that it could "carry on a…

A survey completed by teachers in one industrial community reveals their awareness of their responsibility to report suspected child abuse/neglect and suggests the reasons why they often fail to detect and report it. (Author/MP)

Premorbid adjustment, paranoid symptomatology, and orientation were examined as major predictors of moral judgment maturity in 40 schizophrenics. Results suggest the importance of cognitive and social skills in the development of schizophrenics' moral judgment maturity. (Author/RH)

Data indicate that the scales in each of four forms (student perceptions of actual and preferred environments, and teacher perceptions of actual and preferred environments) of the Individualized Classroom Environmental Questionnaire possess internal consistency and discriminant validity. (PN)

Seventy-five students projected their feelings in eight typical achievement situations. Each student described affective responses to one situation, varying in achievement outcome, task importance, and effort. The 2 x 2 x 2 analysis of variance for affective component scores indicated that perceptions of success/failure accounted for most of the…

Sociometric tests allow teachers of emotionally disturbed students to understand classroom social structures and significant group roles (significantly preferred, rejected, ignored, split, and feared pupils). Recommendations for enhancing students' power and respect through positive means include emphasizing cooperation and allowing students to be…

Sighted subjects assembled puzzles under separate conditions of visual-haptic perception and used vision and touch simultaneously to illustrate visual-type involvement and links in haptic encoding processes. A cognitive component in perceptions was found. When visual input was inadequate or independent of haptic perception, tactual information was…

In assessing reflective gaze preference, students were assigned to right-looking, left-looking, or mixed groups. Those with more clearcut preferences were shown to have superior records of athletic achievement, consistent with the model of functional cerebral space which predicts superior simultaneous task performance for more cerebrally…

Designed to attempt an assessment of the quality and quantity of information on traditional Navajo women in view of feminist concerns about the treatment of women in ethnography, data from 10 basic ethnographies on the Navajos and 14 published life histories of Navajo men and women are explored. (Author)

Investigated the most popular synonym for each word in a pair. Subjects (N=100) in two groups produced the noun they felt was closest in meaning to each of 279 nouns. Tables are provided showing the preferred synonym and number of subjects using it and comparisons to a previous experiment. (Author/JAC)

Two experiments tested the limiting case of a multiple resources approach to resource allocation in information processing. Results contradict a single-capacity model, supporting the idea that the hemispheres' resource supplies are independent and have implications for both cerebral specialization and divided attention issues. (Author/PN)

Perception of pregnancy risk, fertility knowledge, and probability-based teaching examples of risk were assessed in 104 primiparous urban adolescents 13-18 years of age in their second and third trimesters of pregnancy. Perception of risk was not associated with age, actual frequency of intercourse, or level of fertility knowledge. (Author/PN)