Flexibility is an important aspect of all sports and recreational activities. Flexibility can be developed and maintained by stretching exercises. Exercises designed to develop flexibility in ankle joints, knees, hips, and the lower back are presented. (JN)

Due to budgetary restraints, two major tasks confronting the physical education profession are: (1) to increase the overall productivity of the staff; and (2) to identify and weed out nonproductive faculty. An evaluative instrument is presented which measures nonteaching performance in a university department. (JN)

Using dichotic listening methodology, 25 musicians and 25 nonmusicians were compared on four cerebral lateralization tasks: melodies, tonal patterns, rhythm patterns, and verbal stimuli. Musicians demonstrated superior performance on the music tasks. Results are interpreted in terms of superior cognitive strategies of musicians as a function of…

Examines the impact of a daughter's transitions to marriage and motherhood on the mother-daughter relationship. When daughters become mothers, mothers and daughters tend to reevaluate each other and become more involved in each others' lives. Change entails redefinition in terms of their relative statuses and their role perspectives. (Author)

Supported the hypotheses that blaming one's spouse for marital problems is negatively associated with marital satisfaction and perceived personal control over conflicts is positively associated with marital satisfaction. The wife's satisfaction was found to be related to her perception of both husband's and wife's contributions. (Author)

Two experiments were conducted in order to determine whether there are differences between well and malnourished infants in the extent to which they prefer novel stimuli. (MP)

Examines whether the relationship between mothers' ratings on the Neonatal Perception Inventory of their one-month-old infants and social-emotional development at 4 1/2 years as reported for a Pittsburgh population could be demonstrated in a Seattle population. (MP)

Describes the construction and testing of an instrument to measure kinesthetic perception. The test can be used on the first day of typing class to predict straight-copy typing speed. Sections or variables on the test are identified that best predict straight-copy speed and number of stroking errors. (Author/SK)

Adults with different sex-role identities rated likability of male and female stimulus persons. Under some conditions, all female subjects and feminine males made more polar ratings of opposite-sex stimulus persons. Under other conditions, masculine males rated male stimulus persons more negatively than female stimulus persons. (Author)

The potential for considerable marital dissatisfaction among wives is clearly present. Wives want less controlling behavior from their husbands than the husbands prefer to engage in. They want to move closer to their husbands and want their husbands to share more intimately with them. (Author)

As predicted, high-oral clients showed better understanding of their counselor's personal qualities than did low-oral clients. Orality produced a need to observe the counselor closely. Female clients of male counselors make the best predictors. (Author)

The study examined the relationship between two auditory perceptual skills--sound blending and auditory closure--and reading performance in 76 learning disabled elementary school children. (Author/PHR)

The relationship between role-taking ability and prosocial behaviors was studied developmentally with 20 gifted 3-year-olds. The relationship between IQ and role taking increased from fall to spring; however, neither IQ nor role-taking ability were found to be reliable predictors of prosocial behaviors in the spring, suggesting that psychosocial…

Studies on visual, musical, and speech perception abilities were used to construct auditory ability tests. Correlation and factorial analyses indicated separate capacities for auditory verbal comprehension, auditory immediate memory, temporal tracking, auditory cognition of relationships, discrimination among sound patterns, speech perception…

The author reviews several perspectives on the relationship between the composer and the performer of a musical work. Specifically, he examines the boundaries of that relationship, seeking to define the extent to which the performer may creatively interpret a work without violating the composer's intentions or established musical tradition. (SJL)