Eight, ten, and twelve year old children were tested on a novel procedure involving the successive presentation of standard and comparision stimuli. Two hypotheses were evaluated: one dealing with memory effects, and the other with children's pretesting of choice responses in spatial information processing. (Editor/RK)

A comparative study of nonverbal MA matched groups of five autistic, five aphasic, five normal and five retarded children (3 to 16 years old) was made on an auditory-visual and a visual-visual paired-associate learning task. (Author)

Three variables in the process of educational change are examined as they relate to media specialists: timeliness, trade-off processes, and the nature of responses to demands for change. New American Association of School Librarians/Association for Educational Communications and Technology guidelines for media specialists, published in "Media…

35 undergraduates segmented one of two videotapes of an actor methodically assembling 20 five-page questionnaires. Tests the hypothesis that behavior that differs systematically in the availability of action-defining changes will be segmented into perceived actions in a systematically different way. (Author/RK)

The effects of visual paradigmatic organization on verbal recall among language/learning disabled children was studied with 20 such children (age: 8-13 years), who were screened to eliminate visual memory deficits. (Author)

Central auditory function was assessed in 10 stutterers and 10 nonstutterers between the ages of 10 and 35 years, and the performance of the two groups compared for seven audiometric procedures, including acoustic reflex threshold and acoustic reflex amplitude function. (Author)

This study examined the race-class stereotypes of black and white college students in terms of the class of blacks and whites being stereotyped and the race and perceived class of the subjects (80 black and 74 white college students). (CM)

To counteract society's hostility toward homosexuality, effective social work with lesbian couples and families must include cultural as well as clinical work. This article suggests a multilevel approach, including self-exploration on the part of the worker, acquisition of specific clinical tools, and assumption of an advocacy stance with lesbian…

To investigate the role expectations of the high school learning disability resource teacher, a behavior scale was developed to which 134 incumbents responded as to their actual and desired role performance. (BD)

Ethnographically discovered role conceptions that the deaf have of hearing people can be characterized as three destinctive patterns or types. Until deafness is understood as a social phenomena, distorted communicative situations will occur between the deaf and the hearing. Instances of distorted communication are cited. (SW)

A perception of ecological psychology on urbanism is presented, with emphasis on the following premises: (1) Urban milieu consists of complexes of behavior settings; and (2) Size of a city should be understood in relationship to the number and variety of its settings, rather than in terms of population size. (Author/MA)

Describes a study to investigate attitudes of male and female politicians in Hawaii regarding womens' issues and the role of women in public office. Concludes that the sex of a politician is not a significant factor in individual attitudes toward public policies that affect women. For journal availability, see SO 506 481. (Author/DB)

Teaching and learning can take place only when teacher and pupil understand and share beliefs in the basic concepts of what is being communicated. (JD)

Three word-identification experiments suggest that a model derived from experiments with pseudowords can be applied successfully to word identification. The data derived from the experiments confirm the role of higher order verbal units in word identification and suggest the structural components of a verbal-mediation theory of reading. (Editor/RK)