Suggests that close-minded individuals are more likely to experience a positive change in nonverbal perceptiveness when they are involved in peer microteaching with public feedback. (RL)

Numerous examples of patterning exercises suitable for all levels of elementary school mathematics are provided. (CP)

Reports a study made to determine the perceptions of secondary science teachers with respect to their preferences for classroom instructional approaches and management strategies. (SL)

Training in perspective-taking skills (the ability to imagine how objects look relative to one another from another person's point of view) resulted in considerable transfer of learning to other tasks and continued subject superiority over controls seven months later, indicating an inter-stage change in cognition. (MJB)

Meyer, Schvaneveldt, and Ruddy report that semantic context has a larger effect on visually degraded words than on undegraded words. Degrading stimuli takes place by superimposing a dot pattern over letters thereby slowing information processing. Four experiments explore alternative explanations of this research finding. (Editor/RK)

This research assesses whether the presence of noise elements in a visual display affects the detection of target letters at the perceptual or feature extraction level of information processing and whether (a) input or processing channels operate in an independent or interactive fashion and (b) how the spatial relation between signal and noise…

Discusses the superiority of information processing (IP) theory to stimulus-response theory, specifically in terms of language comprehension, language production, and the role of memory. (KM)

The process of moving away from a simplistic reliance on intelligence test ratings to more sophisticated models of assessment and service is more advanced in systems where the school psychologist is given real professional status and is allowed to shape the nature of services offered. (MB)

The selective tuning of feature detectors sensitive to the acoustic information relevant to the assignment of distinctive phonetic feature values was investigated with a contingent adaptation paradigm. (Author/RM)

Notes that either consciously or unconsciously blacks had accepted a negative image of Mexico and her people much like that of white Americans and explains why, by 1935, negroes were unable to sympathize with the plight of their Mexican-American brothers. (Author/AM)

Notes that Robert Toll's study of American minstrelsy is weakest where it is most important, in his consideration of the characteros of minstrelsy as reflective not of black life but of white images of blacks. (Author/AM)

Notes that the structural or ideological positions represented by educational attainment and employment experience are strongly related to womens sex role attitudes--higher education and more recent employment experience being associated with less traditional outlook. (Author/AM)

Attempts to determine how the ability of African secondary students to understand pictures three-dimensionally changes, as the number of different types of depth cue increases in carefully stages. Also investigates the existence of interactions involving the different types of picture and differences in amount of formal training which people have…

This paper discusses three ideas--the Engagement continuum, the relation between Awareness of Death and Self-Engagement, and practical implications in terms of effecting psycho-social transitions in later life. Empirical observations were made in Canada and the U.S. Paper presented at the 10th International Gerontological Conference, Jerusalem,…