The assumptions underlying the classfication rule-learning description of concept acquisition are critically examined. An alternative characterization of what it means to have a primacy hypothesis and Gibson's position that knowledge of the world is a product of direct perception are discusssed. (Author/RD)

Results of a survey completed by 102 prospective elementary school teachers reveal that, although support is strong for the inclusion of sex education in the school curriculum, most teachers are unwilling to assume an instructional role. (LH)

Questionnaires were designed to elicit teachers' attitudes and perceptions as to the effectiveness and appropriateness of mainstreaming and regular classroom teachers' level of skill competency. Results indicated that resource and regular teachers evidenced differential perceptions. (Author)

Results indicated that clients who were touched evaluated the counseling experience more positively than no-touch subjects. Stronger effects occurred when clients were touched by an opposite-sex counselor. (Author)

A study involving 120 second-grade students with deficiencies in visual perceptual skills was designed to determine the effects of a vision training program on reading test performance. Students receiving vision training did significantly better in tests measuring reading comprehension and word recognition skills than did students who did not…

The study was designed to determine the effects of the Neurological Impress Method (NIM) as an approach to remediation of reading disabilities in 44 children (7 to 14 years old) classified as learning disabled. (SBH)

The results of three experiments provide evidence that the observed detrimental effects of acoustic similarity on serial recall may be a consequence of poorer memory for the order of consonant sounds as opposed to vowel sounds. (PMJ)

Minimal sex differences were found between male and female college students' perceptions of the following roles and role combinations: worker; spouse; parent; worker-spouse; and worker-parent. (Author/BEF)

The Halstead Neuropsychological Test Battery for Children profiles revealed that neuropsychological behavior deficits of impaired asthmatic children exist predominantly in visualizing and remembering spatial configurations, in incidental memory, and in planning and executing visual and tactile motor tasks. (Author)

Designed to determine the effects of multiple and linear imagery on performance of a visual location task, this study also considered whether scores on such a task were affected by the interaction of presentation mode (multiple and linear imagery) and perceptual type (haptic and visual). (Author/JEG)

Examines the haptic judgments of an L figure across the ages of 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, and 20 years. Significant differences in the amount of haptic illusion were found. (MP)

Reviews research on sign language as an instrument of communication and on the psychological validity of sign language. Examines the production of sign language as compared to oral language, perception in sign language, and studies on the role of memory in sign language. (AM)

Full-term middle-class, full-term lower-class, and preterm infants were compared on cross-modal and visual intramodal functioning in order to determine whether cross-modal functioning would be impaired in infants born prematurely, or in full-term infants who were being raised in less advantaged environments. (MP)

Applied to the recognition of words in noise, the theory of the perceptual identification of complex stimuli provides a quantitative account of the proportions in which correct and erroneous responses of different frequencies will occur. (Author)

Discusses a survey of Canadians and Americans who regularly view television from both countries concerning media habits, attitudes toward the United States and Canada, and perceptions of current issues. Results indicate that there is very little if any attitudinal difference or effect associated with watching the foreign television signals. (JMF)