Secondary school principals are significant determiners of counsellor role. Principals' expectations of secondary school counsellors include administrative support, information source, effective relationships and delivery of guidance services. It is crucial that principals, counsellors and teachers understand their respective roles through…

The author writes from his perspective as a clinical psychologist directing the clinical psychology program at Rutgers University. He describes his view of the blurring of professional psychology specialities complemented by the unique contributions counseling psychologists are able to make in the vocational counseling/world of works sphere.…

Reactions of observers, classified as either high or low in self-disclosure flexibility, to high and low behavioral samples of self-disclosure to a stranger were examined. Results suggest self-disclosure flexibility reflects perceptual awareness of social-situational norms governing the appropriateness of self-disclosing behavior. (Author)

Analysis of recent literature covering visual experiments with infants and young children documented a progression of visual functions in early development. (Author)

Presents a study of perspective taking ability among children aged 3 to 7. The first task involved a classic block appearance task. In the second task, the child and/or the experimenter each wore different colored glasses and the child was asked to describe how a white card appeared to each of them. (BD)

Assesses elementary school teachers' needs through use of the Moore Assessment Profile. One hundred and seven K-6 teachers responded to the survey. Factor analysis revealed that the sample perceived four need areas: (1) providing realistic science experiences; (2) developing basic science skills; (3) developing an understanding of the relationship…

A report and discussion is given of some of the results of testing students at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology on diagrams which involved the use of visual conventions. (MN)

Reports on a series of four experiments designed to determine more precisely the characteristics of the stage of visual feature analysis of word identification and to examine response competition factors in this interference task. (SB)

Discusses women's labor force activity and resultant changes in the economic and social structure of the family on consumption patterns, on the division of labor among spouses, and on child-rearing practices. (TA)

Examines the implications of image analysis and discusses two different strategies, one relating to content and one relating to form. (MH)

The data do not support either the expectations that males are invariably superior in mathematics achievement and spatial visualization or the idea that differences between the sexes increase with age and/or mathematics difficulty. The pattern of differences in mathematics achievement, spatial visualization and affective variables strongly…

The experiments reported here are aimed at exploring in more detail the possibility that context can improve perception itself. In particular, they are concerned with clarifying the conditions under which context might aid perception and with localizing the stage of processing at which context would have its effects. (Author)

A mathematical model based upon signal detection theory is developed that characterizes social influences upon judgments of a stimulus. A social influence cue and the physical aspects of the stimulus were assumed to have independent effects upon performance. (Editor)

A former school trustee recounts his experiences as a young board member, highlighting his frustrations with the trustees' roles and decision-making processes. (GW)