Reported was a study of the effectiveness of a 40 week reading program using the Initial Teaching Alphabet with 10 male students (8 to 12 years of age) who exhibited auditory perceptual disturbances. (GW)

Results of these five experiments span serial pattern learning, perception of sequential patterns, and coordinated motor skill. (Authors/CB)

Identifies the motive to avoid success as an internal psychological representative of the dominant societal stereotype which views competence, independence, competition, and intellectual achievement as qualities basically inconsistent with femininity, even though positively related to masculinity and mental health. (Author/JM)

The results demonstrated that self concept was significently associated with vocational maturity and indicated self-concept and feminine role concept of own self are useful in predicting vocational maturity. The more the girl viewed her role as being liberal, the higher was her level of vocational maturity. (Author)

Investigated was the presence of perceptual or psycholinguistic immaturities in third grade students of normal intelligence (verbal IQ of at least 90) who were advanced or retarded in reading and spelling ability. (KW)

Mutual and self perceptions of racial images of white, black, and Japanese Americans are studies among adult, college student, and school child age groups in California. The major hypothesis of this paper is that the amount of minority absorption of negative images is considerably less than twenty years ago. (Author/JB)

Major finding of the study was that white children judged that ability and effort were relatively more important for their performance than task difficulty and luck, while the reverse was true for blacks. (Authors)

Parents discouraged cross-sexed interests in boys more than in girls. Parents of the same sex as their child reported more encouragement of sex typing than did opposite-sexed parents. (Authors)

Purpose of this paper was to compare the racial images of whites, blacks, and certain Yellows" (Japanese-Americans) as mutually perceived, and differentially perceived by age-groups. (DM)

Older children had faster reaction times overall than did the younger children, and the difference between reaction times in the two experimental conditions was greater for the older children than for the younger children. (Authors/MB)

Study investigated the effect of the stimulus variables of value, chroma, and hue in relation to sex, intelligence, and dimensional attention of kindergarten children using two reward conditions. (Author)

Discusses inaccuracy of sexual expectations of members of opposite sex in direction of increased permissiveness, probably because of use of a "line by both male and female. Presents implications for sexual behavior standards. (Author/CJ)