A study was conducted to explore preschool children's awareness of and responses to print and their concepts of reading and writing. Eleven children, aged three, four, and five years, were given three print awareness tasks in which they were asked to identify a common household product first by its complete label, then by the same label without…

This paper, in reviewing four different studies, discusses the influence of some basic parameters or aspects of a sign on the accuracy of perceiving that sign. This information can aid the teaching of signs to the mentally retarded, the autistic, the cerebral palsied, and the hearing adult. A series of studies was conducted in which the aim was to…

A research project was conducted to determine if dynamic skill training differs in important ways from knowledge system instruction. The term dynamic skills was used to mean sets of intellectual processes responsible for selective perceptions in a real time driven content and for the selection and performance of appropriate responses in that…

More than 300 adults responded to a telephone survey designed to examine whether the gender of the source and the similarity of gender between the source and the receiver affected the receiver's perception of source credibility. The results indicated that (1) men had more overall credibility than did women, (2) women recognized that they would…

Previous studies have found that an object can be categorized faster at a basic level (hammer) than at either a subordinate (club hammer) or a superordinate level (tool). While some attribute this result to basic categories having more distinctive attributes, other factors might cause this result. For example, basic categories routinely have…

A study investigated the impact that the portrayal of doctors and nurses on television had on the expectations of viewers, particularly on communication within the doctor-patient relationship. Approximately 200 adults responded to telephone interview questions about their television viewing habits, their information-seeking behavior regarding…

A survey of public relations practitioners was conducted to examine the decision making roles they play in their profession. The 458 respondents provided information on their participation in policy decision making; the roles they play on the job, such as problem solver or technical services provider; and information on their decision making…

A study examined employment screening interviews to determine the relationships between an interviewee's perceptions of interview communication satisfaction, interviewer credibility and trust, previous interviewing experiences, and a number of interview outcomes, including expectation of a second interview. Data were collected from 69 students…

The perceptual process involved in parental guidance and discipline of children may be sensitive to distortion by aversive environmental conditions. Married couples (N=24) completed a written interview to examine the relationship between exposure to disruptive life-events and a parent's ability to discern different types of child misbehaviors.…