Applies Brunswik's lens model to a study linking environmental assessment with environmental perception and cognition. Gauges the ecological validity of cues generated by technical and observational assessments of residential streets in San Francisco for three conditions: traffic volume, family income, and residents' concern about crime.…

A study indicating that information processing may be culturally specific and that processing through different brain hemispheres may be a result of how a person perceives his world focuses on the Navajo Tribe and its cultural and behavioral similarities with the Chinese, and compares those groups to Anglo-Americans. (SB)

There is variance in the way in which student teachers accept responsibility for the teaching act. This study explains why some variables may affect student teachers' acceptance of role responsibilities. (CM)

Schema theory, an area of educational research within perceptual learning theory, is divided into five major subtopics: (1) explanation, development, and background; (2) theoretical approaches; (3) pattern classification; (4) pattern quantification; and (5) quantified pattern feature approach (which attempts to combine classification and…

Different roles for nurses and various definitions of nursing have been described, but the knowledge and concepts essential to nursing are already defined by the nature of human beings. Nursing curricula must reflect a more logical organization of biological, psychological, and sociological nursing and promote the ability to perceive…

This study examined the relationship between the frequency of adult/peer interactions of preschool children and their perceptual role-taking ability. (CM)

The difference between teacher and student description and recognition of elementary school student personalities are explored. (LH)

Shifting national trends pose new problems and opportunities for guidance and admissions counselors facing the 1980s. The counselors' responses, finding new expressions for their continuing mission, can be valuable to higher education and society. (Author)

Belief clusters show that journalism students' early impressions of newspaper work may be influenced by advanced journalism courses. (RL)

Factor analytic studies suggest that there are six replicable second order cognitive factors. These six factors lend themselves to being interpreted as aspects of Royce's three ways of knowing: conceptual, perceptual, or symbolical. This view provides a unified explanation of the second and third order factors. (Author/CTM)

This article looks at the counselor's role and responsibility in working with elementary school children who are taking prescribed medication for mental or physical health problems. (Author)

The development of a multidisciplinary teacher training program for regular and special educators at the University of Utah is described. Responses from faculty members concerning the ideal and actual role descriptions of administrators, counselors, psychologists, secondary teachers, elementary teachers, and special education teachers are listed.…

The author asserts that, to defend their programs, art educators must cooperate with other school staff. She warns that, by too closely identifying with the traditional artist's role (communicating nonverbally, being creative, acting as a tradition-breaker), the art teacher may risk being viewed as separate, noncooperative, and divisive. (SJL)

Returning women were slightly more egalitarian on attitudes toward sex-specific activities and the women's movement. They were significantly more traditional in attitudes toward fundamental differences between sex roles. Results suggest that women returning to school enhance support for feminist beliefs. (Author/BEF)

Shows that the mother's being employed and the social status of her job were unrelated to preschool children's sex role differentiation. Reports significant main effects for child's sex and for the relation between sex of child and sex of siblings. (Author/RL)