Pre-experimental predictions that an increase in grade would be paralleled by an increase in degree of meaning conditioning, in amount of awareness, and in amount of conditioning with awareness were not supported in this investigation, consideration of possible reasons for such a result help clarify the nature of meaning conditioning. (WY)

Two experiments were performed to determine whether practice on less complex problems, either smaller size or in familiar context, produces a strategy that transfers to similar but more complex problems. Practice on familiar problems was no more effective than practice on unfamiliar for transfer to another unfamiliar context for all sizes. (Author)

This paper describes the rule-assessment approach to cognitive development. The basic question that motivated the rule-assessment approach is how people's existing knowledge influences their ability to learn. Research using the rule-assessment approach is summarized in terms of eight conclusions, each illustrated with empirical examples.…

Research is reviewed that employs delay procedures with the severely handicapped as a means of shifting stimulus control. The parameters of delay procedures are delineated, including prerequisite student and teacher considerations, types of responses, levels of delay, single versus blocked trials, and basic delay methodology. (Author)

This study tested the extension of Schmidt's schema theory to the relationship between fine and gross motor skills. Fifty-two preschoolers were tested on 10 isomorphically related pairs of fine and gross motor tasks. When age was partialled out, results showed significant covariation among 6 of the 10 task pairs. (Author/SJL)

When clinical programs are implemented, there is often a problem in generalizing the child's newly acquired skills. Careful consideration of the manner in which stimuli are presented, the kinds of responses required, and the way in which reinforcement is dispensed may help move effectively from laboratory to natural settings. (Author)

Results indicate that the instructions (and related information concerning alpha) rather than the biofeedback are critical in alpha biofeedback training and that this training does not appear to have utility for controlling arousal under stress. (Author)

Assessed students' ability to discriminate between two generalized personality interpretations, which varied in their base rate accuracy within a student sample in two experiments. Students recognized that the two generalized personality interpretations differed in their base rate accuracy and that neither interpretation described the students as…