Study focuses on children aged 3 to 5 years from 3 London areas. Contrary to expectation, awareness of differences in skin color was not a simple function of age and contact with colored children and adults; no clear evidence of prejudiced thinking was found in the subjects studied. (RJ)

Article introduces a framework for the recognition stage of auditory information processing. (Author/ML)

Explores the relationship of anxiety and field dependency in individuals to their tendency to conform to the judgments of others. A significant interaction occurred between field dependency and the prior reinforcement of a subject's judgment. Tables and bibliography. (RW)

Role playing and traditional instruction were used to examine whether young children can be taught the intent of television commercials. Both treatment groups of children, ages six to seven, experienced significant increases in understanding of commercials. (Author/MBR)

An overview is given of worldwide work on the development of classroom environment measures. Normative and validation data are reported from use of new scales among large Australian samples, and Australian research is reviewed, particularly in prediction of outcome-environment relationships, student-teacher perception differences, and facilitating…

Two experiments tested the effects of crawling-onset age, amount of crawling experience, and testing age on avoidance of the deep side of a visual cliff apparatus by human infants. Crawling-onset age disciminated between infants because crawling during the tactile phase interferes with later visual control of locomotion. (Author/RD)

The investigation, which involved 55 learning disabled and 54 normal children (mean age seven years), was designed to test the hypothesis that differences between these groups on tests of perceptual functioning are not educationally significant. (Author/SBH)

An approach to studying accuracy in person perception is presented. Problems in assessing interpersonal accuracy are discussed and then addressed in an empirical study of the perception of job performance. (Author/JKS)

Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling (NMDS) is a measurement technique for identifying substitute and unique leisure activities in that it allows the investigator to determine the perceptual dimensions that individuals use to organize their view of leisure activities. (MB)

Resolution of cognitive dissonance following a pleasant and unpleasant task was examined under conditions of high and low justification with 60 male psychology students. Numbers were written at random and other tasks were completed followed by description of task to another subject. Mode of dissonance resolution was found to be a function of…