The reasons people most often give for the failures of U.S. schools involve poverty, racial inequality, and a host of social problems. This paper argues that even if all these conditions were remedied, the schools would not produce many more people with the ability to think than they do today. Teachers, who are usually able to think, do not know…

Several key generalizations which students can derive about the legal status of ethnic minorities in the United States are identified, as are major events, treaties, and court cases essential for understanding the struggle for justice among non-Whites. (Author/KM)

Multiple examples of the "World's Worst Frame" are given. An analysis, using Guthrie's contiguity theory, is proposed to move programing beyond the world's worst frame. (Author)

To the authors' knowledge, this is the first demonstration that from observation alone, unaided by other means of conveying information, a concept can be retained and generalized to novel stimuli after a substantial elapse of time. (Authors/MB)

The possible interaction between age-relevant facilitative instructions and the occurrence of phonetic and semantic generalization was investigated. (Author)

The question-asking behavior of disadvantaged Mexican-American second-grade children was found readily modifiable using an adult model offering contingent praise. (Authors)

The author sauggests that present inquiry methods are often missing their goal and offers a technique to engage students in creative inquiry. (Author)

Studies the ability of college women to generalize resistance to stress when learning lists of nonsense syllables. Subjects trained under one type of stress learned more easily under a second type of stress than did subjects trained under nonstressful conditions. Table, graph, and bibliography. (RW)

A severely handicapped 20-year-old woman in a public school setting was taught to ride the city bus. Results indicated that skills acquired in the classroom, for both bus boarding and bus departing, generalized only minimally to the natural environment. (Author/SB)

Examined effect of emotion on recall of self-generated paired associates under conditions of immediate and delayed retention. Results showed that, with immediate retention, recall of associates to emotional stimuli was significantly lower than to neutral stimuli and, with delayed retention, associations to emotional stimuli were better recalled.…

Explores the generalization of changes in children's preferences for easy or difficult goals, when their preferences are induced by exposure to peer models playing a novel athletic game. Subjects played the same game immediately after exposure, participated in a "spelling bee" three weeks later, and chose puzzles of differing levels of…