The purpose of this article is to share some of the lesson plans the author found successful, and in which students had the opportunity to evaluate the responsibilities of a manager/supervisor position. (Author/RK)

An experiment was conducted to investigate memory in a concept (CI) identification problem as a function of the number of trials. As the performance was significantly better, it was concluded that participants actively try to store and retain information during their search for a solution. (Author/KM)

Designed to study implosive therapy with groups, this use of a behavioristic technique, which reduces unadaptive anxiety by emphasizing the presentation of the highly anxiety-evoking stimulus until the stimulus is no longer able to evoke anxiety, failed to produce a significant difference between control and therapy groups. (Author/KM)

Research done while the first author was on a Science Scholarship from the National Research Council of Canada (NRC); research also supported by an NRC grant to the second author; forms part of Shannon Moeser's doctoral thesis submitted to McGill University. (VM)

Describes a poetry unit for grade 8 aimed toward (1) showing that contemporary music can be termed poetry; (2) involving students in expressing themselves dramatically; and (3) exposing the students to various types of poetry to illustrate how words can be used to enhance their own lives. (MM)

Paper reports some definite differences in response latencies that clearly seem to reflect the existence of racial awareness in the white, second-grade children who served as Ss. (Author)

Study found that the use of vibration as a reinforcement compared favorably with a food reinforcer and was significantly more effective as a reward than the touch or the noise emitted by the vibrator. (Author/RK)

The major hypothesis of the study was not supported by the data. Brief exposure to perceptual deprivation did not facilitate reaction times in either the younger or older group. (Author)

Two techniques of anxiety reduction are studied singly and in combination: rapid repetition of words and paired-associate learning. Paired-associate learning with Counteracting Response Associates yielded the best long-term reduction in response anxiety, which suggests the potential application of this technique in therapy. (Authors/CB)

A lesson involving tape recorders and group discussions dealing with the implications of noise for the individual and society.'' (Author/SP)

This demonstration of release from proactive interference with young children confirms the suggestion that the technique is appropriate for the study of developmental changes in the encoding of information. (Authors/CB)

Study further examined the effects of forced-choice trials on dimensional preferences. (Author)