High state-anxious subjects solved fewer problems than middle or low state-anxious subjects under no memory-aid conditions, and all anxiety groups performed comparably with memory aids. High state-anxious subjects tended to use less focusing strategy when memory aids were unavailable. (Author/CP)

Three experiments investigated the effects of context on the use of limited processing resources in word recognition. The effect of context on the resources consumed in word recognition is restricted to aspects of processing that can be delayed until the subject is required to select an overt response. (Author/RD)

An aesthetic value scale of the Rorschach cards was built by the successive interval method. This scale was compared with the ratings obtained by means of the Semantic Differential Scales and was found to successfully differentiate sexes in their judgment of card attractiveness. (Author)

The time course of kindergarten children's memory for left-right orientation during the first 2 l/2 seconds after receptor stimulation was investigated by means of a successive matching-to-sample task with tachistoscopically presented abstract figures. (Author/DB)

Investigated ability of young children to interpret aerial photographs and maps, sought age and/or cognitive development differences, and probed whether or not some environmental features were more consistently recognized than others. (Author/DB)

The extent to which an orienting activity exerts control over the encoding process was studied. Two experiments were reported in which associative meaningfulness was varied under conditions of semantic and nonsemantic processing. Both experiments showed effects of meaningfulness following both semantic and nonsemantic tasks. (Author/MH)

This article focuses on the mechanisms of the human brain whose function is vision. (SA)

This study found that color in a film helped fourth- and fifth-grade students of all ability levels learn incidental information, but affected learning of task-relevant information differently depending on ability level. (Author/JEG)

Discrimination learning set performance was examined in preschool children as a function of age and number of trials per problem. Subjects were 120 children three, four, five, and six years old. (MP)

Twenty-two third-grade good and poor readers were tested for their ability to name pictures while trying to ignore words or nonword strings of letters printed inside the pictures. Both groups experienced more interference from intracategory than extracategory words, indicating that they processed the words automatically. Only the good readers…

Adult age differences in recognition memory for pictures of faces were assessed under different instructional conditions to test the processing-deficit hypothesis. (Author/SS)

Preschoolers learned colors more rapidly than sizes and forms when cup stimuli were used. They learned sizes and forms more rapidly than colors when face stimuli were used. (RL)

Successful teacher education and effective teacher and student motivation may be obtainable through a positive approach to the Hawthorne Effect, which is the principle that increased attention to an operative situation leads to an increased productivity by that operation, regardless of all other surrounding variables. (LH)

This study sought to determine whether differences in cognitive style would be reflected in the quantity of information available in memory. In order to obviate the criticism that differences between impulsive and reflective subjects might be a function of exhaustiveness of search, stimuli were presented for a restricted period. (Author)

Experimenters analyzed a prose passage into 350 idea units, then interspersed throughout the text pictures depicting main ideas, or both main ideas and nonessential details. For fourth- and sixth-grade subjects, pictures did facilitate both immediate and delayed recall, but only of main ideas. (Author/JEG)