Differential incentive values of verbal stimuli were tested under conditions of high and low reinforcement. Results indicated the 40 fifth grade boys acquired responses faster when high preference items were used. (ST)

This study investigates the visual information storage capacity in 5-, 8-, 11-, and 21-year olds. A partial report technique is used to assess the amount of information that children can take in and what the course of information loss was over time. (DP)

This study was undertaken to see if pictures in primary social studies textbooks (the elementary subject preparing citizens for effective lives in a democracy) are sexually discriminating in role distinctions (the concern of the American Sociological Association). (Author)

This investigation also studied the relationship between gestational age and preferences for contour. (CB)

Describes a classroom demonstration for training pigeons and showing many kinds of behavior after a stimulus is given. (PS)

Concluding portion of a two-part article. (VM)

It is evident from this task that preschool children can remember simple pictures as well as their names, that either pictorial or verbal codes can mediate memory of either pictures or words in accordance with task demands, and that same-different judgments tend to be faster to pictures than to words. (Author)

Intelligence variables were found to be good predictors of recall performance at later stages of acquisition under delayed recall, while under immediate recall, memory variables predicted recall performance best at early stages of acquisition. (Authors)

Research supported by a grant from the National Research Council of Canada. (RS)

Absolute judgment may be characterized as a special case of paired-associate learning in which the stimuli and responses are ordered, and responses are assigned to stimuli in serial order. (Authors)

Results of this study indicated that the frequency of an auditory stimulus is a dimension to which infants differentially respond in terms of response rate and acoustic characteristics of their vocalizations. (Authors)