Describes two experiments that investigate the relationship between beginning readers' concept of word in text and their awareness of phonemes in spoken words. (HOD)

Explores cognitive shifts related to political thinking occurring during the period of concrete operational thought among 67 third, fourth, and fifth graders. Findings suggest that, while cognitive change related to political thinking characterizes the period between the grades, it does not always progress steadily. (RH)

Provides a model that explains persistent obstacles to clear communication--notably culture, tradition, conditioning, distractions, and feedback--and suggests means of overcoming them. (JW)

A course of study in social psychology should progress from the personal to the social. It should be organized around the study of four topics: (1) the boundaries of the self; (2) the relation between individuals; (3) communication between individuals; and (4) leadership and social power. (Author/RM)

Described is the successful use of community agencies as the bases of field study programs for college students majoring in occupational therapy. (GW)

A model of evaluative procedures for teachers, intended to assist teachers in meeting demands for accountability, was developed and researched by teacher educators in California. (GW)

The repertory grid technique was used to explore psychopaths' interpersonal and personal construct systems. Subjects were asked to construe as individuals, and subjects were asked how they thought people in general construed the situations. Psychopaths showed a significant degree of general misperception about people in general. (Author)

Reports on experiments designed to explore the way the processing unit depends on the information in the component letters and the information contained in their arrangements in a familiar letter string. Hypotheses were tested by degrading the quality of individual letters and by spacing the letters irregularly. (CLK)

Two differing explanations of schizophrenic processing deficit were examined: Chapman and McGhie's and Yates'. Thirty-two schizophrenics, classified on the acute-chronic and paranoid-nonparanoid dimensions, and eight neurotics were tested on two dichotic listening tasks. (Editor)

Argues that artistic viewpoints significantly influence our perceptions of everyday life; the arts have been a major force in the construction of the deviant role and physical appearance has been a prime artistic device in concretizing this image. As populations continue to become more educated and sophisticated the great mass of people will…

Intensively surveys samples of specific groups (both students and adults) on their differential perceptions of use of specific drugs or drug types. (Author/RK)

Presents a theoretical framework which examines the processes of assimilation, and attempts to account for the sociology, psychology and history of people of color, who are seen as being ambivalent because they are restricted by two barriers: a block from being non white and a block from being white. (Author/JM)

This study examines the effects of three levels of motives (avoid failure, nonspecific, and gain) and two levels of consequences (individual versus collective) on attribution of moral responsibility. (Author/AM)

Women psychologists, scientists, artists and writers, and politicians (N=863) were compared on the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire through a multiple discriminant analysis. When contrasted with women in the general population, the four groups of career women were all found to be brighter, more assertive, more adventurous, and less…

A laboratory exercise is described in which students view the environment through a transparent frontal parallel plane. The relationship of projected size to distance can be studied, and other cues to distance based on this geometric relationship can be appreciated. (Author/AV)