Memory for the position of a moving target is often displaced in the direction of anticipated motion, and this has been referred to as "representational momentum". Such displacement might aid spatial localization by bridging the gap between perception and action, and might reflect a second-order isomorphism between subjective consequences of…

This article uses the story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. F. Baum, 1900) as a metaphor for exploring career counseling issues related to self-deception, loss, and the search for the "all-knowing" expert. The dynamics of the story can be applied to both counseling practice and counselor training. Cross-cultural issues are also considered.

This article discusses some of the visual skills necessary for proficiency in sports. (JS)

A description of an educational television program on Dickens' world produced by the University of Michigan TV Center. (Author/HB)

Giving names for pictures of familiar objects to nursery school children improves their later recognition of those pictures. This improvement occurs even though the children can easily name the pictures when asked. The present research eliminated the sufficiency of several possible explanations. The names might have provided a response to rehearse…

Distance estimates of locations in a camp setting were obtained from 9- and 10-year-olds and adults. Each subject estimated distance on two tasks: magnitude estimation and reconstruction. Data were analyzed for the effects of certain environmental features such as buildings, trees, and hills. (JMB)

The paper looks into visualisation in learning mathematics from three perspectives: It starts from a discussion what it takes to make a sign, an inscription on the blackboard, on paper or on a computer screen to an image. Here we will look into the question of "similarity" and point to the possibility of having different perspectives on the same…

This report describes a program for increasing students' ability to simplify square roots. The targeted population consisted of high school students in a rural community in a midwestern plains state. The problem of the ability to understand the abstract algebraic process of simplifying square roots was documented through teacher-made tests,…

In agreement with prior studies, syntactic order produced better recall, and recall errors were semantically related to the narrative. The more vivid versions of the paragraphs produced higher recall suggesting that imagery may play a role in recall. (Authors)

Examples are given of the usefulness of mathematics in several different fields. (MM)

The present study found that 6-year-old children made fewer errors on a recognition test of visual memory than did 5-year-olds. Sex and IQ differences did not appear to be related significantly to the child's visual memory ability. (Author)