Results from three experiments suggest that attention to context may benefit target recall in situations in which the context can be meaningfully related to the target. Adults seem to be more able to engage in context-interactive processing of stimulus information than are children, who base target selection on perceptual information. (PCB)

When 96 mothers and 46 fathers of 6- or 13-month-old infants independently generated behavioral cues they believed contributed to their perception of their infant's recent easiness/difficultness, few systematic differences were found between easy and difficult infants, 6- and 13-month-olds, males and females, and firstborn and later-born.…

Five profoundly deaf adults were recorded reading lists of individual words under three expressive modes (speech alone, speech and signs, and speech with cues). Results indicated that speech with cues produced the highest level of intelligibility, speech and signs the lowest. (Author/CL)

A four-step sequential prompt instruction strategy for mildly handicapped students is outlined and suggestions are made for managing prompts during instruction and monitoring their use. (CL)

The role of the spatial relationship between target responses and reinforcers in the discrimination learning of six mentally retarded adults was evaluated. Results showed that discrimination performance was more efficient in the experimental condition (reinforcement located near the correct cue) than the control condition (reinforcement in common…

Investigated young children's (N=20) comprehension of sentences containing one or more markers using three tasks in two experiments. Results suggested that children's comprehension of sentential number is aided by redundancy of information involving different syntactic markers, but not by mere repetition of the same maker. (JAC)

Fifteen mentally retarded students (8-11 years old) who participated in interpersonal problem solving skills training that focused on such areas as language, cue sensitivity, empathy, and integrating skills demonstrated a significant increase in interpersonal problem solving behavior compared to a control group. (CL)

Two experiments investigated the possibility that normal children (sixteen 6- to 7-year-olds) and retarded children (sixteen 9- to 10-year-olds) equated for immediate memory performance may not use effective strategies to eliminate interference from irrelevant information in memory. (Author/JH)

The delay and magnitude of reward cues were independently varied to investigate whether children's delay of gratification choices were attributable to (1) the magnitude of reward cue, and/or (2) discriminative stimulus properties of the delay cue. (Author/SB)

A verbal reinforcer and two nonverbal immediacy cues, eye contact and body lean, were manipulated by an E under far and close conditions of interpersonal distance in a projective testing situation. As hypothesized, significant increases in the dependent measure, the number of thematic responses, were found for the verbal cue at both interaction…

The present study is concerned with the retention of single-cue probability learning (SPL) tasks with scaled cue and criterion varibles. (Author)

Study involved the presentation of three lists of consistent words and three lists of inconsistent words to first graders. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of cues emphasized (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) and consistency (high, low) on the number of words learned. (Author)

A developmental study of the relation between apparent size and pictorial depth demonstrated the usefulness of operant techniques in establishing equivalent differential responding and interesting stimulus equivalence in adults, 9- and 3-year-olds. (Author/AJ)

To test the hypothesis that children learn concepts better through linguistic cues than through exemplars, 58 kindergarten children in four matched groups were taught four new concepts using different combinations of sentences and exemplars. Neither main effect, variety of exemplars, nor level of linguistic context was significant. However, a…