This paper presents a theory of human information processing. Information processing refers to the perception, encoding, recoding, storage, retrieval and manipulation of information by the brain. This theoretical model takes a developmental perspective in explaining human performance on tasks that require thinking, reasoning and remembering.…

A system using a magnetic card controller and plastic magnetic striped cards at the University of California at Berkeley allows specific transactions to be recorded for eventual billing. The system can be used to control access to as well as dispense a commodity. For journal availability see HE 509 149. (LBH)

Evaluates the findings and measurement techniques about the incidence and role of internal speech in the information processing abilities of preschool and primary-grade children. (RL)

Supports previous findings that preschool children evidence significant amounts of subvocal speech, and that a significant relationship between recall and subvocal speech exists for boys but not for girls. (RL)

Seven experiments are described investigating the effecy of high intensity white noise during the visual presentation of words on a number of short-term memory tasks. Examines results relative to position learning and sequence learning. (Editor/RK)

The 1976 Education Amendments contain what may be the most comprehensive prescriptions for planning, evaluation, and research on vocational education formulated to date by the United States Congress. Discusses possible outcomes of the legislation and their implications for overall educational thinking and policy. (Author/RK)

Concepts and methods suggested by cognitive psychology and recent experimental studies of the perception of duration have been employed in this research of judgments of historical duration by children aged between 8 and 15 years. Results indicate a developmental sequence in forms of historical temporal awareness. (Author/RK)

Summarizes recent developments in information technology research and development, telecommunication services, telephone manufacturing, telecommunication networks, information processing, and U.S. import/export policy. It is concluded that government regulation as a policy strategy depends on how one defines national security. (Author/CLB)

An examination of the collaborative work structures located in and around the leading research universities of the United States offers insights for improving information processing. Collaboration is needed by the information processing society. While the academic department remains the home, the interdisciplinary research group is emerging as the…

Explores the social correlates of the interpretive abilities of young children to assess televised narratives. Demonstrates negative correlations between amount of television viewed by parents and children's television comprehension, indicating that the more parents viewed television, the worse their children performed on comprehension tests.…

Bibliographic control of information in the social sciences is examined, and the transfer of social science information from the Western countries to the Third World is discussed. (RM)

Eight papers cover: optical storage technology; cross-cultural videodisc design; optical disk technology use at the Library of Congress Research Service and National Library of Medicine; Internal Revenue Service image storage and retrieval system; solving business problems with CD-ROM; a laser disk operating system; and an optical disk for…

Questions whether observed differences in use of strategy of monitoring is related to the following cognitive styles: field independence, reflection, flexible control, and preference for processing information by the written word. Field independence was positively related to amount of monitoring on all written tasks, and reflection was weakly but…

Assessed possibility that developmental difference in social values is associated with development of information processing capabilities. Three- to 10-year-old children completed an individualized regression assessment of social values, a central-incidental memory measure, and a free-recall word list task. Results indicated age, sex, and memory…

Suggests a model of human cognition by describing similarities between human and electronic computers. This model might guide the development of software so that it is sufficiently powerful and flexible to be of value to human computers as they construct new knowledge in chemistry. (JN)