The purpose of the present study was to assess whether or not categorized words are of similar benefit to short-term storage (STS). Specifically, can the use of categorized words be demonstrated to alleviate the limited rehearsal capacity of STS? (Author)

Recent studies suggest that the negative recency effect in final free recall is a function of the type rather than the amount of rehearsal given to terminal list items. From such findings it was predicted that by varying the type of rehearsal, positive recency in final free recall could be obtained. (Editor)

Author investigated the impression that students in coeducational schools are as good or better in examinations than those students in single-sex schools. (Author/RK)

Traditional and evolving attitudes toward energy and the compelling reasons for studying energy use and conservation are highlighted in this guide for elementary-secondary school teachers in the instruction of basic energy attitudes. Sample lessons/activities/objectives are presented from three approaches: attitude development, decision making,…

Describes a decision model for book acquisitions developed to simulate the intellectual processes used in acquiring these materials in academic libraries. (Author/PF)

The present experiments were designed to explore the immediate effects of input order on the free recall of lists of numbers. (Author)

To show how a subject's memory of previous responses and their outcomes affects responding, as in Buchwald's cognitive model, the subject in the present study had to recall his previous response and its outcome before choosing the correct response. (Editor/RK)

The general purpose of this experiment was to determine whether differences in stimulus discrimination, as determined by the MIR (missing-item recognition) test, are correlated with interference in recall, as demanded by the discriminative coding hypothesis. (Author/RK)

Three experiments further explored the Avant, Lyman, and Antes finding that, during prerecognition processing, differences in subjects' familiarity with letters, words, and nonwords generate differences in the apparent duration of tachistoscopic flashes. (Editor)

American youngsters don't know as much science as they did three to four years ago, the National Assessment of Educational Progress finds. (Editor) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Results (Trends).

This study is concerned with the transfer of learned helplessness from one aversive motivator, shock, to another, frustration. (Author)

Three converging findings suggested that long movements are under feedback control whereas short movements are predominantly programmed and ballistic in nature. (Author/RK)

This article reports the first of a series of studies to determine whether the lead-stimulus paradigm would yield results in man similar to those obtained in other organisms. (Author)

The manual provides information for precision measurement (counting of movements per minute of a chosen activity) of achievement in special education students. Initial sections give guidelines for the teacher, parent, and student to follow for various methods of charting behavior. It is explained that precision measurement is a way to measure the…