This monograph contains two studies in which the notion of intelligence as one general basic ability is rejected and in its place is posited the existence of a specific type of mental ability described as "spatial intelligence.""Spatial Reasoning and Its Measurement" investigates the process of spatial reasoning in the adult through an analysis of…

An experiment which varied indications about the possibility of psychological risk and deception in consent information provided to subjects prior to participation in Asch's (1952) line-judgment task is presented. The number of erroneous line-judgments (conformity) made by subjects across five consent treatments and a no-consent control group were…

This paper reviews major stidues in metacognitive research relating to education and discusses their implications for educators and teacher education. Metacognition generally refers to self-awareness, or self knowledge of one's thought processes. Two types of research are discussed: (1) descriptive or correlational data on the natural development…

Paired associate memory was tested with imagery and repetition instructions, with and without background music. Subjects were 64 students enrolled in an introductory psychology course. Music was found to have no effect with imagery instructions, but significantly improved performance with the repetition instructions. Music had different effects on…

Interest in the ways in which conflict can be de-escalated led to this study, in which 86 college students served as subjects, to compare the effectiveness of tit for tat strategies with Osgood's (1962) proposal of graduated and reciprocated initiatives in tension reduction. The first requirement of Osgood's proposal is to communicate the need for…

Ever since the early days of its existence, the field of psychology has been trying to achieve two different and somewhat contradictory objectives: to understand the "general principles" of the human mind and to explore the "uniqueness" of the individual mind. The latter direction has formed an independent subdiscipline within…

The purpose of the present experiments was to investigate the effects of backward masking on differential eyelid conditioning. (Author)

The purpose of the present experiment was to examine the effects of input variation upon recall performance in relation to two specific issues derived from the perceptual regrouping hypothesis. (Author)

The principal objective of this research was to examine the interelations of degree of learning, length of to-be-remembered (TBR) units, and retention interval, with particular reference to the concept of "intraunit interference". (Author/RK)

In two experiments, Ss judged a stimulus person on three dimensions: Generosity, Gift Size, and Income. Judgments on each dimension were based on information about the remaining two dimensions presented in a 4 x 4 design. (Editor)

The present study investigated directly the perceiver's selective control over the processing of hypercapacity verbal or pictorial inputs. (Author)

Serial anticipation and serial discrimination learning were compared. Trials, errors, total learning times, serial position errors, and retention were examined. (Editor/RK)

In Thorndikian experiments, Ss have performed better on Trial 2 when they were told whether Trial 1 responses were right or wrong on Trial 2 than when given this information immediately after each response on Trial 1. Authors reexamined these experiments. (Editor/RK)

Concludes that information retention varies with subjects' reactions to feedback and the kind of immediate practice. (RB)

An experiment was devised in which subjects either were given a choice or were given no choice to listen to a counter-attitudinal communication. (Editor)