Summarizes an extensive survey of research on early education and questions the need for State intervention. (Author)

Defensiveness was the major reaction of students subjected to failure on an important examination; their self ideal-self discrepancy scores changed in a downward direction after they were given papers containing failing marks. (Editor)

Effect of instructional conditions on the nature of memory errors was studied using a false recognition procedure. (Authors)

A description of various causes and effects of noise pollution with suggestions for related classroom activities. (CP)

Testing Pollack's hypothesis that decreases in effective contour contrast (resulting from a decrease in receptor sensitivity with age or from a change in actual stimulus contrast) lead to decreases in illusion magnitude. Conclusions are questioned by Sjostrom and Pollack (PS 501 740). (Author/MB)

Females cheated in response to consistently unfavorable self-perceptions, while males were influenced by immediate situational factors. (Authors)

Investigation combined two heretofore unconnected research areas: the newly structured operation of divergent thinking and the older domain of family resemblances. (Author)

An image of the retarded emerged from the drawings, which, generally, were convergent on the adult level but divergent for the adolescents. (Authors)

Results indicate that retrieval time became slower with age. (MB)

Supports the belief theory of prejudice which states that racial prejudice is the result of the anticipation of belief differences. (Author/ML)

The results of four experiments comparing the behavior of children from two settings are reported in this article. (Authors)

It is concluded that a child's separation from his family constitutes a potential cause of short-term distress but separation is of little direct importance as a cause of long-term disorder. (Author)

Auditory and visual recognition were studied in subjects ranging in age from 10 to 60 years. In comparison with perceptual and response factors, memory scanning time is relatively insensitive to age differences, and auditory recognition involves the use of a pre-linguistic memory system insensitive to age differences. (Author/MF)