Weight of the evidence is insufficient to accept the study hypothesis asserting a direct relation between social class and academic achievement in the minor seminary. (Authors)

Results of the study show that punishment is an effective condition of learning. (Author)

Main findings of a previous study are confirmed in that the matrix mode of representation, as actually used by Ss, again leads to significantly better performance on all problems except those where information was presented in terms of negative statements. (Authors)

Two studies were conducted with college students to clarify the previously reported relationship between skill versus chance activity preferences and the locus of control scale. (Author)

Study is an attempt to increase communication proficiency in young children by using training procedures which focus primarily on making the listener's needs more salient to the child as he forms and gives messages. (Authors/MB)

Author suggests that in the classroom situation the teacher's perception of his pupils is of greater importance than the pupils' social class. (Author/MB)

A conceptual and methodological framework is described which provides a statistical referent for the components of acquisition and application of task knowledge in complex inference tasks and which facilitates their disentanglement. (Authors/RY)