The growth of indexing services has emphasized the need for more knowledge of the indexing process itself. Consistency is necessary for continuing progress in the field. This study postulates that: (1) definitions of indexer consistency should consist of the indexer's perception of indexable concepts and his choice of terminology; (2) both parts…

This paper describes a series of heuristic approaches to helping schools analyze problems by the use of a teletype time-sharing computer terminal. The examples detailed include 1) a Delphi exercise for students; 2) a budgeting model which examines the results of various levels of funding and of changes of relative priorities; 3) a school…

OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION SERVICE IN GUIDANCE FOCUSES ON THE DIFFERING NEEDS OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FOR KNOWLEDGE OF OCCUPATIONS. OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION IS DEFINED AS ACCURATE, UP-TO-DATE TREATMENT AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA IMPORTANT TO THE PROCESS OF OCCUPATIONAL SELECTION, PREPARATION, PLACEMENT, AND ADJUSTMENT. TO MEET THE NEED FOR SUCH…

The series of experiments described here examined the predictions for free recall from sequential models and the shift formulation, focusing on the roles of short- and long-term memory in the primacy/recency shift and on the effects of expectancies on short- and long-term memory. (Author/RK)

The purpose of the present experiment was to explore what it is that people remember about complex pictures. The experiment investigated several types of information which people might remember about two kinds of pictures, those which represent real-world scenes and those which represent collections of objects. (Author/RK)

Delineates and elaborates upon the underlying psychological postulates in linguistic and information-processing models, and shows the interdependence of psycholinguistics and linguistic analysis. (Text is in French.) (DB)

Describes the methodology and results of an experiment to measure the effects of both overt and covert responses to educational stimuli with KCR (knowledge of correct results) feedback provided. Also compared are the effectiveness of both types of KCR-feedback in their ability to process and store the relevant information. (Author/RAO)

Recognizing that the new copyright law will come into effect during an era of accelerating technological advancements in communications, Congress left certain issues open. Discussed are copyright protection for works of the U.S. government, performing rights in sound recordings, computer uses of copyrighted works, reproduction and distribution by…

A reply to a rejoinder in which Pascual-Leone defended his quantitative model of children's information processing capacity. Trabasso focuses on empirical evidence in presenting his reply to this rejoinder. (BD)

The advantages of 1200 baud searching over 300 baud searching are explored with emphasis on equipment selection, offline and online printing, alterations in search style, efficiency, and costs. (JPF)

Discusses a study which investigated whether a computer simulation model could suggest subroutines that were instructable and whether instruction on these subroutines could facilitate subjects' solutions to the problem task. (JM)

Focused and divided auditory attention were studied in 7- and 10-year-old children. (BD)

The author provides a brief view of issues and developments in the field of problem solving in the light of progress made as well as implications for the future. (MN)

Examines, within a single experiment, whether the conditions exist for drawing a valid inference about the possibility of a word losing its meaning through either visual satiation or visual "and" verbal satiation. Evaluates research by Fillenbaum (1964) and Esposito and Pelton (1969). (Author/RK)

Investigates what type of study (information processing) is sufficient for transfer of information to long-term memory and demonstrates that the influence of a fixed set of study instructions on long-term recall may vary as a function of the locus of the time available to study a list for prior short-term recall. (Author/RK)