A persuasion scale assessing counselor conviction and client agreement was used to rate 900 counselor statements. The 24 highest rated and 15 lowest rated persuasive statements were fed into a graphic level recorder. Differences in the graphs of high- and low- persuasive statements indicated that loudness is a characteristic of persuasion. (Author)

Examines the relationship between illusory changes of repeated words (verbal transformations) and illusory presence of phonemes replaced by noise (phonemic restorations); paper presented at the 82nd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Denver, Colorado, October 1971, and supported in part by a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate…

Newborn cardiac activity was analyzed in the context of the orienting response before and after a feeding, while sleeping and awake. Newborns tended to respond to stimuli with less variability when tested before feeding. The newborn's cardiac response to stimuli in different modalities is affected by arousal state and feeding condition. (ST)

The notion that response bias may spuriously influence categorical judgments on discrimination tasks with unequal response alternatives was investigated using the Wepman Auditory Discrimination Test. (Author)

Research supported by research grants from the Canadian Defense Research Board and the Canada Council. (VM)

Explored was the relation between language and/or verbal ability and reduced auditory acuity at discrete frequencies and various frequency bands in children with high frequency impairment. (Author)

A program for teaching reading to first grade children is described. (CK)