This study investigates the hypotheses that (a) the creation of new experience in cognitive functioning involves increased differentiation and integration of meaning and (b) self-actualization involves the tendency to engage in a mode of cognitive processing that creates new experience. (Author)

Discussed is whether sociocultural deprivation is a cause of secondary mental retardation or whether socioculturally different would be a more appropriate term to apply to such children. (DB)

This paper is concerned with the process of human reading as a high-level perceptual task. Drawing on insights from artificial-intelligence research--specifically, research in natural language processing and continuous speech understanding--the paper attempts to present a fairly concrete picture of the kinds of hypothesis formation and inference…

This study compared the WAIS IQ and subtest scores of 167 male and 112 female patients of a heterogeneous psychiatric population. (Author)

Describes a study involving administration of a home environment inventory to a sample of 77 mothers and infants in order to explore its ability to predict later mental test performance. Correlations between home inventory data and measures of infant development over a period of 30 months were higher than those typically reported. (ED)

First grade children in Israel were tested on the Wechsler Preschool Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI); most were retested using measures of Reading and Arithmetic. Intelligence and achievement test scores were correlated to provide estimates of the predictive validity of the WPPSI. The Israeli WPPSI was highly valid for predicting school…

Article critically evaluated the Jencks' report on minority children and presented an international report that contradicted two major hypotheses forwarded by Jencks' research. (RK)

Investigates the relationship between the WISC IQ and academic achievement in regularily placed first-grade black children. (Author)