The pleasure-arousal hypothesis predicts an interaction between pleasure and arousal levels in determining approach-avoidance, such that approach increases with arousal in pleasant settings and decreases with arousal in unpleasant settings. Results support this hypothesis. (Author)

Reports on a study conducted to determine the effect of the connotations of the color black on White university students' interracial behavior. Addresses the question of whether the differences in attitudes toward Black and Negro carries over into a difference in behavior with a person labeled Black and another labeled Negro. (MK)

Limitations of current information-processing research on the nature of intelligence are discussed. Major criticisms are that the tasks are static; lack of generalizability from the laboratory to the real world; and collective intellect, motives, goals, circumstances, and ambiguity are not addressed in either theory or research. (Author/RD)

The basics must be taught, but a school which teaches the basics alone would not educate every student to his or her fullest potential. Allowing the "basics-only" advocates to restrict school curriculum would mean shortchanging many children with diverse needs. (Author/SJL)

Examined and compared self-reported reasons for pop music preferences of 397 students in grades five, seven, nine, eleven, and college. Results revealed that characteristics such as melody, mood, rhythm, and lyrics were the most important reasons for selection. Differences in response by age and background characteristics were noted. (Author/SJL)

Describes a system that has proven helpful in bringing a physician and school counselor together as professional teammates. The system includes an inservice meeting, selection of physicians, an initial team meeting, referrals, and team conferences. Outcomes of the program are described. (RC)

An attempt was made to determine whether the traits known as cognitive styles should be recognized as intellectual abilities or intellectual controls, or both. It was suggested that the structure of intellect model could serve as a frame of reference for future research in this area. (Author/RL)

A model for the personal responsibility group is presented. Each person in the group chooses goals based on personal perspectives and is not subordinate to an authority or to the group. Personal responsibility for actions and decisions is taken by each group member. (RC)

A look at identification, grouping, and instruction techniques, followed by an assessment of the legality of a properly administered tracking system and an enumeration of guidelines and due process procedures that must be followed. (Author/MLF)

Examines the relationship between the quantity and type of spontaneous private speech and delayed match-to-sample performance among kindergarten children (N=65). (MP)

Mental abilities can be analyzed at four levels: composite tasks, subtasks, components, and metacomponents. Each level of analysis reveals something about the structure and content of mental abilities responsible for intelligent performance. (Author/WI)

Children's response to a handicapped child's differences may lie in earlier and more basic psychological phenomena than simply labels or separation. (Author/PHR)

Studies the relationship between different feeding modes and the mother's enjoyment of feeding and her attitude toward and style of weaning the child. Results indicate breast-feeding mothers are higher sensation seekers, more satisfied with the feeding experience, and more ambivalent about weaning than the artifically feeding mothers. (Author)