Describes a decision model for book acquisitions developed to simulate the intellectual processes used in acquiring these materials in academic libraries. (Author/PF)

The present experiments were designed to explore the immediate effects of input order on the free recall of lists of numbers. (Author)

To show how a subject's memory of previous responses and their outcomes affects responding, as in Buchwald's cognitive model, the subject in the present study had to recall his previous response and its outcome before choosing the correct response. (Editor/RK)

The general purpose of this experiment was to determine whether differences in stimulus discrimination, as determined by the MIR (missing-item recognition) test, are correlated with interference in recall, as demanded by the discriminative coding hypothesis. (Author/RK)

Three experiments further explored the Avant, Lyman, and Antes finding that, during prerecognition processing, differences in subjects' familiarity with letters, words, and nonwords generate differences in the apparent duration of tachistoscopic flashes. (Editor)

This study is concerned with the transfer of learned helplessness from one aversive motivator, shock, to another, frustration. (Author)

Three converging findings suggested that long movements are under feedback control whereas short movements are predominantly programmed and ballistic in nature. (Author/RK)

This article reports the first of a series of studies to determine whether the lead-stimulus paradigm would yield results in man similar to those obtained in other organisms. (Author)

The appendix to the report on a national child maltreatment study includes sample forms used in interviewing individuals in child protective services, public health departments, school systems, hospitals, hospital social service departments, courts, and police and sheriff's departments. Included in each survey form are sections with questions in…

Controversies over the extent and duration of projected enrollment declines have made the techniques involved in such predictions a matter of interest in the field of educational planning. This document is a survey of current methodologies and problems in forecasting at the state and institutional level. Part 1 discusses: a review of methodology…

After 3 years of workshop experience, the Eastern Regional Institute for Education (ERIE) has produced this document describing a rationale for workshops which places emphasis on participant involvement and on the planning, conducting and evaluation of a workshop for groups of participants ranging in number from 15 to 500 persons. Major sections…

The purpose of the present experiment was to answer the question of whether patients labeled high or low in "ego-strength" differentially responded to scenes designed either to elicit anxiety or produce little (neutral) affect. (Editor)

Two experiments tracked the acquisition of skilled reading as college students read as many as 160 pages of geometrically inverted text and assessed the consequence for memory of skill at reading. Results were interpreted in terms that emphasized an operational basis to memory--pattern-analyzing procedures rather than conscious contents.…

The results of this experiment suggest that requiring subjects to simultaneously suppress subvocalization and remember syllables depresses performance slightly, but encoding of speech sounds in short-term memory occurs independently of subvocal activity during the memory task. (Editor/RK)