Results of this study indicate that trait anxiety (personal disposition) significantly affects both state anxiety and motor performance, but no audience main effects or interaction effects were statistically significant. (JD)

The influence of listening to humor on creativity tests of adolescents is investigated. It was found that those adolescents who listened to the record performed significantly better on a creativity test than control groups. (Author/DEP)

The importance of listening to students and what true listening involves are examined. (RW)

Investigated in three studies were responses of 18- and 24-month-old children to a series of commands. Results suggest that a potent incentive for obeying commands lies in the pleasure very young children take in fitting their actions to the words of others. This pleasure sustains subsequent reenactment of the actions without commands. (Author/RH)

The performance of 60 learning disabled and normally achieving children (ages 9-12), either given minimal instruction to use organizing strategies or engaged only in practice with a free recall task, were compared. Factors underlying the unexpected finding that strategy use did not account for learning disabled students' poor recall are discussed.…

Kim (1985) found that both English-speaking and Korean-speaking children find true negative sentences more difficult to verify than false negative sentences. A closer examination of the findings reveals that the difficulty is greater among Korean-speaking children. (Author/RH)

Replies to Akiyama's critique, pointing out areas of agreement between the Kim and Akiyama studies and areas of disagreement. Concludes that, contrary to Akiyama's argument, the Kim (1985) data would not directly challenge the cognition primacy hypothesis in any serious manner. (RH)

Defines performance discrepancy as the difference between someone's actual performance and his desired performance and relates this to drinking and driving behavior. Promotes examination of environmental and psychological factors which affect performance discrepancy and the application of behavior modification techniques before the adult stage is…

Two naming tasks were simultaneously presented to either one visual field/hemisphere combination or were divided between visual fields/hemispheres. Hypotheses that bilateral presentation would improve performance by insulating conflicting tasks from mutual interference and that there would be a developmental shift in the bilateral advantage was…

Assessed the performance of college students (N=188) on a wheel-turning task in which easy, moderately difficult, or very difficult goals were self-selected, experimenter imposed, or not present. Choice was motivating for low need achievers, who selected a difficult goal. However, experimenter imposition motivated low need achievers with easy…

Evaluated the relationship between Freedom From Distractibility subtests (Kaufman, 1975) and a variety of cognitive and behavioral measures to assess processes underlying performance for 96 fifth graders. Findings suggested that differing and fairly complex cognitive processes rather than the single behavioral dimension of distractibility underlie…

Examined recognition memory for photographs of faces in four experiments using students and adults. Results supported a feature (rather than Gestalt) model of facial recognition in which the two sides of the face are different in its memory representation. (JAC)

Contrasts two large State agencies with homogeneous output measures, one agency being judged as more effective than the other; and sets forth some of the observed characteristics associated with the difference in effectiveness. (Author)