To determine whether or not the Floor Ataxia Test Battery (FATB) is associated with vestibular dysfunction, 31 deaf children (mean age 13 years) were studied. Performance on the FATB and the Heath Railwalking Test were compared to nystagmus reactions induced by the cold water caloric test. (Author/PHR)

Greater body fatness is one characteristic that partly explains why women, on the average, do not perform as well as men in strenuous tasks requiring movement of body weight. (JD)

The complex attitudinal impact on women athletes of receiving or not receiving a scholarship is examined. (JD)

College students who withdrew from a course but continued in other courses resembled dropouts in that their time of withdrawal was related to academic standing. (Editor)

High individual accountability did not show significant positive effects on learning when compared with cooperative reward conditions. (JD)

This study examined the isokinetic peak torque at the highest speed of muscle shortening related to age, sex, and physical performance. (MM)

Relationship between achievement and humanistic values and the criteria of role satisfaction, performance and commitment is explored. It is suggested that personal values are too complex to be measured effectively by fixed alternatives questionnaires. Issues to be considered in a follow-up study are presented. (RW)

Younger (N=31) and older (N=21) men participated in a bogus convergent-thinking task in which they rated their effort expenditure after experiencing varying degrees of success. As predicted, results indicated younger, but not older men perceived they tried harder when they succeeded relative to when they failed. (Author)

This paper, presented at the American Educational Research Association, Washington, D.C., April 1975, replicates Horner's (1968) study of the motive to avoid success (M-s) on fifty-through eleventh-grade males (N=169) and females (N=168). Sex and grade differences were found in the specific reasons given for avoiding success. (Author)

The construct validity of the Sport Competition Anxiety Test developed by Martens is investigated to identify persons who differ in their tendency to become anxious just prior to competition. (PBS)

Pre- and postcourse surveys of 389 accounting students were correlated with class grades. Based on grades, 227 were eligible to major in accounting. However, better performance did not proportionately influence their intention to major in accounting. (SK)

Children 3.5 to 5 years old were asked to judge which of several possible sets of parts matched a configured target form and to copy the target forms. Found a significant association between age and performance on the perception task and consistency across the two tasks. (MDM)

Three experiments examined the early development of three- to five-year-old children's analysis of spatial patterns. Found that the youngest children segmented out simple, well-formed, spatially independent parts and used simple relational structures to bind these parts together, whereas older children constructed forms that included increasingly…

This study investigated whether syntactic complexity exerts an influence on the frequency of stuttering in the speech of seven adolescents who stuttered and seven who were normally fluent. Although normal disfluencies and errors in repetition accuracy increased as syntactic complexity increased, stuttering frequency did not appear to be affected…

Two studies examined how task content that activates predator-avoidance affects preschool children's performance on a false-belief task. Findings indicated that the proportion of correct answers on the playmate-avoidance task was greater than that for the predator-avoidance task, suggesting that activation of the predator-avoidance system…