The present research deals with the PRP effect as it occurs in a task involving response uncertainty that must be resolved on the basis of a decoding of each signal. (Author)

The purpose of the present study was to determine the ability organisation for adults of various ages through a hierarchial factor analysis of WAIS subtest intercorrelations for subjects from early adulthood through old age. (Author)

Three tests of divergent thinking were administered, along with Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices Test, to two matched groups of 10- to 11 year old school children in untimed "game like' and untimed "test like' conditions. (Editor)

Article describes a generalized data service system that incorporates many scanning applications. (Author)

Present study investigated the relationship between science achievement level and cognitive styles using a categorization instrument developed by Kagan and Moss. (Author)

Fifty feminists and 50 control subjects were tested as to attitudes about, and involvement in the women's movement. Externality was shown to be related to involvement. (DM)

A direct induction of mood was employed to determine the role of affect in self-gratification. (Authors)

Experiment was designed to isolate the incentive properties of uncertainty reduction (information) from those of material reward value and vaiety in a binary, competitive reward situation. (Author)

Study investigates the adequacy of predicting differential value systems of college students from their American College Test (ACT) scores. (Author)

A detailed study of university and provincial records was undertaken to determine whether or not the low rates of suicide at the University of Alberta might have resulted from incomplete reporting. (Authors/CB)

Shows how social position may influence preference toward risk, and points out the value of social perspective in developing theories of decision-making involving risk. (DM)

Describes research evaluating teacher critical reading ability and finding that chronological age is inversely related to critical reading test performance. (AN)

From evidence of this study it appears that a person will learn more from a prose passage if he forms images of the things and events described in the passage. (Authors/MB)

Results indicated that subjects in each source of blame group responded with significantly less amplitude and speed following interruption than noninterruption. (Authors)

Results indicate that scoring tests by the self-scoring method can result in a higher split half reliability than tests scored by the traditional right-wrong method. (Authors)