Study asks whether laboratory findings, that isolation of an item facilitates its recall, extend to formal educational settings. (Authors)

Conclusions are that (a) the addition of reinforcements to a regular classroom curriculum results in improved performance for many students, and (b) improvement is positively related to IQ. (Author/MB)

With a view to obtaining a set of standard times for information system operations, Aslib Research Department is developing and testing methods for collecting and analysing data on the time taken to perform certain operations. The current state of development of these methods is described. (2 references) (Author/NH)

Study supports hypothesis that poorly socialized but apparently nondelinquent students were, as a group, relatively empathic and that this empathic disposition compensated for their poor socialization. (Authors/MB)

Copies of this paper and a source listing which includes input and output data for sample problems can be obtained from the author at Temple University, Philadelphia, Penna. (Author/MB)

The nature of man, his drive for growth, and his search for truth are discussed from a combined philosophical and psychological point of view. (CK)

The authors describe a computer program which deals with sets of variables rather than with one variable at a time. (MM)

In a naturalistic behavioral stdy, it was found that prematures have significantly more endogenous smiling than full-term newborns. (Authors)

Study of five critical-task areas for youth agents: program development and execution, individual help and counseling, organization, interpersonal relationships, and public relations. (Editor/RB)

This paper suggests that although there is reasonable evidence to support that portion of the Collins-Quillian theory of semantic memory which hypothesizes that words are ordered hierarchically in memory, there is little evidence in support of their hypothesis of cognitive economy of storage in memory. (Author)