Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to determine if, among other things, an Inquiry program would have a continued effect on children's behavior after the novelty of the situation had passed. (LC)

Examines developmental differences in category labeling in a communication situation. Adult women and nine-year-old children instructed seven-year-olds in the organization of groceries in a mock kitchen or in the organization of photographs of common objects into compartments as a "homework" assignment. Both adults and children gave more…

Currently available ornithology books are described. These include general reference books on birds as well as guides for identifying birds in their natural habitats. (JN)

Examined trends in counseling research as represented in the contents of the JOURNAL OF COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY to identify the system of counseling psychology. The mechanical mirror or behavioral approach to research has been the most commonly occurring methodological design, followed in order by organic lamp, eclectic, and psychoanalytic designs.…

Critiqued and reanalyzed a recent study of the validity of five Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) alcoholism scales. The original study concluded that these scales were invalid in terms of classifying patients in regard to alcoholic status. Reanalysis provides evidence for the validity of four of the five scales. (Author/JAC)

The first of six articles on the topic of categorical versus noncategorical special education reviews research on the harmful effects of labeling and categorizing children and introduced the next five papers. (CL)

Describes a study that examines the pragmatic language functions used by school-age children during a structured dialog consisting of a question-answer paradigm. Develops a 10-category taxonomy to classify subjects' responses and finds the taxonomy to be effective in two ways: (1) the number of categories is sufficient, and (2) the interscorer…

One hundred undergraduates learned lists of high- or low-imagery nouns in one column (ungrouped) or in three columns (grouped). Grouped-list recall was significantly greater than ungrouped on the third and fourth trials. Spatial grouping seems to provide important cues which are independent of the words learned or imagery level. (Author/CM)

Compares developmental changes in the processing of subordinate/superordinate relationships across perceptual and nonperceptual categories. Perceptual categories contained visually similar exemplars, while nonperceptual categories contained dissimilar exemplars. Second, fifth, and eleventh graders, as well as mentally retarded adolescents,…