Investigated digit repetition in unilaterally and bilaterally brain-damaged adults to study the hemispheric and neuropsychological factors that underlie performance. Digit repetition was disproportionately depressed in such patients. The data suggest a differential function hypothesis, as well as a unilateral hemispheric hypothesis that underlies…

Six measures of children's verbal skills were found to have internal consistency, and interjudge and test-retest reliability. (MH)

Present testing devices are inadequate for the unbiased evaluation of the slow learner's achievement in a laboratory demonstration oriented science course. The best method for testing the slow learner in science is to use a practical question based upon a laboratory demonstration or experiment which the teacher performs in class during the…

Compares and analyzes the size of the "SAT elite," seniors who score 650 or higher on the verbal or mathematics section of the Scholastic Assessment Test, over 10-year period. Disputes published reports that "SAT elite" has shrunk. (PKP)

This article reports on 2 studies with kindergarten and first-grade children from a low-achieving elementary school that provided vocabulary instruction by the students' regular classroom teacher of sophisticated words (advanced vocabulary words) from children's trade books that are typically read aloud. Study 1 compared the number of…

The initial portion of this paper addresses itself to some of the methodological concerns associated with Verbal-Quantitative (V-Q) research. The second section focuses on studies using differential V-Q ability as an independent variable. The final section focuses on reasearch using V-Q ability measures as dependent variables. (Author/BJG)

Preliminary report of this research read at the Midwestern Psychological Association Convention, May 6, 1966.

RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED TO FOCUS ON AN EXAMINATION OF SEVERAL ASPECTS OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS AS WELL AS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TEST OF CREATIVE THINKING. THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES WERE (1) TO CONSTRUCT A TEST WHICH WILL MEASURE CREATIVITY AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, (2) TO IDENTIFY THE VARIABLES THAT ARE EFFECTIVE IN INFLUENCING THE CREATIVE PROCESS,…

Strategies for apprehending and processing verbal material were studied in deaf and normal children by using color-word interference tasks. Color-word interference task was described as a method of apprehension evaluation with minimum memory contribution. The task involved three cards: one containing color patches, one containing printed names of…

The major thesis of this research is that there are two types of processes underlying verbal performance. First, there are processes based on knowledge. Second, verbal performance requires the exercise of certain information-free, mechanistic processes, i.e., those that are conducted on the physical representation of a symbol (including whatever…

Ordering preferences for English adjectives in attributive (prenominal) and predicative (postnominal) positions were found to be in general agreement. Semantically congruent and incongruent adjectives were compared regarding ordering preferences and a "borrowing" theory is proposed. (CHK)

Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of oral examinations of advanced degree candidates. Looks at examiners' attitudes and the kinds of questions which should be asked. Suggests that a fair oral examination ought to include factual as well as nonfactual questions and argues that many factual questions can be justified. (SED)