The author analyzes and provides an operational definition of the faculty's role in doctoral-level, competency-based training programs in special education supervision. (SB)

A model of context effects in perception is applied to perception of letters. Perception results from excitatory and inhibitory interactions of detectors for visual features, letters, and words. The model produces facilitation for letters in pronounceable pseudowords as well as words and accounts for rule-governed performance without any rules.…

The hypothesis that overall-similarity relations structure both adults' and children's classifications of heterogeneous objects (objects that differ in a variety of ways) was supported in two experiments. When objects varied simultaneously on many dimensions, adults and children constructed classifications that maximized within-category similarity…

Defines the role of a department head and suggests some ways to help schools use department chairmen more effectively. (MLF)

Alcoholic and nonalcoholic adult males and females (N=100) judged self and three intimate others on four personality characteristics. Alcoholics viewed themselves and their mothers and fathers as more unhappy, less sociable, and less productive and persistent, and their spouses as more unhappy and less sociable than did nonalcoholics. Alcoholics…

A career is defined as the roles played by a person during a lifetime. A life-career rainbow is presented to help conceptualize multidimensional careers. Self-actualization role conflicts and role selection are discussed. (Author)

Tested assumptions about behavioral cues that clients use to infer what helpers intend. Questions and acknowledgments were best predictors of client perceptions. Guiding was perceived more often than advisement actually occurred. Intention of communicating understanding of message shifted from reflection in the analogue to acknowledgment in the…

Suggests we attend to aspects of our interpersonal environment that correspond to features of our personality. Subjects who weighted a particular dimension tended to think they possessed a personality trait corresponding to the dimension. Reasons for the individual difference hypothesis were given. (Author)

Undergraduates viewed videotaped counseling sessions, defined by verbal and nonverbal variables and two male counselors. Use of interpretation and responsive nonverbal behavior was perceived as more expert, attractive, and trustworthy than restatement and unresponsive nonverbal behavior. Counselor verbal intervention interacted with nonverbal…

This paper examines the place that mentorship has, and might potentially have, in the development of scholarliness in nursing. It argues that mentorship and sponsorship are essential for the scholarly development of nurses and for the integration of the scholarly role in the self. (CT)

Investigated how people with congenital orthopedic disabilities intially learn that they are different and how they learn the evaluative meaning associated with being disabled. Analyzed the content of 29 autobiographies. Results indicated that people born with orthopedic disabilities discover between ages 3 and 5 that they are different. (Author)

Reviews work on three areas of visual information that are available to readers: information provided by the conventional arrangements of the print on the page, by the features of each letter, and by the shapes of entire words. (HOD)

A nationwide project (Physicians Serving Handicapped Children) to provide continuing medical education to primary care physicians who provide office based health care to handicapped children is described. (Author)

Eleven infants with Down's syndrome and 10 of 11 nonhandicapped infants operated an automatic device which enabled them to choose to listen to nursery rhymes sung or played on musical instruments. Both groups preferred the singing, and the Down's Syndrome infants had much longer response durations for the more complex auditory stimuli. (Author/DB)

This is a discussion of the conservation of angular momentum of the human body engaged in somersaults and twists. The principle is also applied to a cat turning over in midair. The events occur in the absence of torques. Application of the maneuvers are suggested for astronauts. (SA)