Sixteen deaf-blind, retarded, preschool postrubella children (mean age 6 years) were tested in an operant procedure which allowed them to select preferred illumination feeback as reinforcement for operating a simple two-choice lever switch. (Author/MC)

Two experiments were conducted to examine the relationship between stress level and learned helplessness in human subjects. Experiment 1 subjected subjects to loud or moderate noise in order to induce differential stress. Experiment 2 was a partial replication of the first study using only loud noise. (Editor/RK)

The concept of career education as a fully integrated system offers vocational educators a chance to join as full partners in an enlarged view of the educational enterprise; partisanship, however, must be abandoned, and liberation from a limiting definition of vocational education must be achieved. (AJ)

Suggests exercises designed to help students become more perceptive to the sounds around them. (TO)

The Suvag Lingua is a machine used to facilitate better aural perception by working from a student's error in producing a particular sound and adapting the model which is to be imitated. (DD)

Assesses subjects' information output after presentation of pictorial, word, and sentence stimuli. Output is measured in two modes of response: reconstruction and verbal description. Complexity of the stimuli is demonstrated to have important effects on perceptual information processing. (DP)

Uni- and multidimensional processing of 6- to 9-year olds was studied using recall tasks in which an array of stimuli was reconstructed to match a model array. Results indicated that both age groups were able to solve multidimensional problems, but that solution rate was retarded by the unidimensional processing of highly salient dimensions.…

Eight reflective and eight impulsive preschool children were tested in a forced-choice recognition memory task. Reflective children made more correct recognition choices than did impulsive children under all experimental conditions. (ST)

A series of social interaction situations representing the four emotions of happy, afraid, sad, and angry were administered to 288 American children and 288 Chinese children. (Editor)

The present paper is concerned particularly with the processes underlying the perception of the upright, that is, an object in its usual, or familiar, position in space. (Author/RK)

The present study was designed to determine how the ratings of a college teacher were influenced by the sex and achievement level of the students. (Author)

Author suggests ways in which parents and teachers can assist their children with early experience in sensory perception of the natural environment. (Author/RK)

Reported was a study comparing the effectiveness of a brief period of instruction in various strategies in the scanning of a tactual pseudomap by 108 blind braille readers at the intermediate, junior high, and senior high levels. (DB)

Findings are interpreted in the framework of adolescent egocentrism and discussed both in terms of their implications for the study of adolescent socialization and the study of perceived age changes. (Authors)