Children's perception and understanding of three-dimensional figures and of operations on them is discussed. Piaget's findings are reviewed and more current research is described. Classroom implications are explored. (SD)

Responses by 200 psychologist couples asking them to delinerate problem areas were content analyzed. The larger number of problems cited by subjects were due to the fact that women were willing to place their careers secondary to needs of their families and needs of their husband's careers. (Author)

Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling (NMDS) is a measurement technique for identifying substitute and unique leisure activities in that it allows the investigator to determine the perceptual dimensions that individuals use to organize their view of leisure activities. (MB)

Study suggests that teachers judge pupils in terms of an ideal, a student with average or above-average aptitude. Hostile attitudes toward slow learners may be a result of this expectation, rather than indication of personality, with role distance being a particular adjustment made by untrained teachers of slow learners. (RW)

The ventral eye of "Limulus" (horseshoe crab) contains only one type of photoreceptor. Behaviors mediated by the ventral eye provide an unambiguous representation of the function of that single-receptor type. Compares such behaviors with results of acute, single-cell investigations to assay for the contributions of candidate neural codes in the…

Resolution of cognitive dissonance following a pleasant and unpleasant task was examined under conditions of high and low justification with 60 male psychology students. Numbers were written at random and other tasks were completed followed by description of task to another subject. Mode of dissonance resolution was found to be a function of…

Children's preferences for peers and adults with black or white skin were examined in a semistructured, doll-play interview. Results were discussed in terms of the increasingly favorable perceptions shown by black children for others of like skin color and the implications for selection of adult role models. (Editor/TA)

The Delphi technique was used to gain information about the role of student personnel services during the next 10 years in the 28 public community colleges of Florida. A total of 435 student personnel practitioners participated in the study. Comparisons are made with a national study conducted 10 years earlier. (Author)

The study evaluates effects of environmental cues of competence (such as diplomas) and the sex of the counselor on perceived expertness. Undergraduate students (N=64) were interviewed and subsequently completed a semantic-differential questionnaire. Results indicate diplomas and awards significantly influence the subject's initial perception of…

The role of the "assistant to" at a large, state-supported university is analyzed and six discrete types of utilization are discussed. The influence and career paths of "assistants to" are examined in relation to each role type. (Author/LBH)

The Cornell Parent Behavior Inventory and Moral Dilemmas Test were administered to 146 girls and 123 boys in New Zealand. Boys with high parental support factor scores had higher mean scores on the Moral Dilemmas Test. The girls' parent perception factor scores did not relate to the Moral Dilemmas Test. (Author)

This article describes a study designed to test the basic notions of the verbo-tonal method of error correction in second language learning, a method based on an awareness of the phonological system of the speaker's native language and its influence on the phonological system of the target language. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

This article discusses the relationship in language instruction between the verbo-tonal system of phonetic correction and a structuro-global audio-visual method which takes the communication aspects of language learning into account. (Text is in French.) (CLK)