Research favoring the so-called bottom-up and top-down classes of explanations for reversible figures that dominated the literature in last half of the 20th century is reviewed. Two conclusions are offered. First, any single-process model is extremely unlikely to be able to accommodate the wide array of empirical findings, suggesting that the…

Elementary and middle school children were given a large battery of tests evaluating reading subskills and reading-related cognitive abilities. These measures were used to define latent representing skills and abilities believed to be important components of reading comprehension. Hypothesized relationships among these constructs were specified…

Non-verbal recall of haptically presented spatial positions by three age groups of blind and sighted children was tested under conditions varying cuing, recall type and stimulus position in a within-subject design. (Editor)

Following the study of Gibson & Curran (1974) on hypnotic susceptibility, a further sample of 45 subjects was tested on the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) and a modified form of the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale (SHSS) in precisely the same way. (Editor/RK)

The 90 individually run subjects learned and were tested for their free recall of a conceptually unrelated hierarchy of words, a randomly arranged, or a properly arranged conceptual hierarchy, under instructions to process the words either by generating hierarchical associations among them or by copying them. (Editor)

The present study investigated the structure of categories and concepts in psychological research and the nature of mental representations in general. (Author/RK)

The encoding specificity effect was examined in three recognition memory experiments employing an associative processing (cuing) task. (Editor)

Two experiments examined the effect on recall of a response prefix, a redundant element emitted after the presentation of a memory series but before recall was completed. (Editor)

Two experiments were conducted in which to-be-learned information was systematically structured into either a hierarchy of nested categories or a single level of categorical organization. (Editor)

Two experiments attempted to determine the importance of the integrating theme in memory for a prose passage. (Editor)

The ability to decide rapidly that two visual stimuli are nominally the same when they are also visually the same (the Posner effect) was examined for stimuli of increasing visual complexity (Experiment 1) and when a greater variety of visual differences between the two stimuli was employed (Experiment 2). (Editor)

This study was undertaken to compare factorial similarity across three scale versions within the same sample focusing on leadership phenomena. (Author/RK)

Article described experiments that investigated the immediate free recall of homogeneous lists of items and found that deep-structure complexity had little effect when imageability was controlled. (Editor/RK)

The experiments reported here describe the relationships between the reflex-modulating effects of compounded stimuli and the effects of these stimuli when they act in isolation. (Author)

While incentive contrast has been reliably demonstrated in single-response situations, tests for contrast-of-choice behavior have invariably failed to obtain the effect. Three experiments were reported that eliminated features of prior methodology which can mask the effect. (Editor/RK)