REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF THE PSYCHOMETRIC SOCIETY 8/15/2007

Treasurer's Report

REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF THE PSYCHOMETRIC SOCIETY 8/15/2007     

4—8岁儿童对部分—整体图形知觉发展的实验研究

本实验使用9张部分和整体各有不同意义的图形研究了98名4—8岁儿童知觉的发展水平和特点。结果表明:1)儿童既知觉部分又知觉整体的能力随年龄而增长,2)儿童知觉部分图形的年龄比知觉整体图形的年龄早,3)8岁儿童大部分可以做到知觉部分又知觉整体;教育条件优越时可以提前到6岁,由此可见儿童部分—整体图形知觉能力的发展水平与教育条件有密切关系。     

THE MEANING OF MS.

When Ms. was first introduced as an alternative to Miss or Mrs. it was perceived as a radical feminist innovation. Today, its use is unremarkable, even normative. This study examines two aspects of the meaning of Ms.: changes in its connotative meaning over time, and its current comparability to other titles. Female (n = 83) and male (n = 54) college students rated courtesy titles (Ms., Miss, Mrs., Mr.) on a set of bipolar adjective pairs composing a semantic differential scale in an exact replication of a 1978 study. Of the four titles, the largest change in meaning over time was for Ms., and the direction of the change was positive. These results document the social assimilation of a new gender-related concept.     

4岁至7岁学龄前儿童脑电图研究

从发展的观点来分析,儿童的生长与发展虽然基本上是連續的与逐漸的,但有时加速,有时減速,并不是直綫的与等速的。許多作者(Courtis 1937、1948、Thorpe和Cruze 1956、Watson和Lowrey 1958等)都指出,自嬰孩发展至成人可能存在若干显然加速的时期,因而形成发展的周期或閉环。从心理、生理与解剖等多方面来綜合探討上述周期或閉环,无疑是儿童发展分期的重要客观基础。就嬰孩至7岁这个