Object categorisation,object naming,and viewpoint independence in visual remembering: Evidence from young children's drawings of a novel object

A simple object-drawing task confirms a three-way association between object categorisation, viewpoint independence, and longer-term visual remembering. Young children (5- to 7-year-olds) drew a familiar object or a novel object, immediately after it had been hidden from view or on the following day. Both objects were shown from a full range of viewpoints or from just two viewpoints, from neither of which would either object normally be drawn after unrestricted viewing. When drawing from short-term memory after restricted viewing, both objects were most likely to be depicted from a seen viewpoint. When drawing from longer-term memory after restricted viewing, the novel object continued to be drawn from a seen viewpoint, but the mug was now most likely to be drawn from a preferred viewpoint from which it had not been seen. Naming the novel object with a novel count noun (“Look at this. This is a dax”), to signal that it belonged to an object category, resulted in it being drawn in the same way as the familiar object. The results concur with other evidence indicating that short-term and longer-term visual remembering are differentially associated with viewpoint-dependent representations of individual objects and viewpoint independent representations of object categories, respectively.     

Bede,Wearmouth-Jarrow and Sacred Space

Monasteries by their nature are environments of great sanctity and faith. They are areas which separate themselves from the secular realm in service to God. They are, in many ways, holy sites. In the early Anglo-Saxon church great effort was made to create monasteries that were sacred areas, separate from lay society. This was a concern for Bede (d. 735), the great Christian writer and historian. This article considers how Bede's own monastic surroundings were transformed into a sacred space, and how it assumed the figurative mantle of distant Rome. Reference will also be made to concepts of place, space and monastic topography.     

Testing for telepathy in connection with e-mails

This study investigated possible telepathic communication in connection with e-mails. On each trial, there were four potential e-mailers, one of whom was selected at random by the experimenter. One minute before a prearranged time at which the e-mail was to be sent, the participant guessed who would send it. 50 participants (29 women and 21 men) were recruited through an employment web site. Of 552 trials, 235 (43%) guesses were hits, significantly above the chance expectation of 25%. Further tests with 5 participants (4 women, 1 man, ages 16 to 29) were videotaped continuously. On the filmed trials, the 64 hits of 137 (47%) were significantly above chance.     

Distinctive career orientations of Holland personality types

The primary source of empirical support for Holland's (1973) assumption that people tend to prefer and search for environments that are consistent with their dominant personal characteristics has been research on the tendency of college students to choose congenial college environments. The purpose of this study is to determine if a sample of male college students, classified according to Holland's six personality types, also prefer occupational environments that are consistent with their primary personal orientations. Stepwise, discriminant analysis procedures are used to test the null hypothesis that there are no statistically significant differences in the characteristics of occupational environments preferred by male students classified according to Holland's personality types. The relationship of the results of this analysis to possible improvements in the areas of career counseling and placement services and future research on job satisfaction in complex organizations is discussed.     

Career Stages in Australian Professional Women: A Test of Super's Model

This study empirically tested Super's career stage theory by examining whether differences in Australian professional women's attitudes toward work vary across the career life cycle. A number of career stage research criticisms relating to sample type, recycling issues, and career stage measurement were addressed. Hypotheses were tested via trend analyses providing support for the theoretical propositions in Super's career stage model. Results show that satisfaction with pay and job involvement were lowest in the exploration stage, women in the establishment stage were significantly more satisfied with pay and less willing to relocate for promotion compared to women in the exploration stage, while women in the maintenance stage were more committed to their profession and more involved in their careers than women in establishment and exploration stages. The research findings suggest that Super's career stage model is a useful framework for understanding women's career development.     

Positive development in emerging adulthood

Positive functioning in the developmental period of emerging adulthood has received little investigation. The current study investigated components of positive development using confirmatory factor analysis of Australian Temperament Project data collected from 1,158 young adults aged 19–20 years. Positive development constructs that have been theoretically conceptualised were examined to test core concepts. Five first‐order constructs were identified in this sample: Civic Action and Engagement, Social Competence, Life Satisfaction, Trust and Tolerance of Others, and Trust in Authorities and Organisations. A second‐order positive development factor defined by these constructs provided good fit for the data. This model of positive development in emerging adulthood can provide an outcome measure that can then be used to investigate the developmental processes and pathways involved.     

Where the smart things are: social machines and the Internet of Things

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences - The emergence of large-scale social media systems, such as Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter, has given rise to a new multi-disciplinary effort based...