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Weatherley, Donald – 1973
Core ideas in the discipline of social psychology are examined in this publication. Social psychology is the study of social behavior based upon individual psychological attributes or personality. An individual's personality can be thought of as inner states of readiness which predispose a person to respond in certain ways in social situations. A…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Learning Theories, Personality, Personality Development
Verma, Gajendra K.; Bagley, Christopher – 1975
The various scholars who contribute in the three broad sections in this volume orient their papers toward revealing the diverse forms and functions of race and education across cultures. They highlight the conditions in analyses of Britain, Australia, and the United States. The rationale behind the structure of the symposium provides a forum in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Conferences
Fyans, Leslie J., Jr.; Maehr, Martin L. – 1977
This study deals with attributional theory, a factor of special concern in achievement theory, which focuses on specific behavior as caused by the subject's attributions to the perceived causes of such behavior. This study investigated whether an individual's attributional biases were predictive of task selections he or she made. Furthermore, it…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement, Attribution Theory, Behavior