The review shows that in many medical syndromes or conditions, behavioral-intellectual correlates may be much less than is frequently assumed, or even nonexistent. (Author)

Author believes that more general semanticists today have lost touch with the possibilities Korzybski opened to human beings, primarily that of liberating the self" from predetermined concepts and conditioned responses which hold mankind back from total freedom and fulfillment. Characterizing most semanticists as cerebral computers sans…

Discussed is the role of the professional in preventing or stopping diagnostic and therapeutic shopping (repeated visits to the same or different professionals without resolution of a resolvable problem), with emphasis on the initial informing interview. (KW)

Although the modern child is up to the minute" in his language, interests, and memory for technological details, in many essential respects his vision has remained unchanged from that of children of previous generations. (Editor)

The results of this study suggest that instructions are a source of information to students about the testing environment that modifies their test-taking behavior. Individual students interpret the same instructions in different ways, and these differences, in turn, result in variations in behavior reflected in test scores. (Author)

Members of a longitudinal study were classified on the basis of their drinking behavior. The core of traits which described the cohorts of each category of women drinkers were discernible to raters in the early adolescent period. Problem drinkers and abstainers had in common certain traits which suggested inadequate coping devices. (Author)

In a recent study, Levine concluded that there was a lack of support for the concept of constricted versus flexible cognitive control. It is suggested that this conclusion is misleading in view of issues concerning the logic of the derived predictions and the statistical power of the study. (Author)

In a Rosenthal-type experimental situation, this study found that Ss high in need for approval demonstrated a significant susceptibility to E expectancy effects, while low-approval motivation Ss did not. (Author)