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Antecedent Life History and Students' Behavior in College: A Canonical Correlation Analysis
Feild, Hubert S. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1977
A longitudinal study was conducted to determine whether students' life history or biographical data could be used to predict their experiences in college. Significant relationships were found between the students' life history data and their subsequent college experiences. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biographical Inventories, College Students, Higher Education
Communication Responsiveness and Predictive Accuracy: Confirmations, Surprises, and Speculations.
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Hughey, Jim D. – 1984
Four studies were conducted to investigate the relationship between communication and predictive accuracy. Subjects, students enrolled in various college speech and communication classes, completed the Allport-Vernon-Lindzey Study of Values, first in terms of their own values and then in terms of how they believed a specified target would respond.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Communication Research, Higher Education
Experimental Validation of Two MIQ Scales
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Stulman, David A.; Dawis, Rene V. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
Two Minnesota Importance Questionnaire (MIQ) scales, Creativity and Independence were validated by experiment. Subjects (N=68) were exposed to four task conditions representing joint combinations of high or low levels of Creativity and Independence. The behavioral results were consistent with the subjects' MIQ score levels on the two scales,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Creativity, Predictive Validity
Ability Attribution and Impression Formation in a Strategic Game: A Limiting Case of the Primacy Effect
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Jones, Robert G.; Welsh, James B. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Ability, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, College Students
Lateral Organization in Pictures and Aesthetic Preference: II. A Predictive Study
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Swartz, Paul; Swartz, Shirley – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Art, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, College Students
Predicting Human Behavior: Comparing Idiographic, Nomothetic, and Agentic Methodologies.
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Howard, George S.; Myers, Paul R. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1990
Discusses why agentic and idiographic approaches (in combination with more typical nomothetic, nonagentic studies) may enhance the predictive accuracy of psychological experiments. Presents study on exercise behavior of 42 college student subjects and analyzes it from 3 perspectives: nonagentic-nomothetic, nonagentic-idiographic, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Exercise, Higher Education
Extending the Equity Model: Perception of Inputs and Allocation of Reward as a Function of Duration and Quantity of Performance
Leventhal, Gerald S.; Michaels, James W. – J Personality Soc Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Males
Internal-External Locus of Control and Verbal Fluency
Brecher, Marilyn; Denmark, Florence L. – Psychol Rep, 1969
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, College Students
Religious Preference, Practice, and Personal Sexual Attitudes and Behavior
Sutker, Patricia B.; And Others – Psychol Rep, 1970
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Church Role, College Students
Predictive Accuracy and Utilization of Cues: Study of the Interaction Between an Individual's Cognitive Organization and Ecological Structure
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Nystedt, Lars – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1972
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Psychic Cost of Adaptation to an Environmental Stressor
Glass, David C.; and others – J Personality Soc Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Adaptation Level Theory, Auditory Perception, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research
A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Self-Referent Behavior
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Touhey, John C. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Individual Characteristics
Intra-Individual Temporal Variability and Predictability
Berdie, Ralph F. – Educ Psychol Meas, 1969
Research supported by U.S. Office of Education Contract OEC-3-7-068694-2082
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Aptitude Tests, Behavior Patterns