Two groups of kindergarten children received stimulus differentiation training either with feedback (experimental Ss) or without (controls), prior to presentation of a series of discrimination-learning problems using blank-trial probes. Findings are discussed in relation to theoretical perspectives derived from Piagetian theory and developmental…

Based upon a PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1963.

Describes a communications system for planning and carrying out guidance and counseling activities. The article stresses the importance of an adequate feedback system used by all participants and describes its relationship to counselor accountability. (Author)

Examines the efficacy of using immediate and delayed feedback in generating improvement on a subsequent public speaking performance, for tasks which vary in information processing requirements. Indicates that immediate feedback intervention is more effective when automatic processing occurs, while delayed feedback produces greater change with…

Ideally, communication is a circular process in which a message is transmitted by a source to a receiver who then responds either verbally or nonverbally to one or more of the following: the sender, the message, or the transmission. The source, on reception of the receiver's response, proceeds to adjust the message and/or the transmission to…

A review of the literature on feedback delivered in small groups reveals there are many gaps in knowledge of the most effective ways for individuals to give and receive information about themselves and each other. The present study was designed to examine further this phenomenon. (Author)

This study is based on an earlier investigation by Brant and Trabasso, in which it was demonstrated that 4-year-old children could perform transitive inferences when training forced information encoding by involving questions about two comparative dimensions of an object (long and short). The present study was designed to examine the sources of…

Decisionmaking is the process of choosing among alternatives, or turning inputs into outputs. In a situation of information overload, inputs exceed the decisionmaker's capacity to assimilate and act on the information as well as his ability to evaluate every alternative. Decisionmakers have a variety of responses to information overload, some of…

The Delphi technique is a method of eliciting and refining group judgments. The procedures used have three features: anonymous response, iteration and controlled feedback, and statistical group response. A series of experiments were initiated at RAND to evaluate the procedures. Upper-class and graduate students were used as subjects and general…

In a series of three experiments on the role of memory in solving attribute-identification problems, the subjects did or did not have to remember their response and/or the stimulus for processing during any given intertrial interval. (Editor)

The interactive monitoring of group communication through computers is a procedure analogous to biofeedback, and small group communication computer programs have been developed with monitoring software that has been used to evaluate the impact of the medium on group communication. There is presently no technical reason that such information could…

The research presented in this paper demonstrates that Katz and Kahn's (1966) distinction between people-processing and object-processing organizations is a useful classification scheme that can help explain differences in organizational communication systems. To assess the usefulness of Katz and Kahn's scheme, data derived from a sample of more…

Describes the methodology and results of an experiment to measure the effects of both overt and covert responses to educational stimuli with KCR (knowledge of correct results) feedback provided. Also compared are the effectiveness of both types of KCR-feedback in their ability to process and store the relevant information. (Author/RAO)

Systems analysis principles can be used to attain feedback'' from higher education institutions. (Author/PG)