The implications of the dialectical perspective for research methodology are reviewed and illustrated with examples from research on memory and memory development. Three conversations or dialogues are described: within the researcher, between the researcher and the research participants, and between the researcher and social-historical context. It…

Presented is an information package designed to answer questions regarding the use of microteaching and the Far West Laboratory's Minicourses. The package includes bibliographies concerning questioning teachniques, oral language development, tutoring, and the use of interaction analysis. Anslysis papers detail various minicourses and give a…

In an initial test of a theory of increasing content, forty experimental dyads ranging from compatibility to incompatibility were composed and studied. The three channels are identified as the motivation, delivery, and information channels. A linear relationship between intra-group compatibility and a set of five dependent variables was…

This paper examines the principles and concepts of several different processes and models of professional-client interaction in the initial face to face interview--Davies' approach, Silber's model, Shein's process consultation model, Havelock's change agent model, medical problem solving processes, and counseling processes. Conclusions drawn from…

An application of the Interrupted Time-Series, a quasi-experimental research design, in the sociology of law (law and social change). The effects of British Road Safety Act of 1967, concerning drinking and driving, were analyzed. (SE)

This document lists chapters or sections from books and handbooks to assist inservice teachers in developing their verbal interactive skills in the classroom. Minicourse lessons and plans are referred to frequently. After an initial diagnosis of the teacher's performance level, a training counselor meets with the teacher and utilizes such a list…

The author argues that "to answer certain research questions the individual student (rather than the classroom) is the proper unit of analysis." Appended are approximately 38 references. (Author/AK)

The interaction analysis scheme describes the adjustment of the legal system to change. It is a dynamic decision-making process interacting internally among the judicial and legislative subsystems, and, externally with the social environment in the policy-making process. (SE)

This publication consists of a brief essay on the scientific analysis of organizational interaction and structures and a bibliography of relevant publications. The author discusses the application of mathematical ordering and analysis to the study of organizations and examines the relationship between organizational structure and interpersonal…

Essentially, the HIM is a systematic set of categories developed for use in understanding and classifying interaction in small groups, especially therapy groups. It has, however, been used not only on T-groups, encounter groups, discussion groups, and such, but also on individual and dyadic counseling sessions. (Author)

The basic dynamic core of social change, the adoption and diffusion processes, evolves around an innovation. The tendency to adopt an innovation related to communicability of the innovation, its compatibility with other practices, its publicness, and the reversibility of its effects. (Author)

Where the traditional view urges the study of what content through what channels will produce what effects on what audiences, we should be studying how societies process information. (Author/MB)

If people and organizations do not change, it must be because the natural drives toward innovation are being stifled or held in check by countervailing forces. Factors within personality and social systems which resist change are examined and recommendations for neutralizing or transforming these factors are summanized. (Author/MB)

An overview of major themes in altruism research during the 1969-1975 period is presented. Those problems specific to each approach, as well as problems believed to plague the bulk of current studies, are briefly described. Several areas of research (e.g., processes involved in the receiving of help) that appear particularly promising are also…

This paper describes an investigation of some effects of group interaction and consensus on information processing behavior. When individuals were asked to assess a hypothetical situation on the basis of various sequentially received data, a definite primacy effect was observed; individuals gave more weight to data they received first. This…