The purpose of this study was to investigate within the vicarious learning paradigm the effects of manipulated self-evaluation treatments and model performance conditions on both the acquisition and subsequent performance of novel and self-reinforcing responses. It was predicted that subjects receiving either high or low self-evaluation treatments…

Assigned subjects to an audiovisual model followed by practice or no practice, or a written model followed by practice or no practice. Results reveal total use and total preferred use of interviewing skills were significantly higher for subjects in practice training than in no-practice training, regardless of the model. (Author/BEF)

In this study black children were more likely to match the responses of white models than of black ones. (Authors/MB)

Extensive research has been conducted examining the effects of teacher expectations on student performance, revealing reasonably consistent patterns of differential behavior by teachers toward high and low expectation students. Few theories which integrate isolated research findings into a causal sequence have emerged, however. One such model…