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Johnson, D. M.; Moore, J. C. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1973
The theory as it relates to occupational classification and Holland's scheme of consistent patternings was supported. However, no evidence was found to support the hypothesis that congruent, consistent, and homogeneous personality patterns are more closely related to high training achievement than are noncongruent, inconsistent, and heterogeneous…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Classification, Individual Psychology
Cordaro, Luciano L.; Shontz, Franklin C. – J Counseling Psychol, 1969
Instruments administered to subjects with physical disabilities included "Disability Effects Scale, and "Attitudes toward Disabled Persons. Results indicated greater flexibility of response among group members able to identify with disabilities than among those unwilling to do so. (CJ)
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Individual Psychology, Personality, Physical Disabilities
Fyans, Leslie J., Jr. – 1975
This study examined the influence of an individual's attributions upon the type of tasks that individuals would select. Questions guiding this study concerned the predictability (congruence) of tasks from attributions, the consistency of this task-attribution congruency, and the generalizability of the results. Subjects were 801 students drawn…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Habit Formation, Individual Psychology
Ribordy, Sheila C.
College students with difficulty falling asleep were treated with either progressive relaxation, systematic desensitization, or a thought control procedure. All three treatment groups showed significant lower latency to sleep onset times than a waiting-list control group at the end of the three-week treatment period. A three-week followup revealed…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Desensitization
Snyder, Mark – 1978
A perceiver's knowledge of a target person (T) can be seen as active, initiatory cognitive structures or conceptual schemas that guide and influence: (1) information processing about T; (2) search for and interpretation of new information about T; (3) remembrance and interpretation of previously-learned information about T; (4) social interaction…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Individual Psychology, Interaction Process Analysis
Bozeman, William C. – 1978
This study explores the relationships between psychological types of users as identified by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and factors associated with the implementation and utilization of the Wisconsin System for Instructional Management (WIS-SIM), a computer management information system designed to support management processes in…
Descriptors: Computer Managed Instruction, Educational Research, Individual Psychology, Individualized Instruction

Dweck, Carol S.; Leggett, Ellen L. – Psychological Review, 1988
A research-based model is presented that accounts for major patterns of adaptive and maladaptive behavior in terms of underlying psychological processes. It is postulated that as individuals' self-attributes are translated into allied goals, these goals generate corresponding behavior patterns. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Goal Orientation
Hillman, Aaron W. – 1975
The document presents a course outline and teacher material for a nine-week high school psychology course. The objective is to introduce students to the psychology of human personality and adjustment and to encourage them to apply what is learned to their own lives. The major thesis is that students must understand themselves in order to…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Individual Psychology, Learning Activities
Kliman, Gilbert – 1968
A guide for professionals concerned with the prevention of disorders in children, this book describes strengthening very young children's reactions to inevitable emergencies before they occur, illness in the family (including analysis for a dying child), death in the family, divorce and marital separation, minor emergencies, overstimulating and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Children, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Disturbances