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Williams, John E. – Percept Mot Skills, 1969
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Individual Differences, Racial Attitudes
Download full textWilliams, John E. – 1971
The Preschool Racial Attitude Measure (PRAM) has been developed to provide a method for assessing the attitudes of pre-literature children toward Caucasian and Black persons. This manual provides information concerning the administration and scoring of the revised procedure--PRAM II. The revision entailed doubling the length, improving the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Guides, Pictorial Stimuli, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedFiller, John W., Jr.; Williams, John E. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Bias, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Color
Peer reviewedWilliams, John E.; And Others – Child Development, 1975
This study was designed to chart the development of racial attitudes in Euro- and Afro-American children (in grades 1-4 of one elementary school) through the administration of the PRAM II procedure. A secondary purpose of the study was to compare the racial attitudes of second graders in several different geographical localities. (CS)
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Blacks, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedWilliams, John E.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1975
Describes a revised version of the Preschool Racial Attitude Measure, designated PRAM II, and presents initial standardization data for the new procedure. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Blacks, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Racial Attitudes
Peer reviewedMcMurtry, C. Allen; Williams, John E. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Study was aimed at determining whether positive adjectives and negative adjectives possess the oppositeness" (mutual exclusiveness) necessary for their conceptualization as defining the extremes of a single dimension of meaning. (Authors)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Attitude Measures, Data Analysis, Evaluative Thinking
PDF pending restorationWilliams, John E.; And Others – 1972
The earlier version of the Preschool Racial Attitude Measure (PRAM I) had been found to be a useful measure in attitude development and modification studies of young children. This paper describes the lengthened and otherwise revised version of this procedure -- PRAM II. Standardization data are reported for 252 Caucasian and 140 Negro children,…
Descriptors: Age, Attitude Measures, Childhood Attitudes, Early Experience
Peer reviewedWilliams, John E.; And Others – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Black Attitudes, Black Power, Cognitive Processes
Williams, John E. – 1971
This report provides detailed technical information concerning the Preschool Racial Attitude Measure II (PRAM II) a method for assessing the attitudes of pre-literate children toward light- and dark-skinned individuals. Several major changes were involved in the PRAM II revision: (1) the length was doubled, (2) the general artistic quality of the…
Descriptors: Age, Blacks, Identification (Psychology), Lower Class
An Exploratory Study of the Modification of Color and Racial Concept Attitudes in Preschool Children
Williams, John E.; Edwards, C. Drew – Child Develop, 1969
Research supported in part by grant no. HD-02821-01 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Color, Concept Formation, Middle Class Culture
Williams, John E. – 1972
The problem of measuring attitudes in preschool children is discussed. The general rationale employed is closely related to that of the semantic differential (SD). Research employing the SD with older children and adults has demonstrated that the primary dimension of affective meaning is that of evaluation. It has also been shown that evaluation…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Early Experience, Evaluation
