This paper analyzes development of group structure in terms of the stimulus-sampling perspective. Learning is the continual sampling of possibilities, with those reinforced possibilities increasing in probability of occurance. This contingency learning approach is tested experimentally. (NG)

The effects of communications training using a frequency count method to measure trainee behavior were studied. Both advanced and beginning structured training groups were compared with unstructured encounter groups. The results showed increases in empathic responses in the structured training groups and increases in questioning and…

This study determined the effects of using structured learning techniques to train lower socioeconomic emotionally disturbed children and adolescents (N=40) in verbal behaviors. Posttraining results indicated significant effects for the experimental treatment on subject acquisition of interview initiation and interview responsibility. (Author)

This study was designed to compare the effects of residential and nonresidential laboratories in transfer of training. Subjects were middle-level managers. The results indicated no differences in transfer in the two groups. Both groups underwent substantial changes in their perspective on work problems and in their use of work-related skills. (NG)

This study investigated the influence of differences in ambiguity tolerance and the effects of exposure to a videotape model on the interview behavior of counselor trainees. The potential of creating a variety of learning strategies, such as video modeling, to override the detrimental effects of certain personality characteristics is discussed.…

Over a period of three years, the National Consortium for Humanizing Education worked with teachers and students in two states to test hypotheses drawn from a model in which student outcomes (including good mental health) were seen as the results of a learning process occurring between individuals rather than as the product of an institutionalized…