Minnesota Reading Corps (MRC) is the largest AmeriCorps State program in the country. The goal of MRC is to ensure that students become successful readers and meet reading proficiency targets by the end of the third grade. Starting in 2011, the "Corporation for National and Community Service" (CNCS) sponsored a randomized controlled…

It is the purpose of this paper to elaborate the concept of autocontingencies, distinguishing them from "traditional" contingencies, and to present data which bear directly on the acquisition and extent of behavioral control exerted by autocontingencies. (Author)

The purpose of the present research was to determine how experimental manipulations of certainty would affect social comparison choices in the paradigm used by Wheeler et al. (1969) and Gruder (1971). (Author)

Similarity of impairment in naturally occurring depression and laboratory-induced, learned helplessness was demonstrated in college students. (Editor)

This paper presents the finding of an investigation for determining course achievement utilizing the statistical technique of path analysis. (Author)

The present study was designed to assess the mood correlates of learned helplessness in human subjects. (Editor)

The 90 individually run subjects learned and were tested for their free recall of a conceptually unrelated hierarchy of words, a randomly arranged, or a properly arranged conceptual hierarchy, under instructions to process the words either by generating hierarchical associations among them or by copying them. (Editor)

The purpose of the present investigation was to examine the relationship between the stages of cognitive development proposed by L.S. Vygotsky and by J. Piaget. (Author)

The primary purpose of this study was to examine whether localized motor activity could be induced in an observer as a consequence of his exposure to specific acts by a model. (Author)

To test the hypothesis that modeling is enhanced when Ss and models are of the same race, black and white attendants at a southern mental hospital were exposed to either a black or white model who refused to volunteer for a series of future studies. (Author)

In an experiment on the effects of blank trials on probability learning, some informational parameters were varied. The results showed that the presence of blank trials shifted response probabilities toward the guessing level. Data from other experiments are considered, and the relevance of the results to studies of behavior with concurrent…

A model for inferential accuracy in clinical judgments was proposed in which two major processes, sensitivity and threshold, was hypothesized. (Editor/RK)

This paper describes and tests a two-stage model for a "semantic congruity effect" in comparative judgments. (Editor)

The purpose of this study was to establish a theoretical framework for Stevens' empirically derived power law. Three models were proposed to explain the power law. (Editor)

The present experiment was designed to provide a test of observational learning (acquisition) and broad imitative behavior (performance) following exposure to models who were controllers or rival consumers of resources. (Author)