Paper based on this research was presented at the 1968 American Educational Research Association Meetings, Chicago, Illinois. Paper supported in part by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education.

Sixty-one introductory psychology students were randomly assigned to two experimental treatment which consisted of either high or low ego-involving instructions. The entire experimental procedure, including the administrations of Spielberger's Trait Anxiety Inventory and State Anxiety Inventory, is elaborated. Results support the notion that state…

A PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL SMALL GROUP APPROACH WAS USED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF ELEMENTARY CHILDREN WITH SEVERE LEARNING DISORDERS. SIX CHILDREN WERE SERVED THREE HOURS PER WEEK BY THIS HIGHLY STRUCTURED, TASK-ORIENTED, DAY TREATMENT PROGRAM. TWO BOYS WERE INVOLVED IN ONE-TO-ONE THERAPY AND ALL BUT TWO OF THE CHILDREN WERE ABLE TO ATTEND REGULAR SCHOOL IN…

Suggests that administering tests to students on the tasks in a learning hierarchy is a means of obtaining precise knowledge about the capabilities of individual students. Such knowledge is necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of learning difficulties. Decisions regarding the selection of appropriate learning tasks for students based on their…

A study was designed to examine relationships of aptitude level to training performance on tasks of varying complexity and to determine if differential job training might be required. A complexity rated training battery with eight tasks (simple/choice monitoring, rifle assembly/disassembly, equipment preparation, map symbols, phonetic alphabet,…

Hypothesizes that subjects who show reduced recall of word lists after ego threat may be exhibiting response competition rather than repression. The results obtained in this experiment suggest that this may be the correct conclusion, but further research is indicated. Tables and bibliography. (RW)

Studies the ability of college women to generalize resistance to stress when learning lists of nonsense syllables. Subjects trained under one type of stress learned more easily under a second type of stress than did subjects trained under nonstressful conditions. Table, graph, and bibliography. (RW)

Retention and transfer of motor tasks was greater for high interference (random) acquisition groups than for low interference (blocked) acquisition groups. This effect was most notable when transfer was measured for the transfer task of greatest complexity. Results support Battig's conceptualization of contextual interference effects on retention…

Methods of tryout and revision in development of instructional materials are identified and explained. Both "front-end" and "rear-end" analyses are included. Ways of anticipating potential student failures--identified as test failures, program task failures and learning failures--are discussed, with specific areas of possible…