Examines the relationship between the quantity and type of spontaneous private speech and delayed match-to-sample performance among kindergarten children (N=65). (MP)

Do practitioners use different techniques in treating children and adults? This study of task-centered treatment uses a typology of communication techniques to investigate this question as well as to specify typical patterns of communication and determine their relationship to outcomes. (Author)

Results of study indicate that managers feel job performance should be most important determinant of salary increases for themselves and for subordinates; that organizations do not place sufficient emphasis on this criterion; and that job satisfaction is affected to some degree by this perception. (RW)

Kindergarten and second-grade children's free recall on repeated trials was investigated using a semantic orienting task procedure. (Editor)

Four commissurotomy patients were tested for ability to match tachistoscopically presented stimuli with pictures in free vision, according to either structural appearance or functional/conceptual category. (Editor)

The purpose of this study was to determine characteristics of the disadvantaged client and of the Concentrated Employment Program (CEP) which related to the successful vocational training and placement of 150 unemployed public assistance recipients who were served by the San Antonio Concentrated Employment Program. (Editor)

Results show expected direct-cost savings in absenteeism, turnover, and performance from an increase in job satisfaction. Saving associated with enhanced job involvement and motivation are also reported. (Author/IRT)

Ninety subjects completed identical simulated maintenance tasks under two experimental conditions. In the high job structural attribute condition subjects were told that the task was high in learning new skills, responsibility, feedback, and task identity; while in the low job structural condition they were told the opposite. Results indicated the…

The purpose of this brief paper was not to question the basic findings of Fox and Lefkowitz (EJ 100 533) but simply to raise some questions about their study in terms of the data actually reported. Their original article presented evidence for differential validity between whites and Negroes from a test validation study of production-type jobs.…

Study results suggest that once a certain level of academic achievement has been reached, candidates for medical school and allied health programs should be selected on variables that appear to relate to clinical promise (personality and background characteristics) rather than variables which predict only high medical school grades. (Author/BP)

Employed regression analysis to determine the association between multiplicative classification and inductive reasoning. Subjects were 103 fourth grade children. (SDH)

Two experiments investigated the differential effects of praise and correctness reinforcers on the task performance of black children from lower and middle socioeconomic classes, also examining the influence of sex differences, experimenter race, and the interactions between these variables. (EH)