Two experiments were conducted to determine the effect of sex of subject, stated sex linkage of task, and task outcome on causal attributions of an actor's performance. Suggests that the differences between males and females in performance evaluation and self-attribution occurs most strongly in response to failure and on masculine tasks.…

Both enforced attention and stimulus phasing found to improve task performance. (MH)

The study of human attention may be divided into three components. These are alertness, selectivity, and processing. This paper outlines experimental techniques designed to separate these components and examine their interrelations within comparable tasks. (Author)

Words with a high degree of imagery serve as better mnemonic devices than do words that are abstract, as the latter initiate complex thought processes. (CK)

The author found through experimentation that a person's tolerance for ambiguity alone is not sufficient to predict his attraction to a group discussion task since the amount of existing conflicting information will mediate evaluation of the task. (Author)

This paper is based on an M.A. thesis presented to the Graduate School of the University of Western Ontario by the second author and supervised by the first author. (MH)

Attributions of causes of successful task performances as a function of task and sex of the performer were investigated. Introductory psychology students (N=157) were presented with closed-circuit, videotaped episodes in which a male or female stimulus person performed a card-guessing task for 10 trials. Subjects heard the task described to the…

Management by Objectives (MBO), a management system, is a vehicle to organize an agency or institution to enable it to more effectively carry out its plan. The system involves the following steps: (1) formulation of the mission statement (designation of the agency's basic purpose) and development and acceptance of the organization's long-range…