The present paper investigates the possibility that exposure to intense urban-like stimuli may make people less altruistic, but that a perception of control over the environment can reduce its negative effects. (Author)

Expectancy theory predictions were tested using a sample of engineers who had been rated on dimensions of work motivation or effort (in contrast to performance) using the behaviorally based rating scales designed by Landy and Guion (1970). (Author)

The occupational certificate would be a statement of an individual's specific proficiencies that are job-related and job-predictive. The Regional Examining Institute would develop and administer examinations for academic degrees; develop and implement credentialling mechanisms for specific, job-related skills; and play important roles in…

The ideal instructor must be totally conscious of the training process, step by step. He is at the third stage of the four-stage learning process, conscious competency. The four stages are unconscious incompetency, conscious incompetency, conscious competency, and unconscious competency. (AG)

The purpose of the study was to determine what relationships existed among the personality of instructional supervisors as reflected in a disbelief-belief system and measured by the Rokeach Dogmatism Scale and the tasks they performed and preferred to perform. (Editor)

Concluded that learning experiments which compare educationally retarded and achieving groups should pay particular attention to treatment variables. (RB)

Indicated that errors on the competing message task varied inversely with age, increased with changes toward more unfavorable Signal to Distraction levels for the younger children, and were directly influenced by the content of the distraction message for all ages. (Author/RB)

Two experiments contrasted the effects of high and low ego strength (as measured by Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire) on confidence thresholds (FG scores) under the anticipation and recall methods. (Editor)

Subjects who are exposed to a new language a constituent at a time respond better in a simple task with the new language than subjects who are exposed to the language a word at a time or a sentence at a time. (Author)

This analysis of solutions to the Tower of Hanoi Problem underscores the importance of subject-by-subject analysis of "What is learned" in understanding human behavior in problem-solving situations, and provides a technique for describing subjects' task performance programs in detail. (Author/BJG)

Based on a PhD dissertation submitted to Duke University.

Part of this research was presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association convention (Chicago, 1967).

This paper presents an analysis of the job performed by an offset press operator (alternate title is offset duplicating machine operator) of a Multilith 1250 W. First covered is work performed, as follows: prepares dampening unit for printing run, prepares inking unit for printing, readies printing plate for printing, sets up press for running,…

THE WORK OUTPUT OF RETARDED READERS USING A PROGRAMED LITERACY CURRICULUM WAS OBSERVED UNDER VARIOUS CONDITIONS OF REINFORCEMENT IN A CONTROLLED CLASSROOM. TASK BEHAVIOR WAS FOLLOWED BY CONDITIONS OF NO CONSEQUENCE, TEACHER PRAISE, A WORK-BREAK CONSEQUENCE, A MONETARY CONSEQUENCE, AND FEEDBACK ON AMOUNT OF WORK RELATIVE TO PREVIOUS WORK. SIX…