Most counselors adopt a "clinical" role as opposed to an "environmental" one, seeking to make the individual adjust to existing social and educational conditions rather than trying to bring various aspects of the organization or social system into harmony with each other and with individual needs. To find out which role is actually adopted by…

The central purpose of the study was to identify the role of the vocational counselor in the public schools of Texas as perceived by vocational directors, vocational counselors, secondary school principals, and secondary school counselors. Of the 121 school districts in the sample, 99 complete school district data sets, consisting of returned…

The importance of decision making to organizational existence has provided ample justification for many forms of research into the complex decision making process. The decision making process in modern, large organizations draws inputs from and provides outputs to many smaller internal decision units. Incompatible or conflicting inputs and outputs…

The work described in this paper dealt with two tasks: (1) to determine an individual's particular representation of a melody--how he represents it to himself, what relations he finds, and (2) to observe how an individual's representation of a melody might change in the course of working with given melodic materials in an experimental situation.…

In a poststimulus cueing task subjects reported either the identity of items or their category membership. Results indicated that readout from Visual Information Storage (VIS) is not selective for conceptual categories. Rapid conceptual categorization of the type found in visual search experiments probably occurs at a processing stage subsequent…

Perceptual motor development, habituation, and learning in squirrel monkeys were studied under controlled rearing and diet history conditions to determine whether the animal's level of behavioral development was similar to well-nourished animals of his own age (agemates) or his own size (sizemates). From birth to 8 weeks of age, the animals were…

Three potentially useful perspectives for the scientific development of human communication theory are the law model, the systems approach, and the rules paradigm. It is the purpose of this paper to indicate the utility of the rules perspective. For the purposes of this analysis, human communication is viewed as the successful transfer of symbolic…

This report presents the results of a longitudinal study of professional socialization. The purpose of the study was to discover and understand the changes which take place in students during training and to draw implications for the improvement of professional education. Questionnaires were administered to 3,146 students who began courses in one…

The study measured Mexican American secondary students' perceptions of racial/ethnic isolation in their educational environment. Utilizing the input from a committee of five adult Mexican Americans and five adult Anglo Americans, a 25-item questionnaire was constructed. Each item consisted of a statement describing a condition that may or may not…

Traditional tests of auditory discrimination require children to match successively-presented syllables in short term memory. In the normal course of events perceptual confusions occur as a mismatch between an utterance and stored linguistic data. A speech sound perception task based on matching-to-memory was constructed and administered to 80…

Over the past decade school psychology has been rapidly developing into a distinct specialty. The current status of this developing specialty is reviewed with respect to delineating the areas of disenchantment and pinpointing new directions within the profession, Considering the variety of models or approaches for guiding school psychology into…

The main purpose of this study was to determine whether partially imposed imagery can be faciliatative in children's oral prose learning at an age where fully induced imagery is not. The results of this experiment are somewhat consistent with this speculation. While kindergarten subjects benefited only with fully imposed imagery, second grade…

This is the first stage of a research project concerned with the various ways in which parents perceive and categorize children's behavior and the effect this perception may have on parental reaction to such behavior. The present study compared the various ways in which mothers and fathers perceptually categorize the behavior of girls and boys. A…

An experiment was conducted in which the relationships of basic television and film codes to particular literacy mental skills were examined. Different versions of the same film, each focusing on a different code, were produced and shown to fifth graders. It was found that children with initially better mastery of the relevant skills extract more…

The purposes of this study are (1) to analyze learning ability in newborns using heart rate responses to auditory temporal conditioning and (2) to correlate these with measures on the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale. Twenty normal neonates were tested using the Brazelton Scale on the third day of life. They were also given a…