THE 11 INSTITUTIONS AGREEING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE STUDY TO DISCOVER MORE ADEQUATE WAYS OF MEASURING IMPORTANT TACTILE-KINESTHETIC MODALITIES WERE VISITED, AND THE OPERATING PROCEDURES AND INFORMATION ON WHAT WOULD BE EXPECTED OF EACH INSTITUTION WERE OUTLINED. APPROXIMATELY 20 INSTRUCTORS BEGAN WORK ON A DETAILED CURRICULUM ANALYSIS IN THEIR…

THIS STUDY SOUGHT TO DETERMINE (1) FAMILY AND PERSONAL PROBLEMS IDENTIFIED BY WOMEN AND (2) THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THESE PROBLEMS AND THE RESPONDENTS' BACKGROUND. A MULTI-STAGE PROBABILITY SAMPLING PROCEDURE WAS USED. DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM A SAMPLE OF 611 ADULTS IN COLUMBIA COUNTY, WISCONSIN. THIS INCLUDED 340 WOMEN USED IN THE STUDY.…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO INVESTIGATE THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THE PERCEPTIONS ENGINEERING MANAGERS HAVE OF THEIR ROLE, THEIR CONTINUING EDUCATION ACTIVITIES, AND SUBJECT AREA NEEDS, AND AMONG THE EXPECTATIONS HELD FOR THEM BY THEIR IMMEDIATE SUPERIORS, DIRECT SUBORDINATES, AND BY ENGINEERING FACULTY OUTSIDE THE ORGANIZATION. ROLE THEORY WAS…

A differential diagnosis of three types of severe reading disability cases is presented. The brain damaged-ego disturbed child suffers a defect in the central nervous system which makes it extremely difficult to develop such basic skills as perception, concept formation, and language. The specific brain injury cases, classed as organic remedial,…

RECENT RESEARCH ON THE DISCRIMINATION PROCESS INDICATES THAT ERRORLESS LEARNING CAN OCCUR IF STIMULI ARE CAREFULLY PROGRAMED SO THAT THEY ARE DISSIMILAR AND GRADUALLY BECOME MORE SIMILAR AS TRAINING PROCEEDS. TO ASSESS THIS APPROACH IN TEACHING THE LOWER- CASE LETTER B AND D WITH KINDERGARTEN SUBJECTS, TWO SETS OF STIMILI CONSTITUTED THE FIRST…

Role play is discussed as an aid to the implementation of New Careers programs in human service agencies. Goals of the New Careers programs include: (a) expansion of health, education, and welfare institutions, (b) meaningful jobs for the underemployed, (c) advancement opportunities for all human service agency employees through in-service…

A sophomore course in social psychology at the University of Oregon was designed around a project using the campus community as a laboratory. Class members formed groups to study the conditions and processes of social interaction affecting teaching and learning on the campus. The design of the course rested on the principles that students are…

The Inventory of Individually Perceived Group Cohesiveness (IIPGC) is a self-report measure of an individual's perception of group cohesiveness, which is defined as the perceived degree, extent, or strength of mutual attention given by the membership to processes of cooperation, control, and task communication. The IIPGC provides a reliable…

Individuals previously identified as language-bound (LB) and language-optional (LO) participated in a series of experiments to study verbal fluency. The two groups showed a striking similarity in the number of responses they produced for categories with constraints at various levels (word form, word content, sentence, interpretation). This…

This report presents an analysis of information about the teaching styles used by parents of children enrolled in the Queensland Preschool Correspondence Program in Australia. Structured interviews conducted with a sample of 47 mothers in their own homes provided the basis for analysis and categorization of teaching styles. Interviews cover such…

In this study, two similar depth perception experiments were conducted to investigate 3-month-old infants' perception of changes in depth while they were being moved. In the first, the subjects, 18 infants (80 to 105 days old) were lowered face down towards the textured floor of a 3-sided enclosure (visual crib). Three experimental conditions were…

This paper reports findings of an exploratory field study of the teenager's first year of motherhood. Twelve subjects, aged 14-19, were interviewed a number of times during that year. Interviews were largely unstructured, allowing mothers to express their concerns and feelings. Data for analysis were: (1) narrative style protocols that were…

The history of the concept of psychological androgyny is very much the history of research on its components, masculinity (M) and femininity (F). Two very different approaches to MF measurement are discernible in the literature: the sex difference approach aims to distinguish men from women reliably, while the sex stereotype approach is concerned…

The purpose of this paper is two-fold: (1) to assess the extent to which adolescent girls' sex role expectations reflect traditional or egalitarian concepts of marriage and career roles as evidenced in a longitudinal design; and (2) to compare both the adolescents' role projections and their subsequent enactment to the educational attainment and…

The study identified the perceptions of American Indian and non-Indian teachers of Indian students in order to determine the effect of their perceptions on the reading achievement of Indian first-grade students. Subjects were 4 female teachers of 72 Indian first-grade students enrolled in Federal elementary schools located in North Central…