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Cambon, Jacqueline; Sinclair, Hermine – British Journal of Psychology, 1974
Recent findings in developmental psycholinguistics have shown that below the age of eight children have difficulty in understanding English sentences that do not conform to normal SVO pattern (Chomsky, 1969). Experiments with French-speaking children are reported which duplicate and extend this research. (Editor)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Cognitive Development, Methods, Psychological Studies
Weist, Richard M.; Crawford, Charlotte – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973
The purpose of this research was to test the hypothesis that organization in rehearsal is a necessary condition for organization in recall; that is, if recall is organized, then rehearsal must have been organized. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Memory, Psychological Studies, Recall (Psychology)
May, Richard B.; Wilson, Allan – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973
Kindergarten children were trained to make same-different judgments of either 2 or 4 standard figures under either 2 or 4 transformations before being transferred to a novel set of figures. (Editor)
Descriptors: Diagrams, Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children, Letters (Alphabet)
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Richards, Larry G.; Hempstead, John David – American Journal of Psychology, 1973
Twenty subjects were pretrained with oral presentations of either three- or six-letter pseudowords exposed 0, 1, 5, 25, or 50 times. Then tachistoscopic duration thresholds were obtained for these pseudowords. (Editor)
Descriptors: Auditory Training, College Students, Methods, Psychological Studies
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Klein, Gary A.; Klein, Helen Altman – American Journal of Psychology, 1973
The present research was designed to investigate the use of contextual information for facilitating word prediction in a visual task. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Cues, Methods, Prediction
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Darley, J. M.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1974
The current study indicates that when an individual publicly expresses an opinion that differs from that of other group members, he feels increased liking for and similarity to other group members who agree with him. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Conformity, Females, Males
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Orphen, Christopher – Personnel Psychology, 1974
The present study represents a first attempt to examine the relationship between job satisfaction and personal adjustment, with the "inflating" effect of social desirability partialled out. (Author)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Correlation, Job Satisfaction, Psychological Studies
Milgram, Stanley – Phi Delta Kappan, 1974
Nazi Germany, one of the most literate nations in history, exterminated millions of European Jews. Why did this happen? For two generations the question has haunted the world's conscience. Now, in a series of experiments called the most morally significant in modern psychology, a Yale professor has a piece of the answer. (Editor)
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Conformity, Experiments, Moral Criticism
Ebel, Robert L.; Kohlberg, Lawrence – Phi Delta Kappan, 1974
In a companion article (EA 504 897), a Yale professor discussed his psychological experiments to find some of the reasons for Nazi Germany's extermination of millions of Jews. Comments on that article. (JF)
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Conformity, Experiments, Moral Criticism
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Buss, Allan R. – Psychological Bulletin, 1973
Presents a multivariate change model in which changes in ability factor scores (cognitive structure) and factor loadings (task structure) provide the theoretical underpinnings for the transfer process. (RJ)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences, Learning Theories
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Green, Robert A.; Murray, Edward J. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1973
The purpose of this study was to determine whether self-disclosure would make a person more vulnerable to personal threat and thus increase instigation to angry aggression. (Author)
Descriptors: Aggression, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Relationship, Psychological Studies
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Wilcox, Barbara; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
Two experiments investigated characteristic generalized imitation procedures on a nonimitative successive visual discrimination task. (Editor)
Descriptors: Child Psychology, Identification (Psychology), Imitation, Preschool Children
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Koshinsky, Claudia; Hall, Alfred E. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
Hooper's finding that identity conservation develops prior to equivalence conservation was investigated using a more stringent within-subject design. (Editor)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Psychology, Concept Formation, Identification (Psychology)
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Woodward, J. Arthur; Joe, George W. – Psychometrika, 1973
Two problems were considered for random-model, fully-crossed, two- and three-facet experimental designs. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Generalization, Psychological Studies, Psychometrics
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Klein, Morris M.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1973
This study of 30 families involved in family therapy treatment showed that it is possible to differentiate both mothers and fathers along a clearly defined dimension of dominance-passivity. When parents are grouped in varying configurations of dominance-passivity, male and female children in the different groupings differ in the frequency of their…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Influence, Problem Children
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