Forty participants who learned ten sentences and who were tested for recall and ability to generate new sentences demonstrated that the closer the sentence order was to natural language order, the better the recall and new sentence generation. (Author/KM)

The results of this study of two groups of nursing students, one administered desensitization sessions, the other not, agree with earlier studies which indicate that massed group desensitization is an efficient and efficacious procedure for the reduction of anxiety-based disorders. (Author/KM)

Institutionalized mentally retarded children performed on a two-choice discrimination task under one of six conditions of reward. One indication of the results was that response-contingent non-consumable rewards were not more distracting than response-contingent consumable rewards. (Author/KM)

The aims of this paper are to affirm the importance of developing sequential models of psychological process-particularly of such complex psychological phenomena of prime concern to theory and application as learning, problem solving, and creativity-and to argue that factor analysis has delineated component processes for these sequential models.…

Significant effects obtained in the modeling condition seemed due to the generalized increase in speech duration facilitated by the use of a model. Similarities and differences between instructions and modeling procedures are discussed. (Author)

Methods suggested by opponent-process theory of acquired motivation in helping smokers to quit the habit include use of antagonistic drugs, total cessation from tobacco, and decrease in intensity and frequency of tobacco use. (DS)

Prediction that organics will report fewer after-effects than both normals and schizophrenics was confirmed. (Authors)

Results of this study suggest the feasibility of using concepts from studies of spoken language for experimental studies of graphic performance. (Authors)

Experiment designed to manipulate the perceived person's looking behavior and the perceiver's attitudes toward him in an effort to determine if one is more potent or if they interact in affecting the perceiver's degree of search for eye contact. (Authors/MB)

Presidential address at the American Psychological Association meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, September 1972. Examines some implications of diversity with regard to psychology in relation to other disciplines, as well as within psychology itself. (DM)

Research based on part of a doctoral dissertation submitted at the University of Virginia and supported by a National Science Foundation Research Grant to L. Starling Reid. Preliminary report of these data presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, N.Y., 1971. (VM)

Earlier studies have indicated similarity in psychological meaning between the two named scales, but, while the twenty-nine common items do make a significant contribution, a strong relationship was found when these items were omitted. Reprints available from Patrick F. Sullivan, Department of Psychology, Albion College, Albion, Michigan 49224.…