Presents a theory of personal change and analyzes growth-producing interventions using examples from the film, "Three Approaches to Psychotherapy". Compares the styles of Carl Rogers, Frttz Perls, and Albert Ellis to illustrate the theory. (Editor/RK)

Attempts to determine how the ability of African secondary students to understand pictures three-dimensionally changes, as the number of different types of depth cue increases in carefully stages. Also investigates the existence of interactions involving the different types of picture and differences in amount of formal training which people have…

This paper discusses three ideas--the Engagement continuum, the relation between Awareness of Death and Self-Engagement, and practical implications in terms of effecting psycho-social transitions in later life. Empirical observations were made in Canada and the U.S. Paper presented at the 10th International Gerontological Conference, Jerusalem,…

Reviews the history of the kibbutz movement, kibbutz child-rearing practices, and the results of research in kibbutz socialization. The research indicates that the 'kibbutz personality' is essentially nonpathological and effective. Recent changes in child-rearing patterns in the kibbutz, and a return to traditional family child-rearing, are viewed…

Subjects were presented either single items over trials for free recall, constant groupings of two words each over trials, increasingly larger groupings over trials, or progressively smaller groupings over trials. Evaluates the effect of these presentations on recall as well as instructions to use images for more organized recall. (Editor/RK)

Tests of cognitive and perceptual abilities were given to 140 college students. These subjects then participated on two word-recognition tasks in which their recognition thresholds to both English and artificial words were obtained. (Editor)

This research used tasks analogous to Delayed Matching-to-Sample tasks to study pigeons' Short Term Memory for responses and reinforcers, as well as for more conventional stimuli. The broad question is whether stimulus, response, and reinforcer memories are all influenced in the same way by the same independent variables. (Author/RK)

This experiment examined the learning of affective and neutral words in a paired-associate list for chronic schizophrenics and normals. It was predicted that, relative to normals, the chronic schizophrenics would learn much fewer affective words than neutral words. (Author)

The intent of this study was to determine whether the Minnesota Percepto-Diagnostic Test (Fuller, 1969; Fuller & Laird, 1963) is more effective than the Bender-Gestalt (Bender, 1937) with respect to identifying achievement-related errors in visual-motor perception. (Author/RK)

Hospitalized brain-damaged patients were Ss in a study designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a treatment technique used with contingent reinforcement to facilitate acquisition and retention of environmentally relevant information. (Editor)

More precise conception of the functions and limitations of prediction, validation, construct validity, and criterion referenced tests will not solve the problems which must be faced in using tests. It will not repel many of the current attacks on testing. But it should enable test specialists to think more clearly about some of those problems.…

This study investigated whether five year old children would show similar social class differences in coding style to those found in Heider's (1971) study of ten year old children. Middle class children used a part-descriptive coding style, whereas working class children use a whole-inferential style; the findings were congruent with those of E.…

Explores the functions of the left and right hemispheres and how they relate to aspects of our work in music education. (Editor)

A nontechnical exposition of graph theory is presented, followed by survey of the literature on applications of graph theory in research in education and related disciplines. Applications include order-theoretic studies of the dimensionality of data sets, the investigation of hierarchical structures in various domains, and cluster analysis.…

The two main approaches used to educate the gifted, enrichment and acceleration, have not been sufficiently evaluated to inform policy-makers. Future studies of giftedness should focus on understanding the intellectual, social, and personality processes involved, and on developing and evaluating appropriate educational programs. (Author/VM)