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Silleroy, Rene S.; Johnson, Peder J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
The effects of perceptual pretraining on preferences and concept identification performance in five- and eight-year-old Ss were investigated.
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Child Psychology, Concept Formation
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McLaughlin, Lynn J.; Brinley, Joseph F. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Second-, fourth-, and sixth-grade children were tested on a multiple-classification task to investigate the relationship between age and observational learning. (Editor)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Classification, Learning Processes
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Cavior, Norman N.; Dokecki, Paul R. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Fifth- and eleventh-grade males and females who knew each other ( knowers'') judged classmates' photographs on physical attractiveness, perceived attitude similarity, and interpersonal attraction. Nonknowers'' (male and female classmates in different schools in the same grades) judged the same photographs on physical attractiveness. (Editor)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Attitudes, Correlation
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Wolf, Thomas M. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
The present study used a naturalistic setting to determine the effects on children of modeled sex-inappropriate play behaviour. (Author)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Children, Environmental Influences, Models
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Cohen, Robert; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Nine-, eleven-, and thirteen-year-old children participated in a conformity situation requiring the judgment of the louder of two successively presented tones. (Editor)
Descriptors: Age, Ambiguity, Analysis of Variance, Children
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Mobley, William H.; Ramsay, Robert S. – Personnel Psychology, 1973
The present research was stimulated by three related problems frequently faced in validation research: viable procedures for combining similar jobs in order to assess the validity of various predictors, for assessing groups of jobs represented in previous validity studies, and for assessing the applicability of validity findings between units.…
Descriptors: Chemical Industry, Factor Analysis, Generalization, Job Analysis
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Jackson, Douglas N.; And Others – Journal of Research in Personality, 1973
The reliabilities and validities of true-false and forced-choice formats in personality assessment were compared. (Author)
Descriptors: Correlation, Data Analysis, Evaluation, Females
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Cortis, Gerald A. – Educational Review, 1973
Article assesses the relationship between sociology and psychology. In it author suggests that one problem of sociology is that of attracting a fringe of uninformed followers who may spawn false or easy-going prescriptions for the social ills of the times. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Behavior, Critical Thinking, Evaluative Thinking, Fundamental Concepts
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Gerber, Gwendolyn L. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1973
A family doll placement technique was used in this study to investigate psychological distance within families with a disturbed and a nondisturbed boy. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Distance, Emotional Disturbances, Family Relationship
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Slaughter, Diana T. – School Review, 1973
The black American scholar should expose psychological scientism and develop new criteria appropriate to the conduct of scientific inquiry among black Americans. (Author)
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Black Education, Cultural Background, Educational Planning
Hintzman, Douglas L.; Block, Richard A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973
Memory for the spacing of two events was investigated in an incidental learning'' situation. (Author)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Memorization, Memory, Psychological Studies
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Brown, Roger – American Psychologist, 1973
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Institutionalized Persons, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Daniels, Norman – Harpers Magazine, 1973
A critique arguing: (1) that the assumptions underlying the use of intelligence tests are invalid; (2) that findings regarding individual differences can not be generalized to differences between populations; and, (3) that the studies cited as evidence were both incorrectly designed and improperly executed. (JM)
Descriptors: Genetics, Heredity, Intelligence Differences, Intelligence Tests
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Clement, David E.; And Others – American Journal of Psychology, 1973
The present experiment was designed to evaluate the effects of type of similarity during a matching process for visually presented stimuli with obvious auditory properties (letters of the alphabet). (Author)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Auditory Discrimination, Classification, Letters (Alphabet)
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Bowers, Kenneth S. – Psychological Review, 1973
This article attempted to show that the methodological and metaphysical biases of situationism have seriously constrained psychology's observation base and its model of man. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Change, Cognitive Processes, Environmental Influences
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