In one experiment, children from 5 to 10 years of age played with puppets and responded to questions concerning the acquisition of one particular linguistic structure by children; in another series of experiments, both children and adults responded to questions regarding nonsense words in differentiating contexts--the focus of the discussion…

Schools that submitted titles of theses underway all are from Southern States. The theses pertain to Afro-American Studies, agricultural science, business administration, industrial education, science and mathematics, social sciences, adult education, library science, French, English language and literature, clinical psychology, educational…

Males (24) and females (24) viewed the videotaped professional self-presentation of a presumed counselor who was either physically attractive or unattractive. Subjects then indicated their impressions of the counselor on 12 traits and their expectancies of the counselor's helpfulness for 15 personal problems. (Author)

This paper, presented at a symposium on computer-based instructional systems, discusses innovations in the TICCIT computer-based instructional system. Specific issues addressed include innovations in the system's authoring languages, integration of videodisc technology, instructional management systems, creation of color computer graphics using a…

This paper presents a description of police research problems in such fashion that it could be generalized to other types of organizations. A two-dimensional taxonomy of problems in conducting psychological research in police departments is discussed. The first dimension concerns generality-uniqueness of the problem, relative to formal…

In addition to the important role of memory strategies in mediating age changes in recall performance, it is clear that the permanent memory system (or information available in the knowledge base) exerts a significant influence on the acquisition and retention of information. Age changes in memory performance will be fully understood only through…

The acquisition of imitative responses without reinforcement was investigated with infants by eliminating contingent reinforcement through the use of videotaped models. Twenty-nine male and female infants were randomly assigned to one of two groups, a Rhythmic Vocalization Group or a Conversation Control Group. Infants in the first group were…

Twenty children (ages 5 and 6) from each of seven cultural groups (Caucasian, Black, Jewish, Puerto Rican, Chinese, Korean-American and native Korean) were given a copying task of 21 geometric shapes to test the cultural invariancy of Piaget's topological-projective-Euclidean concept acquisition sequence. All subjects were either middle or lower…

The physical barriers in mobile homes were removed, and modifications made, to accommodate wheelchair students. These selected students were tested to determine psychological factors which might be important in mobile home living. The results of personal interviews, psychological tests and personal observation indicated that the physical…

Data for a study of the composition process consisted of student compositions written in response to four stimulus tasks (compositions written within unstructured, topical/Aristotelian, dramatic situation, and behavioral models), and students' introspective comments made in response to questionnaires, during taped discussions, and in individual…

A study to determine the relationship between feelings of self-esteem and style of communication involved 71 college students enrolled in a basic speech communication course and implemented an inventory of self-worth (ISW) developed to isolate internal feelings about self that would most likely be consistent across situations. The subjects…

The focus of this essay is the Afro American as an actor or agent possessing the capacity to play a part in shaping the contours of his life. The author examines ways in which humanistic and mechanistic psychological perspectives differ on fundamental assumptions about behavior and discusses how the humanistic trend in psychology can be…

DATA WERE GATHERED ON THE UNCONSCIOUS MOTIVES OR PURPOSES IN THE CHOICE OF TEACHING AS A CAREER. THEY WERE USED AS A MEASURE IN PREDICTING POTENTIAL AND INDIVIDUAL TEACHING SUCCESS IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION. SKETCHES OF MOTIVATIONAL TYPES ENCOUNTERED AMONG TEACHERS WERE DEVELOPED AND SAMPLED AMONG REPRESENTATIVE INDIVIDUALS OF EACH TYPE. THE…

NONACADEMIC FACTORS INFLUENCING THE SELECTION OF CANDIDATES FOR TEACHER EDUCATION WERE ISOLATED AND EVALUATED. THE THEORETICAL BASIS FOR THIS STUDY WAS DRAWN FROM DAVID P. AUSUBEL'S FORMULATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EGO-DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING. SAMPLE EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY CLASSES WERE ADMINISTERED (1) A REVISION OF AUSUBEL'S PARENT…

While Jean Piaget's work as it relates to the development of childhood and adolescent cognition has long been explored, only recently has the usefulness of Piaget's theory in the study of adult cognition been studied. Recent research by educational psychologists has raised serious doubts about Piaget's theoretical position that the highest level…