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Welford, A. T., Ed.; Birren, James E., Ed – 1969
Drawn from a 1967 conference on gerontology, these 11 papers consider the nature of age changes (for better or worse) in high grade intellectual work and decision making of the kind found in industrial management and comparable walks of life. The first paper draws implications for higher intellectual activities from existing knowledge of age…
Descriptors: Administrators, Age, Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes
Borth, Audrey M. – 1971
The purpose of the study was to assess non-intellective correlates of achievement in a lower-class, all black, urban elementary school. These students were compared with a University school population which was different in many dimensions. There were residual similarities relative to the general role of the elementary school student. In neither…
Descriptors: Achievement, Educational Objectives, Elementary Schools, Lower Class Students
Payne, John. – 1969
This monograph outlines the present position of research in the field of student mental health. The aim is to provide a selective review of the literature in this field, to indicate those particular areas in which research is now being carried out and to give an indication of those areas in which research could usefully be done. Topics covered…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropout Rate, Dropout Research, Institutional Environment
Ladd, Sandra L., Ed.; Hughmanick, Michael, Ed. – Journal of Undergraduate Psychological Research, 1974
Articles resulting from studies conducted by college undergraduates in all areas of experimental psychology are provided, together with abstracts of other papers authored by students in the field of study. The articles are: The Influence of SET on Solving Hidden-Word Problems by Lana I. Boutacoff; Violation of Personal Space in Deviant Adolescents…
Descriptors: Abstracts, College Students, Educational Innovation, Higher Education
Behnke, Ralph R. – Speech Journal, 1970
The importance of effective communication compels investigators to seek new ways of measuring physiological responses and to practice the science of psychophysiology. The main objective of psychophysiological research is to describe the systems in organisms which transfer information between the subsystems of soma and psyche. Results should lead…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior, Communication (Thought Transfer), Conditioning
Hermann, Margaret G.; Kogan, Nathan – 1972
Level of cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) is examined for opponents acting in their own behalf or as members of a reference group consisting of strangers or friends. This subject classification interacted with trials, representatives of friend groups manifesting a consistently high level of cooperation throughout, and representatives of…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Decision Making
Damm, John T.; Bloxom, Anne – 1971
The effects of two social contexts on the risk -taking behavior of elementary boys on a shuffleboard task were investigated. It was predicted that Atkinson's motive-probability-incentive (M-P-I) model would be supported in the peer-competitive context, in that the success-oriented subjects would choose more goals with median Ps values than the…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Behavioral Science Research, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students
Krutetskij, V. A. – 1969
This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a monograph summarizing the theoretical and experimental psychological research done to determine the mathematical aptitudes of schoolchildren. The author constructs a general picture of the mathematical aptitudes of students; he identifies nine components, to be…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Abstracts, Academic Ability, Cognitive Ability
AURBACH, HERBERT A. – 1966
THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY WAS COMPILED AND EDITED FOR USE IN A WORKSHOP ON MEETING SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF SOCIALLY AND CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS. SELECTED READINGS FROM THE BIBLIOGRAPHY WERE USED TO ACCOMPANY WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES. BESIDES LISTING SELECTED WORKS ON DISADVANTAGED YOUTH, THE BIBLIOGRAPHY PRESENTED REFERENCES ON SUCH TOPICS AS…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Delinquency, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Schools
Combs, Jeanne M; Ziller, Robert C. – 1975
A phenomenological approach to the study of the self concept using photography was utilized in a counseling situation. The clients were asked to take or have taken 12 photographs in reply to "Who are you"? Clients in comparison with controls presented significantly more photographs of the past and of their family but significantly fewer…
Descriptors: Behavior, College Students, Counseling, Identification (Psychology)
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Saarni, Carolyn; Thayer, Stephen – 1976
Forty-eight middle-income children, equally divided as to sex, looked at a sequence of animated films in which a pair of male figures underwent a change in facial affect. Three questions were posed: (1) Could a qualitative-structural analysis be applied to the kinds of explanations given by the children to account for changes in facial affect? (2)…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Child Development, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Millimet, C. Raymond; Brien, Monica – 1975
Consistent with Anderson's weighted averaging model, it was predicted that 19 subjects who were defined by a lack of differentiation among their personal constructs would experience considerable inconsistency in the factorial combination of five personality trait dimensions selected from each subject's REP test. Such inconsistency was expected to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conflict Resolution, Factor Analysis, Individual Characteristics
Prescott, Peggy-Lynn – 1976
The effects of visual, and verbal/visual, preorganizers and postorganizers on the learning of unfamiliar information were evaluated in an experimental study involving 153 community college students. Pre- and postorganizers were used in connection with a 20-minute lesson on the theory of communication. A 25-item, multiple-choice criterion test was…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Community Colleges, Doctoral Dissertations, Learning Processes
Allgeier, Elizabeth R. – 1976
Previous research (Bem, 1976) has shown that sex-typed and androgynous persons differ in their behavior in a variety of situations. The present paper describes four studies of the relationship of sex-typing to sexual socialization and to heterosexual attitudes and behavior. This program of research indicates that persons do differ in their sexual…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Behavior Patterns, Interaction Process Analysis, Psychological Studies
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Bornstein, Marc H. – Intelligence, 1978
Psychological and anthropological approaches to the study of human behavior are compared. Strengths and weaknesses of each approach are delineated, and the need for a combination of the two disciplines is stressed. The article focuses on cross-cultural studies of cognition and reviews three recent books in this area. (RD)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Cognitive Processes, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
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