Eighty elementary school children assigned to experimental conditions of modeling, role playing, and modeling combined with role playing, chose significantly more delayed rewards than control children. Findings suggest that modeling is a significant determinant of self-control behaviors. The effectiveness of the role playing procedure was…

Reviews research on possible contributions of role playing, games and sports, and play to the developmental process, e.g., the inter-relationships between play and creativity. (MBR)

The advantages of simulation and role playing as teaching techniques are discussed. (DE)

Describes the usefulness of role-playing as a technique to increase students' motivation, teach interviewing skills, and encourage active participation. A business communications interview evaluation sheet is provided. (KS)

Analyzes social skills in four emotionally disturbed students (ages 12-14) enrolled in adolescent day treatment programs. Students displayed an increased ability to relax and to use appropriate interpersonal behaviors in simulated social interactions involving scenes not previously trained. Skills did not generalize to the classroom. Discusses…

Twenty young people and adults met to explore ways in which they could work together to solve each other's problems. Role reversal was a key factor in the success of the workshop, as it underlined the importance of teen-adult communication. A sample workshop agenda is included. (JMM)

The author discusses the use of adult education precepts in professional realms outside its mainstream, specifically patient education. He cites the effect of role playing on cardiac rehabilitation education. (JOW)

Describes the use of active role play techniques in a staff training group designed to teach about the "Inner World of the Adolescent," where the fundamental features of transference and countertransference were brought alive, and other theoretical contributions of modern psychoanalysis demonstrated within the setting of a training…

A unit plan for providing support to nondisabled siblings of disabled children features such activities as guest speakers, lectures, discussion groups, and role playing. The program helps siblings to understand the disabilities and develop positive feelings toward their disabled sibling. (CB)

This article focuses on the types of techniques that trainers could use to manage the learning process more effectively. The author states that a good training program should ideally combine the traditional lecture method with cases, role-plays, films, games, and exercises. This shifts the responsibility for learning from the teacher to the…

Judges rating role-played responses to standardized interpersonal situations rated depressed and nondepressed psychiatric inpatients as having significant problems in social skills compared to normals, with no differences between patient groups. Subjects' self-ratings suggested that depressives and other psychiatirc groups may differ in…

Describes several strategies designed to increase audience participation in role play and simulation activities in the foreign language classroom, including audience feedback, role switching, voting, instant replay, cultural discussion, audience direction, press conference, and class soap opera. These strategies make the role play more productive…

A videotape-administered role play test of positive and negative assertion--the Behavioral Test of Interpersonal Competence for Children--was administered to 17 emotionally disturbed and 17 nondisturbed boys ages 9-11. Content of responses to positive, negative, and combined assertion scenes as well as incidence of inappropriate assertion on the…

Sixteen socially isolated fifth graders with low peer acceptance who participated in a rehearsal/modeling social skills training group scored significantly higher on the Role Play Test than Ss in a control group (coaching/discussion). The benefits of peer modeling and behavioral rehearsal were suggested. (Author/CL)

A curriculum unit on conferencing and communicating with parents of handicapped children featured simulation activities to promote an understanding of parents' feelings. Evaluation of the activity indicated that simulation did involve participants in the choices and difficulties facing parents. (CL)