Maternal interaction with two- and three-year-old Down syndrome children and developmentally matched nonretarded children was analyzed. Mothers of Down syndrome children were more dominant and their children less active communication partners than normal Ss. Mothers of Down syndrome children may be more directive as a result of efforts to increase…

Conversational replies were examined in two groups of children with comparable vocabularies and speech limited to single-word utterances: (1) children with specific language impairment, ages 2 to 3 and (2) children, age 1:5 to 1:11, who were developing language normally. Language-impaired Ss produced a greater number of variety of replies to…

Two experiments showed that (1) verbal praise increased males' and females' intrinsic motivation on masculine and feminine tasks, and intrinsic motivation was higher for sex-appropriate than sex-inappropriate tasks; and (2) praise enhanced traditional females' intrinsic motivation even on a task that in earlier research showed striking…

Examination of stereotypes about polite speech found that women are expected to speak more politely than men regardless of sex of addressee topic. Men are expected to use different forms for requests for masculine, feminine, and neutral actions and different forms of requests for male and female addressees. (CMG)

Some humorous, tongue-in-cheek suggestions for the would-be conferencee who desires to maintain a high Conference Prestige Index.'' Shows the rewards to be gained from great effort and sustained practice on the art'' of conferencemanship. (Author/EA)

The author presents several examples of teacher statements which mislead students in concept learning, in an effort to show the need to present concepts in a manner that is meaningful to the elementary pupil. (JG)

This study investigated the initial reactions of 20 A and 20 B Ss to encounter situations in which they were asked for help by four hypothetical patients communicating in normal, neurotic, schizophrenic, or ambiguous styles. The results were related to previous A and B findings. (Author)

The Thesis of the paper is that there is need to distinguish between debating as a means of training for public policy decision making and debatingas a means of training students in the cognitive processes necessary for effective decision making. The author views debating as fundamental training in interpersonal communication. (Author/MS)

The results of this study indicated a correspondence between selected categories of therapist verbalizations, ordered in terms of stimulus specificity and the amplitude of his patient's autonomic arousal. A similar relationship was found between the therapist's level of autonomic arousal in response to his own categorized verbalizations. (Author)

This study was made on behalf of the Foreign Language Innovative Curricula Study, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Among young children, verbalization led to many correct responses on a spatial perspective task (indicating views of an object from different positions), but produced few correct responses in a rotation task (imagining different views of a rotating object). Results suggested that language enhances perspective task performance by allowing feature…

The propensity to raise and vary the pitch of one's voice when addressing an infant or small child was investigated in a sample of 16 male and 16 female adults, half of whom were married with children and half of whom had never married and never had children. (Author/RH)