Investigates a chimpanzee's capacity to recognize representations of problems and solutions, as well as its ability to perceive the relationship between each type of problem and its appropriate solutions using televised programs and photographic solutions. (HM)

Author critically comments on D.W. Hamlyn's work on human learning which borrows from the classical philosophies of rationalism and empiricism. These lack a proper biological perspective for man and an adequate appreciation of man's social nature. The author discusses animal-like instinctive behavior and specifically social learning. For journal…

Outlined are biological, sociological, and conscious and unconscious psychological factors involved in stealing, and discussed are appropriate teacher responses to stealing by students. (CL)

A model designed to account for major factors on personality questionnaires is proposed and evaluated using the Differential Personality Inventory. Two respondent processes are postulated: sensitivity to the underlying desirability of items, and threshold for responding desirably. (Author/JKS)

Eighty-one students were asked to read an article under different conditions of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. The qualitative differences in learning process and outcomes and the quantitative differences in recall of factual knowledge were investigated in relation to the various experimental subgroups created. (Editor/RK)

A questionnaire was developed to enable teachers in physical education departments to evaluate department chairmen for personal qualities, professional growth, teaching effectiveness, and administrative responsibilities. (GW)

Compares various item option scoring methods with respect to coefficient alpha and a concurrent validity coefficient. Scoring methods compared were: formula scoring, a priori scoring, empirical scoring with an internal criterion, and two modifications of formula scoring. The empirically determined scoring system is seen as superior. (RC)

In an attempt to replicate Page's major finding of written comment effectiveness, 415 fifth and seventh-grade students were evaluated by their teachers for 6 weeks with experimentally determined combinations of letter grades and comments. Data from 12 other replication studies were examined. (Author/BW)

It is concluded that the systematic desensitization studies, the masturbatory training approaches, and the Reproductive Biology Research Foundation series are all effective treatment procedures, employing graduated exposure to sexual stimuli plus some form of directive psychotherapy emphasizing interpersonal skills acquisition. These may be the…

This article shows a positive reaction among students toward the Human Development Program. The study, however, raises a number of significant questions about specific aspects of the Magic Circle technique, particularly in regard to the listening that occurs in circle session. (Author)

Discusses working toward an understanding of psychological processes involved in divorce and developing a conceptual framework to describe these processes. Individuals proceed through stages of divorce that overlap and do not come in fixed order. Erikson's stages of man provide a framework to view tasks of recovery from divorce. (Author)

The Human Emotion/Feeling Model with complimentary instrumentation have been presented in an attempt to bring some clarity to an extremely complex phenomenon--human emotion/feeling. The model and instrument are not presented as being complete or final, but are presented for consideration by others. (Author)

Suggests that there are creative ways of measuring affective objectives in art and that an instructional objective may include affective criteria related to cognitive or pschomotor competencies in art. Also notes the teacher's role in helping students to appreciate what they have learned in art. (Author/RK)

Single-subject experimental methodology was used to evaluate the relationship between distinct patterns of deviant sexual arousal and heterosexual arousal. The theoretical and clinical implications of a functional independence among various patterns of sexual arousal are discussed. (Author)

This paper focuses on stress felt by nurses over responsibility for controlling illness and death which indicated an unconscious confusion between the feeling of being responsible for the care of an ill or dying patient and the feeling of being responsible for the occurrence of the patient's illness or death. (Author)