Illustrates the ways in which clients in career counseling think about the types of change in their career lives and about the determinants of change. Analyzes interview data of 16 adult clients. Proposes two category systems as representative of the clients' thinking about change in these domains. (Author)

Presents the results of an exploratory study of Latin-American university students' preferences for studying and interacting with their professors. Results indicated significant differences between the preferred learning styles of Anglo-Americans and Latin Americans. No differences were noted between graduates and undergraduates. (BL)

Considers two approaches to individualizing instruction: describes Team-Assisted Individualization, a program that individualizes instruction with minimal additional support while maintaining teacher responsibility and encouraging student interaction; and reviews analyses of adaptive instruction, noting requirements for success, similarities with…

Investigated the relationship between sex-role orientation and cognitive preferential response style. Although masculine and androgynous individuals were expected to demonstrate extratensive and intraversive cognitive styles, respectively, no such distinction was apparent. However, feminine individuals did demonstrate an ambitent response style.…

Discusses research which suggests that language learning occurs by learning the regularities inherent in the semantic system and not by learning any regularities present in the syntax system. (EKN)

Reviews existing literature relevant to cognitive issues in training. Discusses the effects of various cognitive attributes, examines the impact of various cognitive training strategies on trainee performance, and addresses methodological issues that have served to limit research activity. (LLL)

Analysis of learning style, error clusters, and grade equivalents of 53 delinquent adolescents and 51 junior high students revealed significant differences in type and prevalence of multiple error clusters within eight educational skill areas and across eight combined skills. Significantly higher prevalence of school problems among delinquents was…

Examined the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children protocols of 94 special education students longitudinally. As predicted, subjects had lower IQ equivalent scores on Bannatyne's Sequencing Ability category than on the WISC and WISC-R, confirming that mildly retarded children and learning disabled children have qualitatively similar learning…

Examined the level of perceptual differentiation of 42 young adult drug addicts. Analysis of variance showed that addicts, like alcoholics, were less perceptually differentiated than normals. Correlational and/or multivariate procedures yielded significant relationships between differentiation, verbal and abstraction abilities, likelihood of…

Demonstrated a set of research techniques that combine multidimensional scaling, a quantitative cognitive procedure, and a cost-outcome analysis to study subgroup behavior of obsessive-compulsives (N=12). Results indicated that obsessive-compulsives are underinclusive in their evaluation of stimuli during judgment task. (LLL)

The relationship between automatization ability, as measured by the "Rapid Automatic Naming Test" (RAN), and proficiency in arithmetic basic fact computation was investigated with 120 learning disabled (LD) and 120 nondisabled children between 8 and 13 years of age. (Author/SW)

This is the second of three articles discussing a learning preferences approach to management self-development. Two case studies of individual managers illustrate the process. An organizational case study is also provided to show how organizational structure and culture interact with the learning and problem-solving styles of employees. (SK)

Examined differences between self-perceived effective and ineffective problem solvers on several cognitive content and process variables of college students (N=500). Results indicated that subjects who perceived themselves as effective problem solvers had higher self-concepts and coping styles that were less blameful and more problem focused. (LLL)

Reviews experiences of the author which illustrate a journey toward interdependence. Suggests that sex differences in children's socialization have influenced males and females to react differently to competition and criticism, but women are realizing they can empower each other for survival and growth. (JAC)

Differences in readers' perceptual style and conceptual temp may influence how they select, perceive, and organize graphic information for meaning. (RB)