THE RELATIONSHIP OF EDUCABLE MENTAL RETARDATES IN REGULAR CLASSES AND SPECIAL CLASSES WITH RESPECT TO VOCABULARY WAS STUDIED. THERE WERE 49 SUBJECTS TAKEN FROM REGULAR CLASSES AND 45 FROM SPECIAL CLASSES. THE PRIMARY AND ELEMENTARY FORMS OF THE WORD MEANING SECTION OF THE STANFORD ACHIEVEMENT TESTS WERE ADMINISTERED TO EACH SUBJECT BY FOUR PERSONS…

THE PURPOSE WAS TO SUBSTANTIATE THE HYPOTHESIS THAT TRAINING COLLEGE STUDENTS IN SELF-PERCEPTUAL THEORY, IN OBSERVING CHILD BEHAVIOR, AND IN ANALYZING BEHAVIOR FROM A PERCEPTUAL ORIENTATION INCREASES THEIR ABILITY TO INFER FROM THE BEHAVIOR RECORDS OF A CHILD HIS STATEMENTS ABOUT HIMSELF. THREE GROUPS OF SUBJECTS, ONE EXPERIMENTAL AND TWO…

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO GATHER AND ANALYZE DATA ABOUT THE PROBLEM-SOLVING PROCESSES OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN ORDER TO DEVELOP AN OPERATIONALLY DEFINED CONCEPT ON THE CRITERIA FOR PROFESSIONAL, HIGH PROFICIENCY QUALITIES IN TEACHERS. THREE QUESTIONS WERE ASKED--(1) WHAT IS AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER, (2) WHAT IS PROBLEM-SOLVING…

THE PRESENT STUDY INVESTIGATES THE EFFECTS OF INTERVIEWER WARMTH ON INTERVIEWEE VERBAL BEHAVIOR, AND REPLICATES EARLIER FINDINGS ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF INTERVIEWER SPECIFICITY. IN ADDITION TO FIVE VERBAL BEHAVIOR VARIABLES USED IN PREVIOUS STUDIES, THREE ADDITIONAL SCALES, NONRESISTIVENESS, RESISTIVENESS, AND SUPERFICIALITY, WERE DEVELOPED TO ASSESS…

THIS ARTICLE AND ITS SUPPLEMENT PRESENT THE RESULTS OF A SURVEY OF DIFFERENCES IN VALUES AND ASPIRATIONS OF BOYS RESIDING ON FARMS, IN RURAL NONFARM AND VILLAGE AREAS, AND IN SMALL URBAN AREAS OF LENAWEE COUNTY, MICHIGAN. THE DATA INCLUDE SEVERAL WORK-RELATED VALUE ORIENTATIONS, AS WELL AS EDUCATIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL ASPIRATIONS OF THE 17-YEAR…

THE PERSON LESS ABLE TO CONTROL HIS IMPULSES IS ALSO APT TO EXHIBIT SOCIALLY DISVALUED BEHAVIOR. VOCATIONAL AND ACADEMIC FAILURE IS A PARTIAL CONSEQUENCE OF IMPULSIVENESS AND LACK OF SELF-CONTROL. TO INVESTIGATE IMPULSE CONTROL, TWO INSTRUMENTS BELIEVED TO MEASURE ATTRIBUTES OF OPPOSITE POLES OF THIS CONCEPT (SEQUENTIAL TESTS OF EDUCATIONAL…

THE SIGNIFICANT PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR IN CHILDREN INDICATING A NEED FOR CLOSE SCRUTINY BY A TEACHER ARE HELD TO BE--INABILITY TO LEARN, UNSATISFACTORY INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS, INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR, UNHAPPINESS, REPETITIVE SYMPTOMS OF ILLNESS AFTER STRESS. RESEARCH WAS DESIGNED TO VALIDATE A SCREENING PROCESS USING TEACHER, PEER, AND…

A MAIN PROBLEM ARISING IN THE STUDY OF CATEGORIZING BEHAVIOR IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN BY MEANS OF SORTING PROCEDURES WAS THAT PERFORMANCE APPEARED TO BE VERY MUCH A FUNCTION OF THE CHILD'S COMPREHENSION OF THE PARTICULAR VERBAL INSTRUCTIONS EMPLOYED BY THE EXPERIMENTER IN PRESENTING THE TASK. THE SPECIFIC AIMS OF THE FIRST STUDY WERE TO INVESTIGATE…

A REVIEW OF MAIN TRENDS IN RECENT HUMAN RELATIONS RESEARCH IN THE UNITED STATES, PARTICULARLY AS ILLUSTRATED IN THE WORK OF SIGMUND LIVINGSTON FELLOWS, IS PRESENTED. THE FOCUS IS ON STUDIES DEALING WITH ETHNIC, RACIAL, OR RELIGIOUS CATEGORIES, AND ON RESEARCH DEALING WITH INTERGROUP PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION. THE THREE MAJOR TRENDS IN RESEARCH…

THE AUTHOR'S POSITION WAS THAT, BECAUSE PEOPLE OFTEN DIFFER IN THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF THE MEANING OF WORDS, LINGUISTS MUST WORK WITH PSYCHOLOGISTS, NEUROLOGISTS, AND OTHERS TO GUIDE LANGUAGE TEACHERS IN THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF HOW A LANGUAGE WORKS AND HOW BEST TO COMMUNICATE THIS KNOWLEDGE TO THEIR STUDENTS. WHILE DENOTATIVE MEANING REFERS PRIMARILY TO…

FIFTY-FOUR TEST-ANXIOUS COLLEGE FRESHMEN FROM STANFORD UNIVERSITY WERE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO ONE OF THREE GROUPS--(1) A DESENSITIZATION GROUP WORKING WITH INDIVIDUALIZED ANXIETY HIERARCHIES, (2) A DESENSITIZATION GROUP WORKING WITH A SINGLE STANDARD HIERARCHY, AND (3) A NO-TREATMENT CONTROL GROUP. THE CRITERIA CONSISTED OF SELF-RATINGS OF ANXIETY…

INQUIRY INTO THE PROCESS, AS MEDIATED THROUGH VARIOUS SOCIAL AGENCIES, BY WHICH AN INDIVIDUAL ACQUIRES POLITICALLY RELEVANT ATTITUDINAL DISPOSITIONS AND BEHAVIOR PATTERNS WAS THE PROBLEM OF THE STUDY. THE HYPOTHESIS WAS THAT FAMILY STRUCTURE WOULD HAVE A DIFFERENT EFFECT UPON THE SOCIALIZATION OF THESE ATTITUDES. DATA REGARDING THE SOCIALIZATION…

RESEARCH WAS DIRECTED TOWARD DETERMINING THE EFFECT OF REPEATED EXPOSURE TO NEWSPAPER PUBLICITY CONCERNING EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ON (1) ATTITUDES TOWARD EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION AND (2) VIEWING BEHAVIOR RELATIVE TO EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION. THE SAMPLE CONSISTED OF 329 PERSONS TAKEN FROM A LARGER SAMPLE USED IN THE STUDY OF RESISTANCES TO EDUCATIONAL…

Interpersonal interaction in intimate relationships must be viewed as a function of the context within which it occurs. A contextual model of interaction was studied along the dimensions of conflict and intimacy. Subjects were married couples, who individually discussed conflict and nonconflict issues of high-level or low-level intimacy. Patterns…

An exploratory study concerned with the measurement of perseveration, or persistence, as a personality variable was based on the work of G.V. Hamilton, an early investigator in the field. Persistently maladaptive behavior was hypothesized to be a chief characteristic of neurosis. An experimental problem-solving situation was designed to…