Late adolescent girls who would more likely defect from psychotherapy early had a self-rated history of greater self-disclosure than did girls who would more likely continue. This difference was especially clear with male targets. The second experimental study revealed a similar finding; terminators are higher self-disclosers to males whereas…

This article presents a clinical discussion of parent-child relations viewed as transactions tending toward the reduction of cognitive inconsistency. The heuristic value of consistency theory is illustrated through application of the balance model to the mother-father-child triad. (Author)

Reports on a study to determine the effect of creative drama on the role playing skills of sixth graders. (RB)

Reports a study indicating that an informal program of training in visual perception was equivalent to a formal program both in producing better results on a visual perception measure and on a reading achievement test. (TO)

Reports a study of the ability of Black children to hear final consonant blends even though they may not or cannot pronounce them. (TO)

Studied influences of simultaneously and successively exposing kindergarten and elementary children to low and high speed motion pictures on their judgment of distance, synchroneity, and isochronism. Concluded the presence of tau and kappa-movement effects in the younger group and anti-kappa effects among the older group. (CC)

Examines the effects of social change on the role relationships and adjustment of Chinese Americans; some of the changes in the psychological and social characteristics of the Chinese are examined from empirical studies. (Author/JM)

Article evaluated the influence of the father upon the daughter and her reaction in terms of self perception as it affected her personality development. (RK)

The primary purpose of this study was to determine the size of the sound stimulus employed in the first stage of speech recognition. (Author)

Two experiments examined the role of meaningfulness (m), perceptual grouping, and organizational factors in recognition memory of consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) trigram stimuli. (Editor)

The purpose of the experiment was to ascertain whether the duration of the spiral illusion could be extended by a 'learning procedure' which would distinguish a longer-term learning effect from short-term adaptive changes due to inhibition. (Author)

The modern counselor is urged to re-examine his role and image as a professional with special skills that are valuable to teachers and pupils. A review is attempted to re-acquait the counselor with some current notions of professional role clarifications of team membership, accountability, and recommendations for actions. (Author)

157 Science teachers from 39 schools in Scotland completed a 44-item questionnaire on their perceptions of effective science teaching. (Editor)

Considered the interaction between job and motivation factors and the relation of attribution theory and role theory. (Author/RK)

This study investigated how one important variable, the child's performance, affected the teacher's perception of a child and the causal source of his performance. (Author)