Research assessed the impact of a treatment designed to sensitize college freshman and sophomore women to the effects of sexism and sex role socialization factors on their career planning and to expand their current sex role attitudes and self concepts. College women on a large midwestern campus participated in a four-week career workshop.…

A project investigated the feasibility of training spatial visualization to facilitate transfer among tasks requiring these abilities and thus reduce training time and increase personnel flexibility. Eighty undergraduate college students participated in a study of from one to five days duration. Experimental subjects received extensive practice…

Research on nuclear families has reported support for an hypothesized inverse relationship between power and role-taking accuracy. Family members who are in subordinate (dependent) power positions are better able to predict attitudes and behavior of other family members than are those in relatively more powerful and independent positions. This…

READING READINESS IN YOUNG CHILDREN IS INFLUENCED BY SEVERAL FACTORS. PHYSICAL FACTORS OF VISUAL AND AUDITORY ACUITY, MOTOR COORDINATION, AND GENERAL GOOD HEALTH CONTRIBUTE TO READINESS. SOCIALLY, THE CHILD MUST BE SELF-RELIANT, COOPERATIVE, AND ABLE TO SHARE WITH OTHERS, HAVE GOOD LISTENING HABITS, AND BE ABLE TO ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY. MENTAL…

TO DETERMINE WHETHER STATUS-POSITIONS MAY BE CHARACTERIZED BY CERTAIN GENERAL BEHAVIORAL DISPOSITIONS AND PERSONALITY TRAITS, FACTOR ANALYSIS WAS EMPLOYED IN A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIPS OF 52 STATUS-POSITIONS, INCLUDING SELECTED ETHNIC, OCCUPATIONAL, AGE, SEX, AND FAMILIAL CATEGORIES, WITH 28 PERSONALITY AND BEHAVIORAL CHARACTERISTICS, AS…

TO HELP PREPARE PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS FOR ADEQUATE HANDLING OF THE PHENOMENON OF CHANGE, SOME ASPECTS OF THE APPLICABILITY OF SENSITIVITY TRAINING TO PROCESSES OF CHANGE IN EDUCATION ARE DISCUSSED. OBJECTIVES OF SUCH TRAINING ARE GIVEN AS--(1) SELF-INSIGHT, (2) BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF OTHERS AND AWARENESS OF ONE'S IMPACT ON THEM, (3) BETTER…

THIS MONOGRAPH IS A REVIEW OF SELECTED LITERATURE IN THE AREA OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS, WHICH HAS RELEVANCE TO THE CLIENT-COUNSELOR INTERACTION. THE STUDIES HAVE BEEN TREATED WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF MCGRATH'S DESCRIPTIVE MODEL FOR INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THEORETICAL APPROACHES HAS YIELDED TWO LINES OF EVIDENCE…

The four reports in this compilation focus on the role of blacks in the various media. The first report provides a general discussion of the status of blacks in the media, and notes that it has been largely analogous to their political and economic development. The second report traces the changing image of blacks as it has been portrayed on…

Analyses of sex differences in major life role conflicts suggest a qualitative difference between the family life of men and women, with an advantage for men. Differences between the sexes in ratings of satisfaction with family life were investigated using data taken from the 1977 Quality of Employment Survey. The analysis sample was restricted to…

Phenomenology is an important force in the development of psychological theory, rather than a variant type of counseling method. A distinction must be drawn between the sensory phenomenology in which gestaltists focus on sensory receptors, and logical pheomenology in which the grounding of belief or self-identity is viewed as a prediction or…

Teachers need to be aware of the stereotypes that their textbooks promote. An informal survey of the illustrations in a sampling of third grade textbooks revealed numerous examples of ethnic and sexist stereotypes. A knowledge of children's learning patterns can help teachers lead their students away from stereotypes by introducing them to…

A study explored the means by which children apply knowledge of the television medium and of the real world in distinguishing among the levels of reality and fantasy presented on television. Fifty-four second-, fourth-, and sixth-grade children were presented with a series of paired (reality/fantasy) television shows. They were asked to choose…

The vocational and educational goals of 418 psychology majors and 1134 non-majors in undergraduate psychology classes at the University of Houston were investigated. Results indicate important discrepancies between majors and non-majors on vocational and educational goals, as well as discrepancies between goals of psychology majors and those of…

To ascertain the audience's perception of the homosexual stereotyped character in reference to the social contact variable, two groups were shown a television situational comedy that depicted two homosexual characters. The two groups, one composed of 45 homosexual and the other of 95 heterosexual college students, were then asked to evaluate the…

Although designed specifically for students at California State University - Sacramento, this bibliography on the changing role of women provides citations which enable students to trace the history of ideas of the women's movement, and to bring into focus a vast collage of facts. The bibliography is arranged alphabetically by author in the…