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Kenrick, Douglas T.; Johnson, Gregory A. – 1977
The influence of aversive conditions on interpersonal attraction was investigated using 60 female undergraduates as subjects. Dyads were formed and equally divided into aversive (loud-noise) and neutral (low-noise) conditions. After completing an attitude survey questionnaire subjects completed a short filler task while the experimenter…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Behavior Patterns, Classical Conditioning, College Students
MacKay, A. – 1979
This study examines the relationship between covert decisions by teachers and classroom behavior. The decisions of 12 classroom teachers were analyzed through stimulated recall and content analysis techniques. Results indicate that there is a clear and powerful relationship between thought and action. A majority of covert decisions led to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes
Flora, V. Randall – 1979
This exploratory field study involved ten weeks of intensive observations and interviews with four inner city teachers. The initial focus was on exploring heuristic and practical advantages that could ensue when teachers have professional "confidants" (other professionals with whom to frankly discuss personal experiences and concerns of teaching).…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Affiliation Need, Case Studies, Helping Relationship
Copeland, Willis D. – 1979
Descriptive data were collected over a two-month period on two middle elementary classrooms to which student teachers had been assigned. From this data typical patterns of teaching/learning behavior were identified for each classroom. The student teachers were then interchanged, and the data collection continued for another two months. Comparison…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Classroom Environment
Snyder, Mark – 1978
A perceiver's knowledge of a target person (T) can be seen as active, initiatory cognitive structures or conceptual schemas that guide and influence: (1) information processing about T; (2) search for and interpretation of new information about T; (3) remembrance and interpretation of previously-learned information about T; (4) social interaction…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Individual Psychology, Interaction Process Analysis
Reid, Leonard N.; Frazer, Charles F. – 1978
In a two-stage procedure to discover how children use television commercials in family group viewing situations, researchers first conducted thirty family interviews with as many family members present as possible; then they selected nine children's families for extended (three month) participant observation to study the formative aspects of each…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Environment, Family Life
Pickert, Sarah M.; Sgan, Mabel L. – 1977
Categories such as commanding, requesting, and explaining were used to analyze communicative intentions in conversations of 108 children, aged five through nine, during three sets of play activities varying in task specification and leadership role assignment. Results showed that the frequency and variety of communicative intention categories…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Language, Children, Communication Skills
Reeves, Byron; Atkin, Charles K. – 1979
One hundred mother/child dyads were involved in a study to provide empirical evidence on parent/child interaction in grocery stores and on the contributions of Saturday morning television commercials to those interactions and to the purchase of candy and cereals. Data were collected in 15 supermarkets in two midwestern cities. First, the…
Descriptors: Advertising, Children, Childrens Television, Consumer Economics
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: communication and perceptions of organizational climate; perceptions of communications between federal and local educational agencies; intraorganizational conflict…
Descriptors: Administrators, Annotated Bibliographies, Communication Research, Decision Making
Glaser, Susan R. – 1979
The study described in this paper illustrates how key features of rhetorical analysis can be operationalized to apply to the study of therapeutic transactions. After a discussion of psychotherapy as an influence process, the paper describes the methodology used in an analysis of tape-recorded discourse between three therapist/client dyads in an…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Counselor Client Relationship, Discourse Analysis, Helping Relationship
Johnson, Mary Canice – 1979
Dynamics of discussion in the classroom are analyzed based on data from 64 classrooms in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. Among the discourse problems considered are the separation of answers from questions, the relationship between the presupposition of an utterance and the speaker/hearer assumptions, and the relationship between utterance form and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Discussion
Churchill, Lindsey – 1978
An analysis of questioning strategies considers the kinds of responses that can be made to a question (different kinds of questions and their customary responses, and different kinds of response to the same kind of question). Additionally, the advantages/disadvantages to the use of the reproduction criterion in a sociological study are assessed.…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Discourse Analysis, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Competence
KING, PHILIP H. – 1966
DUE TO THE NEED FOR IMPROVED INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS BETWEEN UNITED STATES AIR FORCE TECHNICAL ADVISORS OVERSEAS AND THE INDIGENOUS PERSONS WITH WHOM THEY WORK, A RESEARCH PROGRAM HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED TO IMPROVE METHODS FOR TRAINING CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS. THIS RESEARCH IS DIVIDED INTO FOUR PARTS--(1) IDENTIFICATION IN THE FIELD OF…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cross Cultural Training, Feedback, Foreign Culture
LASHIER, WILLIAM STANLEY – 1965
THIS STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE VERBAL BEHAVIOR OF STUDENT TEACHERS AND THE ACHIEVEMENT AND SELECTED ATTITUDES OF EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS. TEN STUDENT TEACHERS PARTICIPATED IN A WORKSHOP DESIGNED TO PREPARE THE STUDENT TEACHERS TO TEACH SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY. THE STUDENT TEACHERS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR TEACHING A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Biology, Doctoral Dissertations
Erickson, Frederick; And Others – 1980
This paper provides information about the nature of fieldwork and fieldwork research training. Fieldwork methods are best at answering the following five questions: (1) What's happening in this field setting? (2) What do the happenings mean to the people involved in them? (3) What do people have to know in order to be able to do what they do in a…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context, Educational Research
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