Investigates the validity of three hypotheses, specifically that the mental abilities of severely reading disabled children are different from normals with respect to the following parameters: (1) different overall ability arrangement; (2) less effective ability integration; and, (3) less ability organization. (Author/HMV)

The effect of humor in the classroom was explored by comparing the performance of third and fifth grade students who worked on a humorous test with that of students who worked on a nonhumorous test. Humor depressed third graders' performance but had positive and negative effects on fifth graders' performance. (Author)

This study investigates students' perceptions of the school psychologist and his or her role, and how that role relates to their felt needs and concerns. (Author)

The effect of attitude similarity and topic importance on attraction was studied by exposing 75 prison inmates, incarcerated for public intoxication, to varying attitudes of a psychotherapist. Subjects were more attracted to the therapist after receiving alcohol items regardless of degree of similarity expressed. (Author)

Twelve male and 12 female counselors, half inexperienced and half experienced, each recorded the second counseling session with one male and one female client. Results indicated that same-sex pairings had more discussion of feelings by both counselor and client and that inexperienced males and experienced female counselors were more active and…

This research studied the effectiveness of pretraining procedures in teaching college students to self-disclose. Three modeling procedures were used to teach this verbal skill: video model, audio model, and no model. Results indicated the video model group was the most effective followed by the audio model group. No sex differences were found.…

This study investigated the effects of a group counseling program introduced into the Navy basic training curriculum. With the exception of anger, negative moods declined and positive moods increased over the course of training for both control and experimental groups. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the construct validity of the Occupational scales on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank. Five personality factors derived from the California Psychological Inventory were correlated with each of the Occupational scales. The significant relationships were consistent with Holland's personality theory of…

The factor structure in this study was remarkably consistent across the age range, with three factors emerging for each group: Verbal Comprehension, Perceptual Organization, and Freedom from Distractibility. The results of the study are discussed in terms of their clinical applications, particularly interpretation of WISC-R profiles. (Author)

College students were treated with either a standard or modified version of systematic desensitization. Relative to a no-treatment control group, both treatment methods produced significant reductions in both the treated and untreated fears. The implications these findings have for two alternative conceptions of systematic desensitization are…

The present study was directed toward evaluating the nature and degree of differences between three measures of clinical status often used as primary indicators of psychological disorder. Results confirmed the traditional inverse relationship between social class and psychological disorder but demonstrated that it was conditional in nature.…

The following behavior modification procedures were studied with hospitalized alcoholics: videotaped self-confrontation of drunken behavior, discrimination training for blood alcohol concentration, aversion training for overconsumption, discriminated avoidance practice, alcohol education, alternatives training, and behavior counseling. Some…

Forty-five youngsters rehearsed one of three types of mediating response, involving different types of sentences. Analyses revealed that different training significantly influenced duration and intensity settings, with the "competence" group generally superior to the "stimulus" and "neutral" verbalization groups. (Author)

The MMPI was administered to 30 male counselors prior to admission to training and again at the completion of training. The counselors on alcoholism in the present study scored significantly higher than male counselor trainees on the MMPI L, Pd, and Ma scales in the pretraining and completion of training. (Author)

Subjects were psychiatric patients assigned to a newly formed experimental ward. These results suggest that the overt behavior altered in such programs is accompanied by shifts in cognitive or "internal" aspects of psychological functioning as well. (Author)