Results lend support to the position that psychopaths are pathological stimulation seekers. Channeling their stimulation seeking into socially accepted behaviors may facilitate treatment. (Author)

Presented at a meeting of the Training Committee of the Family Institute of Philadelphia, November 28, 1973. This article is a response to the concern over high divorce rates. (EK)

Although a verbal intelligence test is directly a measure of what people know, it is indirectly a way of identifying people who can code and manipulate verbal stimuli rapidly in situations in which knowledge per se is not a major factor. (Author/BJG)

Many kinds of individual differences among learners have been studied by psychologists and educators in an attempt to improve the educational process. Some emphasis has been placed on the notion of cognitive style in an effort to understand more of the cognitive processes which underlie academic performance. The purpose of the present study was to…

This paper reviews evidence that meaningful learning is facilitated by several imagery eliciting strategies including pictorial stimuli, concrete verbal stimuli, and imagery instructions. The review focuses on the conditions under which imagery eliciting strategies facilitate memory for prose or expository texts rather than for more simple…

The following articles are included: (1) "Neurolinguistic Considerations on the Optimum Age for Second Language Learning" by Terence M. Walsh and Karl C. Diller; (2) "Major Variation in Language Skills Apparently under Genetic Influence (Discussed from the Viewpoint of Human Evolution)" by Brenda K. Sladen; (3) "Language Learning Strategies: Does…

THE USE OF CASE STUDIES CAN HELP THE TEACHER TO APPRECIATE INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, TO CAPITALIZE ON INTERESTS AND ABILITIES, TO APPRECIATE AND UTILIZE EXCEPTIONAL SKILLS, AND TO SET UP APPROPRIATE DEVELOPMENTAL GOALS FOR INDIVIDUAL CHILDREN. AN OUTLINE FOR THE IDENTIFICATION PROCESS INCLUDES SCREENING (GROUP DEVICES), NOMINATION (STAFF MATCHES THE…

The interrelationship of computer assisted instruction and individual differences was investigated. Two hypotheses were tested: (1) Bloom's hypothesis of decreasing individual differences under a mastery-learning strategy, and (2) the random walk interpretation of simplicial correlation matrices. Stanford's Computer-Assisted Instruction Math…

This research was conducted to contribute to the general knowledge concerning differences between smokers and nonsmokers. The data were obtained from a major epidemiologic study conducted in 1973 in the southeastern United States. A survey instrument composed of 403 questions and administered to 2029 randomly selected adults was designed to elicit…

The interaction between the individual and his reading was analyzed according to four major points, and the contributions that reading can make to his total development were discussed. The first major point discussed was purpose for reading. It was pointed out that teachers need to help each pupil see the need for reading in terms of his own…

The present study was conducted to determine whether independence produced by social support provided on one type of item in a group pressure situation would generalize to a different item on which the subject was opposed by a consensual group. Moreover, in one condition the group member providing social support varied over trials. It was…

A study was conducted to determine the relative effectiveness of several different visual, visual-verbal, and verbal treatments on the recall of factual information. The primary measure of individual differences of subjects involved in the study was that of intelligence quotient (I.Q.). The study attempted to determine whether or not treatments…

The manual offers a source of variables of potential use as behavioral criteria in an evaluation program. Twenty-nine individual difference variables are included, and for each, a brief definition is provided. The measures used to assess the variables are described, and evaluation of the variables and pertinent references are listed. (Author)