Noting that many of the attacks on individual scientists as well as some of the attacks on the field of behavior genetics are more than intemperate--they are non-rational--the author discusses his experience as a signatory to a document drawn up by Ellis B. Page during the winter of 1971-1972. The intent of this controversial document was to…

Human development from about ages 2 to 5 is presented in terms of the history of a child conceptualized in terms of stimulus and response functions and his interactions in current situations which consist of organismic, physical, and social conditions. The concepts describing the changes that occur during this developmental period, such as…

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the teaching of cognitive knowledge affects attitudes dealing with race, social class, caste, and religious and ethnic groups. Treatment consisted of teaching an anthropological-sociological unit, Man and Myth: A Unit in Ethnic Relations, which presents knowledge generated by research in the…

Twenty-seven kindergarten children were trained on two different double classification matrix tasks in an attempt to determine whether the tasks were hierarchically related. Prior behavior analyses of the tasks suggested that the two tasks shared many components, but that the more complex task had in addition components not included in the simpler…

Race, sex, community size, occupation of major wage earner, father's education, mother's education, and certainty of expectations were the variables used in this study to determine the "anticipatory occupational goal deflection" (AOGD) of urban and rural youth (blacks and whites) in Louisiana. Least squares analysis of variance and other…

Two educational computer simulations are described in this paper. One of the simulations is STATSIM, a series of exercises applicable to statistical instruction. The content of the other simulation is comprised of mathematical learning models. Student involvement, the interactive nature of the simulations, and terminal display of materials are…

In this study, features of the child's development of language were described in terms of rhetorical communication--i.e., the child's development of language (inventio), his use of conceptual schemes to elaborate and unify utterance (dispositio), and his acquisition of an abstract communicative perspective permitting him to use language…

The concept of deprivation has become very appealing to specialists of many disciplines as an explanation for deviations in human development. This is understandable, since the phenomenon does seem to be a key factor in development, but several technical and methodological considerations hinder immediate efforts at understanding and alleviating…

This final report describes and evaluates two 5-day training institutes for art education personnel, held in January and March of 1969. The purpose of these institutes was to improve the participants' ability to (1) identify and use appropriate instructional tools for producing desired behavioral change, (2) evaluate the results and improve the…

While counseling individual children is viewed by many as the most important function of an elementary counselor, little research has been done on the outcome of this counseling. This study was designed, to determine whether counseling affects student behavior in terms of: (1) academic performance, (2) peer relationships, and (3) personal…

The primary purpose of this paper is to discuss reasons why blacks should be concerned and actively involved with practices in behavior modification. The concern is that as these techniques are refined it becomes more important to be sure blacks should be involved at all levels of the application of these procedures when other blacks are subjects…

This volume contains five subject bibliographies for 1972, and two lists of these and dissertations. The bibliographies are "Studies in Mass Communication,""Behavioral Studies in Communication,""Rhetoric and Public Address,""Oral Interpretation," and "Theatrical Craftsmanship." Abstracts of many of the doctoral disertations produced in 1972 in…

This report summarizes the projects, recent studies, and studies in the planning stages at the Henrietta Szold Institute for the period of January 1970 to June 1972. The Institute has been involved in coordinating research in the field of human behavior with special emphasis on children, advising the Israeli government, and stimulating activities…

This is one of a series in the Survey of the Behavioral and Social Sciences (BASS) conducted between 1967 and 1969. Three chapters of a general nature discuss the concerns of economists, professional organization, and research procedures (simulation, modeling, data needs, survey research, behavioral research, operations research), and the…

A joint effort of two committees of the National Academy of Sciences and the Social Science Research Council produced this report on the state of the behavioral science disciplines. The emphasis is on outlining what has developed in the social sciences since World War II, what the likely trends will be in the future, and in making some…