THE NATURE AND PRINCIPAL AREAS OF INTERRACIAL CONFLICT ARE EXAMINED, WITH ATTENTION GIVEN TO CENTRAL AMERICANS, MEXICANS, JAPANESE, AND CHINESE. HOWEVER, FOCUS IS UPON NEGROES, COMPARATIVE NEWCOMERS TO THE BAY AREA, BECAUSE OF NATIONWIDE NEGRO-WHITE TENSIONS. THE FOCUS IS DICTATED, ALSO, BY THE POLITICAL MILITANCY OF BAY AREA NEGROES IN CONTRAST…

THIS PROJECT EXPLORED (1) INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AMONG LEARNERS WHICH MAY BE DIFFERENTIALLY RELATED TO FILM LEARNING VERSUS CONVENTIONAL OR "LIVE" LEARNING, AND (2) INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AMONG INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS WHICH MAY BE RELATED TO THEIR INSTRUCTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS OR TO IMPORTANT LEARNER CHARACTERISTICS. TWO SEPARATE STUDIES WERE…

This paper discusses the stresses our society places on parents, the influence of fathers on their children's development, how parents can actively influence development, individual differences in temperament among children, and environmental as well as ecological factors that affect the development of children. Concluding remarks focus on the…

Although both the general public and research scientists intuitively understand the word learning, the meanings they assign to it vary. Nevertheless, there is too much concern about generalizing the meaning, and too little concern about learning context. Learning context is the internal, changing relation between individual and situation; it is…

Antecedent and current theories of achievement motivation are stated, and a broader theory of achievement motivation presented, which attends to the effects of anticipated future achievement goals on present achievement oriented behavior. This broader theory suggests that an individual's characteristic achievement motivation is accentuated when…

The relationship between movement, masculinity, and femininity is examined. Two connections are seen between movement and gender: movement as an expression of personality and movement as a medium for expressing personality. A survey of the literature is presented discussing society's concept of accepted sex role behavior. A study is reported in…

This paper argues that infants' affect patterns are innate and are meaningful indicators of individual differences in internal state. Videotapes of seven infants' faces were coded using an ethogram; the movement of the eyebrow, eye direction, eye openness, mouth shape, mouth position, lip position, and tongue protrusion were assessed…

This five-part document presents three approaches to research on instructional improvement, with the final two sections concentrating on problems and implications for diagnostic prescriptive instruction. Part 1 reviews comparative instructional effectiveness studies. Part 2 discusses the Trait-Treatment Interaction Approach (TTI) which is…

This study is an exploratory attempt to test the idea that individual differences in the rate of acquisition of an original discrimination learning are related to individual differences in the capacity to estimate the passage of time. Included is a review of the literature on the psychology of time which indicates that underestimation of time is…

Although the bulk of recent research on nonverbal communication has involved studies of the functions of nonverbal behavior (emotion conveying, regulation, and adaption), a few studies have focused on the differences in nonverbal communication variables between men and women. These differences have been found in vocal patterns, intensities, length…

The author questions why intelligence and intelligence testing have been so lightly treated in recent years. The topic has been in disfavor, and citizens and educators have tended to swing from one extreme to another in their evaluations of such matters of social concerns. This virtual dismissal of intelligence has been followed by great…

Total circular triad scores (TCT) derived from the pair-comparison Minnesota Importance Questionnaire (MIQ) were used to study the relationship between inconsistency, and both internal consistency reliability and stability. Stability estimates (and Hoyt Coefficients) were computed for each of nine groups (retest internals from immediate retest to…

Using a stratified random sample of 300 Syracuse University instructors, assistant professors, associate professors, and full professors, this study examined the belief that university faculty members view continuing education with disfavor, and analyzed some differences in faculty attitudes. Subjects were sent a 35 item questionnaire to which…

The present study attempted to modify the latencies and errors of adult women on the Matching Familiar Figures test (MFF) by systematically altering task instructions. The results indicated that latencies of impulsive subjects could be altered with "reflective" instructions, while the latencies of reflective subjects were resistent to…

This study obtained, under controlled conditions, a criterial measure of academic achievement that was typical of ordinary school learning tasks in order to determine the relationships between individual differences and the learning and retention of prose text. The criterion chosen was a multiple choice test on an ordinary written passage studied…