This study hypothesizes that information about a counselor has either positive or negative effects on specific facets of the counselor-client relationship. Results support the hypothesis. (Author)

Twenty preschool children and their mothers were observed interacting verbally in an unstructured situation. Close mutual adaptation of both partners was demonstrated. Correlational patterns allowed the abstraction of primitive and advanced clusters of language-teaching/learning behaviors. (JMB)

Studied the effects of the child's participation in longitudinal intervention on the structured mother-child teaching interaction. The significant between-group differences found in the children's behavior, task scores, and patterning of interaction were interpreted as evidence of feedback effects from the experimental group children to their…

Examines patterns of oral communication in encounter groups and identifies three stages of group life: boundary-seeking, ambivalence and actualization. (MH)

Examined were the number and nature of interactions between 17 attendants and 15 institutionalized moderately and severely retarded children (4-to 12-years-old). (CL)

Describes procedures for identifying stimuli in the natural environment whose presence was associated with altered probabilities for both the initiation and persistence of noxious responses. (Author/SDH)

The study investigated: (1) whether the mothers of young stuttering children differ from the mothers of young normally disfluent children in their verbal interaction patterns during free play with their children; and (2) whether disfluency in young children is related systematically to the type of speech act expressed. Four preschoolers and their…

Three studies investigated the purposes of teasing and the reaction to it. The first study asked 26 college students to describe one instance when they were teased and one when they teased someone else. In addition, they were asked to explain why the teasing had occurred and why they categorized it as teasing. The second study, involving 24…

The study explored the verbal and nonverbal conversational competency of five adult males who exhibited fluency disorders. Five subject/interactant videotaped conversational interactions were analyzed utilizing an INter-REActive Learning (INREAL) Model analysis format. Descriptive individual and composite profiles resulting from trained raters'…

The study examined inadequate behaviors of Japanese mothers with their stuttering children. Video tape recordings of playing situations of five stuttering children (ages 3-5) and their mothers and five non-stuttering children and their mothers were evaluated using two rating check lists. Results found differences in the behaviors of the two groups…

This document contains nine essays on the sociology and social psychology of team dynamics, including methodological and epistemological issues involved in such study. Essay titles are: (1) Conflict and Achievement in Top Athletic Teams--Sociometric Structures of Racing Eight Oar Crews; (2) Top Performance Despite Internal Conflict--An Antithesis…

This report represents an in-depth analysis of one institution of higher education's response to a New York State Department of Education mandate on the establishment of performance based teacher education (PBTE) programs, and it focuses on factors involved in the development of a PBTE program viewed from the perspective of intra- and…

Examines the effects of social anxiety on perception of and response to negatively toned interpersonal feedback. (Author)