A forced-choice observer-based testing procedure was used to determine pure-tone hearing thresholds for 2- to 4-week-old infants. Stimuli were 500-ms tone bursts of 500, 1,000, or 4,000 Hz with 500-ms intervals between tone bursts. Stimuli were presented monaurally by means of an insert earphone. Each 15-s trial consisted of 5 tone bursts,…

Two black psychologists and a white educator explain why the black community should be concerned with and actively involved in behavior modification practices. Alternatives are offered for increasing the number of black professionals in the field of behavior modification to help preserve the integrity of the black community. (Author)

Because the author felt the work of B. F. Skinner has become so popular, he decided to clarify some of the major flaws underlying his system. (Author/RK)

Articles and brief reports appearing in the first 19 volumes of the Journal of Counseling Psychology were classified into 17 content categories and certain methodological features were recorded from each research article. The three principle areas of research activity and publication were counseling outcome and process research, research on…

Results from two experimental situations, risk taking and helping behavior, indicate that in the risk-taking experiment subjects who agreed to maintain confidentiality disclosed less frequently information when compared to control subjects. In the helping behavior study, no difference was found in frequency of disclosed information between…

This study uses Bales' Interaction Process Analysis (I. P. A.) to identify significant process elements in counselling and psychotherapy. For this purpose, the film "Three Approaches to Psychotherapy" was analysed. (Editor)

The reliability of an abbreviated form of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), the Mini-Mult, and its degree of correspondence with the MMPI were evaluated with a sample of 60 hospitalized schizophrenic veterans. The major results indicate respectable validity and reliability coefficients for most Mini-Mult Scales. (Author)

This study investigates the hypotheses that (a) the creation of new experience in cognitive functioning involves increased differentiation and integration of meaning and (b) self-actualization involves the tendency to engage in a mode of cognitive processing that creates new experience. (Author)

The relationship between anxiety and time estimation was investigated. No significant relationship was found indicating that time estimation may be insensitive to immediate environmental fluctuations. (DP)

Three- and four-year-olds who had been in day care from infancy were compared with matched subjects who had no day care experience on eight personality characteristics. (DP)

This experiment was designed to investigate the generality-specificity of the accuracy of both encoders and decoders across different types of nonverbal behavior. It was expected that encoders and decoders would exhibit generality in their behavior--i.e., the same level of accuracy--on the dimension of behavior content…

The present investigation had a dual purpose: (a) to test the behavioral hypothesis regarding the relationship between self-punishment and depression in a predictive study and (b) to evaluate the autonomic-affective correlates of these presumably instrumental behaviors. (Author/RK)

The article criticizes the reasoning that Stern uses -- that "there is no evidence that the mechanism of projection plays any significant role in determining responses to the College Characteristics Index" -- with the use of data measuring relationships between pupil needs, environmental press, and pupil attitudes to various aspects of a high…

This paper outlines the theoretical foundations of Soviet psychology, analyzes major themes based on these foundations, and identifies relevance of Soviet psychological research for American investigators. Basic social and political factors that influence Soviet research include centralization of all scientific and academic endeavors and…