It was expected that children with high as compared to low SD would state overly cautious bids suggesting low expectancy for success, and would adopt a failure avoiding pattern of Rotter's level of aspiration task. The results support the hypotheses on SD and cautious, failure avoiding behavior. Age must be carefully controlled. (CJ)

Late twentieth century poetry dwells on themes of protest. It has a great deal of appeal and is reaching more of an audience than ever before. (CK)

Mothers of 23 learning disabled and 23 nondisabled elementary school children were interviewed to determine their perceptions of their child's strengths and weaknesses, causal attributions for these strengths and weaknesses, predictions for future performance, and evaluations of their child relative to other children. Mothers of learning disabled…

Eighty students and 15 teachers provided expectancies and attributions for the academic performance of hypothetical medicated and nonmedicated hyperactive children. Both teachers and peers had higher expectancies for the medicated than for the nonmedicated child. Data suggested that these differential expectancies may arise from different…

The author presents issues in the field of gifted education from the student's point of view. Among the areas addressed are the following: teachers' expectations for the gifted, the dumb athlete stereotype, rigid class periods, excessive bragging about bright students by friends and relatives, and acceptance of the grade letter "B." (SB)

Investigated the active components of covert positive reinforcement that consisted of an S-R modality, a reinforcement procedure, and a demand for expectancy of success. Results of the behavioral avoidance test indicated that subjects in the overt S-R modality groups approached closer to the rat. (Author)

The role of beliefs in expected unchangeability of life stress (EU) was studied in a sample of 194 elderly persons with economic and/or health problems and a control group. The research model integrated different approaches to cognitive theories of adjustment to aging. (Author/CM)

The article discusses the use of expectancy formulas (formulas based on the discrepancy between achievement and potential, and used as the chief criterion for special program inclusion and evaluation) by teachers of the reading disabled, and reports on a survey of 25 university masters degree programs in reading teacher education regarding such…

Reports a personal commitment dimension in client expectancies about counseling. The findings extend and amplify considerably the information available on the dimensions underlying client expectancies about counseling. (Author)

Two studies utilized a repeated-measures design to compare the story recall performances of 46 primary-school children who were administered stories in the presence and absence of teacher's gaze. Analysis indicated a significant positive relationship between gaze and recall, especially among boys. (Author)

Prelayoff job search of workers receiving advance notice of layoffs increased with length of notice and decreased with expected recall. For those not expecting recall, prelayoff search decreased with level of available unemployment benefits. (SK)

Presents ideas and development strategies aimed at minimizing the unanticipated obstacles often encountered when implementing a performance support system, especially an integrated performance support system (IPSS). Highlights include a history of performance support systems; problems; justification, including a cost benefit analysis; planning;…

Defines pseudotransactionality as writing that is patently designed by a student to meet teacher expectations rather than to perform the "real" function the teacher has suggested. Attempts to analyze the problem from a sociohistorical perspective, using M. Bakhtin's theory of genre and Vygotskian activity theory. Suggests how this…

Outlines five perspectives addressing alternate aspects of the development of children's source monitoring: source-monitoring theory, fuzzy-trace theory, schema theory, person-based perspective, and mental-state reasoning model. Discusses research areas with relation to forensic developmental psychology: agent identity, prospective processing,…