Attempts to extend and to synthesize interactional, psychoanalytic, and learning theories as they might apply to the family. Highlights complexities of family interaction as they relate to parent child differences, to mate selection, and to marriage. Both affective and cognitive dimensions of human interaction are incorporated into the framework.…

Students who viewed demonstrations or manipulated apparatus understood the relational concepts (of the form a/b = a'/b') of speed, force, and work better than a control group, but did not differ significantly from each other. (AL)

Piaget's theory of developmental stages was implemented in an elementary school curriculum. Some successful learning experiences are described. (CP)

Describes the XLL mechanism which provides each student with his own independent laboratory device. Speech given at the meeting of the National Association of Language Laboratory Directors (NALLD) held November 28, 1969, in New Orleans, Louisiana, in conjunction with the meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).…

An educational psychologist outlines some recent changes in the conception of human learning and memory, and discusses their implications for the design and practice of instruction. (MF)

Describes an empirical method of developing learning hierarchies by comparing success on each tested behavior with all other behaviors. Advantages, compared with validation of a particular logical hierarchy, are illustrated by application of density principles to prediction of flotation. (AL)