Constructed a short screening battery of psychological tests to detect in a short time and without sophisticated equipment the presence of organic brain dysfunction among literate and non-literate subjects. (Author/RK)

Previous studies have indicated that explaining a hypothetical event makes the event seem more likely through the creation of causal connections. However, such effects could arise through the use of the availability heuristic; that is, subjective likelihood is increased by an event becoming easier to "imagine". Two experiments were designed to…

A major means by which a culture maintains self-division and violence is abstraction. In the social sciences too, the process of employing abstraction to divorce us from ourselves is becoming increasingly more institutionalized. States that the meanings that emanate from some sectors of psychological research are also not congruent with human…

Assessment centers are very popular with professionals and practitioners involved in selection of management personnel. This research focuses on assessment center validity, i.e., while much attention has been given to predictor (assessment center) characteristics as they influence prediction hit rates, this paper examines the differential…

Proposes a methodology, an analysis of variance, for assessing statistical differences among jobs using a particular job analysis instrument--the Position Analysis Questionnaire--as the basic measuring device. (Author/RK)

In order to test predictions derived from an expectancy theory model developed by E. E. Lawler, measures of higher-order need satisfaction, locus of control, and intrinsic motivation were obtained from 252 female assembly line workers. Implications of the results for placement of individuals in enriched jobs are discussed. (Editor/RK)

A visual-spatial approach to the study of attention dysfunction was presented. The hypotheses of broadened and narrowed attention were tested by comparing peripheral visual discrimination of acute schizophrenic, chronic schizophrenic, and normal subjects within two regions of the functional visual field. (Editor)

An examination of the specific areas of agreement and disagreement among the Beck Depression Inventory (DI), the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS), and the Lubin Depression Adjective Check Lists (DACL) was made to see if all three measured the same aspects of depressive behavior and how they could be used together to optimize assessment of…

Two case reports illustrate the application of mnemonic techniques for the remediation of memory problems common to brain-damaged patients. A clinical paradigm for such work that includes general and specific assessment, laboratory evaluation of intervention strategies, and finally actual application is described. (Editor/RK)

This research investigated the possibility that there exists a systematic difference in WAIS verbal and performance IQ indices. It was hypothesized that VIQ (verbal) scores on the WAIS tend to be significantly higher than PIQ (performance ability) scores. (Author/RK)

Analyzes the temporal features of the transient unconditioned stimulus preexposure effect observed by Cannon (EJ 123 672) and attempts to determine whether a preconditioned stimulus toxin presentation can both condition a backward taste aversion and interfere with the development of a forward aversion. (Author/RK)

Meyer, Schvaneveldt, and Ruddy report that semantic context has a larger effect on visually degraded words than on undegraded words. Degrading stimuli takes place by superimposing a dot pattern over letters thereby slowing information processing. Four experiments explore alternative explanations of this research finding. (Editor/RK)

Considers the fears about a unisex world, in particular the concern that children in such a society would grow up confused about what it means to be a man or a woman. Proposes that androgyny founded on the idea of firm gender identity provides a model and direction for change more viable than that connoted by the term "unisex".…

Although the linguistic properties of sign languages, and of American Sign Language (ASL) in particular, are beginning to be studied, little work has been done on the functional properties of sign. Four experiments are reported in which signed messages were subjected to varying amounts of disruption using repetitive temporal interruption. Results…

The assumption that recall and recognition involve different processes has been attacked and defended in recent years on both theoretical and empirical grounds. This research extends the notion that retrieval processes are operative in recognition as well as in free recall of individual words. (Editor/RK)