Psychological research on human subjects published in the Journal of Gerontology from 1963 through 1974 was summarized along a variety of dimensions, including subject selection procedures, sample characteristics, data analysis techniques, research design, author characteristics, and area of psychological research. (Author)

Criticizes psycholinguistic experiments where messages are presented in vacuo and where the linguist has no intention of conveying a message to the subject, who fills in his own contextual frame. When utterances were presented with pictures, they were remembered more accurately than when they were repeated ten times. (SCC)

This paper described the Managerial Style Questionnaire (MSQ) and demonstrated its usefulness for measuring Management By Objectives (MBO). (Author/RK)

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of alcohol on aggressive behavior in male social drinkers. (Editor)

This article attempted to understand what the POI measured and to learn the meaning of personal experience. (Author/RK)

The experiments reported here investigated a developmental change in frequency generalization in the hatchling chicken. (Author)

Reports the findings of a study in which translated versions of the revised Color Meaning Test and the revised Pre-school Racial Attitude Measure were administered to five and six year old children in France and Italy. The results are seen to demonstrate that, as predicted, there was a tendency towards a white over black bias among both the French…

A test of the personality constructs hypothesized by Holland was performed using a list of adjectives believed to be descriptive of the respective types. The sample used the adjectives to describe themselves in a manner consistent with Holland's model, however the correspondence was closer for males than females. (Author)

This study examines whether or not abstract or concrete prose material is easier to learn and remember. The results indicate that concrete paragraphs were consistently faster to learn and easier to remember. (DE)

The author examines how students in three countries use four styles of cognitive integration (affective balance, affective-evaluative consistency, centralization, and image comparability) within the cognitive domains of nations, acquaintances, self-roles, and family relations. (DE)

The results of the present study extend the construct validity of the POI by supporting the hypothesis that inner-directed and time-competent individuals would be less likely to yield to their instructor's requests than other-directed, time-incompetent individuals. (Author/RK)

Two experiments were conducted to determine whether the auditory and visual systems process simultaneously presented pairs of alphanumeric information differently. (Editor)

Research on logical competence in adulthood was framed by the general competence-moderator-performance model of life span cognitive development constructed by Overton and his colleagues. This approach was able to distinguish between logical knowledge necessary for task solution and informational processes that may facilitate or inhibit the…

This report uses mental model theory to create a taxonomy of picture functions in order to relate these functions to learning theories. A rough outline of picture functions is presented, consisting of a retrieval function, a focus function, a construction function, and a supplantation function. It is suggested that this taxonomy could be helpful…