The purpose of this document is to provide an up-to-date analysis of what has been learned about the Career Thoughts Inventory (CTI) through the findings of various research studies. The studies looked at the negative career thoughts of a variety of populations and identified several correlates to dysfunctional career thoughts. Such correlations…

Students' own preconceptions are often resistant to change. According to researchers, conceptual conflict is an important factor in conceptual change; however, there is not enough evidence showing any relationship between cognitive conflict and conceptual change in the literature. This study aims to develop and validate the Cognitive Conflict…

Explored the use of the analogy as a means of communication in daily teacher-student encounters. (RK)

This paper confronts two interrelated problems, that problem dealing with the psychological concept of attitudes and the problem of attitude measurement. (Author)

The purposes of the present study were to compare the scores obtained by boys and girls on the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities (MSCA) and to assess differences in their abilities on the tests that constitute these Scales. (Author/RK)

Study was designed to investigate whether rivalry, coaction, and audience can be isolated separately from a competitive situation. (Author/RK)

Using the Semantic Differential, 274 first-year university students rated four concepts concerning university, producing scores on evaluation', potency' and activity'. For comparision these concepts were each paired with a concept relating to school. (Author)

Article supports a duoprocess theory of concept identification which assumes semi-independent and sequential dimension selection and paired-associate learning. (Author)

Article rebuts the theory that known sex differences in cognitive abilities reflect sex-related differences in physiology". (Author/ML)

Contrary to previous experiments which found recall with blocked spacing always superior to recall with random" spacings, these experiments found that total recall was a function of two independent factors: (a) category representation, and (b) items per category represented (IPC). Both factors are dependent upon within-category spacing.…

The relationship between cognitive tempo and time estimation as measured by reproduction and production was investigated in boys. Impulsives underestimated time intervals more than reflectives when measured reproductively. Impulsive boys' response times were significantly correlated with their estimates of reproduction times. The physiological…

Five types of multiple-choice items that can be used to assess higher-order educational objectives are examined. The item types do not exhaust the possibilities, but they are standard forms found helpful in writing items to measure more than recognitive memory. (Author/CM)

Examined the relationship between brain-behavior and hypnotic susceptibility in 70 alcoholic patients, using the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale and its Fromm-Weingarten modification. Results showed the two scales were interchangeable insofar as they measured the same ability, and indicated that hypnotic susceptibility is related to…