An investigation of the short term stability of infants' responses to strangers was conducted. Ss were 60 randomly chosen full-term family-reared infants, 30 boys and 30 girls, selected to fit into three age groups of 8, 10 and 12 months. The experimental design was such that the order of first, second, and third visits was counter-balanced…

A total of 112 female teachers and student teachers acted as participants or observers in an experimental situation in which the participant taught a simulated elementary school child a mathematics lesson for three 5-minute trials while the observer watched. The child's performance supposedly either improved over trials (Low-High), deteriorated…

This paper describes two studies conducted to investigate young children's manipulative responses to materials in a free play situation and to examine the resultant learning. Study I: Each child played with either a simple or a complex set of materials during three play sessions. Learning was measured on a posttest of classification ability.…

Research conducted by the British Broadcasting Company on the incidence of violence on television and its impact upon society revealed that an objective analysis of program content by trained observers showed a considerable measure of violence, amounting to an average of a violent sequence every half hour. It also showed, however, that most…

Behavioral observations have the advantages of being direct, tangible, and informative as to the contextual determinants of behavior. Considerable evidence exists that a three-dimensional structure gives meaning to many child behaviors in a variety of life settings. Three bipolar dimensions constitute this framework: introversion vs. extroversion,…

Observations and discussions relating to the role value presuppositions have in determining the "facts" upon which children are judged, learning situations structured, and relationships, in general, established are provided. The assumptions or presuppositions are: (1) the assumption that young children necessarily have a short attention span; (2)…

This study synthesized, analyzed, and evaluated critically, various kinds of simulations (simulators, computerized games, in-basket simulation), and derived integrative (theoretical principles which explain and clarify the methodology of educational simulation, particularly as it relates to the: (a) design and instructional application of…

The purpose of this conference was to prepare key people in the field of education to function as inservice education leaders in their respective settings. The design called for participants to learn what the MOREL inservice education program is and what it hopes to accomplish, to identify the role and functions of the inservice education leader,…

This report is a portion of a study of attachment behavior: behavior promoting contact and/or proximity of an infant to his mother figure. This report deals specifically with crying, response to brief everyday separations from the mother and to her return, and behavior relevant to physical contact with her. The subjects, 26 infant-mother pairs…

This study found no significant difference in effectiveness of several methods of training regular classroom teachers to use operant management techniques. Training methods tested were 1) group inservice training with no feedback, 2) inservice training with feedback from observational data, and 3) inservice training with feedback from videotapes.…

This study examines 1) the effects of teacher contingent and non-contingent (random) praise and/or attention on the classroom behavior of economically disadvantaged adolescents and 2) the effects of contingent praise on the non-target members of the classroom, and explores the length of time necessary to demonstrate significant changes in…

This paper on self concepts of young children is divided into 3 parts. Part 1 reviews the extensive and confusing literature of self theory. Self concept is viewed as a generic construct composed of a number of evaluative and descriptive components, with phenomenal and nonphenomenal components viewed as part of the model. In the second part of the…

A method for direct observation study of early peer-social and object directed behavior in humans was designed to articulate with techniques widely used in studies of social behavior of infra-human primates. Occurrence of behavior fitting the definitions of each of six categories of object behavior and nine categories of social behavior is noted…

This report describes a pilot study in the use of video tape as a recording and reporting device for a child's responses in a learning situation. It was believed that video tape could be used as an improved means of home-school communication. Nineteen 5-year-old subjects in groups of six were videotaped for 12-minute segments in actual classroom…

The Verbal Reaction Behavior Log (VRBL) is an instrument used for identification of teacher and pupil verbal behavior. The purposes for its use are (a) an increase in pupil-teacher interaction, (b) an enhancement of indirect and pupil-centered instruction, (c) focus of attention on the logic of classroom discourse, and (d) increased use of…