A study sought to determine whether female innovative teens have mass media behavior similar to that of adult innovators. Research indicates that adult innovators (adult who are the first to adopt new ideas and products and who comprise 16% of the population) are more ventursome, better educated, more socially integrated, and have greater contact…

The sixth document in an eight-part series on a task-based management system for special education programs presents the Behavioral Characteristics Progression, a listing of 1,800 behavioral characteristics of mentally and behaviorally handicapped pupils which have been grouped into 45 categories of behavior called behavior strands. Behavior…

Preliminary results are presented for an instrument to measure social behavior of preschool children, focusing on cooperation. Cooperation is defined either as behavior for the joint gain of the participants in an interaction or behavior in which each child attains his individual goal. The Oregon Preschool Test of Interpersonal Cooperation (OPTIC…

This document emphasizes the importance of inquiry into teaching behavior by supervisors in professional laboratories and suggests ways and means of conducting that inquiry. The document is divided into three areas: a) an examination of the current and predicted nature of professional laboratory experiences in the education of teachers, b) a…

This final report discusses the principal goals and achievements of the journal project "Language and Language Behavior Abstracts" during 1971. The objectives during this grant period were increasing income, improving the scholarly qualities of the journal, reducing operating costs where possible, and improving accessibility to scholars. Problems…

When categorized into one of two groups, subjects preferred information indicating ingroup similarity and outgroup dissimilarity. When categorized into a single group, subjects preferred maximum information about others regardless of content. No preference occurred when subjects were not categorized into a group. Thus, preferred information…

An effectively functioning family is one in which each member is able to exchange opinions; affection, views and information. The member learns in the family to relate with ease to others and to accept himself. Family group consultation is a means of helping families to become effective as the members relate better to each other. Other approaches…

The article views power as a potential tool for human resource development (HRD) practitioners and focuses on personal power (the ability to influence others) rather than on role power (the right to influence others). Manipulation is discussed as a way to exercise personal power. (Author/BP)

Attitudes toward cooperation and competition were virtually independent across grades 2 to 12. Cooperativeness was consistently related to a broad range of positive attitudes toward schooling experience at all grade levels. Competitiveness changed its pattern of correlates, showing relationships to several positive attitudes only in school. (BJG)

The author examines how peoples' identification of their real selves either through feelings or actions is changing from an institutional focus to an impulse focus. (Author/DE)

Measures of active sleep, quiet sleep, sucking, crying, body size and gestational age were factor analyzed for 137 normal newborns at 2 days of age. The results yielded 3 stable factors: reactivity-irritability, maturity, and reflexive and discriminative sucking. (JMB)

In a survey of opinion among 100 psychiatrists and 93 trainees in Australia, the majority endorsed the view either that "homosexuality is a developmental anomaly not necessarily or commonly associated with neurotic symptoms" or that "homosexuality is a normal variant like left-handedness." (Author)

Client ratings of the abilities of 33 school counselors to communicate the core facilitative conditions of empathy, regard, congruence, and trust are compared to the counselors' scores on a measure of self-actualization. Results support the contention that there exists a strong relationship between self-actualization and counselor effectiveness as…

Views proxemics literature from a theoretical framework based on norms and expectations and presents a model for predicting effects of violations of proxemic expectations. (MH)