Author highlights the value of the Manor of Wakefield Court Rolls to students and teachers of economic and social history. (Editor/RK)

This article is an edited version of a talk delivered by the author to the National Press Club luncheon on September 24, 1973. (Editor)

Considered the need Poland has for a collective memory of its past, a history by which it can grow again. (RK)

Hormone levels and changes in hormone levels were evaluated three times across a 1-year period as concurrent and predictive correlates of the socio-emotional functioning of 56 boys 10- to 14-years-old and 52 girls 9- to 14-years-old who represented the five stages of Tanner's criteria of pubertal development. The hormone measures were serum levels…

The paper examines the social aspects of learning disabilities (LD) in adults, noting the role of the early imprinting process which may influence them throughout their lives. It is noted that LD adults have missed learning social skills that involve a sensitivity to subtlety, an awareness of voice tones, and a realization of time and other…

Two studies were conducted with normal preschool and retarded children to examine D. El'konin's theory that condensation of play activity occurs when social human relationships are reproduced in role play. Two types of condensation were hypothesized: reduction of repetition in a manipulation or in a small unit of sequential manipulations, and…

The study describes a training program in which young children with severe and moderate handicaps were taught to generalize play responses to multiple sets of toys. A multiple probe design, replicated with four children, was used to assess the effects of generalization training within four sets of toys on generalization to untrained toys from four…

Described is an independent toy play curriculum for young handicapped children. It is explained that toys were analyzed according to functions in three classifications: functional toy skills (toys designed to elicit simple motor actions of short duration); physical toy skills (toys designed to elicit gross motor action); and constructive toy…

Through linguistic analysis (ethogenics), an attempt is made to reveal the foundations of social competence. The major area of a child's social development is the playground and through the use of nicknames. (JR)

Presented before the cobined session of the Section on Athletic Medicine and the Section on Mental Health, American College Health Association, Forty-sixth Annual Meeting, Minneapolis Minnesota, May 2, 1968.

A PARTIAL THEORY OF MOTIVATION WAS CONSTRUCTED WITH A FOCUS ON THE INDIVIDUAL-IN-SITUATION AND SOCIETAL PHENOMENA. THIS WAS AN INITIAL STEP TOWARD RESOLUTION OF LARGER PROBLEMS--(1) RESEARCH-ORIENTED THEORIES EMPLOYED BY PSYCHOLOGISTS AND SOCIOLOGISTS ARE OFTEN DIFFICULT TO INTERRELATE WITH ACTION-ORIENTED EDUCATIONAL THEORIES AND (2) SPECIAL…

THE PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY WERE TO DETERMINE (1) WHAT PROBLEMS THE ADVICE COLUMNS AND ARTICLES IN THE TEEN MAGAZINES PRESENT, (2) THE NATURE OF THE ADVICE GIVEN, (3) WHETHER THEY WERE DIRECTED PRIMARILY TOWARD GIRLS, BOYS, OR BOTH, AND (4) WHO THE AUTHORS ARE. OVER A 10-MONTH PERIOD, 84 ISSUES OF DIFFERENT TEEN MAGAZINES WERE EXAMINED BY USING A…

The author, a deaf physicist, describes the effects of social attitudes on his development, education, and career. (CL)

This research study investigated the hypothesis that noncontingent social stimulation can elicit infant vocal sounds. The investigation involved an examination of both the course of social elicitation and the nature of the social releasing stimulus. Three experimental conditions were designed to measure: (1) the changes in vocalization rate during…

This report was prepared as a study of the situation of developing countries with regard to: (1) The results already obtained and the needs and prospects for the use of electronic computers in accelerating the process of economic and social development; (2) The various forms which international action may take to intensify co-operation in the…