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Download full textMcCroskey, James C.; And Others – 1981
Portions of three earlier studies relating differences in employees to employee satisfaction and one study relating management communication style (MCS) to employee satisfaction were replicated across four organizational contexts. Major findings supported the generalizability of the results revealed in the earlier research. The role of…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Employer Employee Relationship, Individual Differences
Snow, Richard E.; Lohman, David F. – 1981
Literature on cognition and learning in young adults is surveyed. First, an outline of a theory of the cognition-learning system is presented, reviewing the characteristics of each of the major components of the system. Particular attention is paid to the differences between young adults and other age groups in information processing skills.…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Cognitive Development
Goodman, H. J. A. – 1978
Among the factors least likely to be given due consideration, especially in computer assisted instruction, are student variables. Some reasons which might have hindered research activities involving student, and possibly teacher, cognitive mapping behaviors, learning styles, and media preferences as variables in experimentation are summarized: a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction, Individual Differences
Greenberg, George S.; And Others – 1978
Some factors which impede observation, intervention and change in the assessment and treatment of the ethnocultural minority family result from conceptual stereotyping, stereotyped behavior and interactions comprising pseudopsychologies. Social science literature has played a role in psychosocial stereotyping as well. One of the primary factors in…
Descriptors: Bias, Bilingualism, Cocounseling, Cultural Influences
Terrill, Marilyn J. – 1978
The process of assertive behavior change of college women who received assertion training (AT) and cognitive restructuring was examined to assess the relative effects of different durations of exposure to cognitive restructuring. Undergraduate and graduate women students (N=27) at a state university volunteered and were screened for AT groups.…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development
Furlong, Franklin; Dohner, Charles – 1979
Using the instructional development tasks involved in the Dental Auxiliary Education Project of the state of Washington to illustrate its points, this paper discusses how different levels of decision-making affect the design of instructional products. Four specific levels are considered in relation to the major design problems encountered in…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Curriculum, Decision Making, Individual Differences
Jensen, Arthur R. – 1979
Measurements of various parameters derived from different reaction time (RT) paradigms are found to be correlated with psychometric measurements of general mental ability. Such RT-derived measurements, when combined in a multiple regression equation, predict some 50 percent or more of the variance in intelligence. This relationship of intelligence…
Descriptors: Correlation, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiments
LEWIS, HYLAN – 1963
THE CONCEPT OF A DISTINCT LOWER CLASS OR CULTURE IS OFTEN DETRIMENTAL TO THE STUDY AND COUNSELING OF LOWER-CLASS FAMILIES. CONFUSION ABOUT THE MEANING OF CLASS AND CULTURE IS DANGEROUS WITHIN THE SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES AND IN POPULAR THINKING. BY CLASSIFYING BROADLY, THE WIDE RANGES OF BEHAVIOR WITHIN CERTAIN GROUPS OR INDIVIDUALS ARE OVERLOOKED…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Community Attitudes, Conferences, Cultural Differences
MOORE, J. WILLIAM, ED.; SMITH, WENDELL I., ED. – 1962
THIS IS A COMPILATION OF ARTICLES DEALING WITH PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION AND AUTO-INSTRUCTIONAL DEVICES (TEACHING-MACHINES). THE LITERATURE IS REVIEWED AND AN OVERVIEW OF THE FIELD IS PRESENTED. THE APPLICATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND LEARNING THEORY TO TEACHING MACHINES IS DISCUSSED, AND THE PROCEDURE AND RULES OF PROGRAMING METHOD. SAMPLES…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Educational Technology, Individual Differences, Learning Theories
Midgley, Thomas Keith – 1973
These guidelines for writing a learning activity packet (LAP) include a rationale for self instruction; suggested format for writing a LAP; analysis of the LAP format item by item; general instructions for writing a LAP; examples of performance objectives; affective domain attitudinal objectives; and student/teacher contracts for learning;…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Behavioral Objectives, Guidelines, Individual Differences
Lonky, Edward; Reihman, Jacqueline – 1980
This study tests the hypothesis that individual differences in locus of control orientation may mediate elementary school students' responses to positive verbal feedback. A total of 30 kindergarten through fourth grade subjects were assessed for locus of control orientation using the Bialer Children's Locus of Control Questionnaire. To establish a…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Feedback, Individual Differences
Card, Josefina J. – 1977
In 1960, Project TALENT gathered demographic, cognitive, and socio-psychological data from a nationwide sample of high school students (N=375,000). An investigation of the antecedents and consequences of adolescent childbearing for young parents was conducted with all adolescent childbearers in the ninth and twelfth grade cohorts for whom 5-…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Birth, Cohort Analysis
Andersen, Janis F.; Bell-Daquilante, Cheryl A. – 1980
A study examined the relationships among communication predispositions and behaviors and learning preferences. It also assessed instrumentation adequacy for learning style preference. Subjects were 423 high school students who completed a battery of instruments, including D. A. Kolb's Learning Style Inventory (LSI), that measured their perceptions…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Communication Problems, Communication Research, Conflict
Salomon, Gavriel – 1977
This report presents two research studies. The first, an experiment using 176 fifth graders, tested three hypotheses: (1) When content is held constant across messages, different formats of a medium differentially call for mental skills. (2) Formats which call for the same skills in different ways affect learners differently. (3) The TV formats…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Research
Jackson, Nancy Ewald – 1979
The primary goal of this review is to acquaint developmental psychologists who have had little experience in the study of individual differences in cognition with some of the basic rules that govern this type of research. A second goal is to stimulate researchers to consider the potential benefits of studying differences among individuals whose…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Developmental Psychology
