Examines the relationship between selected personality traits, program entered, and persistence of students in community colleges. Students enrolled in transfer programs scored high on a measure of estheticism. Students who persisted scored higher on an autonomy scale and lower on theoretical orientation, estheticism, and complexity than…

A delayed matching-to-sample task, with pictures as sample and comparison stimuli, was given to four severely retarded persons 17- to 22-years-old. (CL)

Provides an overview of programs on child abuse and neglect in the United States and attempts to identify gaps in the design and problems in the performance of these programs. (CS)

Research supported by U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity, OEO-4120.

Investigators assessing the effect of motivation on performance rarely report the effect of performance on motivation. College students (N=48), preselected by anxiety scores, were tested on adjective pairs lists; additionally, anxiety was measured before and after task performance. Results showed that anxiety had a marked effect on verbal learning…

Literature from organizational and social psychology has suggested that three types of factors influence performance, i.e., cognitive, affective and behavioral. A model was developed to test a set of propositions concerning the relationship between the three kinds of factors, and included attributions, expectancies, general emotional responses to…

This volume contains five complete manuscripts and two abstracts presented, and three papers submitted but not presented, at this symposium on aviation psychology. The objective of the symposium was to critically examine the impact of high technology on the role, responsibility, authority, and performance of human operators in modern aircraft and…

Recent research on human factors in the man-machine communications interface is reviewed and discussed as it relates to the problem of establishing optimal system response times for the various kinds of tasks performed at the computer terminal. Optimal system response time is operationally defined, and the conflicting demands of system design,…

Intelligence is related to executive performance though different kinds of executive work seem to require differing intellectual abilities. To examine these different intellectual functions and their relationship to performance ratings, 208 male executives completed the School and College Ability Test (SCAT), the Abstract Reasoning Test, and three…

The relationships that exist between perceived teacher behaviors and the achievement of selected secondary students in Virginia, and the relationships that exist between perceived teacher behaviors and curriculum type were determined. Additionally, the relationship between sets of teacher behaviors and achievement were investigated. Five…

This study investigated effects of response feedback and presentation of a goal-contingency on preschool children's delay time and work productivity in a voluntary delay-of-gratification paradigm. Subjects were 64 middle class preschool children (32 boys and 32 girls). The children's ages ranged from 3.6 years to 5.7 years. In the goal-contingency…