Westbrook (1983) challenged the validity of the construct "career maturity" because measures such as the Career Maturity Inventory Attitude Scale (Crites, 1973) correlate to measures of mental ability. Rather than interpreting this association as evincing lack of discriminant validity, the association should be interpreted as supporting…

Defining schemas as higher order cognitive structures that serve a crucial role in providing an account of how old knowledge interacts with new in perception, language, thought, and memory, this paper offers an analytic account of the nature and functions of schemas in psychological theory and organizes some of the experimental evidence dealing…

This study was designed to provide empirical support for viewing personality development from a cognitive framework. With controls established for IQ and socioeconomic status, 75 children between 6 and 15 years old were classified by level of cognitive functioning according to Piaget's system. (CS)

The possibility that significant differences exist between college student subgroups, as measured by the Omnibus Personality Inventory (OPI), was tested with 99 university students and was supported. Intellectual disposition variables consistently yielded significant differences among subgroups. (Author)

The assessment of internal control is a consideration in all financial statement audits, as stressed by the Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 78. According to this statement, "the auditor should obtain an understanding of internal control sufficient to plan the audit" (Accounting Standards Board, 1995, p. 1). Therefore, an…

The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test is marketed as an instrument suitable for use by persons without special training in testing. A total of forty children, ranging from retarded to gifted, were tested in counter-balanced order by eight elementary school teachers and by three school psychologists. (Editor)

Report of a set of tentative estimates of the economic impact of infant malnutrition in Santiago, Chile. The economic costs and benefits of alleviating malnutrition are discussed in terms of their policy implications. (EH)

The essential components of self-paced systems are frequently prohibitive in cost for implementation for all students. Selection of students who can profit most from individualized programs can be made by choosing students in upper and lower extremes in mental ability who possess certain elements in their cognitive styles. (Author)

The intellectual level of parents of psychotic children in residential treatment at the Ittelson Center was investigated in a sample of 48 mothers with a mean full scale I Q (FIQ) of 109.2 and of 43 fathers with a mean FIQ of 116.3 on the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence scale. (Author/MC)

Scores on the Kuhlmann-Anderson, Herndon's adaptation of the FiguralReproducation Test, and the Pearman revision of the Lincoln-Osteretsky test suggest intelligence is not strongly related to perceptual-motor skill. (RB)