This handbook examines the role and the skills of professional journalists in newspaper, radio, magazine, and television reporting. It is designed for use in the college classroom and in professional courses aimed at improving the skills of newsmen. It can also serve as a handbook for the practicing journalist wishing to increase his knowledge…

The study was conducted to measure variables related to safe driving and to designate factors predictive of success in driving safety of educable mentally retarded (EMR) students as compared to normal students. Subjects were 349 EMR and 443 intellectually normal students (ages 16-20), who were evaluated in the following areas: visual acuity,…

Washington is one of the pioneer states in the use of volunteers in the rehabilitation of persons convicted of crimes; at present over 500 private citizens are working with adult offenders and the division's correctional staff, inside and outside of the institutions. This manual was prepared to be of use to them, and to professional workers in the…

This review is one in a series intended to develop methods which maximize the use of the existing scientific literature as a basis for predicting human performance. It is concerned with sensory performance in target detection, defined in terms of the "probability of detection" of a flash of light. Two conditions of detection are…

Efforts to establish what psychological processes make up the framework through which beginning reading skills are developed led to this study, aimed at identifying perceptual, learning, cognitive, memory, and language variables which influence beginning reading of normal and educable mentally retarded children. A total of 172 first-grade…

A study investigated the magnitude and direction of the congruence of communicated expectations for teachers and students in innovative and conventional programs. The three-part Watson Analysis Schedule (WAS) which measures explicit, actual, and realized expectations was administered to 525 students and teachers in American studies classes…

Dona Ana Mental Health Services (DAMHS) in Las Cruces, New Mexico, has completed a five year demonstration project intended "to explore the effectiveness of a special method of selecting, assigning, training, and giving consultation to nonprofessional mental health workers as they and the community develop special mental health services." These…

This booklet is intended to provide a number of experiments and demonstrations in each area of psychology which may be carried out in situations where the instructor wishes to provide class involvement and some understanding of experimental procedure, but does not have access to the apparatus generally used in experimental psychology. The 75…

The relationship between learning style (impulsivity-constriction and stability-anxiety), reading scores, and scanning performance was investigated. Twenty high school students enrolled in a precollege reading and study skills program participated in an 80-trial (10-session) scanning experiment. The task involved searching for a target sentence…

The activities described exemplify the efforts of school counselors nationally to explain the "why" and "how" of the school counseling profession to their significant others -- pupils, parents, teachers, administrators, school boards and community groups. The survey found that, in communicating their role to administrators and school boards,…

Movement is one of the primary ways in which the young child finds out about his world. Experiences in movement help the young child to develop a healthy sense of identity. Through movement, children: (1) learn, as infants, to distinguish themselves from the outside world; (2) find out what they can do and how they can affect their environment;…

The purposes of the study reported in this document were to investigate the relationship between children's manifest anxiety and their perceptions of negative environmental stimuli, and to determine the effects of socioeconomic status (SES) and race on both of these variables. The hypotheses tested concerned: (a) the degree of anxiety manifested…

This study examines the efficacy of specially devised information in altering students' perceptions of the appropriateness of personal problems for counseling and their willingness to seek counseling for such problems. Women at a large Eastern university provided the sample for this study; one group received oral-written information, another group…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of perceptual focus and planar orientation of rods on conservation responses when parallel translations are utilized. The translations along the major axes of symmetry utilized two modes: (1) translation of one of two rods, and (2) simultaneous translation of two of three rods in opposite…

The investigation was undertaken to obtain data on the number of kindergarten, second, and seventh grade Ss classified as having color vision defects by the American Optical-Hardy, Rand, Rittler Test (AO-HRR) and two tests by S. Ishihara. Also studied was the ability of color vision defective and color normal Ss to utilize color as measured by the…