A treatment program was instituted to reduce dating anxiety in infrequent daters. A sample of 85 extremely anxious and inhibited college undergraduates of both sexes volunteered for the program. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of three practice dating groups and two control groups. In one practice dating group, each non-dater was paired…

Social cognition refers to that ability which makes it possible for one to infer another's covert, inner psychological experiences and to interact with that individual accordingly (Shantz 1975; Flavell 1977). Piaget (1926) maintains that the ability to decenter socially and to take into account the perspective of another develops gradually as the…

Suggests a way for teachers to organize their observations of children into valid, reliable, nonjudgmental descriptions in order to help an assessment team diagnose special problems. Gives guideline questions concerning visual, motor, social-emotional and other behaviors that can alert teachers to inconsistent development in young children. (BRT)

An investigation of peer relationships through longitudinal and cross-sectional studies of 62 children at age 2 1/2 and again at age 7 1/2. These studies specifically examined the differentiation and location of correlates of intensive and extensive peer relationships, sex differences in peer behavior, and the nature of peer-oriented behavior for…

Relationship of USSR's Academy of Science to landmarks of history, Socialist construction, and the present. (ND)

From "Sovetskaia Pedagogika, 1968, No. 4.

Presented at Joint meeting of the American School Health Association and the School Health Section of the American Public Health Association, Detroit, Michigan, November 11, 1968.

Although skilled social performance has been defined as a sequential, two-stage process involving both social cue discrimination plus skillful performance, investigators have de-emphasized cue discrimination in favor of skill performance. The relationship between cue discrimination and skill performance was investigated among undergraduates who…

It is the misfortune of young adolescents that just at the point in their lives when they are seeking definition, two areas of confusion and ignorance converge: confusion about the purposes of schooling for young adolescents and ignorance about early adolescence as a critical developmental stage in the life span. Some myths which prohibit better…

The effects of three teaching styles in Mosston's Spectrum of Teaching Styles were examined in terms of the motor skill acquisition and social skill development of 96 randomly selected fifth grade students, who were taught a hockey accuracy task. Performance data were collected prior to, midway through, and following training and were analyzed:…

The relationship between self-control and role-taking deficits as exhibited by 37 female institutionalized juvenile delinquents was assessed by Chandler's measure of social egocentrism. Subjects, matched on the basis of their scores on the Matching Familiar Figures (MFF) Test, were randomly assigned to treatment or control groups. The treatment…