The Benton Visual Retention Test which is designed to assess visual perceptual, visual motor, and visuoconstructive abilities can give school personnel greater precision and range in testing. The standardization of this instrument was tested on 700 Houston elementary school students. Chronological age differences were maintained and correlation…

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effects of modeling on sex-role development in first-grade children. It was hypothesized that when male-female pairs of children observed a male-female pair of models each child would probably shift his sex-role behavior toward that of the like-sex model. Sixty children served as subjects. The…

One hundred twenty-six counselor education students, differentiated according to counselor education status and sex, were studied for differences in attitudes toward self, most people, most clients, and purposes as a counselor. Practicum students completing their educational program were more positive in their counseling-related attitudes than…

The model in this study illustrates a theory of the language user's performance based on an analysis of the fundamental speech episode, the dialogue. The model presents an outline of conditions for the description of strategic aspects of communication within a dynamic framework, which are dependent on the orientation of the communicator toward a…

This book examines dimensions of nonverbal human behavior through the "immediacy,""power," and "responsiveness" metaphors. Human feelings and attitudes as conveyed by variations upon these metaphors involve approach-avoidance behavior. The author defines these metaphors as like-dislike; potency-status (or a controlling versus a dependent…

This paper provides part of the theoretical underpinning for a series of studies on the environment for teaching. Addressed primarily to organizational researchers, it deals with the relation between educational innovation and the organizational structure of schools. Three assumptions made widely in previous studies relating technology to…

The relationship between the perceptual organization of junior college instructors and student ratings of their effectiveness as teachers is explored. The major hypothesis of the research was that there would be a significant positive relationship between student ratings of faculty effectiveness and certain aspects of perceptual organization. The…

Empirical research to support the claim of advocates of laboratory training as an effective means of training leaders and managers in communication is lacking. Further, there are some who raise serious questions about this methodology which need to be answered. This paper reports an experiment designed to investigate four questions revolving…

An experiment was conducted to determine the influence of three variables on the perception of the psychophysical phenomenon of flicker in wide angle cathode ray tube (CRT) displays. The three independent variables treated in the experiment were: 3, 6, and 9 foot-lambers (FL) illumination levels; four images, three static and one dynamic; and 26…

Six studies and an overview focus on the amount and character of the violence portrayed on television (TV), the circumstances and milieu in which this violent fare is created, and the formal and informal influences which affect the selection and prohibition of TV content. The overview serves as an introduction to the six studies and summarizes…

The three concerns of this study were: (1) the ability of students in grades seven, nine, and eleven to recognize ambiguity in sentences at the lexical, surface structural, and underlying structural levels; (2) the relative difficulty of perceiving ambiguity at each of these levels as determined by differential processing times; and (3) the…

This student guide contains part one of the first year in the Portland Project, a three-year high school integrated science curriculum sequence. Part one, the first of four parts, involves the student in a series of activities intended to increase his understanding of his perceptual abilities and their limitations. Organization and classification…

The ability of naive listener-judges to recognize the affective state of a speaker on the basis of nonlinguistic auditory cues independent of the verbal content of an utterance has been well established by a large number of studies. This study used artificial stimuli produced by a Moog synthesizer to vary pitch level and variation, amplitude level…

The author points out differences between the historical-critical and the quantitative-empirical methodologies in speech communication. He proposes analysis of postpersuasive discourse as an intermediary ground encompassing these two approaches. Postpersuasive communication is conceptualized as the elements of ethos (credibility) which are…

The major premise of this collection of articles and essays is that successful intercultural communication is a matter of highest importance if man and society are to survive. The purpose of the book is to create a new understanding of intercultural communication and assist the reader in developing his own skills in this area. The book provides…