Biographical variables, available at the time of admission to a psychiatric service, were used to predict posthospital adjustment to military life. Variables which were reliable prognostic indicators included occupational specialty, number of children, wife's attitude, solitariness of work, length of service, diagnosis, and recognition for…

The premise that mental age is not a valid standard by itself for educational placement was explored. (CD)

This study represents an approach to developing a non-linear predictive system by which college applicants may be rank ordered. (IR)

Both Negro and white children depict Santa Claus as a Caucasian, although they use different colors in their drawings. This difference in the use of colors could reflect a Negro preoccupation with race or could merely be the result of different environmental influences. (CK)

Presents study which evaluated L2 performance of 15 bilingual preschool children in terms of basic interpersonal communicative skills (BICS) and cognitive/academic language proficiency (CALP). Results show that several aspects of L2 proficiency by which teachers frequently evaluate students' mastery of English are poor predictors of…

Scores from a scoring system for the Bender-Gestalt and Beery's Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration for a group of 86 elementary students were correlated with Wide Range Achievement Test scores, controlling for WISC-R IQ. Results suggested that visual-motor ability may not contribute to the prediction of achievement. (Author)

Prior studies found individual differences in visual recognition memory during infancy were related to individual differences in later intelligence. This paper discusses methodological issues in the measurement of infant visual recognition, the significance of previously obtained predictive validity coefficients, and the theoretical question of…

The author deals with limitations on the use of work samples as predictors of vocational success of the disabled. The predictive model is briefly reviewed and ways in which the assumptions underlying this model can be violated or altered in vocational evaluation settings are described. (Author)

A study of college women's achievement behavior provides partial evidence that objective fear-of-success scales tap actual avoidance tendencies characteristic of traditionally feminine women, while the Thematic Apperception Test reflects, at most, ambivalence over success which may be equally characteristic of high achieving, nontraditional, and…

This investigation analyzed the diagnostic utility of subtest scores in differentiating between underachieving children and children who were adequately achieving. The use of derived classification equations from group statistics in individual diagnosis led to dramatic levels of misclassification among underachieving students. (Author/CTM)

Presents results of two experiments which measured contrast sensitivity function in infants. Information concerning development of visual acuity, low frequency attenuation, and sensitivity to contrast were collected. Results provide an approximate picture of and means for detection of infants' pattern information. (Author/DB)

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory scores yielded significant discriminations between cancer and noncancer groups. The group with cancer was significantly separated from the noncancer group on the basis of lower scores on Byrne's Repression-Sensitization scale (greater repression) and on the Depression scale of the MMPI (less…

Early childhood experiences communicating about death were better predictors of the ease with which respondents can imagine communicating with a terminally-ill loved one. Most respondents thought the physician should decide how the patient should be informed although 83 percent consider physicians poorly equipped for this role. (Author)