Counselors' (N=80) attitudes toward disability differed according to their personal attributes. The 40 counselors judged as the more effective counselors, either male or female, rated the disabled similarly to normals. In contrast, perceptions of normals and disabled by the 40 less effective counselors differed significantly according to their…

This last in a three-part series gives ground rules and examples for guiding the dynamics of various kinds of career groups. (Author)

This paper analyzes the responses of Norwegian academic-secondary teachers to questions about their social origins, about the extent to which the teachers developed a commitment to a teaching career during their university education, and about various aspects of their professional attitudes. The findings indicate that social origin and the…

The influence of cues in the visual peripheral field is not a random one.

Two detection experiments were conducted with short lists of synthetic speech stimuli where phoneme targets were compared to syllable targets. Results suggest that phonemes and syllables are equally basic to speech perception. (Author/RM)

"Openness-to-the-world" is a prerequisite to good personal writing.

Eleven to fourteen year olds judged the size of eight angles. Subjects were grouped according to reading ability and their nonverbal intelligence was measured. Significant differences in performance were found in relation to age and ability variables, and between the angle-size ranges of 0 to 90 degrees and 90 to 180 degrees. (Author/RD)

This study examines the relationship of sex-role orientation, among 218 female undergraduates, as measured by the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI), fear of success, and achievement motivation and performance. (Author/EB)

The Edwards Personal Preference Schedule was used to examine the relation of the sex role stereotypes held by college men and women to the objective measurement of these stereotyped characteristics. Subjects perceived numerous differences between the average female and male, but very few differences between the ideal female and male. (Author/EB)

Compares competence of the "native hearer" with that of the foreign learner. Refers to research in auditory comprehension, particularly to the "motor theory of speech perception" and sequential psycholinguistics. Presents exercises on various components and on the complex development of auditory competence. (IFS/WGA)

A strong correlation was found between frequency of communication between preschool teachers and parents and the number of topics discussed. Teachers' age and experience were not significantly related to communicative behavior. (Editor)

In this study, the situational nature of female sex roles and the degree of consensus among women concerning female sex roles is examined in social and work situations. (Author/WI)

Phonological development in children is described in terms of four stages; (1) preverbal vocalization and perception (birth to 1;0); (2) phonology of the first 50 words (1;0 to 1;6); (3) phonology of simple morphemes (1;6 to 4;0); and (4) completion of the phonetic inventory (4;0 to 7;0). (CTM)

Six groups of nursery schoolers, kindergarteners, and first graders balanced for sex were trained and tested on a series of discrimination learning and transposition problems. (Author)