Using clinicians employed in Minnesota and Kansas, an attempt was made to describe and quantify clinical judgment pertaining to perceived degree of pathology associated with low scores. The results showed Minnesota judges generally regarding low scores as representing less pathology than Kansas judges. Several factors limit generalizing however.…

Clinical findings indicated that relatively low Academic Achievement scale scores generally predicted changes of occupational planning toward business and other applied directions, whereas higher Academic Achievement scale scores were associated with changes toward more academic and scientific orientations. These regularities were modified for…

Results of this study indicated that comparison subjects endorse statements reflecting a significantly greater future actual temporal orientation than do outpatients. Outpatients also expressed greater dissatisfaction with their actual temporal orientation, desiring it to be more future oriented. The measured ideal temporal orientations were the…

An account by the author of the problems and solutions he encountered as a blind school psychologist. (RD)

Hypotheses that efficacy of systematic desensitization could be attributed to anxlety reduction as a result of relaxation training, to extinction of nonreinforced fear responses, or to operation of placebo factors were tested as alternatives to counterconditioning hypothesis. Test anxiety reduction was found only for subjects given relaxation…

Thirty kindergarten children in three sessions performed a lever-pulling task under three partial reinforcement conditions. The results of the experiment demonstrated that both recency and summation of nonreward influenced performance as measured by latency. Based in part on a Master's Thesis submitted bu the first author in partial fullfillment…

A scheme using the usual testing methods of most professors, but allowing students to discover their weak areas during the course without fear of low grades. (IR)