By keeping records of their own behavior, clients can provide useful data for research by practitioners as well as participate in an effective form of treatment. The author proposes guidelines for assuring the accuracy of clients' reports. (Author)

The proposition that age at first marriage is inversely related to the risk of divorce was examined by means of detailed age-duration-specific divorce rates for California 1969. A strong inverse relationship was found for male ages at marriage 18 through 25 and female ages at marriage 16 through 24. (Author)

This study tests the hypothesis that resistance to interference as measured by Stroop Color and Word Test is related to psychopathology. College student subjects were classified into three groups on the basis of their Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) profile high points. Subjects' cognitive interference scores significantly…

Responses to behaviors dealing with sex, drugs, alcohol, and theft were measured in an interview, holding constant the characteristics of the actor, but varying one characteristic of the act. (Author/NQ)

Determined the effects of four counselor stimulus conditions on three measures of client verbal behavior: reflection of feeling, probe, confrontation, and unspecified responses. The three dependent variables were client affect words, self-referent pronouns, and present verb tense. (Author)

Interrelationships between patterns of drug abuse and personality and motivation were determined for male and female subjects. Significant sex differences were found with respect to drug behavior. Females used amphetamines more frequently than males and also showed greater multiple drug use. (Author)

Accelerated massed desensitization and anxiety management training were compared with standard systematic desensitization in terms of reducing self-reported test anxiety in high test-anxious college students. All three treatments significantly reduced test anxiety as compared with a waiting list control group. (Author)

The reactive effect of self-monitoring was examined in three experiments. Some results indicated that self-monitoring was reactive, providing a performance goal or feedback augmented the reactive effects of self-monitoring, and the act of self-recording led to behavior change. (Author)

The influence of media awareness on family planning adoption is examined according to 3 models: selective perception, reinforcement, and cognitive dissonance. (Author/JC)

A brief survey of the investigations of concept learning in the behavioristic trend in psychology offers some guidelines for clarity in studies of visual concept learning in art. (Author/RK)

This speech explores the social patterning of alcohol use within American society and how this patterning contributes to alcohol problems. (Author/JA)

Examines the relation between social desirability judgements (social de sirability scale values) of males and females in the area of sexual behavior. The findings raise some questions about the use of obvious-direct items with pathological import in sex behavior questionnaires. (Author/PC)

Author explored the difference between the learning rpoblems affecting a slow learning child and the learning problems of a child with specific learning disabilities. (Author/RK)

Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in 1935 and observed its 50th anniversary in 1985. This document discusses the changes that have taken place in knowledge about alcoholism. Specifically, this booklet compares what behavioral scientists knew about alcohol abuse and alcoholism in 1935 and what they knew and could do about them in 1985. Contributions…