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Wilson, Charles J.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1974
Compared effects of six sessions of group counseling of nine chronic home hemodialysis patients with a comparable no treatment control group. Comparisons revealed no significant differences between groups. Subsequent testing a year later suggested that hemodialysis patients use the defensive mechanism of denial in adapting to their condition.…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Objectives, Counseling Effectiveness
Denney, Douglas R. – Child Study Journal Monographs, 1973
Examines experimental studies in which learning procedures such as reinforcement, direct instruction, and modeling are applied in an attempt to alter characteristics of children's information processing behaviors. Discusses whether the studies have demonstrated acquisition of generalized cognitive functions or merely elicitation of task specific…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology
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Orcutt, James D.; Briggs, Donald A. – Sociology and Social Research, 1975
The hypothesis that the normal effects of recreationally used drugs vary across substances, users, and situations as a function of normative content, normative clarity, and situational context was tested. (Author/JC)
Descriptors: Alcoholic Beverages, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Definitions
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Kratcoski, Peter C.; Kratcoski, John E. – Adolescence, 1975
Article considered newly emerging evidence regarding the character of delinquency in general and modifications of female sex roles which challenge popular notions about the quality and quantity of the sexual distribution of delinquent acts. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Delinquent Behavior, Females, Males
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Huberman, Michael – International Review of Education, 1974
Article examined the objectives and methods used in continuing education and paid special attention to the need for developing programs for adults rather than including them in the general educational format. (RK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Behavior Patterns, Diagrams
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Aleksandrowicz, Malca K.; Aleksandrowicz, Dov R. – Child Development, 1974
A study of the relationship between pain-relieving drugs given to mothers during labor and delivery and neonatal behavior as assessed by the Brazelton Scales. Tested 44 infants on eight different days during their first month of life. (SDH)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Individual Development, Infant Behavior
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Rosen, Anne-Sofie; Schalling, Daisy – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1974
The purpose of the study was to isolate groups homogeneous in role-taking ability and to describe them on dimensions of the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) Socialization (So) scale. The results support the validity of some of the subscales as indicators of the role-taking construct underlying the So scale. (Author)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Males
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Repp, Alan C.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons
Funderburk, Frank R., Jr. – Probe, 1974
Forty primary school students were randomly assigned into four groups based on the level of pretest approval provision and type of pretest task. The efficacy of social approval as a reinforcing stimulus was then tested on a two-choice discrimination learning task in which every correct response was reinforced by contingent approval presentation.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Positive Reinforcement
Tang, Thomas Li-Ping – 1986
Type A behavior is characterized by impatience, aggressiveness, and ambition. Type B individuals are more relaxed, easy-going, and unhurried. This study examined the effects of behavior pattern (Type A, intermediate, Type B) and experimenter interest (high versus no interest) on the time allocated to an experimental task and task performance.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories, College Students, Foreign Countries
Jones, Cynthia L.; Davenport, James M. – 1987
As part of an effort to help preschool classroom teachers of the hearing impaired identify those children at risk in developing positive peer relationships, information was collected on 100 children with hearing impairments and 82 children with normal hearing. For hearing impaired subjects, data were collected on age, gender, age of onset of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Skills, Hearing Impairments, Interpersonal Competence
Seiffert, Mark A.; Riffle, Sharon – 1987
Defining "willingness to communicate" as the degree to which an individual will talk to others in various situations, a study was conducted to test the hypothesis that a linear composite of the dimensions of communication apprehension and willingness to communicate is significantly related to a linear composite of the dimensions of…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Communication Apprehension, Communication Research
Herting, Diane L.; And Others – 1988
Since the first case was identified in 1981, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has become the number one health concern across the nation. Previous research has shown that AIDS has not had an effect on the sexual behavior of sexually active college students. This study sought to further study the impact of AIDS on the sexual behavior of…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, College Students
Brown, Sandra A. – 1983
Affective and physiological responses, interpersonal interaction, and alcohol consumption have been significantly correlated with cognitive factors in defining the behavioral effects of alcohol. To investigate alcohol reinforcement expectancies at the abusive end of the drinking continuum, 305 male and female adult alcoholics enrolled in alcohol…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Alcoholism, Behavior Patterns
Hughey, Jim D. – 1984
Four studies were conducted to investigate the relationship between communication and predictive accuracy. Subjects, students enrolled in various college speech and communication classes, completed the Allport-Vernon-Lindzey Study of Values, first in terms of their own values and then in terms of how they believed a specified target would respond.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Communication Research, Higher Education
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