Teachers completed rating scales on learning disabled male and female students 6-18 years old. While replicating findings from previous studies, the results revealed some important differences, that is, problems found to be characteristic of learning disabled students differed according to sex and age level. (Author/CL)

Three punishment procedures--contingent applications of water mist, lemon juice, and vinegar--were evaluated as aversive treatment methods for a self-stimulatory behavior exhibited by a severely retarded 11-year-old male. The water mist procedure was as effective as lemon juice or vinegar, presented less physical threat to the client, and was…

Suggests that the learning of sex roles is based on a bipolar dichotomy of gender-appropriate behaviors. Response alternatives are discussed including the single polarity, bipolar acceptance, and integration of polarities. Contends that integration is essential for growth. (JAC)

This research has shown that assessment of social behavior beyond differentiation of extremely poorly functioning individuals from normals is possible. (Author)

Study results indicated that schizophrenics who shocked themselves upon experiencing auditory hallucinations failed to show significantly greater improvement than the control group. Thus the general conclusion drawn is that conditioning did not appear to be the mechanism by which most of the significant therapeutic changes occurred. (Author)

This paper presents a behavioristic view of how persons acquire knowledge of their psychological characteristics and examines counseling from his framework. Persons infer underlying motivational characteristics to account for actions they assign to personal causes. Assignment of cause is based on social comparison and counseling provides such…

Seventy-two second-, third-, and fourth- grade girls were exposed to a video-taped adult model who practiced and/or preached generosity or selfishness. The effect of the model's practices upon Ss donation behavior was marginally significant, but donation behavior was unaffected by either the power or the exhortations of the model. (WY)

Teaching techniques designed to overcome six types of behavioral problems are given along with supporting examples. (EJS)

Article adapted from "Signals in the Wind, by Dietrich Burkhardt, et. al.

Reviews the stages of the refugee experience: perception of a threat; decision to flee; period of extreme danger and flight; reaching safety; camp behavior; repatriation; settlement or resettlement; adjustment and acculturation; and residual states and changes in behavior caused by the experience. (Author/MK)

Evaluated self-administered relaxation manuals and money deposit in treating recurrent, nonphobic anxiety in college population. Relaxation training groups improved significantly more than self-monitoring-only subjects on self-report, questionnaires, and self-monitored measures of anxiety. Study suggests the value of self-monitoring and relaxation…

A new approach to psychopathology based on the psychology of integration as applied to psychological states is outlined. Because all raw behavior occurs only in the form of psychological states, all formulations of psychopathology must refer to integrative disorders that are postulated to underlie all pathological or defective behaviors. (Editor)

Studied the organization of the behaviors involved in the development of prehension by 80 infants of 1-8 months. Four types of behavior patterns that occurred at different periods were found to constitute the development of prehension. (BG)