A brief description of four major behavior levels which the author suggests the student must pass through during the learning process. (AK)

Explored is the possibility that two distinct patterns of hyperkinesis exist (hyperactive and hyperreactive), each with its own behavioral and etiological features. (KW)

The author concludes this discussion by suggesting that when sexual problems bring children to doctor the great majority represent a crisis not in the child but in a parent or neighbor. (Author)

The data indicated that (a) subjectively experienced suggestibility was more closely related to attitude change than was objective suggestibility, and (b) the generalized expectancy treatments were ineffective in influencing different criterion scores. (Author)

This study investigated the effects of 15 second client response latencies upon the speech and silence behavior of four experimentally naive counselors in advanced training. The results indicate that a coached client was able to effect change unobtrusively in the speech and silence behavior of counselors. (Author)

Forty female subjects were selected and assigned to four treatment groups matched for past and anticipated disclosure rate. Treatments differed only in the length of the interviewer's remarks on 20 topics. A significant positive relationship was found between the length of time the experimenter spoke and the duration of the subjects' utterances.…

Results indicated that both male and female smokers perceived themselves as failing to meet the expectations of their parents and school. On the other hand, nonsmokers perceived themselves as more nearly meeting these expectations. (Author)

By monitoring skin conductance and heart rate of 19 psychopathic, 21 neurotic, and 26 normal juvenile delinquents, it was concluded that the psychopathic autonomic characteristics resides in lower initial reactivity and not in more rapid adaptation, at least in response to a simple auditory stimulus. (Author/KJ)

Findings are consistent with the hypothesis of an input processing deficit in autistic children. Autistic children were insensitive to differences in the structures present and tended to impose their own simple stereotyped patterns. Normal children imposed such patterns in the absence of structured input only. Paper reports work which has been…