Computer based Interaction Analysis (IA) for the support of the participants' self-regulation in technology based learning activities (individualised or social) is a new direction of research that has emerged during the last years. Its main purpose is to offer a cognitive and metacognitive support to learning environment participants (e.g.…

This is Part I of a three-part report. (RD)

Research supported in part by National Institute of Mental Health Grant MH-8304.

This paper analyzes past studies of outdoor recreational behavior from the point of view of symbolic interactionism. This perspective focuses directly on the manner in which individuals interpret the words and behavior of others, as well as their own physical environment. The first part of the analysis examines some recent definitions of…

This study compared two groups of high school biology students with respect to laboratory achievement, learning climate, and laboratory behavior on the part of both students and teachers. A cell physiology and nutrition unit containing ten exercises was utilized by five randomly assigned teachers (86 students) in an open-inductive method and by…

The purpose of this study was to provide basic knowledge about the kinds and amounts of behavior in a personal survey interview and to investigate the effects of certain respondent demographic characteristics on the verbal behavior of the interviewer and respondent during the interview. Four sample groups of employed males (Negroes and Caucasians…

The author discusses moral behavior and affect, and how they may influence reasoning processes when the individual is no longer dealing with hypothetical issues. (MJB)

This article is a review of five selected theories of person/environment interaction. The five theoretical viewpoints reviewed are Barker's theory of behavior settings, the subculture approach, Holland's theory of personality types and model environments, Stern's need X press=culture theory, and Pervin's transactional approach. (Author)

The literature on the psychological construct of state is reviewed, and it is proposed that state be defined in terms of an infant-environment interaction. Interactive behavior of 32 mother-infant dyads was observed in the home for a total of 2 hours for each pair, in order to explore various types of interactive processes and analyses. A…

Research supported in part by grants from the Ford Foundation and the National Institutes of Health (MH-08542).

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The etiological approach to psychological research is discussed, particularly regarding research on visual and vocal behavior. Thirty-four adult female dyads discussed topics on which they agreed and on which they disagreed. Each subject's looking and talking was recorded by observers on a computer in a time frame data structure. Data were…

This study evaluated the city of Boston's Magnet Movement Athletics Program, which brought together inner city children with suburban children in a movement oriented program designed to facilitate racial harmony and the growth of positive interracial attitudes. Four hundred seventh and eighth grade black, white, and oriental children underwent a…

Nineteen beginning preservice science teachers were randomly assigned to one of the following treatments given in the first two weeks of the semester: a) training in interaction analysis (a modification of Hall's instrument for the analysis of science teaching; b) training in conducting and interpreting Piaget-type interviews; and c) a control…