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Peer reviewedHarris, Maxine; And Others – Journal of Personality Assessment, 1977
Four alternative cognitive assumptions concerning the fundamental meaning of events are presented: formism, or everyday thinking; mechanism, or experimental scientist's thinking; organicism, or systems thinking; and contextualism, or relational thinking. The measurement of individual preferences for these hypotheses and behavioral correlates of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Conceptual Schemes, Counseling Effectiveness, Decision Making
Veroff, Joseph; And Others – 1971
A series of studies and analyses to develop brief, reliable measures of intelligence and achievement motivation that would be feasible for use in a cross-sectional sample is summarized. One measure of intelligence meets these criteria. It is a 13-item test of sentence completion skill, which correlates effectively with other measures of…
Descriptors: Achievement, Age Differences, Educational Background, Evaluation Criteria
Download full textPetersen, Anne C.; Kellam, Sheppard G. – 1976
This paper presents data on a follow-up study of a project in the 1960's: a classroom assessment and intervention program directed at mental health for all the first grade classrooms of Woodlawn, a black poor community on Chicago's south side. Now, ten years later, the mental health of these adolescents as well as the mental health, structure, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Measures, Black Students, Comparative Analysis
