Describes an economic education unit for use in the elementary classroom which employs a case study of McDonalds hamburger chain to teach students about multinational corporations, mass production, standardization, advertising, and capital investment. For journal availability, see SO 505 448. (Author/DB)

Describes a research study which involved building a theoretical construct to define the primary dimensions of adolescent alienation, and developing and testing attitude scales to measure alienation in early adolescence. Personal incapacity, guidelessness, and cultural estrangement were found to characterize alienation in this age group.…

Assesses the effect of an additional year of institutionalization on the dichotic listening performance of paranoid schizophrenics. (Author/RK)

The absolute normal scores test is described as a test for the symmetry of a distribution of scores about a location parameter. The test is compared to the sign test and the Wilcoxon test as an alternative to the "t"-test. (Editor/RK)

The advantages of interim tests in an undergraduate psychology course for diagnostic purposes are described. A discussion of assigning relative weight to interim test performance as compared with final examination performance is presented. (Author/DB)

Macroanalysis is a technique by which behavior patterns can be identified from any observational data are collected in a manner that preserves the sequence of the individual codes. (MM)

A computer model (program MK 10) which was described in a previous paper (Wolff, 1975 "a") was intended to show how the segmental structure of a language may be learned by young children despite the apparent absence of consistent physical markers like pause or stress for the boundaries of words and other linguistic segments. (Author)

The Research and Statistics Section of the Illinois Office of Education conducted a study to determine (1) the status of research and evaluation services in the Illinois public schools and (2) the need for such services relative to other basic educational needs. (Author/RK)

Examines the utility of the Mini-Mult, a short form of the MMPI, as a screening device for women who request an abortion. (Author/RK)

The basic question asked in this research was whether it is possible, through training, to influence a subject's preference for encoding a particular attribute. (Author/RK)

If intentional forgetting is to be understood, research must focus on the specification of exactly how memory search and decision processes are altered when a subject is instructed to forget. This research addresses that problem. (Author/RK)

Describes a training program that makes a particular effort to achieve transfer of training to the job and some preliminary research indicating the effectiveness of the transfer. (Author/RK)

The results of this study raise serious questions about the validity of cross-sectional studies of second language acquisition based on instrument-solicited morpheme data. The analysis of spontaneous data examined longitudinally suggests that such data may provide richer insights into the second language acquisition process. (Author/POP)

Attempts to determine objectively, by means of a word list containing specific sexual terms, which aspects of sex most interest young adolescents, and how the females and males differ in their interests. (Author/RK)

Tests the hypothesis that when a "control for size" is introduced, preference for rectangles near the golden section reemerges. Also focuses on the "measure of preference". (Author/RK)