Discusses the effects of deliberate vagueness on source credibility, agreement and perceived vagueness. See CS 703 560 for availability. (MH)

Discussed in the first of a two-part article is Applied Behavior Analysis as a methodology for developing curriculum for learning disabled children. (DB)

Explores the relationship between athletic participation and level of educational aspiration for a sample of rural and urban white males in the deep South. A modest relationship is indicated. (JH)

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the guidelines used in the study to develop "good" problems for young children and to describe the nature of some problems so developed. (Author)

A study of the relationship between pain-relieving drugs given to mothers during labor and delivery and neonatal behavior as assessed by the Brazelton Scales. Tested 44 infants on eight different days during their first month of life. (SDH)

This study investigated some characteristics of persons experiencing "flashbacks," and provides systematic descriptions of the flashback phenomena. The drug user showed no significant differences in psychopathological characteristics as measured by the MMPI, nor significant differences in attentional processes as measured by the Embedded Figures…

This paper considers two classes of conversational errors: production errors and interactional errors. It is proposed that error correction can be used to invoke alternatives to concepts of persons, situation and relationships. (CK)

Twenty families in the San Francisco Bay area (California) with new Atari home video game sets were studied from February through June 1981 to obtain data on how the game-playing affected family interaction. Records of play were kept for one week each month and each family member was interviewed at the beginning and the end of the study. It was…

Gordon Allport believed that one could learn about the content and structure of people's personalities by looking at their expressive movements. While his expectations were not absolute, he did believe that different expressive behaviors were consistent with each other, and that any given expressive behavior, for a particular individual, would be…

Alternative designs for educational research are explored to improve the external validity of educational research and broaden its scope to include not only the systematic experiments that identify psychological mechanisms but also representative designs that match the complexity of learning behavior in school. (JH)

Discusses a study evaluating encounter group experiences as they relate to behavioral measures of self-disclosure. Results are discussed in terms of clinical and ethical considerations in conducting encounter groups, the format of the particular group, group leadership styles, and clinical aspects of the group process. (Author/PC)

Discusses results of two studies conducted to investigate communications between friends, since it is often stated that psychotherapy is a type of friendship. Findings showed that empathic responses were infrequent between friends trying to be helpful, though such responses constituted a majority of statements of model Rogerian therapists.…

Two experiments sought to determine whether rehearsal strategies constitute a primary determinant to age-related changes in auditory short-term memory. (ST)

In this prison-based study four groups of youthful offenders differing in their use of marijuana are compared on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, California Psychological Inventory, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and Beta. The data are compared with other investigators' data, and the implications are discussed. (Author)

In accordance with Ackerman's (1957) conception of blame for disorder as the natural consequence of attribution of responsibility for child rearing, it was hypothesized that the direction of parental responsibility would be directly related to ideas about sex role characteristics of child rearing. (Author)