Research supported through the Cooperative Research Program of the U.S. Office of Education.

The possibility of a time sensitive relationship between scores on the Dean Miholasky precognition test and those on Activity 2 of the Torrance Test for Creative Thinking was investigated with 58 freshmen students in a school of engineering. The Torrance Test consists of three activities that present a series of figural stimuli to the subject who…

The cultural test bias hypothesis represents the contention that all ethnic or racial group differences on mental tests are due to inherent, artifactual biases produced within the tests through flawed psychometric methodology. This address focuses on an empirical evaluation of the cultural test bias hypothesis, especially emphasizing the construct…

This bibliography represents the first in a series of three dealing with employment of homosexuals, to be published by the Ontario Ministry of Labour Library. All asterisked titles in the series deal with the employment problems of and discrimination against homosexuals. This bibliography of reading materials concerned with homosexuality and…

ASSESSMENT OF ATTITUDES OF PARENTS OF EDUCABLE MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ALTERING PARENTAL ATTITUDES THROUGH TIME SEQUENCES OF COUNSELING WERE MADE. THE PROJECT STUDIED 60 FATHERS AND 60 MOTHERS WHO WERE DIVIDED INTO 4 GROUPS, EACH GROUP CONSISTING OF 15 FATHERS AND 15 MOTHERS. ONE GROUP SERVED AS THE CONTROL GROUP, ONE…

THIS STUDY TESTED THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A GIVEN TEACHER VARIES FROM ONE STUDENT TO ANOTHER AND THAT THIS DIFFERENCE IN EFFECTIVENESS IS A RESULT OF THE INTERACTION OF THE PERSONALITY PATTERNS OF THE STUDENT AND TEACHER. STUDENTS MAJORING IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, AND HOME ECONOMICS WERE THE SUBJECTS. PERSONS…

THIS STUDY SOUGHT TO DETERMINE IF THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN SELECTED PERSONALITY TRAITS, IDEOLOGIES, AND VALUES OF STUDENTS WHO ATTEND A 2-YEAR PUBLIC JUNIOR COLLEGE. A BATTERY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS WAS ADMINISTERED TO ALL PERSONS APPLYING FOR ADMISSION AS COLLEGE FRESHMEN FOR THE FALL SEMESTER OF 1960 AT ONE OF SIX CALIFORNIA PUBLIC…

ALL TERMS IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ENGLISH WHICH PERTAIN TO ASPECTS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR OR PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS WERE ASSEMBLED FROM AVAILABLE LEXICONS. THESE TERMS WERE CATEGORIZED INTO 15 RUBRICS ON THE BASIS OF JUDGMENTS OF THEIR FAMILIARITY, SPECIFICITY, AND CERTAIN BROAD SEMANTIC CRITERIA. SOME 2,800 TERMS WERE IDENTIFIED WHICH SEEMINGLY…

THIS WAS A TWO PART INVESTIGATION. THE FIRST PART WAS A MONTE CARLO (STATISTICAL) ANALYSIS, AND THE SECOND WAS A LOGICAL ANALYSIS OF MULTITRAIT-MULTIMETHOD VALIDITY. PART ONE SUCCESSFULLY GENERATED, FOR SMALL SAMPLE SIZES, EMPIRICAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF STANLEY'S F STATISTIC FOR TESTING TRAIT VALIDITY IN MULTITRAIT-MULTIMETHOD MATRICES. ZYZANSKI'S…

A STUDY OF MENTAL HOSPITALIZATION WAS MADE IN A UNIVERSITY-AFFILIATED, ACTIVE-CARE STATE INSTITUTION CONCERNED MAINLY WITH SCHIZOPHRENICS. THE AUTHOR EXAMINED THE ROUTES PATIENTS FOLLOW THROUGH THE HOSPITAL IN RELATION TO THERAPY AND THE PATIENT'S RETURN TO OUTSIDE LIFE. HE OBSERVED THAT THE PATIENT'S SOCIAL POSITIONS ARE DEFINED IN LARGE PART BY…

Two hypotheses were developed in an attempt to organize and clarify the conceptual basis for studies of relationships between patterns of habitual sleep duration and self-perceptions of the need to achieve. A non-specific arousal (N-SA) hypothesis presumes that short sleepers show more vigor, more general anxiety, incline more toward development…