Discussed the usage of the health facilities at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia with an analysis of the different kinds of students, who visited the clinic. (RK)

A general conclusion can be drawn that the values of teachers and their perception of the values of the principal are more positive or higher in inner city elementary schools characterized by a more open organizational climate than in schools with a closed organizational climate. (Authors)

The major results were: (a) the Ss as a group rated the blacks more highly than the whites; and (b) familiarization enhanced ratings made by both male and female Ss of the blacks, but not ratings of the whites. (Author)

A developmental model of paranoid behavior is proposed which includes among its postulates the expectation that sons who have maintained an open style of adaptation to aversive maternal control will be less tolerant of ambiguity than will sons who have adopted a closed style. (Author)

This investigation also studied the relationship between gestational age and preferences for contour. (CB)

Major findings of this study are that (a) there is an increasing tendency, with increasing age, to make differential use of different communication channels according to the aspect of meaning considered, and (b) the relative importance of intonation to perceptions of affective meaning increases with age. (Authors)

The hypothesis that self-esteem is positively correlated with parental identification was supported for female college students by two out of three self-esteem measures. For male subjects one social self-esteem measure correlated negatively with maternal identification and a self-concept measure correlated positively. No relationship between…

Authors gathered evidence that visual assessment of another individual precedes decisions to associate with that individual. Girls in this study made appraisals of the dress of fictional girls and then made subsequent judgments about whether or not they would be willing to have these girls as friends and whether their group would accept the girl…

Results were interpreted to mean that the rating scales generated data that were more a reflection of the rater's point of view than of a teacher's actual classroom behavior. (Authors)

The remedial course had no effect on student satisfaction and persistence but a modest effect on subsequent course performance. The experimental methodology described can provide the college researcher with a basis for determining whether there is a need to revise or eliminate current remdial courses. (Author)

Purpose of this study was to determine whether a specific cell, Memory of Figural Units--Visual Mode (MFU-V), of the Structure of Intellect (SOI) can be significantly affected by training kindergarten and first-grade children, and whether improvement in MFU-V has a significant effect on reading achievement of first grade children. (Author)

Aim of the present study was to clarify the processes involved in the apparent lag in copying a diamond by reducing the lag experimentally with perceptual training of discrimination of orientation. (Authors)

Preschool, first-grade, and fifth-grade children served as Ss in 2 experiments designed to test the developmental hypothesis that memorizing and perceiving are functionally undifferentiated for the young child, with deliberate memorization only gradually emerging as a separate and distinctive form of cognitive encounter with external data.…

Findings of this study suggest that a parent-education component is important if the child is to continue to benefit academically from a compensatory preschool program, although there may be no immediate effect on the youngsters. (Author)

Results support predictions from Trait-State Anxiety Theory that negative feedback constitutes a threat to self-esteem and thus is perceived as more threatening by high A-Trait than by low A-Trait subjects. (Author)