Mexican-American, Negro, and Anglo-American children participating in a two-person, two-choice game, showed that similar female ethnic pairs cooperated significantly more than dissimilar pairs; that females in the three groups differed significantly in the amount of cooperative behavior, and that reinforcement did not affect cooperative behavior.…

Assessed the effect of Kagan's Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) on group work and compared it with a T group method. The IPR groups showed significantly greater change in individual and group interaction factors. High-self-esteem subjects showed no difference between methods. The self-confrontation of IPR was beneficial to the low-self-esteem…

Process analysis research methodology was used to examine the interactions between 41 nonprofessional child-aides and 166 primary graders with school maladaptation in 11 urban and suburban schools. Sixth-five percent of the interaction time was spent in play activities, 15 percent each in conversation and tutoring. (Author)

This article attempted to show that the methodological and metaphysical biases of situationism have seriously constrained psychology's observation base and its model of man. (Author/RK)

An observational system for classroom interaction based on the nature of science is reported. Author reasons that structure of the discipline must be considered while evolving an interaction analysis system. (PS)

Discusses the effectiveness and the history of a simplified teaching practice, microteaching, which is carried out under controlled conditions using sound and vision feedback to modify operant teacher behavior. (Author/RK)

Describes a general approach to the analysis of teaching in small-group contexts; guidelines are presented in a check list. (Author)

Results of this study indicate that free recall output order reflects item membership in subjective units, but evidence that recall depends on organizational stability was minimal. (Author/MB)

It was concluded that both social and vocal elements are necessary to stimulate a general increase in the number and length of consonant utterances, but there was no evidence that stimulation encouraged infants to imitate the consonant phonemes presented. (Author)

Systematic methods are needed for studying group development over time. The method described here permits interpretive description of a group session, useful both for feedback to the group and for further study of group processes. (Author)

Results indicated that the children's behavior had an effect upon the parents, with mothers and fathers interacting more and being more controlling when the children were dependent. (Authors)

Parents' teaching behavior was observed in a structured interaction task designed both to explore a different method for observing parental behavior, and to investigate the relationship between parental behavior and personality. (Authors)

Black children of both SES levels behave like lower-SES white children showing a relatively high level of self gratification. (Authors)

Study reports a technique for analyzing and categorizing certain gross features of the receptive language environment which constitute the primary source material for all of a baby's language learning. (Authors/MB)