This monograph focuses on various approaches toward disciplining antisocial behavior. The author gives evidence to the failure of the widely used stimulus-response approach (i.e., punishing people when they are bad and rewarding them when they are good), and suggests how a new approach might be more successful in solving problems of crime and…

Dependence is a salient quality in both sexes, although it has been culturally more acceptable for women than for men to acknowledge and accept dependency. The conflict men experience with regard to dependency and the manifestations of such conflict in dependent adult behaviors were examined. Subjects were divided into a "most…

A study investigated the relationship between social style and a number of dimensions of person perception and interpersonal attraction. Social style was defined as a two-dimensional construct of assertiveness and responsiveness, which combined to reflect four social styles. Five hypotheses predicted that differences in social style would result…

Thirty-eight bidialectical rural Hawaiian children participated in a study to determine if they would display clustering in a cued recall task and to explore the possible influence of dialect usage on recall performance. For purposes of the study, "clustering" was defined as the ability of subjects to recall list items by category…

Mental health center administrators are concerned about persons who contact centers but fail to keep initial appointments. Factors within centers that discourage client follow-through must be identified and changed. Telephone surveys were attempted for 50 such individuals from the youth (N=23) and adult (N=27) team logs of the Weber Mental Health…

After 177 college students in 49 groups participated in group tasks, their perceptions of those groups and individuals in the groups were analyzed for gender differences. In the discriminant analysis of the three interpretable factors for perception of groups (group cohesiveness, power, and personality), gender was a predictor of an individual's…

A survey of 320 employees of Honeywell, Inc., was conducted to collect data on interactions between employees' levels of integration into the organizational hierarchy, amount and type of employee newsletter reading, and purposes for reading newsletters (keeping track of friends, finding out what was going on in the company, improving one's…

A total of 286 subjects was presented with a series of motivations and asked to evaluate the relative importance of each in their exposure/avoidance decisions about watching sports programs on television. The 188 sports viewers assessed the importance of each motivation for their viewing of baseball, hockey, football, and tennis. The 98…

Observations of Chinese mothers and children at Rhodes Avenue (Toronto) English classes and nursery confirm the hypothesis that a high level of parental warmth-support and control tends to become, by Canadian standards, overprotectiveness, and tends to result in a submissive, dependent, over-socialized child. Dependency upon the mother for…

A BROAD EXPLORATORY AND THEORETICAL STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE IN A FUNDAMENTAL SENSE THE IMPLICATIONS AND IMPACT WHICH NEW RESEARCH IN THE BASIC BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE FIELDS HAD ON EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE AND THEORY. THE TOTAL TASK WAS TO BUILD A NEW EDUCATIONAL THEORY USING SAMPLINGS FROM ALL BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH AND TO INVESTIGATE WAYS TO REDUCE…

BAER, PETERSON, AND SHERMAN HAVE ATTEMPTED TO BUILD A GENERALIZED RESPONSE SYSTEM (GRS) IN THE FORM OF IMITATIVE BEHAVIORS (IB) IN THREE SEVERELY RETARDED CHILDREN (S'S). IN THE FIRST PHASE OF THE STUDY, 130 IMITATIVE RESPONSES WERE TAUGHT BY IMMEDIATE, INDIVIDUAL REINFORCEMENT. THE S'S ALSO PERFORMED RESPONSES WHICH WERE NEVER REINFORCED. BY…

THIS DOCUMENT SUMMARIZES A TWO YEAR RESEARCH PROJECT DESIGNED TO EVALUATE INTRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION IN COLOMBIAN SCHOOLS BY THE PEACE CORPS. MANY DIFFERENT STUDIES OF PEACE CORPS EFFECTIVENESS WERE CONDUCTED, USING FIELD EXPERIMENT AND SURVEY (MAIL QUESTIONNAIRE, PANEL, INTERVIEW) TECHNIQUES TO MEASURE ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS OF PEACE…

THIS ADDRESS, GIVEN AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING (BERLIN, SEPTEMBER 1964), PRESENTS A GENERAL DISCUSSION OF THE PRESENT SCOPE, ROLE, AND POTENTIAL USE OF RESEARCH IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODOLOGY, AND MAINTAINS THAT THE BEST RESEARCH IS THAT WHICH IS CLOSELY ALLIED WITH THEORY, AND THE HARDEST TO…

A MAJOR PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT WAS THE DERIVATION OF A PROCEDURE FOR ANALYZING THE FUNCTIONS OF A MEDICAL LABORATORY ASSISTANT IN SUCH A WAY THAT CHARACTERISTICS USUALLY DESCRIBED ABSTRACTLY AS SKILL OR BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE, WHICH CAN BE EVALUATED ONLY INTUITIVELY AND SUBJECTIVELY, CAN BE DEFINED INSTEAD IN CONCRETE TERMS THAT CAN BE DEALT WITH…

Although predictive validation is the primary method of justifying a particular work sample for use as an assessment device, content validation is being recognized as an alternative strategy. Confusion exists over whether content validity should refer to the representativeness of the work sample, in terms of tasks to be performed, or behavioral…