Uses conversational analysis to investigate how people accomplish a specific enactment of their everyday lives. (MH)

Reports development as compared to age-related changes in maternal task instruction to children in their second year. Interactions of 12 mother-infant pairs involved with simple tasks were video-recorded bimonthly between the infants' 14th and 22nd month. Comparison revealed the superiority of the development-centered model of adaptation of…

Observations of direct-care staff behavior were made for 20 days at various locations in a large state-operated residential facility serving the developmentally disabled. Results demonstrated that five 15-minute weekday observations could provide reliable representative information concerning staff activities. (Author/DB)

The current status and condition of theory and method related to research on interactive teaching is examined. Alternative conceptions and methods are offered. (Author/MT)

The study measured the interactive values of peer tutoring and structured interaction activities on the rate and type of social initiations (cooperative or instructional) of nonhandicapped peers (N=4) toward students with autism (N=4). Results showed that structured interaction activities produced the highest rates of cooperation initiations.…

While most scholars view argument as a single conversational event, the interaction can be seen as a serial episode that occurs and recurs in everyday life. This essay presents a model of serial argument with supporting data. (PD)

A major focus in Phase III of the Louisiana School Effectiveness Study is on the relationship between classroom interaction patterns and school effectiveness. Early results are discussed. (Author/MT)

Examines the nature of development of a self-analytic seminar through stages and its impact on sex-role stereotypes and gender interactions among participants and with the seminar leaders. Explores relationships between feminist thought and psychoanalysis and supports the positive influence on recognition of mutual needs among the sexes.…

Presents the Dyadic Interaction Scoring Code (DISC) as a marital observation system designed to be compatible with the Datamyte 900 Data Collector. Its derivation from existing coding systems and its contributions are discussed. Data on marital interaction provide a research example of its usage. (JAC)

Divided 25 psychoanalytic sessions with a single patient into 10 working sessions, five neutral sessions, and 10 resistance sessions. Using the Regressive Imagery Dictionary on keypunched transcripts, significantly more primary process content and less secondary process content was found in the patient's working-session rather than…

Results show that someone can be behaviorally cast into a deviant role through the use of subtle communication techniques. (Author/DEP)

Conducted in a residential treatment program for adolescent boys, this study examined the relationship between reward/fine patterns of staff members, the feelings of the boys toward staff, and boys' behavior patterns. A method of looking at the functional aspects of a worker's interaction with children was developed. (SB)

Based on an individual interest theory as a sensitising theory, empirical data are used to gain social interest concepts, as there are situated collective interest and interest-dense situation. These concepts serve as a basis for a social extension of a psychological interest theory. Its construction combines social interactions, the dynamic of…

The question examined in this study was as follows: do teachers increase their positive classroom interactive behaviors as a result of training in systematic classroom observation techniques? (Authors/JA)

The work of this study resulted from two factors: a) the problems of giving feedback to the student teacher while he was on teaching practice or in microteaching; b) the relatively unstructured nature of this feedback when it was given. (Author/JA)