Administered the Hooper Visual Organization Test (VOT) to 54 elementary students referred for psychometric evaluation. Results showed no significant relationship between sex and VOT scores, but age and IQ were significant correlates. (JAC)

Practical advice on teaching skills which are essential, but difficult for many medical students to master, is presented. Topics covered include interviewing skills, the mental status examination, the use of psychotropic medication in the general hospital, psychodiagnostic techniques, and dealing with ward management problems. (RM)

Describes changes that have transformed the field of school psychology over the last 40 years, such as moving toward a role that encompasses the culture of the school setting and its relationship to the community. Cites a remaining problem as redefinition of human resources needed. (LLL)

Developed a true-false scale to measure social fear, using procedures to maximize reliability and minimize response set bias (N=910). Interviews with selected subjects (N=44) confirmed that the scale measures social fear, and the scale was found to correlate with previously developed schizotypy scales (N=252). (Author/JAC)

Study compares performance on MMPI Mini-Mult inventory of black versus white juvenile delinquents of similar socioeconomic level, family background, grade level, and I.Q. The fact that there were no significant differences along racial lines indicates "that (this test) can be used to assess personality characteristics of both racial groups…

Discussion about teaching to psychology students the Watson and Rayner study in 1920 on fear of rats. (ND)

The California Psychological Inventory includes a masculinity femininity measure, Fe. Although the test author suggests that Fe is positively related to intelligence for females but negatively for males, a review of the literature fails to substantiate this claim. Correlation of Fe and intellectual measures is low in magnitude and is not different…

A course has been developed in Britain, and also tried in the U.S.A. and Canada, referred to as Modern Management Dynamics. It is a personneldevelopment and training course using pre-test, post-test questionnaires to measure and develop the extent of psychological knowledge of personnel in industrial, commercial and government work. (DS)

To determine the effect of chronic marihuana smoking on cognitive functions, personality traits, and social values, a group of heavy marihuana smokers was compared with a matched control group. (Author)

Second-, fourth-, and sixth-grade children were tested on a multiple-classification task to investigate the relationship between age and observational learning. (Editor)

Nine-, eleven-, and thirteen-year-old children participated in a conformity situation requiring the judgment of the louder of two successively presented tones. (Editor)

Memory for the spacing of two events was investigated in an incidental learning'' situation. (Author)

Research supported by a grant from the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Reprints of article available from J. Dennis Nolan, Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 43210. (DS)

A scholarship program for promising disadvantaged students in private secondary schools was evaluated through interviews, faculty reports, and testing in a two year follow-up of 82 boys. (Author)

Identifies the motive to avoid success as an internal psychological representative of the dominant societal stereotype which views competence, independence, competition, and intellectual achievement as qualities basically inconsistent with femininity, even though positively related to masculinity and mental health. (Author/JM)