By relegating the culturally disadvantaged to a deviant status, social and professional institutions create differential perceptions and expectations and influence their self-evaluation, academic success, and career opportunities. The transformation of deviance into incompetency has also led to formally sanctioned methods of managing deviancy.…

An interaction process analysis was designed to record the task-oriented and social behavior of five learning disabled (LD) and five normal children in third grade classrooms and of only the LD children in sessions with the LD specialist. (MC)

Two experiments were conducted to examine the relationship between stress level and learned helplessness in human subjects. Experiment 1 subjected subjects to loud or moderate noise in order to induce differential stress. Experiment 2 was a partial replication of the first study using only loud noise. (Editor/RK)

Author believes that "every instructional sequence should have as its number one objective the intent to send the student away with approach tendencies toward the subject matter equal to or greater than those with which he arrived." (Author)

Describes animal behavior experiments that can be easily performed by secondary school students. The experiments illustrate territorial behavior, social order, and exploratory behavior in Mongolian gerbils. (JR)

Diverse data challenge and undermine the central assumptions of the traditional trait approach to personality. The implications for conceptions of individual differences and situations in the study of personality are examined. (Author)

Gives an outline for decision making at staff meetings to effect a behavior modification program. (GB)

Analyzes the difficulties in trying to estimate which instruments yield dependable information about children and the misconceptions surrounding testing. (Author/RK)

Presents six major methods by which characteristics of environments have been related to indexes of human functioning: (1) ecological dimensions; (2) behavior settings; (3) dimensions of organizational structure; and, (4) dimensions identifying the collective personal and/or behavioral characteristics of the milieu inhabitants; and two others.…

In agreement with previous findings, boys and girls were seen to behave differently on the road. The difference was most obvious when the criteria for classification of behaviour were applied. More boys than girls acted unpredictably and were classified as unsafe.' (Author/CB)

The major shaping influences detailed in this article are parental attitudes and the commercial channel of nonchoice in toys and books as they affect the development of sex identification. (Author/CB)

Article attempts to reduce some of the misunderstanding about contemporary humanism and behaviorism and intensively analyzes the psychology of the individual. (Author/RK)

Investigated were interactive changes in the verbal behavior of three counselors and six institutionalized adolescent and young adult educable mentally handicapped during early (2nd) and later (9th) counseling interviews. (Author/DB)