The omission of the learning concept has resulted from a methodological approach which emphasizes what people have learned and not how they learned. A specific research strategy based upon operant learning theory principles as applied to the acquisition of verbal behavior is suggested. (Author)

The present study investigated some properties of the environment that control an infant's response to his mother's departure and, in particular, the readiness with which he follows her. (Authors)

Relevance of cognitive and developmental variables to observational learning and imitation is also discussed. (Authors/MB)

Fifty male students from India and 50 male American College students were asked to write essays in which events in the future could be discussed. Results indicated that Americans are more future oriented and that Indians are more past oriented. Americans indicated more concern with personal efforts in their work thus revealing a differential in…

Results indicated that self perception in terms of ethnic identity increased with age, and that identity was strongest with the immediately surrounding group rather than with a national group. (CB)