Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, Austin, November 1968. Research supported by a grant from NIH to the Institute for Juvenile Research.

An extended version of this article was submitted to Loyola University, Chicago as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

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