On the initial trial of two tasks there was no difference among performance of premedical students, dropouts from premedical programs, and liberal arts students. However under competitive conditions, premedical students showed greater improvement in performance than did premedical dropouts who showed greater improvement than did liberal arts…

Investigates the influence of various scoring cutoffs on mental test performance as measured by the Michell General Ability Test (MGAT) and develops a rationale for selecting the optimum cutoff based on raw scores, internal consistency, stability, parallel-form reliability and concurrent validity estimates. (MB)

Four phases which characterize the initial year of operation are: initiation, developmental, operational, and corrective. (Author)

Correlations were obtained between level of aspiration, gambling, and projective test variables. Achievement oriented behaviors in the level of aspiration task and in the gambling task were related to each other, and both were related to the adequacy of response to sexual stimuli in projective testing. Reprints from Herbert M. Lefcourt, Department…

Reprints from: James H. Straughan, Experimental Education Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105.

Conducted with fourth, eighth, and twelfth graders, this study was designed to extend investigation of the contradictory training paradigm of the O'Brien and Overton study (1980) to include performances with conditional syllogisms and to bring this effect to bear on the controversies of false positive and negative assessments at different ages.…

A total of 48 subjects were assigned to training conditions involving opportunities for either individual or group practice on materials either identical to or different from those used during a pretest. Posttest evaluations revealed improvements for subjects trained individually or in groups, but significant improvement was found only among…

Reports two studies examining the age/generosity relationship in children five to ten years old. With data gathered both cross-sectionally and longitudinally, studies demonstrated the existence of a nonlinear as well as a linear trend. (Author/MP)

Infants 9 to 10 months of age were presented with a series of visible displacement hiding trials at two locations. Infants had to choose among three, five, or six alternative locations on each trial. Search attempts tended to cluster around the currently correct location during both trials on all apparati, providing evidence for a memory…

Describes the wilderness adventure experience for offenders at Santa Fe Mountain Center. The experience can reveal a composite picture of a client's global personality in the way s/he responds to tasks, demands, and stimuli. An example of a client evaluation is provided. (ERB)

Describes a study that was the first stage of a project to evaluate a management training course designed especially for a group of research scientists and senior technical staff employed by several government and quasi-government organizations engaged in scientific and industrial research. (NRJ)

Two studies investigated the effects of administration modifications on subtest scaled scores of the Wechsler-Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R). Performance scale rated different groups of 57 severely/profoundly hearing-impaired children. Total communication was found to result in higher scores on all subtests in the genetic and…