This exploratory study is concerned with identifying several measures of career attainment for psychologists and with relating these measures to Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores and to other relevant characteristics. The basic hypothesis of the study is that abilities measured at the time of admission to…

This exploratory study is concerned with identifying several measures of career attainment for historians and with relating these measures to Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores and to other relevant characteristics. The basic hypothesis of the study is that abilities measured at the time of admission to graduate school are related to career…

Two experiments were conducted to investigate how event representation might operate in preschool children's understanding of the temporal terms "before" and "after." The first study, involving 3- and 4-year-olds (a total of 16 of each age) varied the arbitrariness of event sequences. Sixteen stories, each containing five…

In separate research studies, students who were given a choice of learning materials or who had control over aversive noise, demonstrated higher motivation and better task performance. To investigate the additive effects of choice and control on perception of control, 80 male and female college students participated in a 2 (choice vs. no-choice) X…

Design strategies directly related to the development of instructional materials for rule learning were investigated. Findings indicated: 1) the degree of divergence between instances showed that contrasting, not matching, features resulted in better performance; and 2) two contextually similar rules learned simultaneously, not successfully,…

Examination was made of subject-generated as compared to experimenter-provided underlining of sentences that were least or most important to the overall structure of the passage presented. Additionally, some readers were instructed to underline any one sentence per paragraph, while others were asked simply to read the passage. (Author/BJG)

This study attempts to show that information about one aspect of test rationale affects performance in a predictable manner. (Author/DEP)

Faculty productivity as measured by publication for the Medical College of Virginia School of Medicine was computed and compared to that of Ph.D.'s in laboratories stressing scientific publication, as reported in previous research. A similar bimodal productivity by age was found for clinical faculty in the medical school setting. (JT)

A study designed to examine the effect of test frequency on mastery of general-subject area by students in an introductory psychology course showed that both tested groups performed significantly higher than the non-tested comparison group. (Author/KM)

Final grades in an introductory psychology course were found to correlate significantly with a test representative of course content and ACT scores. (Author)

The purpose of this bibliography is to give coaches a better understanding of what determines competitive stress in athletes and of how this anxiety relates to performance. Research and studies pertaining to factors related to pregame and postgame competitive stress were investigated as well as the validity and reliability of tests used to measure…

Two recent conferences on the science of sport have focused on the topic of sports for older people. Investigations have been made on the special demand in motor learning, in table-tennis, family-tennis, gymnastics, and dancing. This paper summarizes some experiences and conclusions drawn from these studies, including special notes on isolated…

Involving children 7 and 10 years of age, two experiments aimed to clarify the basis of children's confusion about actions they performed and actions they imagined performing. In experiment 1, subjects were assigned to one of three conditions, each involving two different types of tracing exercises. Children traced simple or complex pictures by…

Causes and implications of the crisis in liability insurance availability and affordability are discussed in this report. The working group concluded that tort law is a major issue in the insurance crisis and that the federal government can address that issue. The group also concluded that the federal government can do little to remedy other…

The effects of three play contexts on young children's turn taking, topic maintenance, and topic change skills were investigated. Participants were 40 normally-developing, English-speaking Caucasian children of middle-income parents; they ranged in age from approximately 4 years to 6 and one half years. Subjects were subdivided into younger and…