Article suggested that if teachers are adequate to the task, all manner of lessons can be drawn from pets. These run the gamut from math to language skills to social sciences to sex education. (Author/RK)

Describes two accounts of practical classroom based research which, through socio-dramatic and creative writing activities, examine particular sex and authority role behaviors among students at the secondary level. (RB)

Undergraduates, divided into three groups--high verbal-low spatial (HiV-LoS), intermediate, and a high spatial-low verbal group (HiS-LoV)-- ties test. For males at least, the groups differed significantly on certaintook Cattell's 16PF questionnaire and Thurston's Primary Mental Abili personality variables involving response to social stimuli.…

Paper based on PhD dissertation submitted to the University of Kansas. Research supported by Public Health Service Grant No. 5-FI-MH-30, 582-02.

Based on a paper presented at the Institute on "Advances in the Health Sciences Relating to Children and Youth, at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, November 23, 1968.

Based on part of a dissertation submitted December 1967 to the Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the PhD degree.

Portions of this paper were presented at the 1967 meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, New York.

A study was conducted to establish a baseline of facts concerning the extent, nature, and social functions of the drinking of alcoholic beverages as depicted on prime time network television programing. A content analysis was undertaken of a random sample of programs drawn from the three major networks over a period of 14 evenings. The primary…

The Behavior Observation Scale (BOS) was administered to 53 autistic children, 35 mentally retarded children matched for MA, and 33 normal children (all 2 to 5 years old) in an attempt to quantify autistic behavior. Ss were observed 3 days for 3 minutes through a one way mirror in a playroom setting where occurrence of 67 behaviors on the BOS was…