While Follow Through programs over the past 12 years have been committed to meeting the expectations of government officials and other concerned citizens, the program now must document what is expected of the project and how those expectations will be measured. If this major deficiency is not addressed immediately, the program probably will end.…

A study was conducted to determine the correspondence between the effects of task purposes and goal-setting strategies on preschoolers' unmonitored compliance, and their internal attributions for compliance. A total of 97 preschool children of 4-5 years of age participated in two 5-minute compliance tests that employed a resistance-to-distraction…

Confidentiality in psychotherapy has long been assumed. Recently, this confidentiality has been threatened by computer filing systems, the courts, and third party payers of client expenses. This study investigates client expectations of confidentiality and information subject to disclosure. Subjects (N=185) were undergraduate students who…

A study investigated the relationship between teachers' expectations of first and second grade bilingual students and reading achievement of students in English. Through classroom observation, researchers identified the expectations held by the teachers for the bilingual students and then identified teacher behaviors toward the high and low…

Expectancies of reinforcement from alcohol have been investigated from a variety of research perspectives. Although results vary with methodology, subject characteristics, and amount of alcohol consumed, research seems to indicate that the expectation of receiving alcohol influences, and at times outweighs, the actual pharmacological properties of…

Protocols were obtained from 22 subjects as they discovered the conditions under which equilibrium is obtained on a balance beam by predicting and observing the outcomes of a series of problems. The interviews revealed that subjects used a variety of heuristics to make predictions once they had isolated the two relevant features of the problem,…

The study examined the assumption that a student's conformity with the achievement value expectations of the school is dependent on the extent to which there is congruence between institutional expectations and individual value orientations. (NQ)

This study describes nonverbal behaviors on the part of subjects asked to give five minutes of instruction to a ten-year-old student, described as either bright or slow or not described at all in terms of IQ. (JH)

Reviewed are studies investigating the commonly held supposition that precocity in gifted children frequently results in failure as adults. The author uses an IQ cutoff point of 132 as a measure of giftedness and compares the utility of three criteria of success: employment in a position utilizing his capacities (the criterion of L. Terman's study…

This research studied the effectiveness of pretraining procedures in teaching college students to self-disclose. Three modeling procedures were used to teach this verbal skill: video model, audio model, and no model. Results indicated the video model group was the most effective followed by the audio model group. No sex differences were found.…

Studies the concept of the communication of positive expectancies in the classroom by examining the effects of different sources of expectancy on reading performance for compensatory program pupils. (Author/DEP)

The clients were 123 clients referred for outpatient therapy over a one-year period. These clients of this particular mental health facility expected to receive advice and medicine quickly, from a male therapist who was younger than 50, and they expected that this advice and medicine would help them broaden their interests and gain new friends…

According to a recent model of some of the causes and effects of alcohol consumption, alcohol interferes with cognitive processes fundamental to a state of self-awareness. The effects of alcohol consumption and the expectancy that one had consumed alcohol on the self-awareness state were examined. Male subjects (N=46) consumed either alcohol or…