Twenty-four male undergraduates viewed 102 slides containing occupational titles and stated whether or not each represented a realistic career choice. The experimental subjects received positive verbal reinforcement on the second trial for realistic responses. More experimental subjects than control subjects demonstrated an operant pattern of…

In order to understand the complex behavior of an individual, what that individual has learned must be understood. Unfortunately, behavior analysis and psychology in general have not studied the cumulative effects of the learning principles. However, there are concepts in behavior analysis that, although not well researched, address this area.…

Describes a graphic analysis of the disorganized sucking patterns in premature infants, and points out the psychoprophylactic importance of individually appropriate feeding procedures which should be used in the care of premature infants. (Author/CS)

This article reviews counseling analogue research methods used in the Journal of Counseling Psychology. Emerging analogue research models are identified and related methodological issues and boundary condition characteristics are discussed. Analogue methodological features in need of further consideration are noted. (Author)

This study assesses the effect of labels on clinicians' judgements. Two groups of behavior and analytic therapists viewed an interview of a subject designated as "job applicant" or "patient." Behavior therapists describe the interviewee as fairly well-adjusted regardless of label while psychoanalysts describe "patient" as more disturbed than "job…

Verbal self-report measures for various emotional states were used in the present study to test the hypotheses that anger consists of feelings of displeasure, high arousal, and dominance; whereas anxiety consists of feelings of displeasure, high arousal, and submissiveness. (Author)

This paper examines and compares tyo hypnotic modes in terms of behavioral and experimental responses. The two modes are: (1) autohypnosis and (2) heterohypnosis. The two types of hypnosis experiences were administered to each of two randomly assigned groups. Subjects were 25 male and 23 female volunteer introductory psychology students. The…

Paper presented at the Merrill-Palmer Institute on Research and Training of Infant Development (Detroit, Mich., Feb. 15-17, 1968).

Six waitresses in a restaurant of a large midwestern city agreed to participate in a study of the nonverbal effects of ornamentation. The hypothesis was that diners would leave larger tips for a waitress who wore a flower in her hair than for the same waitress without a flower. During the four nights that data were collected, the waitresses…

THE SELF-IMPOSED RESTRICTION OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE TO THE STUDY OF LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE HAS PREVENTED LINGUISTS FROM CONCERNING THEMSELVES WITH THE STUDY OF HOW LANGUAGE IS USED IN THE DAILY LIVES OF PEOPLE AND, ASIDE FROM OCCASIONAL SPECULATIONS, HOW IT IS INVOLVED IN THE MAJOR CONCERNS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE--SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND PERSONALITY.…

IN RECENT DISCUSSIONS OF THE PROBLEM OF LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY, BERNSTEIN (1961, 1964) EXPLORES THE HYPOTHESIS THAT SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS ACT AS INTERVENING VARIABLES BETWEEN LINGUISTIC STRUCTURES AND THEIR REALIZATION IN SPEECH. HIS FORMULATION SUGGESTS THAT THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS' ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL CONSTRAINTS GOVERNING INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS…