Examines the relationship of career and academic major choice status to levels of state anxiety among undergraduate students (N=179) who completed questionnaires concerning their career development status. Results indicated subjects reporting previously chosen careers exhibited lower levels of state anxiety. (Author/RC)

Gifted high school students (N=58) responded to a values survey consisting of two sets of 18 values: instrumental values and terminal values. Results showed no differences by sex in value patterns, academic performance, and self-concept. Suggests that sex-role stereotyped expectations still persist for the gifted in school and society. (RC)

Explains how recent court decisions have given teachers time to reevaluate their feelings and beliefs about reading before having to face ultimate tests of accountability. (AEA)

After different conceptualizations of behavior in terms of personal and situational variables have been outlined, Endler's arguments on situational specificity are discussed and his data found not to warrant his conclusions. It is argued that there is no antagonism between interactionism and conditioned situationism or personologism. (Author/SJL)

It is contended that Conceptual Systems Theory (CST) provides a useful theoretical and operational framework within which to investigate student-environment interactions in the classroom. (Author/GK)

Describes how Dartmouth College has integrated computers into the total curriculum of that institution with implications for individualized instruction. (CS)

To investigate the role expectation based rules governing formal reasoning performance, a battery of group and individual aptitude measures and formal reasoning tests were administered to 17-year-olds. Individual differences in usage of these rules were clarified by establishing an overlap between an aptitude model and formal reasoning.…

Investigated diagnostic policies for hyperactivity used by (N=16) experienced clinical psychologists. Individual analyses were made on each clinician's set of diagnoses of children described in terms of 19 cues. Clinicians' diagnoses were intercorrelated but substantial individual differences existed. Suggests little professional consensus on the…

Employs a clinical interview methodology to examine some of the creative thinking strategies commonly used by children in elementary school grades. Results suggest that children use several strategies on creativity tasks. (RH)

A classroom teacher discusses her attitude towards her own aging process, and describes the benefits of classroom interaction between older adults and young children. (LH)

The preferred coding processes of 11-year-old children were investigated, as well as the effect of these preferences on recall of verbal material which varied by complexity of imagery, metaphor, and acoustic and semantic features. The hypothesized relationship between coding and personality was studied (f=fiche number). (MH)

The authors focus on the moral development of the early adolescent (ages 10 to 15). The ways in which early adolescents develop morally, social influences on such development, and the expression of morality behaviorally are discussed. (Editor/KC)

The pleasure-arousal hypothesis predicts an interaction between pleasure and arousal levels in determining approach-avoidance, such that approach increases with arousal in pleasant settings and decreases with arousal in unpleasant settings. Results support this hypothesis. (Author)

Reports on a study conducted to determine the effect of the connotations of the color black on White university students' interracial behavior. Addresses the question of whether the differences in attitudes toward Black and Negro carries over into a difference in behavior with a person labeled Black and another labeled Negro. (MK)

Limitations of current information-processing research on the nature of intelligence are discussed. Major criticisms are that the tasks are static; lack of generalizability from the laboratory to the real world; and collective intellect, motives, goals, circumstances, and ambiguity are not addressed in either theory or research. (Author/RD)