Students coming at present to technical universities are accustomed to television and the visual perception is their prime source of information. This is why our civilization is being often labeled as the "civilization of picture". The contemporary psycho-physiological researches, along with the Dale's cone of human perception, also…

For many years, librarians have been bothered by negative portrayals of librarians in the media. Unattractive, non-professional old maids have been the dominant images of librarians in the movies. In 1989, the American Library Association issued a campaign designed to promote a more accurate, positive image of the librarian in an attempt to change…

Although the traditional idea of general education has been that there are certain things every civilized man ought to know in order to be "cultivated", there is no longer an ideal taste in music or a particular set of understandings about music that all people must acquire. (Author)

The authors, drawing on their own experiences, describe the changes in attitudes and behaviors necessary for this new partnership. They also present a model for nurse-physician interaction. (Author)

Screening, maintenance of the chronically ill, and improving traditional nursing care were the three key concepts in developing this nurse practitioner's role. (Author)

Results of a study undertaken at the University of Tennessee to compare the perceptions of four nationality groups (Americans, Chinese, Indians, and Iranians) of students toward themselves and three other nationalities. (Author)

The Carkhuff Discrimination Rating Scale has been shown to predict a rater's accuracy in the judgment of therapeutic process. Following testing for discrimination, 23 Ss were shown four videotaped interviews with mental patients. Two measures assessed the Ss' accuracy of perception of the patients' verbal and behavioral interview performance.…

The adaptive style theory proposes that given a sustained aversive maternal control experience children will come to adopt one of two perceptual orientations toward evaluative cues. This postulate was tested by exposing 78 late adolescent males to an array of evaluative words which they were told came from a maternal source. As predicted,…

Considers the comments of young people twelve and under in a survey about sex role perceptions during the 1970s, emphasizing the responses of girls. (RB)

Presents an annotated list of fifteen books for adolescent females in the elementary grades. (RB)

The American adult male tends to reject individual and group counseling, seeing counseling as a sign of weakness. To improve himself and his reactions to stress and tension, he must forget his traditional masculine role. The counselor should understand that adult male neees are the same as those of other adults. (SC)

The major thrust of this paper rests on the belief that information can be obtained from analysis of the relationship between unmeasured variables which would not otherwise be gleaned from the data. (Author)

Investigates the influence on ego's attitudes toward his familial roles of husband and father and his nonfamilial role of student by the validation of those roles by his significant others. (Author)

Investigated developmental trends in part-whole perception. The effects of the whole on the perception of small parts was greater at the kindergarten level than at the 4th grade; and there was a change in the perception of the parts so that they came to look like the whole in shape. (DP)

The author discusses the results of a seminar for middle-aged women who intend to return to college. The focus is on problems of readjustment. (RWP)