THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE (1) TO TAKE BIBLIOGRAPHIC INVENTORY OF RESEARCH CONCEPTS AND METHODS IN CREATIVITY AND THE ARTS, (2) TO TEST A NUMBER OF THE CONCEPTS AND METHODS IN AN EXPLORATORY EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE THOUGHT PROCESSES AND PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF ART STUDENTS, AND (3) TO FORMULATE A NUMBER OF ISSUES, CONCEPTS,…

AN EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM WAS DEVELOPED FOR RECORDING EYE-MOVEMENT DATA. RAW DATA WERE IN THE FORM OF MOTION PICTURES TAKEN OF THE MONITOR OF A CLOSED LOOP TELEVISION SYSTEM. A TELEVISION CAMERA WAS MOUNTED ON THE SUBJECTS' FIELD OF VIEW. THE EYE MARKER APPEARED AS A SMALL SPOT OF LIGHT AND INDICATED THE POINT IN THE VISUAL FIELD AT WHICH THE SUBJECT…

The speech of three Quiche Mayan children aged 2;1, 2;9, and 3;0 was monitored for the acquisition of the distinction between ergative and absolutive person markers. The children were found not to confuse markers, but to use either the appropriate one or none at all. The one exception to this rule, when analyzed, indicates that children grasp the…

Results from studies of language identification in noise and of word identification from tachistoscopic presentation clearly indicate that contextual information can be used to facilitate word identification under inadequate stimulus conditions. But these results do not provide strong evidence that such an interaction is occurring during normal…

Gestalt theory deals with the act of thinking and the construction of concepts in a situated manner, and, therefore, could be used to study how meaning is extracted from a visual display. Using the Gestalt framework of form cues and their usage patterns in the perception of, and learning from, visual media, researchers could study frame, line…

This collection of essays makes some attempts to define the humanities and explore the social role they might play. Part 1 examines the role of the humanist in society and suggests that the humanist can perform a function when "justification" (the determination of what is right and wrong) is necessary. In part 2, the topic "the…

This study explores the attribution patterns of undergraduate students for females and males who performed parenting tasks traditionally defined as feminine. A total of 136 men and 136 women were randomly assigned to one of eight conditions and were presented with stories of parent-child interactions which varied in terms of the success or failure…

This is a manual of five modules related to sex roles. The modules are set up according to six topics: (1) Development of Sex Roles; (2) The Stereotyping by Sex Role; (3) Male Role; (4) The Emerging Woman; (5) Women: Up the Career Ladder; and (6) Changing Sex Roles at Retirement. In addition, each lesson provides teaching objectives, resources,…

This paper provides a review of the literature on the topic of sex roles. The author identifies two levels on which to study this issue: (1) the social identity model and the dramaturgical perspective, which can serve as a unified theoretical framework for phenomena and findings related to sex roles; and (2) a lessening of the terminological and…

The services and activities performed by child psychiatrists and child psychologists who engage in private practice are described. Three types of psychotherapy (child focused, family focused, and marital discord focused) are presented as representation of the approaches utilized by professionals who work with children and families. A critique of…

The relationship between attitude change, recall of previous attitudes and dissonance between these two perceptions was investigated using 72 female undergraduates randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups. The first group, posttest first, completed a posttest after participation in a group discussion on construction of nuclear power…

The beliefs of adolescents, specifically that they matter to their parents, was investigated using four large-scale samples of adolescents at different grade levels and located in different sections of the country, as well as a nationwide sample of tenth grade boys. Survey items captured diverse expressions of mattering, i.e., the feeling that one…

The primary purpose of this study was to examine whether a general perceptual model developed by Vitz and Todd (1971), capable of dealing with multiple determinants of attending, is useful for understanding infant attending. The model, previously used in research with adults, assumes that perception can be represented as a stochastic sampling…

Prior research has indicated that a person attempts to conform to standards of correctness when objectively self-aware (OSA), suggesting than an OSA person will feel less control than a subjectively self-aware (SSA) person because the standards of correctness restrict the number of preferred outcomes that the causal agent self can produce. The…

Male and female students from general psychology classes completed several attitudinal questionnaires, including the Women as Managers Scale and the Attitudes Toward Women Scale. In a later experimental session, subjects viewed a 10-minute video tape that contained either a male or a female directing a mixed sex triad on a dominoes design task.…