Undergraduate General Studies students, following classification by the Bem Sex Role Inventory, formed groups of 44 Stereotyped Masculine males, 36 Androgynous males, 33 Androgynous females, and 25 Stereotyped Feminine females. They predicted achievement on a neutral task and two sex-linked tasks, one of each sex. Almost no variance appears in the…

Studies using unipolar models of sex role identity in conjunction with an attributional approach to female achievement prediction have found that androgynous women tend to consider ability to be a more feasible explanation for success than do either feminine or undifferentiated women. Androgynous, masculine, feminine and undifferentiated males and…

An alternative method of language learning is proposed based on the theory of "Personal Construct Psychology." It is suggested as a resolution of the impasse that seems to exist between linguistic and psychological theories of learning. Certain techniques are offered to enable learners to exteriorize their cognitive categories and their…

Intensive psychotherapy is principally limited to the middle class and the affluent population. Working class individuals utilize individual psychotherapeutic services at a low rate, and members of American ethnic groups (including "white ethnics") probably have even lower utilization rates. The reasons that therapists and ethnic clients avoid…

DATA WERE GATHERED ON THE UNCONSCIOUS MOTIVES OR PURPOSES IN THE CHOICE OF TEACHING AS A CAREER. THEY WERE USED AS A MEASURE IN PREDICTING POTENTIAL AND INDIVIDUAL TEACHING SUCCESS IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION. SKETCHES OF MOTIVATIONAL TYPES ENCOUNTERED AMONG TEACHERS WERE DEVELOPED AND SAMPLED AMONG REPRESENTATIVE INDIVIDUALS OF EACH TYPE. THE…

Mock juries of six females each listened to a tape-recording of facts in a courtroom trial. Twelve juries heard guilt-appearing facts, and twelve heard innocent-appearing facts. In half the juries hearing each type of trial, jurors heard the facts in the same (Homogeneous) order; in the remaining juries, each of the six jurors heard the facts in a…

College students with difficulty falling asleep were treated with either progressive relaxation, systematic desensitization, or a thought control procedure. All three treatment groups showed significant lower latency to sleep onset times than a waiting-list control group at the end of the three-week treatment period. A three-week followup revealed…

This paper describes a treatment approach which uses hypnotherapy techniques in combination with assertive training and behavioral rehearsal. It discusses the use of this treatment with a client who exhibited psychogenic symptoms due to personal anxiety. At the beginning of the treatment the client was shy, non-assertive and extremely…

This paper presents a theoretical and clinical account of a psychotherapeutic approach to the aged. The approach is called "competent coping" therapy. It is oriented to helping older adults acquire and practice better adaptive strategies in handling problem situations. The author notes that unlike most work with older adults which is based largely…

This study explored the relationship between locus of control, Ss skill/chance perceptions, and verifiability of feedback on Ss decision time in a letter elimination task. Ss were 72 male and 72 female undergraduates, divided into groups of internals and externals based on results from Rotter's I-E scale. In a letter elimination task, several…

This is to be the first of two technical reports sharing the same title. It describes the testing procedures used by the Educational Diagnostic and Planning Center, outlining the manner of data gathering from objective, standardized instruments and other sources. It also describes the collation of data into meaningful descriptive summaries. The…

The fourth volume of the introduction to psychology and leadership course (see the final reports which summarize the development project, EM 010 418, EM 010 419, and EM 010 484) concentrates on achieving effective communication. It is a self-instructional tape script and intrinsically programed booklet. EM 010 427 and EM 010 428 are the first and…

The fourth volume of the introduction to psychology and leadership course (see the final reports which summarize the development project, EM 010 418, EM 010 419, and EM 010 484) concentrates on achieving effective communication and is divided into three separate documents. It is a self-instructional linear text with audiotape and intrinsically…

The fourth volume of the introduction to psychology and leadership course (see the final reports which summarize the development project, EM 010 418, EM 010 419, and EM 010 484) concentrates on achieving effective communication. It is a self-instructional text with audiotape and intrinsically programed sections. EM 010 427 and EM 010 426 are the…

Adlerians believe that change of any lasting value has a fundamental dependency on the client's awareness of how he incorrectly processes data in his life; he must develop the insight necessary to correct the errors in his life style. Also, the therapist must know the goals of the client's behavior in order to make relevant comments in therapy.…