Since adults are socializing agents integral to home and school settings, they should have accurate views of children's feelings. Adults' (N=96) predictions were compared to the predictions kindergarten children (N=32) made about the children's affective responses to eight different categories of experiences. The children's predictions, reported…

Several categories of the affective domain are important to the schooling process. Schools are delegated the responsibility of helping students to clarify their esthetic, instrumental, and moral values. Three areas of affect are related to student achievement: subject-related affect, school-related affect, and academic self concept. In addition,…

The assumption that self-concept can be taught and is, therefore, a legitimate educational objective underlies this package of teacher activities. The package offers elementary school teachers multiple self-concept exercises, and the techniques and procedures for their implementation in the classroom. The specific purpose of each exercise is…

Designed for teachers who want to involve their students with value clarification and decision making in the classroom, this activity packet contains materials to help get students thinking about their values. The teacher's role and responsibility in the valuing process is emphasized. For successful values clarification activities, teachers are…

The paper presents results of a study to assess to what extent visiting a museum is an adult learning experience. Study population was 112 adult visitors to the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus during December 1976 and January and February 1977. Visitor behavior was observed and recorded and the visitors were then interviewed for their comments…

This handbook is written for parents who want to reinforce a child's classroom learning by continuing the teaching process at home. Ten desirable teaching behaviors are described. Parents are encouraged to consider themselves as part of a team with their child's teacher. (JD)

This annotated bibliography evaluates and describes picture books designed to help children, ages three to nine, and their parents cope with a variety of emotionally stressful situations ranging from death, divorce, and hospitalization, to feelings of shyness, jealousy, and fear. Some of the books reflect positive feelings like friendship and…

Widely held cultural beliefs assert that alcohol can offer both an ameliorative and preventive solution to the problem of depression. This study attempted to assess the effects of learned helplessness--a possible laboratory analog to reactive depression--on alcohol consumption. Thirty-eight female undergraduates were randomly assigned (within…

This paper discusses problems and approaches in assessing intercultural variation in the affective impact of visual aspects of screen media (film and filmstrips). As a first step in approaching the problem, a semantic differential was used to compare responses of Spanish-speaking and English-speaking samples. Each group saw two films and one…

The changes in preschool children's effective play, affective involvement, and social interaction across a 6-month period of nursery school attendance were examined. Videotaping of the children's activities was done in January/February (pretesting) and May/June (posttesting). The result was a total of approximately 40 hours of tape covering many…

This paper presents some ideas, opinions, and hunches concerning ways to help the professional educator become a more efficient consumer of research. The author states that implied throughout the paper are two assumptions: (1) that educators should be able to interpret and utilize research findings appropriate to their professional responsibility;…

The relative effectiveness of real news violence and fictional entertainment violence was assessed in an experiment with pre-adolescents. One group saw a brief fight scene portrayed as a news story in a simulated TV newscast, while a second group saw the same scene presented as a movie preview during a commercial break. The primary dependent…

Subjects were angered or not angered during a bogus experimental task following which their assistance was solicited. Consistent with derivations from Rawling's concept of Anticipatory Guilt, the results indicated that anger facilitated helping only when the lone bystander's anger was directed toward the victim of an emergency. However, anger…

After receiving a sample shock, subjects in a Threat Condition were told that they would receive additional painful shocks while subjects in a Nonthreat Condition were not threatened with additional shocks. Subjects in an Avoidant Thinking Condition were then instructed to read and think about an amusing story, subjects in a Situation Redefinition…

The affective domain defines levels of behavior that pertain to feelings, emotions, attitudes, and values. The affective domain is important in the educational process because the way a child feels about himself as a learner may have a greater impact on his future development than his mastery of a particular skill or set of skills. Because the…