This present study examines the psycho-emotional and psychophysiological effects that variations in the tempo of background music have on learners who are completing reading comprehension tests while being monitored used multi-modal computer technology. Results of seventy-four (N = 74) participants indicated that listening to fast tempo music…

After a brief comment on adolescent development and the problem of underachievement and learning disabilities, the procedures used by the author in the diagnosis of learning difficulties are discussed. The somewhat arbitrary distinction is made between three approaches to diagnosis; neuropsychological assessment, diagnostic reading procedures, and…

To ascertain whether impulsive responding in behavior disordered adolescents is amenable to change, 15-year-old normal and "acting-out" behavior disordered adolescents participated in an experiment designed to alter Kagan's Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFF) scores through a modeling psychoeducational procedure. No significant…

In an in-school suspension setting, the effects of a therapeutic discipline program and a nontherapeutic discipline program on truants' attitudes and attendance were compared. It was found that therapeutic discipline students (a) held less positive attitudes towards attendance; (b) had better records of attendance; and (c) demonstrated greater…

Randomly assigned 246 African American adolescents either to an educational program or to an 8-week intervention that combined education with behavior skills training. Results indicate that, compared with the education program, youth in behavioral skills training lowered their infection risk to a greater degree, maintained risk reduction changes…