Seven autistic, seven Down's syndrome, and seven normal children of approximately the same mental age were trained on a single dimension, simultaneous match-to match problem. The results suggest that Down's syndrome, and not autistic children suffer from additional deficits. (Author/KC)

This paper reports a case study of the psychological correlates of students' adjustment to a small urban free school. Forty male and thirty female students voluntarily answered the New Morning Student Questionnaire and the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale. Results showed that students were psychologically well adjusted. (Author)

This replication of a 1971 study compared students' and parents' attitudes toward 32 issues of university life. The results indicate that there was little change in the attitudes of students and parents over the four-year period since the first study. Basic areas of agreement and disagreement between students and parents remained. (Author)

Differential Aptitude Test (DAT) scores of 2,622 students who were tested in the 8th, 9th, or 10th grades and who later entered a Minnesota area vocational-technical school were analyzed to determine the relationships between test scores and training program entered. Results are presented. (Author)

The relationship was studied between the set of constructs specified by Holland's (1973) theory (viz, Realistic, Intellectual, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional) measured by an Adjective List (AL) derived from Holland's theory and the same set of constructs as measured by the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI). (Author)

An operational index of discrepancy to assist in identifying learning disabilities was derived using the Full Scale IQ, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, and relevant subtest scores on the Peabody Individual Achievement Test. Considerable caution should be exercised when classifying children, especially females, as learning disabled.…

In this present study, a social learning theory of the family which links cognitive performance with distal and proximal environment variables is tested. The findings suggest that differences in the cognitive performance of children are better understood by analyzing relationships between structural social forces and the family learning…

Two techniques of videotape recorded modeling for training counselors to ask open-ended questions (OEQ) were examined. Undergraduate peer counselors (N = 18) were randomly assigned to pure video models, corrective video models, or notreatment control. Findings support that a pure video model results in greater learning than a corrective video…

The purpose of this investigation is to compare the descriptions of group process obtained from the Hill Interaction Matrix (Form G) and the Bonney Scale in rating an extended counseling group of psychiatric residents (N = 10). (Author)

Young and middle-aged adults contrast with aged adults in their reactions to sudden economic expansion in a small town favored by many as their retirement community. During anthropological research in this community, conflicts between various age strata were noted to be more intense when persons are strangers. (Author)

This study revealed practitioners place greatest importance on those variables usually associated with a more "active" approach to counseling while the educators identify more closely with those variables associated with a more "passive" approach to counseling. (Author)

Compares vocational interests of freshmen in Basic Interest scale scores on the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory. Significant differences in Basic Interests were found between Arts and Science freshmen as well as between sexes within these curricula. (Author)

Examined relationships between differences in counsellor trainee's perceived and measured need levels and Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores and grade point averages (GPA). GRE scores were generally inversely related to differences in measured and perceived needs levels' higher GRE scores were associated with smaller differences. (Author)

Chicano and Anglo perceptions of the university environment were compared on the seven scales of CUES II. Of the seven scales, only one, the practicallity scale, reached the level of significance, with the Chicano group scoring significantly higher. None of the other F statistics approached the level of significance. (Author)

Differences in the CUES II dimensions of psychological climate found between two campuses of a multicampus community college suggest that, environmentally, multicampus colleges are as diverse from one campus to another as one institution is from another institution. (Author)