Describes a study that factor analyzed questionnaire data and compared factor scores of good and poor college-level readers to determine the text-learning strategies of each group. Results, which indicate poor readers rely heavily on study strategies without an understanding of the text to be studied, have implications for remedial reading…

The authors contend failure to confirm Weiner's theory is a result of shortcomings inherent in his model. They argue that cognitive theory has been properly represented and tested, and that the study of achievement behavior is enhanced by the addition of motivational, noncognitive assumptions to their theories. (Author/DWH)

Describes an automated microcomputer system that can present precise stimuli and record accurate responses and discusses its use in studying and training retarded and psychotic children. It is noted that training procedures that require the children to utilize visual, auditory, and bimodal stimuli can be automated with the system. (MBR)

According a more important role in the socialization process to the games children play, this study examines sex differences in childrens' playtime activities. A large body of new empirical data on fifth grade school children suggests that play and games equip boys with the social skills needed for occupational careers while equipping girls with…

A relationship was postulated between the experienced difficulty of patterns and the amount of disorientation of their reproduction. It was proposed that the underlying factor, in the comparison of Africans to Europeans, might be the development of the concept of horizontality, which reduces dependence on the perceptual pull of the prevailing…

Attempts a revision and/or regrouping of Bradley's 38 loneliness items into one or more relatively homogeneous subscales for a population of chronic alcoholics. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this review was to look for trends across time in response rates and variables studied for published mail surveys and to compare response rates and variables studied for different target populations. Studies were identified in databases in four fields: education, psychology, business and marketing, and sociology. A total of 225…

The purpose of the experiments reported in the present paper was to explore further the characteristics and duration of representational persistence, using the word recognition paradigm of Shepard and Teghtsoonian (1961). (Author)

Presents new data suggesting the need for more broadly-conceived data bases before broad conclusions about motivation can be made, and calling for a reevaluation of the concept of success. (Author/JM)

Two experiments are presented in which lateralization of monaural, auditory input affected the evaluation of verbal passages. Discusses lateral differences in evaluating auditory stimuli in the framework of the left hemisphere's specialization for the holistic processing of objective information and the right hemisphere's specialization for the…

Deals with the relationship between attitudinal change and differences in environmental perception. (Author)

The validity of the Controlled Repression-Sensitization scale as an index of intellectualizing and repressive defenses was examined by a measure of affect cognition, which assesses the level of conceptualization and articulation of feelings in Ss' TAT stories. (Author/RK)

Examines some possible relationships between sex-role identity and other factors, specifically, openness vs. closedness, liberalism vs. conservatism, and other cross-sex vs. same-sex parent identification. (Author/RK)

Investigates the locus of control expectancies and defensive styles of a group of Ss who might be expected to be overly internal, i. e., individuals with psychomatic disorders. (Author/RK)

Investigates a part of the typology presented by Jung, extraversion-introversion, as a possible contributor to a better understanding of the drug addicts' personality. (Author/RK)