This document discusses and critically reviews problems existing with utilizing traditional experimental methods in psychology and the behavioral sciences. Experimental and correlational data collection methods are reviewed and a new data collection method merging the more productive features of each is proposed. The philosophy, strategy, and…

On the assumption that at some stage of reading it is necessary to identify individual letters rapidly and accurately, the present study focused on the use of redundancy in single-letter identification as a function of reader ability. (Author)

This article reported the development of a method aimed at exploring the relations among covert muscle behavior, mental imagery, and the perception of external stimulation. (Author/RK)

This paper reports two experimental studies of self-dicslosure between strangers in the departure lounges of a large metropolitan airport. ( Author)

An experiment was conducted to examine the effect of the manipulation of both teacher and student expectancies upon performance. (Editor)

This article closely follows an address given before the American Association of School Administrators (Atlantic City, February 18, 1969).

The Springs Task measures the ability to conduct controlled experiments, name variables, and criticize variables which are demonstrated to the subject. It provides an operational definition of formal thought. Subjects aged ten to adult can be tested with this instrument, an apparatus-based task administered individually in a 15-minute interview.…

To help evaluate driver education, 50 individuals were tested and trained by means of a simulation technique to determine if drivers could be taught to make accurate last minute passing judgments, and if knowledge of direction and magnitude of error on individual trials would have any influence on this training. In a projection room, each subject…

Two experiments are reported: one with autistic children in a day-care treatment program. the other with "hopeless" rating behavior in a grade six school setting. Although the samples were small (seven in the autistic group, 43 in the sixth grade group), the results indicated conclusively the increased rate of cooperative responses and decrease of…

This study investigates the management and the effectiveness of a personalized system of instruction (PSI) in higher education. The study examined the number of behavioral objectives completed during a lab period as a function of the grade achieved in the course. The study also compared course ratings from students who are receiving instruction in…

Three studies investigate the effects of imagery on long-term retention in a free-recall task. (Editor)

Three experiments are reported introducing variations in testing mode and cuing context into the general procedures used to demonstrate recognition failure of recallable words. The study concludes that recognition failure phenomena represent a special class of context effects. (Editor/RK)

A commentary is made on each of five symposium papers on the unification of cognitive process theory and differential psychology. Future research directions are reviewed within a new theoretical framework as to the process nature of aptitudes and general intelligence. Future psychometric directions and educational implications are discussed. (RD)

Three experiments assessed the effect of visual familiarity of words on "same-different" reaction times (RTs) in a simultaneous-matching task. All three studies showed visual familiarity to be responsible for differences in slope over sequence length between words and nonwords. (Editor/RK)

The relationship between the depth to which a word is initially processed and its eventual probability of being recognized was investigated with amnesiac (alcoholic Korsakoff) patients. (Editor)