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Anxiety in women associated with a non-traditional or traditional career choice.
(1982)
The past century has witnessed an effort on the part of various feminist groups to improve the status of American women in contemporary society. Two or three decades of women's liberation and an increased sense of autonomy ...
Siblings of handicapped children :
(1984)
A 3 x 2 x 2 multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) performed on subject scores on the two dependent measures suggested that the siblings of handicapped children expressed different attitudes and/or levels of adjustment ...
The effect of incongruent information on schematic processing in person memory.
(1983)
Results showed that the introduction of information that is highly incongruent with a schema makes information supporting the schema more memorable than it is when only congruent information is heard. This pattern of results ...
The role of a decision maker's perspective in the generation and assessment of actions in a conflict situation.
(1982)
These results may suggest that perspective has only limited influence on the generation and assessment of actions an opponent might take to resolve a conflict. Without further research, it is difficult to determine whether ...
Environmental cues and associative learning.
(1982)
The proposed model is based on the principles of classical conditioning and as such focuses on the importance of spatial or temporal contiguity of contextual cues and list or task items and the reliability of these cues ...
Dialect differences in statement verification among children.
(1982)
Two verification tasks were designed, one in SE, Task 1 (e.g., You aren't a baby) and the other in BE, Task 2 (e.g., You ain't no baby). All subjects received both tasks. The two tasks consisted of true affirmative, false ...
Adult developmental shift in memory-encoding strategies :
(1982)
Adult age differences in encoding strategies used for story information were assessed by cued recall task. Subjects heard a taped version of short story, looked at three pictures illustrating that story, or heard the story ...
Hypothesis generation in an automobile malfunction inference task.
(1980)
Expert and novice subjects generated hypotheses in an automobile trouble-shooting inference task. Data collected included subjects' verbal protocols during the inference tasks and subjects' estimates of the probabilities ...
Social comparison and the perception of similarity /
(1984)
Two experiments are presented which redefine traditional dimensions of similarity in flavor of a model of perceived similarity. In Experiment 1, subjects were given information about themselves and others along an attitude ...
An analytical comparison of conventional and tailored tests.
(1981)
Tailored tests were compared to 'best fixed' tests consisting of optimally chosen sets of items for all examinees. The results indicated that while the fixed tests provided very little information at the extremes of the ...