Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health: An Anthology of Program ReportsNational Institute of Mental Health, 1970 - 419 pages |
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Page 174 - If the number of customers Tom gets is twice the square of 20 per cent of the number of advertisements he runs, and the number of advertisements he runs is 45, what is the number of customers Tom gets?
Page 246 - DOROTHY, & LEVINE, S. Fluorometric determination of corticosterone and cortisol in 0.02-0.05 milliliters of plasma or submilligram samples of adrenal tissue. Endocrinology, 1964, 74, 653-655.
Page 172 - Well, looking at the left-hand side of the equation, first we want to eliminate one of the sides by using Rule 8. It appears too complicated to work with first. Now — no, — no, I can't do that because I will be eliminating either the Q or the /
Page 349 - No matter what a person's political beliefs are, he is entitled to the same legal rights and protections as anyone else. 96.4 94.3 I believe in free speech for all no matter what their views might be.
Page 173 - I can almost apply rule 7, but one R needs a tilde. So I'll have to look for another rule. I'm going to see if I can change that R to a tilde R.
Page 416 - ... snake that appeared strikingly different. The rest of the groups saw the snakes in reverse order. The subjects were asked to look at, touch, and hold a snake with bare and gloved hands; to remove the snake from its cage, let it loose in the room, and then replace it in the cage; to hold it within 5 inches of their faces, and finally to tolerate the snake in their laps while they held their hands passively at their sides. Before and during these tests clients rated the intensity of their anxiety...
Page 405 - Walters, Llewellyn-Thomas, & Acker, 1962) have uniformly demonstrated that vicarious participation in aggressive activity increases, rather than decreases, aggressive behavior. On the other hand, providing aggressive children with examples of alternative, constructive ways of coping with interpersonal frustration has been found to be highly successful in modifying aggressivedomineering personality patterns (Chittenden, 1942). Additional comparisons of social-learning theory and the traditional approaches...
Page 174 - ... the number of customers Tom gets Q.) With mandatory substitutions the problem is: (If the number of customers Tom gets is 2 times the square 20 percent of the number of advertisements he runs, and the number of advertisements he runs is 45, what is the number of customers Tom gets...
Page 150 - ... children on measures of ability and achievement Commenting upon these findings by a number of investigators, a New York State research team points out that evidently something happens, or fails to happen, during a critical period early in life to stunt the intellectual development of disadvantaged children. Consequently, they enter school with a handicap many of them can never overcome. Why the difference? What happens or doesn't happen? How can the situation be changed? The answers are being...
Page 404 - ... and a female subject reproducing the behavior of the female model they had observed earlier on film. The prediction that imitation is positively related to the reality cues of the model was only partially supported. While subjects who observed the real-life aggressive models exhibited significantly more imitative aggression than subjects who viewed the cartoon model, no significant differences were found between the live and film, and the film and cartoon conditions, nor did the three experimental...