An Agentive Model Of Person-Environment Relations, Nicholas Patricios
Oct 1978
An Agentive Model Of Person-Environment Relations, Nicholas Patricios
Nicholas Patricios
Three fundamentally different positions regarding the conceptualization of person‐environment relations are briefly discussed. An argument is made for the transactional‐constructivist position which regards the nature of what we take to be the environment as that which is only apprehended through the minds and actions of persons. The transformational process of this view of person‐environment relations, that of environmental knowing‐action, is elaborated upon in some detail. The transactional‐constructivist position, however, is transformed into an agentive one by adopting from the three basic images of persons that have been identified that of a person as agent. Consequently in the agentive process of …
Tokens For Stuttering, Jay R. Lucker, C. Woodruff Starkweather
Aug 1978
Tokens For Stuttering, Jay R. Lucker, C. Woodruff Starkweather
Jay Lucker
Four young stutterers were observed during 10 weekly sessions. Each session was divided into pretreatment, treatment, and posttreatment segments. Redeemable tokens were administered contingent upon stuttering behaviors in the treatment segment of the Experimental condition. In a Parallel Control condition, no tokens were administered during the entire session. The differences between the pretreatment and treatment segments were compared for the two conditions. Three subjects had dramatically fewer stuttering behaviors when tokens were being administered, while the fourth had more stuttering under the same condition. The subject whose stuttering increased had a history of therapy in which voluntary, “faked” stuttering had …
Effects Of Instructional Set On The Comfortable Loudness Range, Jay R. Lucker
May 1978
Effects Of Instructional Set On The Comfortable Loudness Range, Jay R. Lucker
Jay Lucker
Ten normal-hearing young adult subjects measured their Comfortable Loudness Ranges (CLRs) using two instructional sets. The first instructional set (range tracking) was similar to the Bekesy Comfortable Loudness tracking method described by Jerger and Jerger (1974). The second instructional set (limit tracking) required the subjects to perform separate trackings of each limit (upper and lower) of their CLRs. Results demonstrated a 34.4 dB difference between CLRs for the two instructional sets. The range tracking method yielded the narrowest CLR. Both instructional sets yielded similar upper limits of the CLR. The results of the present investigation demonstrate the importance of instructions …
The Concept Of Political Freedom, Michael Pritchard
Dec 1977
The Concept Of Political Freedom, Michael Pritchard
Michael Pritchard
No abstract available.
Schooling And Inequality In Pre-Revolutionary Ethiopia, Asayehgn Desta
Dec 1977
Schooling And Inequality In Pre-Revolutionary Ethiopia, Asayehgn Desta
Asayehgn Desta
"In the past, the naive observer could only be impressed that Ethiopia offed free education through the university level. In many cases, students were even furnished small stipends to subsist (Abir, 1970). However, an examination of the educational profile of prerevolutionary Ethiopia reveals that it was characterized by a low school attendance and sexual inequality. The dropout rate was very high, and unemployment among high school graduates was quite conspicuous. The purpose of this study is to highlight the lack of educational opportunity that existed in prerevolutionary Ethiopia." ~ from the article
