Discovering social difference: the role of appearance in the development of racial awareness

Article Abstract:

An experiment to examine the perceptions of French preschool children, and how they remembered racial and additional social data, indicates that memories of visual stimuli differ from memories of verbal accounts. More information on race of characters was remebered in stories where this was mentioned, than from pictures where the race was part of the visual input. Differences in how the children remembered these details are likely to be a reflection of separate conceptual formats being employed for different social categorizations, and there seems to be an overlap between visual perception and verbal categories.

Offices of health practitioners, not elsewhere classified, Analysis, Case studies, Perception, Perception (Psychology), Psychological research

---

The structure of vocational interests for diverse racial-ethnic groups

Article Abstract:

The development of interest inventories and vocational theories in the nation has relied on mostly white, middle-class responses. The application of interest inventories on ethnic groups has been questioned because of discrepancies between scale scores based on white responses and those based on ethnic minority responses. A study was conducted to determine if the discrepancies in the scale scores of these experiments were due to the use of inadequate sample sets and/or the existence of a suspect sampling situation. Results are discussed.

Research, Minorities, Test validity, Vocational interests, Interest inventories

---

Awareness of breathing: the structure of language descriptors of respiratory sensations

Article Abstract:

The use of 20 verbal descriptors of respiratory symptoms is examined. Results indicate that multiple decriptors are more effective in accessing patients' cognitive representations of respiratory symptoms compared to isolated sensations. The integrity of the clusters of descriptors is evaluated.

Germany, Diagnosis, Terminology, Pulmonary manifestations of general diseases, Respiratory symptoms, Clinical report

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Adolescent focal theories: age-trends in developmental transitions. Early childhood traumatic development and its impact on gender identity
• Abstracts: Neurasthenia and chronic fatigue syndrome: the role of culture in the making of a diagnosis. Characteristics of 60 adult chronic hair pullers
• Abstracts: An investigation of the progressive sequence of ego development levels. Intellectual evaluations of children using human figure drawings: an empirical investigation of two methods
• Abstracts: Repetitive and stereotyped behaviors in pervasive developmental disorders. Impaired balance in developmental dyslexia? A meta-analysis of the contending evidence
• Abstracts: Dichotic listening in children: the reflection of verbal and attentional changes with age. Verbal and facial measures of children's emotion and empathy

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.