Conservatism and personality factors in a sample of adolescents

Relationships between Cattell High School Personality Questionaire factors and the adolescent version of the Wilson-Patterson Conservatism Scale were examined in a sample of 492 teenagers. Conservatism was significantly related to a number of personality traits in both boys and girls. Results suggest the existence of a “conservative personality.”     

Higher-order units in reading instruction

Gibson and her colleagues have presented arguments and evidence suggesting that the most appropriate unit to teach in reading is neither the single letter nor the whole word but a higher-order unit determined from examining grapheme-phoneme correspondences. The present study employed a computer analysis of the most frequently occurring (approximately 18,000) words in the English language. All letter strings from two to seven letters in length (here after called ngrams) were output with all the words in which the ngram appeared printed beneath the ngram. In addition type and token frequencies of each ngram were calculated and printed in separate rank order and alphabetic lists. Preliminary analysis of the consistency of mappings of various ngrams suggests that many are potentially useful for reading instruction. Current research with the computer is designed to extend the preliminary analysis.     

Problem solving as a function of abstract or concrete words

Two groups of undergraduates were required to verbally reorder previously memorized pairs of nouns to detect the underlying structural relationship or chain among certain memorized pairs. While the types of word chains were always structurally identical for the two groups, the groups differed as to whether the list of word pairs were concrete or abstract nouns. Subjects who received concrete words both memorized the pairs and solved the problems in less time than did subjects who received abstract word pairs. Superior performance was supposedly due to the differential effect of imaginai versus verbal encoding. Implications were discussed regarding both educational and psychological issues.     

浅谈抚仙湖的环境治理与旅游开发

抚仙湖是云南省重要的旅游资源 .由于缺乏统一规划、统一的管理体制和机构 ,抚仙湖沿岸旅游设施的低水平重复建设和“破坏性建设”现象非常严重 ,这极大地制约了抚仙湖旅游业的发展 ,同时也破坏抚仙湖的自然环境 .为此 ,应以拆迁、景观恢复为主要内容进行环境的综合治理 ,把抚仙湖旅游度假区建成一个高起点、多功能、国际化、综合型的旅游度假示范区 .     

西部开发的三个认识问题

西部开发要突破传统的经济发展思路,选择"迂回发展"的模式,先搞好人力资源开发、环境保护、制度创新、基础设施建设等基础性工作,创造一个有利于发展的大环境,增强西部地区的市场吸引力和自力更生的能力.     

浅谈邓小平关于西部开发的思想

邓小平把"共同富裕"作为社会的基本目标并提出共同富裕的途径是"部分先富".由此,邓小平提出"两个大局"的战略思想.实施西部开发战略是邓小平关于西部开发思想的必然实践.     

我国西部发展战略问题的系统探析

本文提出我国东西部区际差距成因在于“回流效应”,缩小东西部地区经济发展差距的战略对策为“适度倾斜──整体协调”战略。     

在中国"入世"背景下看中西文化趋同与差异

近年来,中国与西方国家在文化、贸易等领域的交往日益增多.在此过程中,中西方各自不同的价值观念、民族心理、语言习惯、民俗风情、生活方式等相互渗透、融合,同时又不可避免地发生碰撞与冲突,从而出现了中西文化诸多的趋同与差异现象,本文在中国"入世"背景下对这些现象进行了深入的分析.     

转型期甘肃省天水市县(区)级图书馆现状分析与前景展望--天水市县(区)级图书馆个案研究

本文通过具体数字,采用对比分析方法,就天水市五县一区图书馆存在的突出问题,从宏观和微观角度进行了深入透彻的剖析,并结合自身工作实际,借鉴先进馆的经验,提出了切实可行的解决措施,展望了图书馆的美好的愿景。     

Affection as a separate dimension of meaningfulness

The meaningfulness of affectively significant (liked) materials has been shown to be separate from traditional explanations of meaningfulness, such as familiarity and rehearsal, in the verbal learning laboratory. The present investigation studied affective meaningfulness in the learning of course materials. Before the course began, students rated summaries of the study units of their course for affection. As predicted, subjects obtained higher examination grades on liked topics than on disliked topics, independently of perhaps the most prominent “rehearsal” explanation, amount of study on the various units. Also as expected, poor students showed a greater reliance on affective meaningfulness in their learning than did good students. Greater awareness of the role of affection in learning is recommended. Present findings suggest that considering this dimension of meaningfulness to be merely a by-product of familiarity or rehearsal may be the most detrimental to the students with the most learning difficulty.