Science and persuasion in the psychological test report.

Psychological test reports are different from traditional medical reports. Rather than solely technical or scientific documents, they are political, diplomatic, strategic persuasions functioning in a complex sociopsychological context. Some principles of writing test reports from this viewpoint are included. (24 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Rapports annuels.

Presents annual reports (1985) from the Canadian Psychological Association, including reports from the Constitution and By-Laws Committee; the Continuing Education Committee; the Convention Committee; the Elections Committee; the Committee on Ethics; the Committee on Fellows and Honorary President; the International Relations Committee; the Nominating Committee; the Professional Affairs Committee; the Publications Committee; the Scientific Affairs Committee; the Committee on Sections; and the Committee on the Status of Women. Sections reports are also provided, including reports from the sections on Brain and Behaviour; Community Psychology; Educational Psychology; Health Psychology; Industrial/Organizational Psychology; Programme Evaluation; Psychology and Religion; Psychopharmacology; Social Psychology; and Women and Psychology. The sections reports are followed by division reports, including reports from the Applied Division and the Experimental Division. Journal reports are then presented, including reports from Canadian Psychology; Canadian Journal of Psychology; and Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Annual reports.

Presents annual reports (1985) from the Canadian Psychological Association, including reports from the Constitution and By-Laws Committee; the Continuing Education Committee; the Convention Committee; the Elections Committee; the Committee on Ethics; the Committee on Fellows and Honorary President; the International Relations Committee; the Nominating Committee; the Professional Affairs Committee; the Publications Committee; the Scientific Affairs Committee; the Committee on Sections; and the Committee on the Status of Women. Sections reports are also provided, including reports from the sections on Brain and Behaviour; Community Psychology; Educational Psychology; Health Psychology; Industrial/Organizational Psychology; Programme Evaluation; Psychology and Religion; Psychopharmacology; Social Psychology; and Women and Psychology. The sections reports are followed by division reports, including reports from the Applied Division and the Experimental Division. Journal reports are then presented, including reports from Canadian Psychology; Canadian Journal of Psychology; and Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Annual Reports-Rapports Annuels.

Annual reports for 1969 of the Canadian Psychological Association are provided. Various committee, federation, finance, budget, and publication reports are included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

CPA-SCP Reports 1973.

Annual reports for 1973 of the Canadian Psychological Association are provided. Various committee, federation, finance, budget, and publication reports are included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Annual Reports/Rapports Annuels.

Annual reports for 1983 of the Canadian Psychological Association are provided. Various committee, federation, finance, budget, and publication reports are included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Recollection rejection: How children edit their false memories.

A new methodology is presented for studying children's ability to suppress memory reports of false-but-gist-consistent events, one that measures children's use of a specific editing operation (recollection rejection) that suppresses false reports by accessing verbatim traces of true events. Children make memory reports under 2 instructional conditions, verbatim and gist, and the data are analyzed with fuzzy-trace theory's conjoint-recognition model. Application of the new methodology in studies of children's false memory for narrative events revealed that (a) false-memory editing increases dramatically between early and middle childhood, (b) even young children spontaneously edit their false memories, (c) measures of children's false-memory editing react appropriately to experimental manipulations, and (d) developmental reductions in the incidence of false-memory reports are primarily due to developmental improvements in verbatim memory ability (rather than to decreases in the formation of false memories). Implications for child forensic interviewing are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Human herpesvirus-8 in hematological diseases

The aims of the experiment were: (1) to establish the proportion of sleep stages in morning spontaneous awakening and to observe whether any stage-dependent differences can be found in the mentation reports; and (2) to compare the characteristics of mental activity during sleep onset (SO) and during the latest sleep period. One hundred forty-four dream reports and their association reports were collected from 36 subjects in a lab experimental design. Dream reports were analyzed as to structure (length, narrative continuity), content (self, setting, lab references, nonself characters, dimensional distortions, body feelings, bizarreness and emotions), and awareness (reality testing). Associations were classified as episodic, abstract self-referred, and semantic memories. The morning awakenings results were not affected by the stage of sleep during which dreaming occurs. SO reports prevalently show a lifelike nature, while sleep-offset reports are prevalently dreamlike. On the other hand, there seems to be a similar availability of mnemonic systems in the two sleep conditions.     

College students' memories of their parents: A factor analysis of the CRPBI.

Administered the revised 18-scale form of the Children's Reports of Parental Behavior Inventory to 119 college females and 99 males. 4 factor analyses females' reports on fathers, females' reports on mothers, males' reports on fathers, and males' reports on mothers were performed. 3 factors, corresponding to Schafer's 3 dimensions of acceptance vs. rejection, psychological autonomy vs. psychological control, and firm control vs. lax control, emerged. Factor structures were similar in all analyses except males' reports of mothers. These differences are discussed in terms of the relative importance of dimensions used by students to evaluate their parents' behavior. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Annual reports: Committee reports.

Presents annual reports from committees of the Canadian Psychological Association. The individual committees included are: Accreditation Committee; By-laws, Rules and Procedures Committee; Continuing Education Committee; Convention Committee; Committee on Education and Training; Elections Committee; Committee on Ethics; Committee on Fellows and Honorary President; International Relations Committee; Membership Committee; Nominating Committee; Professional Affairs Committee; Public Information Committee; Publications Committee; Scientific Affairs Committee; Committee on Sections; and Committee on the Status of Women. Sections reports are also provided, including: Behavioural Science and Applications in the Military; Brain and Behaviour; Community Psychology; Health Psychology; Industrial/Organizational Psychology; Programme Evaluation; Psychological Gerontology; Psychology and Religion; Psychology of Sport and Physical Fitness; Psychophysiology; Social Responsibility; and Women and Psychology. Following the sections reports, division reports are presented. The individual divisions are: Applied Division and Experimental Division. Finally, journal reports are provided, including: Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne and Canadian Journal of Behavioural Sciences/Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Rapports annuels: Rapports des comités.

Presents annual reports from committees of the Canadian Psychological Association. The individual committees included are: Accreditation Committee; By-laws, Rules and Procedures Committee; Continuing Education Committee; Convention Committee; Committee on Education and Training; Elections Committee; Committee on Ethics; Committee on Fellows and Honorary President; International Relations Committee; Membership Committee; Nominating Committee; Professional Affairs Committee; Public Information Committee; Publications Committee; Scientific Affairs Committee; Committee on Sections; and Committee on the Status of Women. Sections reports are also provided, including: Behavioural Science and Applications in the Military; Brain and Behaviour; Community Psychology; Health Psychology; Industrial/Organizational Psychology; Programme Evaluation; Psychological Gerontology; Psychology and Religion; Psychology of Sport and Physical Fitness; Psychophysiology; Social Responsibility; and Women and Psychology. Following the sections reports, division reports are presented. The individual divisions are: Applied Division and Experimental Division. Finally, journal reports are provided, including: Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne and Canadian Journal of Behavioural Sciences/Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Annual reports/Rapports annuels: Committee Reports/Rapports des comités.

Presents the Annual Reports of the Canadian Psychological Association for 1984. The reports consist of Committee reports, Section reports, Division reports, and journal reports. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Psychopathology and early experience: A reappraisal of retrospective reports.

Three potential sources of error in retrospective reports of childhood experiences are documented: low reliability and validity of autobiographical memory in general, the presence of general memory impairment associated with psychopathology, and the presence of specific mood-congruent memory biases associated with psychopathology. The evidence reviewed suggests that claims concerning the general unreliability of retrospective reports are exaggerated and that there is little reason to link psychiatric status with less reliable or less valid recall of early experiences. Nevertheless, it is clear that steps must be taken to overcome the limitations of retrospective reports and enhance their reliability. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

2007 reports of the Regional Associations.

Provides the 2007 reports of APA's Regional Associations. Included are the annual meeting reports from the Eastern Psychological Association, Midwestern Psychological Association, New England Psychological Association, Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Southeastern Psychological Association, Southwestern Psychological Association, and Western Psychological Association. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Military Reports--Published or Not Published?

The author expresses concern with a special kind of paper, the technical report issued by a federal military laboratory representing the original work of a scientist at that facility, and asks the question: Are technical reports issued by military agencies to be considered formal, open scientific publications? The author argues that if it does, then it is perfectly legitimate to refer to such reports in our own scientific writing. If military technical reports do not constitute publication and are to be considered as private unpublished reports, then they should not be used in support of a piece of published work. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Mental activity at sleep onset.

Experimental data, based upon a total of 212 hypnagogic awakenings contributed by 9 Ss, are presented on the incidence of reports of various forms of hypnagogic mentation and on the relationship of such reports to EEG activity. It was found that mental activity in some form or another was invariably reported throughout the hypnagogic period. Content reported was predominantly visual and lacking in affective intensity and it became increasingly hallucinatory and unamenable to voluntary control as EEG patterns shifted from an alpha EEG to a spindling EEG. Dreamlike reports very similar to RFM reports (i.e., dramatic, hallucinatory episodes) were quite common during descending EEG Stages 1 and 2, and also occurred with an alpha rhythm. (28 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Neuroticism and selective encoding and recall of symptoms: Evidence from a combined concurrent-retrospective study.

The association between neuroticism (N) and elevated symptom reporting has been attributed to differences in the encoding, but not in the recall, of illness episodes. If high-N persons are selective only at the encoding of illness information, then retrospective reports should be no more exaggerated than concurrent reports. This study uses a concurrent–retrospective design to examine selectivity in concurrent and retrospective reports of symptoms. Concurrent daily reports gathered over 2 mo were only moderately correlated with retrospective symptom reports covering the same time period. The direct path from N to recalled symptoms was larger than the indirect path from N through concurrent to recalled symptoms for 3 out of 4 symptoms. Discussion concerns implications of using recollection-based measures, suggestions for reducing selective memory effects, and explanations regarding how and why N relates to selective information processing about the self. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

A Plea for Compactness.

The author discusses the growing practice of circulating various kinds of author-published research reports. Presented here are a few suggestions for submitting research reports, such as: compactness, title pages, identifiable author names, and a clearly isolable and informative title. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Subjective report and credibility: An inquiry involving hypnotic hallucinations.

Argues that credibility of subjective reports is situationally determined. A demonstration was considered showing that under conditions where report credibility was a reasonable assumption, hypnotic Ss reported previously suggested hallucinations, whereas simulator controls did not. The evidence also suggest that hypnotic Ss are honest and their reports credible across a variety of situations. It is concluded that subjective reports of hypnotic Ss may well correspond to actual perceptual experience, and that motivated compliance does not satisfactorily explain hypnotic phenomena. (17 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Awareness of the response after feedback training for changes in heart rate and sudomotor laterality.

Examined the relation between (a) the ability to control visceral responding on a biofeedback (BFB) task and (b) the ability to report behaviors actually contributing to this performance in 4 experiments with 97 male Ss. Ss received BFB training for unidentified visceral responses and then gave written reports about what they had done to control BFB displays. Independent judges were given these reports and, on the basis of knowledge about activities known to contribute to visceral activity, were asked to determine the visceral responses for which Ss had been trained. The reports of Ss who succeeded at bidirectional control of heart rate (Exp I) or sudomotor laterality (Exp II) showed awareness of behaviors related to BFB as assessed by this procedure, whereas the reports of Ss who failed at bidirectional control did not. Subsequent experiments indicated that these results did not depend on a learning strategy that might have been specific to the initial studies. Findings question the view that people are unaware of what they have done to produce the response after training on BFB tasks. (81 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)