Proceedings of the seventy-third annual business meeting: Report of the Recording Secretary.

Presents the Report of the Recording Secretary regarding the Proceedings of the Seventy-Third Annual Business Meeting. The Secretary reports that it is particularly difficult this year to pick out a very few items for report because Council, for good reasons, completed only about 40% of its agenda. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Report of the recording secretary.

Presents the (1967) report of the Recording Secretary of the Council of Representatives of the American Psychological Association (APA). Issues addressed include proposed accreditation of doctoral programs in school psychology, the continuing problem of accreditation of internship agencies, a proposal that training programs requesting evaluation be assessed a part of the cost of the accreditation, and issues related to APA's financial needs. Issues briefly noted included the role of psychology with respect to social issues, Congressional and other attacks on the use of psychological tests, and public affairs policies. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

APA's first publication: Proceedings of the American Psychological Association, 1892–2893.

Presents a reprint of Secretary J. M. Cattell's (1894) Proceedings of the American Psychological Association. The 1st publication of the American Psychological Association (APA) contained the proceedings of the 1st and 2nd annual meetings held in 1892 and 1893, including an address by the president of the APA in 1893. Abstracts of papers presented at the meetings focus on topics that include observation errors, pain, the relation of stimulus intensity to the reaction time (RT), visual memory, and the problem of psychological measurement. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Discusses President Johnson's selection of John W. Gardner, President of Carnegie Corporation of New York and of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, as Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Also gives background, and biographical information on John W. Gardner. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Minutes of the Annual Meeting/Proces-Verbal de L'Assemblee General Annuelle.

Presents the minutes of Annual Business General Meeting held in Winnipeg, Manitoba on June 9, 1983. The President, Terrence Hogan, acted as Chair of the Meeting and the Administrative Assistant, Janet Watt, as Secretary. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Karl Florien Heiser (1904–1991): Obituary.

Memorializes Karl Florien Heiser (1904–1991). Heiser was a former Executive Secretary of the American Psychological Association (APA), founder and president of the Connecticut State Society of Psychologists, and one of the authors of the 1st psychology certification law in the US, for which he received a plaque by the Division of State Psychological Association Affairs of APA. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

American Psychological Foundation Awards for 1977: Gold Medal, Distinguished Contribution to Education in Psychology, and the National Media.

On August 27, 1977, at the annual meeting of the APA in San Francisco, the American Psychological Foundation announced the recipients of the Gold Medal Award, the Distinguished Contribution to Education in Psychology Award, and the National Media Awards. William Bevan, President of the APF, made the presentations. Daniel Katz received the Gold Medal Award; Fred McKinney was given the Teaching Award. National Media Award winners were Alice Lake, Peter Chew, Joel Greenberg, Ira Flatow, and WNEW-TV, New York. Other members of the APF are George W. Albee (Vice-President), Boris E. Cherney (Treasurer), Charles A. Kiesler (Secretary), Anne Anastasi, Albert Bandura, Donald T. Campbell, Kenneth B. Clark, Wilbert J. McKeachie, and Leona E. Tyler. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Secretary/Treasurer’s report.

Presents the report of the Secretary/Treasurer of the APA's Division 13 (Consulting Psychology) regarding the Division's mid-Winter meeting, February 13, 1993. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Minutes of the CPA annual general meeting.

This article reports the minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, which was held at the Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia on June 19th, 1987. The President, Kenneth Craig, acted as Chair of the Meeting and the Associate Executive Director, Brenda Stoneham, as Secretary. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

American Psychological Foundation Awards for 1973: Gold Medal, Distinguished Contributions to Education in Psychology, and the National Media.

On August 28, 1973, at the annual meeting of the APA in Montreal, the American Psychological Foundation announced the recipients of the Gold Medal Award, the Distinguished Contributions to Education in Psychology Awards, and the National Media Awards. The presentations were made by Henry W. Riecken, President of the American Psychological Foundation (APF). Harry F. Harlow received the Gold Medal Award; James B. Maas and Frank J. McGuigan were given the Teaching Awards; and Gerald Jonas, ABC News and Jules Power Productions, the Great Atlantic Radio Conspiracy, Christine Darg, and Elliott Aronson were the recipients of the National Media Awards. Other members of the APF are Nicholas Hobbs, Gardner Lindzey (Vice-President}, Boris E. Cherney (Treasurer), George Miller, George Albee, William Bevan, Kenneth B. Little (Secretary), Kenneth B. Clark, and Anne Anastasi. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The role of the family in the nurture and protection of the young.

U.S. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett discusses the federal government's failure over the past two decades to alter substantially many of the problems facing the nation's youth. He suggests that the family is better able to make decisions regarding the well-being of its young members than is the federal government and that federal policy, therefore, should be concerned primarily in strengthening rather than supplanting the family's influence and authority. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

American Psychological Foundation Awards for 1976: Gold Medal, Distinguished Contributions to Education in Psychology, and the National Media.

On September 4, 1976, at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association (APA) in Washington, D.C., the American Psychological Foundation (APF) announced the recipients of the Gold Medal Award, the Distinguished Contributions to Education in Psychology Award, and the National Media Awards. William Sevan, President of the APF, made the presentations. Arthur W. Melton received the Gold Medal Award. James V. McConnell was given the Teaching Award. National Media Award winners were Jonathan L. Freedman, Edward Edelson, Kenneth L. Woodward, and Lonnie Carton. Other members of the APF are George W. Albee (Vice-President), Boris E. Cherney (Treasurer), Charles A. Kiesler (Secretary), Anne Anastasi, Albert Bandura, Donald T. Campbell, Kenneth B. Clark, Kenneth B. Little, Wilbert J. McKeachie, George A. Miller, and Leona E. Tyler. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

American Psychological Foundation Awards for 1978: Gold Medal, Distinguished Contribution to Education in Psychology, Unique Contribution in the Teaching of Psychology, and the National Media.

On August 29, 1978, at the annual meeting of the APA in Toronto, the American Psychological Foundation announced the recipients of the Gold Medal Award, the Distinguished Contribution to Education in Psychology Award, a special award for Unique Contribution in the Teaching of Psychology, and the National Media Awards. George Albee, President of the APF, made the presentations. Ernest R. Hilgard received the Gold Medal Award; Douglas K. Candland was given the Teaching Award; and Robert S. Daniel was the recipient of the Unique Contribution in the Teaching of Psychology Award. National Media Award winners were Robert M. Stern and William J. Ray, Emily Hahn, Elizabeth Einstein, Eric Braun, and Stephen Glauber and Dan Rather. Other members of the APF are Wilbert J. McKeachie (Vice-President}, Boris E. Cherney (Treasurer), Charles A. Kiesler (Secretary), Kenneth B. Clark, Anne Anastasi, Leona E. Tyler, Albert Bandura, Donald T. Campbell, and Theodore H. Blau. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Effect of audiorecording and videorecording on client satisfaction and self-expression.

Examined the effects of audiorecording and videorecording for the purpose of counselor supervision on 60 undergraduates with personal or education-vocational problems. Videorecording inhibited the self-exploration of Ss with personal problems and resulted in less satisfaction with counseling. Both recording methods inhibited self-exploration in Ss with educational-vocational problems, but neither method affected their satisfaction. Recording methods also affected Ss' self-reports of the extent to which they felt inhibited by these methods, and the effect was equal across problem types. The effects of recording did not decrease from the 1st-2nd interview. Recording did not affect Ss' responses to, or counselors' ratings of the Ss on, an excitation-inhibition scale. (19 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Across the Secretary's Desk: Sample of Outgoing Mail.

In February, the Executive Secretary hit upon a new and to him a nicely adaptive mechanism for meeting the constantly felt need to let American Psychological Association (APA) members know at least as much as they want to about the operation of their Central Office. He asked the professional staff of the Central Office to look through copies of the last month's correspondence from the Secretary's Audograph to see if they could find material that was (a) of at least mild potential interest to a number of APA members, (b) illustrative of some facet of APA functioning, (c) free of any threat to the privacy of the recipient, and (d) at least moderately literate. Each member of the staff found some material which he was willing, under pressure, to mark as meeting the above criteria. Though the level of reliability was nothing to brag about, the process, abetted by some editorial license, resulted in the following array of sentences and paragraphs from the Executive Secretary's outgoing correspondence for a month or so early in 1955. Each item is reproduced in this article with the permission of its recipient. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Report of testimony at a congressional hearing.

Testimony given by Roger W. Russell, Executive Secretary of the APA, and Lee J. Cronbach, immediate past President of APA, to the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare on February 27, 1958 during hearings on legislative proposals affecting science and education is presented. After a brief introduction concerning the APA and its representatives, the need for highly educated persons in the profession was indicated. Other major topics included: The Nature and Identification of Talent, Testing Programs, Motivation of Talented Students, Counseling and Counselor Training, Science Information Service, and Research on Educational Problems. Support is expressed for bill S. 3163 which provides for research in more effective methods of teaching foreign languages and for S. 3187 which provides for an Institute for Research and Experimentation in New Educational Media. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Minutes of the CPA Annual General Meeting.

The Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association was held at the World Trade and Convention Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, on June 7,1985 at 4:00 p.m. The President, Elinor Ames, acted as Chair of the Meeting and the Administrative Officer, Brenda Stoneham, as Secretary. The minutes presented here include: Adoption of Agenda; Approval of Minutes; Report of the President; CPA Awards; Appointments; Finance; By-Laws, Rules, and Procedures; Membership and Journal Circulation; Executive Director's Report; Journal Reports; Division Reports; Annual Meetings; Committee Reports; Affiliations; Other Business; and Adjournment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The Committee on Psychology in National and International Affairs.

The author who is the full-time Executive Secretary of the committee "serves to facilitate the Committee's operations by establishing and maintaining liaison with staffs of governmental agencies, Congressional offices, and other professional and public affairs organizations in order to determine their activities and interests, and to provide them with relevant information concerning the availability of behavioral science resources. Major sections are: Current Program, and Other Continuing and Contemplated Activities. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

"Chance" scores on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank for men.

Strong's estimated chance score ranges on the SVIB scales are compared with the chance variance for most of the scales, computed from the assumption of zero item intercorrelations (obtained when the blank is filled out in all possible ways). "Most of the differences are small, and the positive and negative errors of estimate are about equally divided. The greatest difference is in the Aviator scale, where Strong's estimate is about 1.4 standard score points too high. This difference is significant at the 1% level as judged by the F test. Three others (Engineer, Chemist, and Y. Secretary) are significant at the 5% level." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)