Discusses a study to determine the effectiveness of training prisoners as peer counselors through a series of videotaped programs. This method, which proved as effective as a "live" training experience, provides an alternative to correctional institutions in short supply of funds. (KC)

Understanding the concept of interaction is vital to understanding the relationships of dimensions of phenomena under study. Use of multivariate analysis of variance is described as a useful approach for discovering the extent to which events may be complexly interaffecting. (Author/AV)

A model is described for teaching about death and dying with emphasis on mental health aspects. The author relates personal observations from her experience as a death educator and suggests precautions for individuals organizing thanatology courses for the first time. (AV)

A description is given of the teaching approach used in a 40-week undergraduate training program combining the academic and the applied in preparation for graduate work or immediate employment. The program includes introduction, block placement, and practicum placement. (AV)

A lunch-hour psychology course provides continuing education for the community in an informal atmosphere with lectures by university faculty members and other specialists on various social science issues, and has a nonthreatening grading system. (AV)

Two courses were combined experimentally and succeeded in providing college students with in-depth learning about creativity: a psychology course explored psychologists' efforts to understand creativity and encouraged student self-exploration, and an art course focused on creativity as a way of living. Group projects and evaluation are discussed.…

A study to investigate the effectiveness of the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) in teaching a college developmental psychology course is described. PSI students were found to be superior on within-course tests and on a 5-weeks delayed retention test. (AV)

Changes since 1974 in publication arrangements of Teaching of Psychology between American Psychological Association Division Two and the Publications and Communications Board are reviewed. (AV)

An American Psychological Association evaluation of the Teaching of Psychology indicates that the quality of its published materials is good, the need for the journal exists, and revenues and expenses can be brought into balance. Evaluation methodology and general findings are discussed. (Author/AV)

Articles stress the need for (1) a system to reduce the number of multiple applications to graduate programs in psychology; (2) centralized information about the status of psychology in precollege curricula; and (3) greater research experience with real-life relevance for undergraduate psychology students. (AV)

In three college level psychology courses the author has used a "media project" technique to relate course content to popular media. Students search popular media for items applicable to the course and then rate them for relevance, centrality, and degree of misrepresentation. (AV)

A comparative study of two high school courses about mental illness shows that a medical model course increased students' feelings that causal determinants of problems in living are rooted in childhood, whereas a course using the Mental Illness Game promoted increased emphasis on psychosocial influences and social tolerance. (Author/AV)

A laboratory exercise is described in which students view the environment through a transparent frontal parallel plane. The relationship of projected size to distance can be studied, and other cues to distance based on this geometric relationship can be appreciated. (Author/AV)

Method, results, and conclusions are discussed of a study to compare responses to 3-choice test items with responses to 4-choice items when the question or statement being presented was held constant. (Author/AV)

Discusses a survey of psychology departments in 43 small liberal arts colleges in the United States. Information was obtained about demographic patterns of students and faculty, administrative support for faculty research, library budgets, expenditures for new equipment, components of a core psychology curriculum, and student interests and career…