Nonrecognition of the discrepancy between obvious and subtle items of the MMPI and failure to respond differentially to them were found to be significantly related in both normal and psychiatric sample groups. (Author)

Two basic postulates, (1) ego stage progression with increasing age, and (2) development of the ego as it meets the different crisis elements of the ego stages, were tested on a sample of 120 5-, 8-, and 11-year-old boys, using a projective instrument and a coding system. The first postulate found preliminary confirmation; the validity of the…

Sixty adolescents and their parents provided data which revealed that although parents were able to predict their adolescents' responses to a problem checklist with accuracy greater than change, this form of parental awareness" appears unrelated to the degree to which the adolescent likes the parent or sees himself as similar to the parent.…

The author suggests ways school districts can diminish the possibility of legal action against them by parents who object to psychological testing. These suggestions are also aimed at permitting the psychologist to function in a more secure setting and be seen in a more positive light by the community. (Author)

New items were written for the sensation seeking scale in an attempt to develop new scales representative of hypothesized dimensions of sensation seeking. Four new factors were thrill and adventure seeking, experience seeking, disinhibition and boredom susceptibility which was retained as a subscale for males only. (Author/CG)