A longitudinal study of sentence context effects in second-grade children: Tests of an interactive-compensatory model

During the first half of the school year and at the end of the school year second-grade children (mean age: 7 years, 4 months at the first testing) completed a task in which they read words preceded by either a congruous sentence context, an incongruous sentence context, or a neutral context. Prior to the first testing, each child was given practice at recognizing one-half of the words in isolation. Word difficulty was varied orthogonally with practice and context condition. The effect of context on reading times decreased with development and practice, and increased with word difficulty. The results were interpreted as supporting an interactive-compensatory model of the development of reading fluency.     

Issues relating to the use of forgiveness in counselling and psychotherapy

This paper explores forgiveness, which is a key component of spiritual pastoral care. Encouraging forgiveness is also one of the spiritual interventions most frequently used by psychotherapists. However, although forgiveness has been explored as an element in psychotherapy, the models generated have had little impact on research and practice. Recent research into forgiveness in therapy is considered, including several models put forward for its use. Some of the implications of the use of forgiveness in therapeutic practice are examined and guidelines for the use of forgiveness in psychotherapy are put forward based on the work of the Forgiveness Project at the University of Manchester.     

Open source standardization: The rise of linux in the network era

To attract complementary assets, firms that sponsor proprietary de facto compatibility standards must trade off control of the standard against the imperative for adoption. For example, Microsoft and Intel in turn gained pervasive adoption of their technologies by appropriating only a single layer of the standards architecture and encouraging competition in other layers. In reaction to such proprietary strategies, the open source movement relinquished control to maximize adoption. To illustrate this, we examine the rise of the Linux operating system from 1995–2001, particularly the motivations of organizational buyers and suppliers of complementary assets, and Microsoft’s reaction to its success.     

Beyond grounded theory: The use of a heuristic approach to qualitative research

The grounded theory approach has become established as the qualitative methodology of choice for many counselling and psychotherapy researchers. It is now becoming apparent to many researchers that there are significant difficulties associated with defining what the grounded theory method actually is, and how is should be implemented. In addition, its popularity has tended to keep other qualitative approaches under‐explored and under‐utilised. This paper explores some of the methodological issues raised by the grounded theory approach, before presenting and then contrasting heuristic inquiry as a very different but equally useful form of qualitative methodology. Finally, the notion of researcher as bricoleur will be considered in the light of the need to develop pluralistic approaches to qualitative research in counselling and psychotherapy.     

An imperfect relationship between prospective memory and the prospective interference effect

Three experiments examined the functional relationship between the frequency of prospective responding and the prospective interference effect within the context of a task switching paradigm. Prospective responding was less frequent across the experiments when prospective cues appeared in switch blocks than when they appeared in pure blocks. The magnitude of the prospective interference effect for response time (RT) was similar for pure and switch blocks when exogenous task cuing was used, and was greater for switch blocks than for pure blocks when endogenous task cuing was used. These data reveal a dissociation between the effect of task switching on the frequency of prospective responding and the prospective interference effect, and indicate that the functional relationship between these two measures is dependent on task demands.     

坚持科学发展观 促进中医药学现代化

中西医各有短长都不要无限夸大自身的优势。中西医互补整合是现代医学发展的潮流。学术争论不要政治化,科技管理要法制化,学者必须从浮华世态中醒悟过来,重建学者应有的人格和道德,纯洁科学的神圣殿堂。坚持科学发展观,中医药学才有长足的进步。     

Childhood behavioral inhibition and the experience of social anxiety in American Indian adolescents

American Indian youth may be at increased risk for anxiety-related problems. Social anxiety is the most common form of anxiety experienced by adolescents, yet little research specific to American Indians has been conducted. Childhood temperament, especially behavioral inhibition (BI), has been identified as an important risk factor for social anxiety in other racial and ethnic groups. This study examined BI in relation to social anxiety in a cross-sectional community-based sample of 86 rural southeastern American Indian adolescents. Patterns of childhood BI suggested cultural variations in the way temperament relates to adolescent social anxiety. Specifically, nonsocially based fears in childhood were associated with social anxiety symptoms in adolescence, which is in contrast to previous findings in non American Indian samples that have suggested continuity between social inhibition in childhood and social anxiety in adolescence. It is recommended that major psychological risk factors, including temperament, be evaluated within the specific social and cultural context of the adolescent population of interest.