Ronald Taft
Biographic Data
| ID | 354036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald Taft |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald |
| FAMILY NAME | Taft |
| SIGNATURE | TAFT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1946 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Mother tongue maintenance in Lebanese immigrant families in Australia
Maintenance of mother tongue (L1) by immigrants implies both competence in the language and the use of it. A study was conducted on the maintenance of L1 by 10‐ to 11‐year‐old children of Lebanese immigrants in Melbourne. While most of the 62 subjects could speak Lebanese well, few could read or write it. It was found that the children's competence in L1 was largely a function of the literacy level of their parents and their interest in the quali…
Psychology and its history in australia
(1982). Psychology and its history in australia. Australian Psychologist: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 31-39
A Comparative Study of the Initial Adjustment of Immigrant Schoolchildren in Australia
Ronald Taft, A Comparative Study of the Initial Adjustment of Immigrant Schoolchildren in Australia, The International Migration Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, Special Issue: Caribbean Migration to New York (Spring, 1979), pp. 71-80
A Comparative Study of the Initial Adjustment of Immigrant Schoolchildren in Australia
The study reported in this paper investigates the nature of the stresses on immigrant schoolchildren, newly arrived in Australia, and the degree and type of maladjustments which become evident. The author examines, then, the adjustment path (improving, deteriorating, or curved) in an effort to determine whether the ease of adjustment for the three national groups under study is a function of their relative facility with the English language
The effect of a planned intercultural experience on the attitudes and behavior of the participants
Encouraging Development in College Students
Psychology in Australia: Achievements & Prospects
Cross‐cultural psychology as a social science: Comments on Faucheux's paper
A Measure of Preference for Speaking Rather than Writing and its Relationship To Expressive Language Skills in Adolescents
A description is given of the development of a 15 item inventory for measuring the degree of preference for speaking versus writing (SWPI) in a variety of situations appropriate to secondary school students. Preference for speaking was correlated positively with sociability and with the quality of oral expression but not with the quality of written expression. There was no relationship between preference for speaking or writing and the following …
Some characteristics of the parents of creative twelve‐year‐olds
The Professional Socialization of Schoolteachers as Social Assimilation
The Structure and Growth of Australia's Aboriginal Population
Originality on Demand
Measures of fluency and originality were obtained from the Unusual Uses Test administered twice to the same group of 60 Ss: first, under “neutral” instructions, and second under instructions which stressed originality. Compared with scores obtained from the first administration, under “originality” instructions the number of responses (fluency) decreased, but the number and proportion of original responses increased. Improvement in originality wa…
The Destruction of Aboriginal Society
Attitudes and Social Conditions: Essays
Creativity: Hot and cold
S ummary Cognitive theorists have frequently distinguished between two types of thinking, one associated with control and reason, and the other with emotional expression A similar distinction was made by Freud between secondary and primary process thinking This paper has investigated whether corresponding styles of creativity can be discovered A study was reported in which two types of behaviour appeared a permissive, expressive type, and a contr…
A Note on the Characteristics of the Members of Mensa, A Potential Subject Pool
(1971). A Note on the Characteristics of the Members of Mensa, A Potential Subject Pool. The Journal of Social Psychology: Vol. 83, No. 1, pp. 107-111
From Stranger to Citizen. A Survey of Studies of Immigrant Assimilation in Western Australia
Australian Attitudes toward Immigrants: A Review of Social Survey Findings
Australian Attitudes toward Immigrants: A Review of Social Survey Findings
Before the large scale immigration of European refugees began in 1949, the Australian population was almost entirely of English, Scottish and Irish origin. In 1947, 90 per cent of the population had been born in Australia and another eight per cent born in other British countries. Today only about 80 per cent of the total population were born in Aus? tralia and over 10 per cent were born in non-British countries. At the time when the immigration …
Extroversion, neuroticism, and expressive behavior: An application of Wallach's moderator effect to handwriting analysis
From Stranger to Citizen: A Survey of Studies of Immigrant Assimilation in Western Australia
Sensitivity to People
The Remote Associates Test: Divergent or Convergent Thinking
The Remote Associates Test was administered in a battery of tests of convergent and divergent thinking abilities to 107 high school students. Contrary to previously reported results, it related largely to the convergent thinking measures
Accuracy of empathic judgments of acquaintances and strangers
The ability to judge people
A Psychological Model for the Study of Social Assimilation
The Social Grading of Occupations in Australia
tN CONNECTION with a study of work attitudes conducted in the | Psychology Department of the University of Western Australia, a study Swas made of the grading of a number of representative occupations on their social standing.l This study was based on the judgments made by a vvide vanety of subjects living in the Metropolis and a provincial coal-mining town in Western Australia. Most of the occupations involved were the same as those reported by …
The Shared Frame of Reference Concept Applied to the Assimilation of Immigrants
The Assimilation of Dutch Male Immigrants in a Western Australian Community: A Replication of Richardson's Study of British Immigrants
The effect of a planned intercultural experience on the attitudes and behavior of the participants
The Professional Socialization of Schoolteachers as Social Assimilation
Selective recall and memory distortion of favorable and unfavorable material
Mother tongue maintenance in Lebanese immigrant families in Australia
Maintenance of mother tongue (L1) by immigrants implies both competence in the language and the use of it. A study was conducted on the maintenance of L1 by 10‐ to 11‐year‐old children of Lebanese immigrants in Melbourne. While most of the 62 subjects could speak Lebanese well, few could read or write it. It was found that the children's competence in L1 was largely a function of the literacy level of their parents and their interest in the quali…
A Comparative Study of the Initial Adjustment of Immigrant Schoolchildren in Australia
Ronald Taft, A Comparative Study of the Initial Adjustment of Immigrant Schoolchildren in Australia, The International Migration Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, Special Issue: Caribbean Migration to New York (Spring, 1979), pp. 71-80
Accuracy of empathic judgments of acquaintances and strangers
Multiple methods of personality assessment
Some Characteristics of Good Judges of Others
A group of forty subjects, undergoing a ‘living‐in’ assessment programme, were tested on their ability to make accurate analytic judgements about their peers. This ability was found to correlate positively with certain background variables such as urban origin, previous working experience, none or few siblings, being a student in natural sciences (versus social science), and certain cognitive abilities. good judges, as opposed to poor ones, tende…
Psychology and its history in australia
(1982). Psychology and its history in australia. Australian Psychologist: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 31-39
Attitudes and Social Conditions: Essays
The Assimilation Orientation of Immigrants and Australians
The staff psychologist in industry
The author lists several industrial functions wherein a psychologist may anticipate some success and discusses administrative problems one may expect to encounter in developing a program for a particular business enterprise. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
The staff psychologist in industry
The author lists several industrial functions wherein a psychologist may anticipate some success and discusses administrative problems one may expect to encounter in developing a program for a particular business enterprise. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
The Shared Frame of Reference Concept Applied to the Assimilation of Immigrants
The Social Grading of Occupations in Australia
tN CONNECTION with a study of work attitudes conducted in the | Psychology Department of the University of Western Australia, a study Swas made of the grading of a number of representative occupations on their social standing.l This study was based on the judgments made by a vvide vanety of subjects living in the Metropolis and a provincial coal-mining town in Western Australia. Most of the occupations involved were the same as those reported by …
Selective recall and memory distortion of favorable and unfavorable material
The ability to judge people
Some Characteristics of Good Judges of Others
A group of forty subjects, undergoing a ‘living‐in’ assessment programme, were tested on their ability to make accurate analytic judgements about their peers. This ability was found to correlate positively with certain background variables such as urban origin, previous working experience, none or few siblings, being a student in natural sciences (versus social science), and certain cognitive abilities. good judges, as opposed to poor ones, tende…
A Psychological Model for the Study of Social Assimilation
Experimental Set as a Variable
Neuroticism, extraversion, and the perception of the vertical
Multiple methods of personality assessment
The Assimilation of Dutch Male Immigrants in a Western Australian Community: A Replication of Richardson's Study of British Immigrants
Adjustment and Assimilation of Immigrants: A Problem in Social Psychology
While there are many studies of the social integration of immigrants written from the sociological viewpoint, there are few reported on the role of relevant psychological variables. The assimilation of immigrants can be treated as a case of socialization, or, more strictly, resocialization, involving such psychological factors as changes in attitudes, values, and identification; the acquisition of new social skills and behavior norms; changes in …
Adjustment and Assimilation of Immigrants: A Problem in Social Psychology
Migration and Belonging: A Study of Mental Health and Personal Adjustment in Israel. Abraham A. Weinberg
Some Psychological Factors in Coronary Heart Disease
It was postulated that the efficiency of cardiovascular and coronary adaptation to activity is a function of adequate arousal of the autonomic nervous system. It was hypothesized, therefore, that individuals who habitually exercise more intellectual control will be more prone to disturbance of cardiocoronary homeostasis and eventually to possible ischemic phenomena. Evidence is presented in a pilot study that coronary heart disease patients show …
The Assimilation Orientation of Immigrants and Australians
The Remote Associates Test: Divergent or Convergent Thinking
The Remote Associates Test was administered in a battery of tests of convergent and divergent thinking abilities to 107 high school students. Contrary to previously reported results, it related largely to the convergent thinking measures
Accuracy of empathic judgments of acquaintances and strangers
Extroversion, neuroticism, and expressive behavior: An application of Wallach's moderator effect to handwriting analysis
From Stranger to Citizen: A Survey of Studies of Immigrant Assimilation in Western Australia
Sensitivity to People
Australian Attitudes toward Immigrants: A Review of Social Survey Findings
Australian Attitudes toward Immigrants: A Review of Social Survey Findings
Before the large scale immigration of European refugees began in 1949, the Australian population was almost entirely of English, Scottish and Irish origin. In 1947, 90 per cent of the population had been born in Australia and another eight per cent born in other British countries. Today only about 80 per cent of the total population were born in Aus? tralia and over 10 per cent were born in non-British countries. At the time when the immigration …
From Stranger to Citizen. A Survey of Studies of Immigrant Assimilation in Western Australia
Creativity: Hot and cold
S ummary Cognitive theorists have frequently distinguished between two types of thinking, one associated with control and reason, and the other with emotional expression A similar distinction was made by Freud between secondary and primary process thinking This paper has investigated whether corresponding styles of creativity can be discovered A study was reported in which two types of behaviour appeared a permissive, expressive type, and a contr…
Psychology (31 works) · Social Psychology (24 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Immigration (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Assimilation (phonology (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works)