Vernon Hamilton
Biographic Data
| ID | 370623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vernon Hamilton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vernon |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamilton |
| SIGNATURE | HAMILTON V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Human Abilities in Cultural Context
Education and Class
PART I: GENETICS, IQ, AND SOCIAL CLASS Historical origins IQ scores, school achievement, and social class of origin PART II: HOW MUCH COULD WE BOOST...?: How much could we boost scholastic achievement and IQ scores? How much could we boost access to universities? PART III: RELEVANT AND IRRELEVANT TECHNICAL ISSUES Twelve errors about genetics and their social consequences Genetic studies of IQ scores: asking irrelevant questions Summary and conclu…
Teacher-Child Interactions in Preschool and Task Persistence
This study was designed to investigate specific aspects of preschool teacher-child interactions as they relate to task persistence in classroom vs. laboratory settings. It was hypothesized that teacher’s criticism and interference would be associated with low task behavior in children, and that reward would be associated with high task behavior in both the classroom and an experimental setting; and that the children’s task behavior in the two set…
The Role of Information-processing Capacity in the Conserving Operation
Previous studies had shown that success in solving conservation of quantity problems varies with the amount of information contained in the problem, and that there are individual differences in coping with increasing informational loads. Amount of information was defined by the number of equational steps required for the solution of a problem. In testing the validity of this definition, it was predicted that criterion groups of subjects would dif…
Continuities and Individual Differences in Conservation
An analysis of present conceptions of conservation capacity suggested that they might be unduly influenced by developmental stage theory, to the extent that continuities and individual differences at one particular stage of development are insufficiently stressed. In order to achieve a finer discrimination between individual differences in conservation of continuous quantity (solid and liquid), a new test instrument was devised. This departs from…
The Size Constancy Problem in Schizophrenia
An attempt was made to reconcile discrepant findings in the size constancy performance of poor premorbid, process, non‐paranoid schizophrenic men. It was postulated that an impairment of basic cognitive skills, and particularly of conservation, differentiates schizophrenics and normals, and under‐constant and over‐constant non‐paranoid schizophrenics, and that this and an associated primitive visual centration effect may lead to paradoxical over‐…
Academic Achievement and Student Personality Characteristics--A Multivariate Study
General and research interest in the viability of procedures used in the selection of students intending to read for university degrees is appropriate for at least three reasons: I, intrinsic interest in the predictability of behaviour and the predictive power of behavioural indices; 2, demands of national and university economics; 3, the maintenance of the highest standards in the analysis and communication of knowledge. As the demand for higher…
Non‐cognitive Factors in University Students' Examination Performance
A quantitative assessment of 64 scholastic, intelligence, personality and motivational variables was carried out on a group of students who were in their first year at university. The main purpose of the investigation was the assessment of the relationship between non‐cognitive parameters and performance in university examinations compared with cognitive and scholastic antecedents. The results indicate that the predictors most frequently used by …
Size Constancy and Intelligence
This investigation was concerned with a re‐examination of the usually accepted negative correlation between intelligence and size constancy. Size estimates of three standards were obtained from two groups of school‐children of similar age but markedly different intelligence, and the incidence of over‐constancy and under‐constancy in different regions of a range of i.q. 's was critically considered. The four major conclusions were that knowledge o…
Size Constancy and Cue Responsiveness in Psychosis
An experiment is reported designed to re‐assess size constancy behaviour and some of its co‐relatives in psychotic and non‐psychotic subjects. The predictive basis of reduced size constancy for schizophrenic and non‐schizophrenic psychotic patients was found in the clinical evidence characterizing these conditions and in Piaget's genetic theories of cognitive development. It was postulated that there would be no significant difference in size con…
Imperception of Phi
An apparent movement situation was presented to control and neurotic groups. Perception of the phi phenomenon was postulated to be associated with neurotic mechanisms and with behaviour operationally defined as conflict and ambiguity avoidance, and was considered to express a generalized perceptual attitude of the individual. Neurotics were found to have lower mean movement intervals than control subjects, and to find it more difficult to perceiv…
Eysenck's Theories of Anxiety and Hysteria—a Methodological Critique
An examination is made of the evidence for and the validity of Eysenck's dimension of introversion‐extroversion. The dimension is found to be deficient on both counts, and therefore considered unsuitable as a starting‐point for further hypotheses. Eysenck's postulate and hypotheses linking introversion‐extraversion and anxiety and hysteria with cortical and reactive inhibition and with conditionability, satiation phenomena, reminiscence effects, …
Theories of Anxiety and Hysterla.—a Rejoinder to Hans Eysenck
Perceptual and Personality Dynamics in Reactions to Ambiguity
A battery of tests designed to elicit differential responses to a variety of ambiguous situations was administered to groups of Control and Neurotic subjects. data show marked individual differences and considerable evidence for intra-individual consistency in avoidance/non-avoidance of ambiguous situations. A high percentage of significant correlations suggests that tests measure few, closely related variables. Age and intelligence are only mini…
The Role of Information-processing Capacity in the Conserving Operation
Previous studies had shown that success in solving conservation of quantity problems varies with the amount of information contained in the problem, and that there are individual differences in coping with increasing informational loads. Amount of information was defined by the number of equational steps required for the solution of a problem. In testing the validity of this definition, it was predicted that criterion groups of subjects would dif…
Academic Achievement and Student Personality Characteristics--A Multivariate Study
General and research interest in the viability of procedures used in the selection of students intending to read for university degrees is appropriate for at least three reasons: I, intrinsic interest in the predictability of behaviour and the predictive power of behavioural indices; 2, demands of national and university economics; 3, the maintenance of the highest standards in the analysis and communication of knowledge. As the demand for higher…
Perceptual and Personality Dynamics in Reactions to Ambiguity
A battery of tests designed to elicit differential responses to a variety of ambiguous situations was administered to groups of Control and Neurotic subjects. data show marked individual differences and considerable evidence for intra-individual consistency in avoidance/non-avoidance of ambiguous situations. A high percentage of significant correlations suggests that tests measure few, closely related variables. Age and intelligence are only mini…
Perceptual and Personality Dynamics in Reactions to Ambiguity
A battery of tests designed to elicit differential responses to a variety of ambiguous situations was administered to groups of Control and Neurotic subjects. data show marked individual differences and considerable evidence for intra-individual consistency in avoidance/non-avoidance of ambiguous situations. A high percentage of significant correlations suggests that tests measure few, closely related variables. Age and intelligence are only mini…
Eysenck's Theories of Anxiety and Hysteria—a Methodological Critique
An examination is made of the evidence for and the validity of Eysenck's dimension of introversion‐extroversion. The dimension is found to be deficient on both counts, and therefore considered unsuitable as a starting‐point for further hypotheses. Eysenck's postulate and hypotheses linking introversion‐extraversion and anxiety and hysteria with cortical and reactive inhibition and with conditionability, satiation phenomena, reminiscence effects, …
Theories of Anxiety and Hysterla.—a Rejoinder to Hans Eysenck
Imperception of Phi
An apparent movement situation was presented to control and neurotic groups. Perception of the phi phenomenon was postulated to be associated with neurotic mechanisms and with behaviour operationally defined as conflict and ambiguity avoidance, and was considered to express a generalized perceptual attitude of the individual. Neurotics were found to have lower mean movement intervals than control subjects, and to find it more difficult to perceiv…
Size Constancy and Cue Responsiveness in Psychosis
An experiment is reported designed to re‐assess size constancy behaviour and some of its co‐relatives in psychotic and non‐psychotic subjects. The predictive basis of reduced size constancy for schizophrenic and non‐schizophrenic psychotic patients was found in the clinical evidence characterizing these conditions and in Piaget's genetic theories of cognitive development. It was postulated that there would be no significant difference in size con…
Size Constancy and Intelligence
This investigation was concerned with a re‐examination of the usually accepted negative correlation between intelligence and size constancy. Size estimates of three standards were obtained from two groups of school‐children of similar age but markedly different intelligence, and the incidence of over‐constancy and under‐constancy in different regions of a range of i.q. 's was critically considered. The four major conclusions were that knowledge o…
Non‐cognitive Factors in University Students' Examination Performance
A quantitative assessment of 64 scholastic, intelligence, personality and motivational variables was carried out on a group of students who were in their first year at university. The main purpose of the investigation was the assessment of the relationship between non‐cognitive parameters and performance in university examinations compared with cognitive and scholastic antecedents. The results indicate that the predictors most frequently used by …
Academic Achievement and Student Personality Characteristics--A Multivariate Study
General and research interest in the viability of procedures used in the selection of students intending to read for university degrees is appropriate for at least three reasons: I, intrinsic interest in the predictability of behaviour and the predictive power of behavioural indices; 2, demands of national and university economics; 3, the maintenance of the highest standards in the analysis and communication of knowledge. As the demand for higher…
Continuities and Individual Differences in Conservation
An analysis of present conceptions of conservation capacity suggested that they might be unduly influenced by developmental stage theory, to the extent that continuities and individual differences at one particular stage of development are insufficiently stressed. In order to achieve a finer discrimination between individual differences in conservation of continuous quantity (solid and liquid), a new test instrument was devised. This departs from…
The Size Constancy Problem in Schizophrenia
An attempt was made to reconcile discrepant findings in the size constancy performance of poor premorbid, process, non‐paranoid schizophrenic men. It was postulated that an impairment of basic cognitive skills, and particularly of conservation, differentiates schizophrenics and normals, and under‐constant and over‐constant non‐paranoid schizophrenics, and that this and an associated primitive visual centration effect may lead to paradoxical over‐…
The Role of Information-processing Capacity in the Conserving Operation
Previous studies had shown that success in solving conservation of quantity problems varies with the amount of information contained in the problem, and that there are individual differences in coping with increasing informational loads. Amount of information was defined by the number of equational steps required for the solution of a problem. In testing the validity of this definition, it was predicted that criterion groups of subjects would dif…
Teacher-Child Interactions in Preschool and Task Persistence
This study was designed to investigate specific aspects of preschool teacher-child interactions as they relate to task persistence in classroom vs. laboratory settings. It was hypothesized that teacher’s criticism and interference would be associated with low task behavior in children, and that reward would be associated with high task behavior in both the classroom and an experimental setting; and that the children’s task behavior in the two set…
Education and Class
PART I: GENETICS, IQ, AND SOCIAL CLASS Historical origins IQ scores, school achievement, and social class of origin PART II: HOW MUCH COULD WE BOOST...?: How much could we boost scholastic achievement and IQ scores? How much could we boost access to universities? PART III: RELEVANT AND IRRELEVANT TECHNICAL ISSUES Twelve errors about genetics and their social consequences Genetic studies of IQ scores: asking irrelevant questions Summary and conclu…
Human Abilities in Cultural Context
Psychology (14 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Perception (5 works) · Personality (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)