Thelma Veness
Biographic Data
| ID | 5239696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thelma Veness |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thelma |
| FAMILY NAME | Veness |
| SIGNATURE | VENESS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Intelligence and Cultural Environment
An Introduction to Human Development
Awareness of Ethnic Differences in Young Children
The paper presents an investigation into ethnic choice among young children in London-the first of its kind in Britain. The appearance and rapid growth of Negro communities in the late 1950s in some areas provided the opportunity to start such a research, and the tensions which soon arose made it a matter of obligation. (Author
School Leavers
School Leavers, Their Aspirations and Expectations
An Experiment on Slips of the Tongue and Word Association Faults
A word association task with time pressure was used to induce slips of the tongue and misreadings. The incidence of these was not greater for affectively-toned words than for neutral words: individual differences were great. Measures similar to the usual word association faults were also taken: these were more frequent with emotional words, but were also related to word frequency and to a measure of the associative power of the words. The nature …
Goal‐setting Behaviour, Anxiety and School Streaming
S ummary . A particular pattern of goal‐setting behaviour in a level of aspiration test was found to occur more frequently in technical schools and in the “A” streams of modern schools than in the lower modern school streams and in grammar schools. In previous research, this pattern, of setting high goals and adhering to them rigidly, whatever the fluctuations in performance, has been associated with anxiety and similar personality traits. Matche…
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Goal‐setting Behaviour, Anxiety and School Streaming
S ummary . A particular pattern of goal‐setting behaviour in a level of aspiration test was found to occur more frequently in technical schools and in the “A” streams of modern schools than in the lower modern school streams and in grammar schools. In previous research, this pattern, of setting high goals and adhering to them rigidly, whatever the fluctuations in performance, has been associated with anxiety and similar personality traits. Matche…
An Experiment on Slips of the Tongue and Word Association Faults
A word association task with time pressure was used to induce slips of the tongue and misreadings. The incidence of these was not greater for affectively-toned words than for neutral words: individual differences were great. Measures similar to the usual word association faults were also taken: these were more frequent with emotional words, but were also related to word frequency and to a measure of the associative power of the words. The nature …
School Leavers
School Leavers, Their Aspirations and Expectations
Awareness of Ethnic Differences in Young Children
The paper presents an investigation into ethnic choice among young children in London-the first of its kind in Britain. The appearance and rapid growth of Negro communities in the late 1950s in some areas provided the opportunity to start such a research, and the tensions which soon arose made it a matter of obligation. (Author
An Introduction to Human Development
Intelligence and Cultural Environment
Psychology (5 works) · Education Systems and Policy (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · Anxiety (1 work)