Vocabulary Profiles of Groups in Training

A disguised measure of civil rights attitudes.

“…It would seem that the implications of Greene's (1940) and Ewen's (1969) work for developing measures of attitudes received support in this study. However, further research does seem warranted as to why the relationships, while consistent, are sometimes modest in magnitude.…”

“…The approach that was decided on to develop such a measure was based on the logic used by Greene (1940) in his development of the Michigan Vocabulary Profile Test. This test is based on the logic that we become more knowledgeable in those fields where we have positive interest, and evidence has been presented which supports this assumption (Greene, 1940).…”

“…The approach that was decided on to develop such a measure was based on the logic used by Greene (1940) in his development of the Michigan Vocabulary Profile Test. This test is based on the logic that we become more knowledgeable in those fields where we have positive interest, and evidence has been presented which supports this assumption (Greene, 1940). More recently, Ewen (1969) has used a similar logic in explaining his obtained positive correlation between scores on the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Advanced Tests: Psychology and performance in graduate school in psychology, after verbal intelligence had been partialled out.…”