Head of Department: Professor W. Macmahon Ball STAFF
Full-time Academic Staff Professor W I L L I A M MACMAHON BALL, M.A.
Senior Lecturers:
A L A N FRASER DAVIES, M.A.
CREIGHTON LEE BURNS, M.A. (Oxon), B.A.
LLOYD GORDON CHURCHWARD, M.A., Dip.Ed.
Lecturers :
HUGO ADOLF WOLFSOHN, B.A.
RICHARD W I L L I A M STAVELEY, B.Ec. (Syd.), Ph.D. (Chicago) Senior Tutor, JAMES JUPP, M.Sc. (Econ.) (Lond.)
Tutors:
ROSEMARY GROVES, B.A.
KENNETH GREGORY ARMSTRONG, B.A.
Full-time Research Worker I A N FREDERICK HARVEY WILSON, B.A.
Research has continued in the three main fields of International Relations, Political Institutions and Political Theory.
A. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (1) Political and Economic Developments in Malaya
Worker: S. Kotler
The historical, economic and political background up to the Second World War. The impact of the Japanese Occupation. Constitutional and economic developments towards independence; Work in progress for M.A.
B. POLITICAL SCIENCE (2) The Federal Cabinet in Australia
Worker: S. Encel
Work continuing for the degree of Ph.D.
(3) Some Aspects of the Problems involved in Applying the Concept of Class to Australian Society, 1900-50
Worker: J. L . Waters Work in progress for M . A .
(4) Victorian Machinery of Government.
Reported in previous Research Reports. This has been accepted by the Melbourne University Press for publication.
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PUBLISHED WORK
1. BALL, W. M.— The Duties of a Member of Parliament. Parlia- mentary Affairs g (2): 238-45 (Spring 1956)
2. Nationalism as a Cause of War. Paths to Peace —A Study of War, Its Causes and Prevention, ed. V. H . Wallace, ch. 8, pp. 157-77. Melb. Univ. Press, 1957 (xx + 397 pp.)
3. BURNS, C. L.— Political Chronicle —Victoria. Aust. J. Politics Hist.
1 (2): 252-7 (May 1956); 2 (1): 102-6 (Nov. 1956)
4. DAVIES, A. F.— Concepts of Social Class. Aust. J. Politics Hist. 2 (1): 84-93 (Nov. 1956)
. THESIS PASSED FOR HIGHER DEGREE MASTER OF ARTS
SISSONS, D. C. S. Attitudes to Japan and Defence, 1890-1923
Head of Department: Professor O. A. Oeser STAFF
Full-time Officers
Professor OSCAR ADOLPI-1 OESER, M.Sc. (S. Africa), Dr.Phil. (Marburg), Ph.D.
(Cantab.), M.A., F.B.Ps.S.
Readers:
PAUL LAF1TTE, B.Sc. (Lond.), M.A., Litt.D., A.B.Ps.S.
SAMUEL BATTLE HAMMOND, B.A. (W.A.), Ph.D.
Senior Lecturers:
I A N KELLIE WATERHOUSE, B.A. (Syd), M.A., Ph.D. (Yale), F.B.Ps.S.
A L A N CHARLES JEFFREY, M.B., B.S., B.Sc.
FREDERICK EDMUND EMERY", B.Sc. (W.A.), Ph.D.
PHILIP DACRES LANGLEY, B.A. (W.A.), B.Ed., A.B.Ps.S.
Lecturers:
EDGAR HOWARTH, M.Sc. (Manchester)
FRANK KNOPFELMACHER, B.A. (Bristol), Ph.D. (Lond.) FRANCIS NICOL COX, M.Sc. (Yale), M.A., A.B.Ps.S.
Senior Tutors:
PATRICIA MARY LEAPER, M.A., A.B.Ps.S.
ROBERT ERNEST CRAIG, B.A.
LEON BLANK, B.A. (W.A.)
VIRGINIA CONSTANCE PALMER, M.A.
NONA BANDY, B.A. (W.A.)
W I L M A ALICE SCOTT, Ph.D. (Lond.), B.A., A.B.Ps.S.
JULIUS MAREK, B.A.
ROBERT MARSTON, M.A. (Louisiana), B.Sc. (Tulanc) JOHN STUART WESTERN, B.A.
1VO ALFRED WOOD, B.A., B.C.E.
DAVID WOODLAND BRUCE, M.A. (Aberdeen) DAVID GEORGE BESWICK, B.A.
Tutors:
MYRA DAVIDSON KING, B.A.
T A M A R A W E Y M A N , B.A.
Research Assistant, IRENE KINSMAN, B.A.
The work of the Department has again been directed mainly to the study of social relations, and several new projects are under way.
(1) The Measurement and Analysis of Family Factors Workers: F. N. Cox and Patricia M. Leaper
The aim of this project, which is still in progress, is to relate certain denned aspects of children's family backgrounds to various aspects of children's behaviour at school. The construction of questionnaires for use in the next stage is complete.
(2) The Measurement of 'General' and 'Test' Anxiety in Children Workers: Patricia M. Leaper and F.-N. Cox
The aim of this project is to relate the two kinds of anxiety to each other and to such independent variables as age, sex, intellectual
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level, social class and school performance. A thousand school children have been tested and analysis of the results is in progress.
(3) A Study in Direct Scaling Worker: S. R. Hammond
Data concerning the habitual activity patterns of ninety London families are being analysed on the Matrix Sorter. Results will be com- pared with those reported from a factor analysis of the same data by Wilma A . Scott.
(4) The Effect of Varied Patterns of Stimulus Presentation on Pre- conditioning in the Hooded Rat
Worker: E. Howarth
This project, which was begun in 1954, has been carried two stages further, by a series of experiments: (a) on the effect of spatial separa- tion of stimuli, with forty-two rats, and (b) on the effect of activity on preconditioning, with thirty rats.
(5) Social Structure and Personality in Industry Worker: P. Lafitte
This project, which was reported in 1955, has been completed. The written account is in progress.
(6) The Microdynamics of Choice in Ecological Settings Worker: O. A. Oeser
This project, which was reported in 1955, is still in progress.
(7) The Psychology of Inducing Changes in Farming Techniques Workers: O. A . Oeser, F. E. Emery, (Mrs) ]oan Tully
The aim of this study of thirty-six Victorian farmers was, firstly, to investigate the impersonal and face-to-face influences on them to adopt new techniques; and then to relate their actual practices both to these influences and to personal factors such as their history, family circumstances and conceptual skills. The project, which is finished, led to developments both in the applications of information theory and i n the general social theory of personality.
(8) Early Work Adaptation of Technical School Boys Worker: Virginia C. Palmer
The aim of this project, which is still in progress, is to determine the relation of home and school background to the changes in attitude to work which take place during the first six months of work.
(9) The Measurement and Analysis of Teacher-Pupil Relations in the light of Family Factors
Workers: J. Western, Tamara Weyman, Myra King, D . G. Beswick Studies of teacher behaviour and of children's beliefs concerning school were related to five dimensions of family activity.
PUBLISHED WORK Book
1. LAFrnx, P.— The Person in Psychology: Reality or Abstraction.
London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1957 (233 pp.) Articles
2. Cox, F. N . — Social Stimulation, Anxiety Level, and Learning Efficiency: a Theoretical Analysis. Aust. J. Psychol. 8: 20-6 (•956)
3. (with Cox, MARJORIE J.)—Unconscious Reinforcement of a Verbal Response in Children. Aust. J. Psychol. 8: 140-51 (•956)
4. KNOPFELMACHER, F. (with ANDJUS, R. K., RUSSELL, R. W. and
SMITH, AUDREY U.) — Some Effects of Severe Hypothermia on Learning and Retention. Quart. J. Exp. Psychol. 8: 15-23 (1956) 5. (with KHAIRY, MELEK, RUSSELL, R. W. and YUDKIN, J.)—
Some Effects of Thiamine Deficiency and Reduced Caloric Intake on 'Behaviour under Stress' and on Learning. Quart. J.
Exp. Psychol. 8: 54-65 (1956)
6. EMERY, F. E.— Economic Conflicts in Relation to War. Paths to Peace —A Study of War, Its Causes and Prevention, ed. V. H . Wallace, ch. 3, pp. 40-66. Melb. Univ. Press, 1957 (xx + 397 pp.) 7. OESER, O. A.— Culture Patterns and Social Tensions. Paths to
Peace, ch. 7, pp. 137-56.
THESIS PASSED FOR HIGHER DEGREE
MASTER OF ARTS
ANDERSON, D. S. Family, School and Peer Group