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Lae.fal] i77 flawTLL: 27sANNUAL REPORT OF PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENTReporting Period: September 1972 to September 1973.I. Faculty Honors: |Dr. T. E. Long was made president-elect of the North Carolina Psychological eesAssociation--to serve as president for the term 1974-75.Dr. T. E. Long was appointed by the Governor of North Carolina to the NorthCarolina Board of Examiners of Practicing Psychologists.Dr. Dennis Roberts was on a panel at a workshop at the North CarolinaAdvancement School in Winston-Salem. The workshop focused on the characteristics,causes, and treatment of underachievement in learning.pu ies Hazel Stapleton was the principal speaker at the annual meeting of thef Virginia Medical Records Association at Natural Bridge, Virginia.Dr. C. H. Moore presented a paper at the annual meeting of the SoutheasternA Netra a Association in New Orleans. He spoke on Induced Anxiety.|7 Dr. C. C. Mitchell was a member of a symposium presented at the annual meetingBY of the Southeastern Psychological Association in New Orleans.Dr. C. C. Mitchell was elected Chairman of the Association of Eastern NorthCarolina Psychologists. : aCapea Oe. T. E. Long was a member of a symposium presented at the annual meetingof the Southeastern Psychological Association in New Orleans.Dr. W. F. Grossnickle moderated a symposium at the annual meeting of theSoutheastern Psychological Association in New Orleans.Dr. W. F. Grossnickle was appointed to the Faculty Assembly of the GreaterUniversity of North Carolina.Dr. W. F. Grossnickle conducted a Psi Chi Workshop for students and facultyadvisors at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Associationin New Orleans.Dr. W. F. Grossnickle was principal speaker at a meeting of the supervisorsfT for water distribution in local governments in Fayetteville, Nowth Carolina.SDMrs. Myree Hayes was appointed chairman of the Pitt County Mental Health Board.Mrs. Myree Hayes was appointed a member of the Board of Directors of theLearning Institute of North Carolina.Dr. Betty Jane Corwin was appointed by the State Department of PublicInstruction to formulate requirements for competency based certificationfor school psychologists.

II. Publications:Dr. Larry W. Means:Woodruff, M. L., Means, . W., and Isaacson, R. L. Deficient go, no-gobrightness discrimination following hippocampal lesions. PhysiologicalPsychology. | !Means, L. W., Huntley, D. H., Anderson, H. P., and Harrell, T. H.Disruption of acquisition and retention of a visual-tactile discriminationtask in rats with dorsomedial thalamic lesions. Behavioral Biology.Walker, D. W. and Means, L. W. The effect of an interpolated task duringthe intertrial interval on single alternation performance in rats withhippocampal lesions. Behavioral Biology.Dr. Rosina Lao:Internal-External Control and Competent and Innovative Behavior AmongNegro College Students. Published in Psychology and Social Issues,Hamsher and Sigall, editors. |III. Student Honors:James William East, a psychology major, was admitted to the World CampusAfloat--Chapman College for a study voyage to ports in Africa and Asia.David T. House, III was named to Who's Who.Patricia Clarke and Ronald Howard were honored by the local chapter ofPhi Beta Kappa.Ronald M. Howard graduate summa cum laude.Jane L. Rayford Beaman graduated magna cum laude.Monty G. Grubb graduated magna cum laude.Karen Bumgardner was appointed to serve as Affiliate Representative tothe North Carolina Psychological Association.Katherine Green, a graduate student, was a participant in a symposiumat the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association.The symposium centered around the six-month internship, an integralpart of the graduate program in clinical and school psychology at EastCarolina University. 2Ronald Howard and Mary Margaret Kelly were awarded Psi Chi Scholarships.

IV.Grants:-Dr. Larry W. Means was awarded $990 to support research to discoveramphetimine drugs can restore memory when the brain's retention cellshave been damaged or destroyed. The grant was from the North CarolinaUnited Community Services.Miscellaneous:Dr. Clinton R. Prewett resigned as chairman of the Department, a posthe had held for 16 years. | |The Psychology Department's graduate program in clinical psychology wasrecently recognized and described in a book "The Revolution in ProfessionalTraining: A Review of Innovative Programs for the Training of ProfessionalPsychologists." This was published by the National Council on GraduateEducation in Psychology.