ABSTRACT. A survey of the altitudes of adolescents towards stereotyped behaviour was carried out. Two hundred and five students attending two secondary schools in a rural market town were randomly divided into four groups, Each group was shown a videotaped recording of an actress engaging in routinehousehold tasks. Two groups saw the actress displaying stereotyped behaviour. Half the sample weretold the actress was a university student and half were told that she was a person with a mental handicap. Subjects then completed a questionnaire which asked about their perceptions of the personin the video. Results showed that more negative responses were given to a person displaying stereotyped behaviour irrespective of label. The sex of the respondent and prior contact with mental handicap were significant variables. It is suggested that the public's perception of stereotypy should be a relevant factor in the decision in reduce the behaviour.

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A major problem currently confronting law enforcement agencies is the assessment ofthe effectiveness of various driver improvement activities. The objectives of this research were to evalute the effect o f the Texas Department o f Public Safety driver improvement training program on driving record and to develop a technique for predicting reduction in accident and violation frequencies for the Itmonth period following training. The results of this study indicated that the training prograrn has a significant effect on accident and violation frequencies for selected groups. I t was also found that it is possible to construct an equation that will predict with some accuracy, reduction in the number ofaccidents and violations for a 12-month period following training.