Family medicine: a small vignette.
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E Entin
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Computer education for dental students.
A required computer course is described that has the purpose of preparing dental students to write computer programs, use software packages, and evaluate software for purchase. A questionnaire distributed to students eight months after the course revealed that the majority found the course helpful. Students were equally divided as to whether learning to write programs or to use a software package was more helpful. The course served as a stimulus for making students aware of the usefulness of a computer.
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Vocal interruptions in dyadic communication as a function of speech and social anxiety.
Interruptions have been defined as a breach of the "turn-taking" contract in interpersonal communication. The relation between a speaker's personality and his or her propensity to interrupt was examined in 30-min unstructured conversations for 36 dyads (12 male, 12 female, and 12 mixed sex). The following predictions were made: (a) Interruptive behavior is inversely related to speech anxiety and positively related to confidence as a speaker; (b) interruptive behavior is inversely related to social anxiety (avoidance-distress; fear of negative evaluation). A stepwise multiple regression analysis was performed, controlling for the systematic effects of sex, the conversational partner's personality and amount of speech, and the speaker's use of back-channel responses. These hypotheses were confirmed for rate of total interruptions and rate of successful interruptions, for percentage of successful interruptions, and for mean duration of interruptions; the results withstood cross-validation analysis.
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