Job titles given by two widely disparate samples, consisting of 100 male undergraduates and 304 (165 boys and 139 girls) culturally disadvantaged children in Grades 3 through 6, to the male figure of Plate M6 (personnel or social worker) of the Vocational Apperception Test indicates that, as compared with that of marriage counsellors or psychiatrists, the image of psychologists is negligible in both groups.
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