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An Experimental Investigation Of Computational Error In Complex Arithmetical Tasks, James L. Evans

Psychology ETDs

It was the purpose of this study (1) to investigate the nature of the computational errors made by mathematically trained college students when they solved complex arithmetical problems under normal conditions, i.e., comfortable working conditions without stress; and (2) to investigate experimental conditions which might reduce the incidence of computational error.

Factors Influencing The Operation Of Special Double-Number Dials, Ryoko Yafuso

Psychology ETDs

A concise definition of engineering psychology is: the study of human behavior in the man-machine relationship (3). In implementing this concept the engineering psychologist not only investigates the human factors involved in man-machine systems, but he also attempts to discover the best way to design a machine so that a human being can operate it most efficiently.

The Relationship Between Personality Factors And Musical Taste, Joe Dean Brower

Psychology ETDs

This study is an attempt to distinguish personality factors which may influence persons in their preferences for a particular kind of music.

It is not the purpose of this study to investigate the personality of individuals who happen to prefer a special type of music. Instead, the study is focused on personality differences which may be found among three groups of people who have indicated a preference for three different types of music.

An Experimental Investigation Of Lashley And Wade's "The Pavlovian Theory Of Generalization", Allen B. Madans

Psychology ETDs

In the following paper, the term "stimulus generalization" will appear many times. As a matter of convenience it will be abbreviated to "SG".

The best type of definition to give for SG is an operational one. Although the operational definition loses its generality, it gains by providing at least one concrete illustration of the phenomenon with which this paper deals. The following illustration is taken from the experimental literature in most part, and it is the type of illustration that is recognized both by those for and those against SG as demonstrating the phenomenon of SG...Despite the great amount of …

A Study Of The Relationship Between Musical Preference And The Fourteen Factors Of The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, George W. Fenley

Psychology ETDs

The purpose of this study was to seek some possible relationships between personality characteristics and musical sophistication. Studies in this area are for the most part speculative, and those few which have been published indicate rather inconclusive findings.

Specific Factors Associated With Adjustment Of A Class Of Sixth Grade Students, Sonia Bogin Haas

Psychology ETDs

The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which certain specific factors are associated with adjustment of a class of sixth grade students. The Mental Health Analysis, a personality test, (32) was administered to a sixth grade class in a public school in Albuquerque, New Mexico. These students were then compared in the following factors: willingness to accept damaging statements about themselves, friendship status, leadership status as compiled from ratings made by the peer group, leadership status as rated by the teacher, adjustment rank as rated by the teacher, achievement test score, intelligence test score, age, height, …

An Investigation Of Certain Personality Factors Of Two Groups Seperated On The Basis Of A Color Association Test, Paul Raymond Binner

Psychology ETDs

It would be of interest to explore, in greater detail, further possible differences between these two groups, the "high orange" and "low orange." Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to seek possible differences between the two groups with respect to certain more specific personality variables. The importance of such a study, in addition to shedding light upon the characteristics of groups separated by means of the color association test, is also seen in the fact that it might provide information bearing upon the understanding, prediction and control of behavior-problem cases.

A Preliminary Investigation Of A Measure Of Empathy And Its Relationships To The Mmpi Scales, Frank Peter Amedeo

Psychology ETDs

The present study is an attempt to obtain a measure empathic ability, and to investigate its relationship to an instrument of personality measurement, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. The immediate problem under study is whether or not there is some differentiation among the MMPI scales for persons who show wide differences in this empathic response.

A Simplified Revision Of The Keston Music Preference Test, Barbara Jean Snodgrass

Psychology ETDs

The purpose of this study was to revise and simplify a new and involved test of musical preference. The Keston Music Preference Test in its original form consisted of sixteen phonograph record discs, or thirty-two sides in all. It took approximately three hours to administer, and the grading procedure was extremely complex and time consuming. However, in spite of these difficulties, the test has demonstrated its usefulness in measuring musical discrimination, or musical sophistication among high school students and college students. It seemed highly desirable, therefore, to reduce the length of the test and to simplify the grading system of …

Introversion-Extroversion And Musical Taste, John H. Schopler

Psychology ETDs

In an article in press by M. J. Keston and Isabelle Pinto, certain factors possibly influencing musical preference were investigated. Of all the factors tested, thinking introversion-extroversion, as measured by the Heston Personal Adjustment Inventory, Scale A, had the highest correlation with musical preference. The purpose of the present study is to determine whether or not this relationship between introversion-extroversion and musical preference will be found with another measure of introversion-extroversion used.

The Performance Of Minority Group Delinquent And Non-Delinquent Boys On The Rosenzweig Picture Frustration Test, Gerald Jean Kleinfeld

Psychology ETDs

It was the purpose of this study to compare the reactions to frustration of a group of Spanish-American male delinquents with a group of Spanish-American delinquent boys, utilizing the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study, to determine whether or not there were significant differences in their response in terms of the Rosenzweig scoring dimensions. Another purpose of the study was to determine whether or not aggressive behavior correlated with any dimension on the Picture-Frustration Study. Finally, it was though that the study might reveal whether or not there were significant differences in responses to frustration between different cultural groups. If such a difference …

An Analysis Of Certain Responses To A Color Association Test, Norbett Lawrence Mintz

Psychology ETDs

The study to be presented in this thesis is a direct outgrowth of four years of work by the writer and his associates. Because none of the previous studies has been published and no statement of the over-all purpose of this study exists, it was deemed advisable to review the entire background of the present investigation. Therefore, the thesis has been divided into two parts.

Part One Shall: (1) demonstrate that the color association test resulted from a combination of color matching technique and the word association method; (2) present the purpose for which the test was developed; (3) review …

An Experimental Investigation Of The Functioning Of The Corpus Callosum., Charles Schuster

Psychology ETDs

The present investigation represents an exploratory attempt to work on the functions of the corpus callosum—about which little is known. A shotgun blast type of investigation was attempted in order to sample a variety of behavioral aspects. The purpose was to use any finding of this investigation as a lead for more comprehensive and conclusive experimentation.

Personality Differences Between Fighter And Non-Fighter Pilots, William A. Marcum

Psychology ETDs

This study attempts to distinguish personality factors which may influence Air Force pilots in their choice of a specific type of aircraft for their primary flying duty.

It is not the purpose of this study to investigate the personality of the versatile pilot, who seems equally adapted in terms of mental attitudes, personality matrix, and flying skill for any and all type of aircraft. Instead, the research is focused on those pilots whose preference and capabilities have channeled them into flying either fighter or non-fighter aircraft.

In the expectation that the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, with its scope and classification …

An Operational Investigation Into The Relationships Among Projection, Empathy, And Reality, Patricia Ainsworth

Psychology ETDs

There has long been an interest among psychologists regarding the inner processes of the personality, but it has been only In recent years that an effort has been made to define and delineate these processes experimentally. Early writers in the field have often spoken of these less easily observed aspects such as insight, self-perception, perception of others, projection, the self concept, empathy, realism, etc., but only In recent years have investigators attempted scientifically and experimentally to define these and to show the relationships among such intrinsic processes. The need is great to show these relationships and to delineate clearly these …

A Study Of The Factors Involved In The Liking And Disliking Of The Szondi Pictures, Edward J. Lambert

Psychology ETDs

The purpose of this study is (1) to find the independent, common factors underlying the "liking" and "disliking" of the Szondi pictures and (2) to determine if these factors can be identified by superficial aspects of the pictures.

New Methods Used To Study The Effects Of Acetylcholine In Conjunction With Forced Practice Upon The Transfer Of Handedness In Rats., Shephard Liverant

Psychology ETDs

The purpose of this study was to derive then experiment with various controls and techniques in an effort to avoid the faults found in previous methods used to study the effect or Ach upon the transfer of handedness in rats. The approach was to explore new possibilities, rather than adopt a specific design and then collect enough data either to verify or refute the hypothesis in question strictly within the limits of the specified experimental arrangement.

Performance On English And Spanish Editions Of The Stanford-Binet By Spanish American Children, Carmina Jimenez

Psychology ETDs

This study was made to gather information which might indicate whether the bilingual children of Albuquerque, New Mexico should be given the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Tests in Spanish or in English in order to measure most fairly their intelligence. The hypothesis to be tested may be stated: Spanish-American children in Albuquerque, New Mexico should be tested for intelligence with a Spanish version of the Stanford-Binet test.

An Investigation Concerning The Incidence Of Compulsitivity Among College Students, Reid I. Martin

Psychology ETDs

It is the purpose of the study to evaluate the following hypothesis: There exists among students now in college a certain incidence of compulsitivity as indicated by an experimentally devised ratios of compulsion neurosis to hysteria*; this incidence is greater among those now in college than those not in college.

It is also a purpose of this study to contribute experimental evidence to the frequently reported observation that compulsion neurosis occurs more frequently in men than women.

*The terms "compulsion neurosis" and "hysteria" are used loosely in this thesis, not to mean neurosis per se, but neurotic trends in …

An Inquiry Into The Validity Of The Gregory Academic Interest Inventory, Richard A. Yocom

Psychology ETDs

It was the purpose of this study to make an inquiry into the general validity of the entire inventory, and to ascertain the apparent validity of the individual scales incorporated in the inventory by means of data gathered from 92 graduate students enrolled at the University of New Mexico.

The Effects Of Severe Electric Shocks On Learning, Harry James Caughren Jr.

Psychology ETDs

The following are the purposes of this study: (1) to measure the effects of distracting emotional conditions on maze learning under electric shock conditions and under non-shock conditions; (2) to obtain, by a questionnaire, subjects' reports of their emotional responses to shock and to compare such reports with observation of their performance; and (3) to show the relation between different methods of solving the Warden U-type relief finger maze.

An Experimental Investigation Of The Relationship Of Perceptual Speed To Motor Speed, Richard F. Wierman

Psychology ETDs

The main problems of this investigation were to discover;

1. What relationship, if any, exists between perceptual and motor speed and

2. Whether or not individuals who had scores on visual test which were above the mean and who had scores on motor tests below the mean present a history of fewer accidents when compared with persons whose scores on visual tests were below the mean and who were above the mean in motor test scores.

A Study Of Some Factors Affecting Parental Attitudes, Shirley Driggs

Psychology ETDs

The purpose of this study is to determine the possible association of such factors as amount of education, age, sex, broken homes, the number of children in the family, and foreign birth with parental attitudes. The parental attitudes of mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters are also compared with each other in order to determine whether different generations would have different parental attitudes.

A Study Of Reaction To Frustration In Stutterers, Leroi Madison

Speech and Hearing Sciences ETDs

It was the purpose of this study to compare the responses of a group of stutterers on the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study with the norms established for that study to determine whether, as a group, they show any significant differences in (1) the direction of aggression, and (2) the type of reaction to frustration.

Sound-Induced Seizures In Rats Reared On Diets With High Sugar Content, Lois L. Benedict

Psychology ETDs

The present study was not designed to investigate the controversy on carbohydrate metabolism. For experimental purposes, the second possibility mentioned above was assumed to be true, i.e., that, somehow, ingested galactose might possibly be transported through the circulatory system. As long as this theory remains tenable, experimentation based upon it is necessary.

Mmpi Personality Patterns For Several Academic Major Groups, Miriam Redlo

Psychology ETDs

The relationship between personality and vocation has raised many problems, which have not yet been adequately investigated, since this area of research is comparatively recent. Many investigators claim that there are specific occupational differences in personality in that individuals who choose particular fields of work have certain personality characteristics in common. In other words, those in a certain occupation who are successful and satisfied with the nature of their employment will show, as indicated by instruments of personality measurement, similar traits or patterns of temperament or personality which differentiate them from persons in other vocations, who are successful as well.

Influence Of Handedness Of The Application Of Acetylcholine And Glutamic Acid To The Motor Cortex Of The Albino Rat, Donald G. Doehring

Psychology ETDs

The purpose of this study was to repeat the experimental design used in Suess' study, i.e., the attempt to influence the handedness of ambidextrous rats by application of Ach and glumatic acid to the motor cortex. This study was a slight departure from that of Suess in that more post-operational reaches were taken.

Transfer In Handedness In The Rat Induced By Acetylcholine And Forced Practice, Charles A. Baker

Psychology ETDs

This study was designed to discover the effects of local applications of acetylcholine to the cerebral cortex of the rat in conjunction with forced reaching on handedness.

Psychometric Problems Related To Cerebral Palsy, Dorothy Sievers

Psychology ETDs

Statistics have shown that there are about seven children who are born with or acquire cerebral palsy per year for every 100,000 population (7). This means that there are nearly 400,000 cerebral palsied persons under the age of 40 in the United States today (15). Cerebral palsy may be described as a disfunctioning of the nerves and muscles caused by damage to certain certain centers of the brain.

Rhythmic Methods Of Teaching Motor Skills, Jeannette Pruyn Reed

Psychology ETDs

It was the purpose of this study reported herein to evaluate three different methods of teaching motor skills in children: (1) the Laissez-Faire or minimum instruction method; (2) the addition of a rhythmic nursery song to minimum instruction; and (3) directive speech added in the form of song to concentrate attention and synchronize the action with words describing that action.