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The Effect Of Induced Movement Of Induced Movement On The Naming Of Pictured Objects And Persons-One Aspect Of Thinking, Jack A. Nottingham

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An Investigation Of Employee Attitudes And Employee Performance, Richard V. Washburn

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Industrial managers are showing an increasing interest in employee attitudes, opinions and morale. This conclusion is reflected in the fact that many companies conduct attitude and opinion surveys, train their supervisors in human relations and provide other functions designed to create favorable attitudes.

Management concern for the promotion of favorable employee attitudes may be attributed to two main factors. Part of the concern may be attributed to a general trend toward greater social responsibilities of industry. The other, and perhaps greater part can be attributed to an assumption that employees with favorable attitudes are more productive than those with generally …

Group Cohesiveness And Group Productivity, Michael M. Makedonsky

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Group Cohesiveness and Group Productivity

Cartwright and Zander (1953) distinguished at least three different meanings in their intuitive and operational descriptions of group cohesiveness: (a) attraction to the group, (b) morale, and (c) coordination of efforts of group members. Others have attempted to classify meanings of cohesiveness into two general categories. One category of definitions centers chiefly on particular aspects of group behavior or group process. Here, the meaning of cohesiveness refers to "sticking togetherness," productivity, task involvement and good team work. A common observation is that members of a cohesive group display a feeling of "we-ness" or "togetherness," meaning …

The Affect Of Simultaneous Auditory Stimulation On Absolute Visual Sensitivity, Leonard M. Fisher

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An Investigation Of The Visual Processes Involved In The Vertical-Horizontal Illusion, Robert L. Vette

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The vertical-horizontal illusion has been the object of experimental study for many years. The first man to investigate the vertical-horizontal illusion was probably Oppel in 1854. Since the time of Oppel's first experiment, many theories have been advanced in an attempt to explain what causes this illusion to occur in our perception of connected vertical-horizontal lines. The primary theory that is most widely accepted states that the vertical line in the "T" illusion will be judged longer because of the vertical-horizontal relationship.

Pan (1934) suggested that the "T" figure illusion was not due entirely to the interaction of the vertical …

An Investigation Of Food Deprivation And Competition On Hoarding Behavior In The Domestic Cat, Jo Ann Sinclair

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A Comparison Of Sprague-Dawley And Wistar Albino Rats On Maze Learning Ability, Richard W. Daniels

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Anatomical Associations On The Rorschach Test As A Predictor Of Assaultive Behavior, Keith O. Schmidt

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Learning Set Formation In The Guinea Pig, Paul E. Burk

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An Investigation Of Creative College Students Using Two Measures Of Flexibility, John L. Roberts

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The Effect Of Sensory Deprivation On Responses To The Word Association Test, Robert Mitchell Browning

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A Study Of The Variables Influencing Subliminal Perception, Daniel Gilman

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The Effects Of Sensory Deprivation Upon The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Douglas J. Wolter

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Effect Of Differentiation Of Alternatives On Prolongation Of Spontaneous Alternation The Y-Maze, Clarence D. Hammond

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A Study Of Personality Dimensions Associated With Creative Individuals, Michael J. Bodi

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Comparison Of Alcohol Offenses Of College Students With Those Of Persons In A Similar Age Group Who Have Not Had College Experience, Cornelis Laban

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Introduction

The purpose of the study was to·make· a comparison of the drunk driving behavior of college students with that· of those persons in a similar age group who have not had college experience. There is very little published information about the statutes governing "driving under the influence of liquor" (D.U.I.L.). The educable nature of persons involved in such offenses 8 and the probable anti-social and sociopathic behavior in individuals leading up to the offenses, also need thorough investigation. Very pertinent also is the question whether or not there is a biological basis for this particular behavior; an understanding of …

Prediction Of Creativity By Two Parts Of The Ac Test Of Creative Ability, David Austin Morris

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Secondary Reinforcement And The Discrimination Hypothesis, J. David Barcik

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Constant X Of The Alcoholic Personality, Jean Carpenter

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Chapter I

Introduction

The problem of alcoholism is one of the oldest problems in the history of mankind. Today it ranks world-wide as a major public health problem. Yet, constructive study and research on the subject did not gain much momentum until about 1935.

With the organization of Alcoholism Anonymous in 1935, the awareness of the problem spread, fanwise, throughout the fields of religion, medicine, and psychiatry. Alcohol had once presented a baffling and seemingly unanswerable enigma. But now there was a glimmering of hope in each of these separate fields that the answers might lie within its own particular …

A Study Of Figural After-Effects In The Inverted-“T”-Illusion, Wayne H. Bartz

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Introduction

The term figural after-effect refers to the spatial displacement of a visual figure induced by the inspection of a prior figure. In the figural after-effect paradigm, an observer fixates on a figure called the inspection figure for some time. Fixation is then shifted to a test figure. Any spatial displacement in the test (second) figure is termed the figural after-effect. Generally, maximal figural after-effects are attained with 60 second inspection followed immediately by short test figure exposure (Hammer, 1949; Graham, 1951; Krauskopf, 1954; Parducci and Brookshire, 1956; Sagara and Oyama, 1957; and Kohler and Wallach, 1944). This study is …

Two Forms Of Somatic Concern, Philip Van Every

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Validity Of The Goodenough Draw-A-Man Test With Children Aged Four, Five, And Six, Jaren Van Den Heuvel

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An Investigation Of The Horizontal-Vertical Illusion, Frederick J. Boersma

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Experimenters have used the inverted "T" to illustrate the horizontal-vertical illusion for many years. This illusion is characterized by the subject perceiving the horizontal line as shorter than the vertical line.

Credit is usually given to Fick (1851) for being first to call attention to the discrepancy between horizontal and vertical estimates. He demonstrated this by visually noticing that a bright square on a dark background looks like an oblong object. Hicks (1906) stated that Oppel was the first person to actually investigate the horizontal-vertical illusion.

The classical theory generally states that an equal length vertical line in a "T" …

The Extinction Of An Instrumental Response As A Function Of The Size Of The Reward And The Number Of Acquisition Trials, Venan E. Thompson

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Beliefs And Attitudes Of Recent High School Graduates On The Subject Of Beverage Alcohol, Francis E. Chape

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Introduction

During recent years, many investigations concerning the teen-ager and beverage alcohol have been carried out. A survey of the available literature on this subject revealed that most of the studies have been made to determine the attitudes toward drinking and the drinking behavior of this age group. These studies, Maddox¹ states, provide "The basis for generalizations about drinking in high school which are more substantial than impressionistic guesses."

Generalizations, however, have not been limited to drinking behavior alone. Alcohol education programs, required by law in every state in the union,² have received much criticism in recent times. …

Children's Associations To The Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Designs, Margaret J. Garvey

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An Attempt To Demonstrate A Learned Drive Based On Saline Induced Thirst, David G. Born

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The Relationship Of Union Attitude To Work Performance, Donald Leo Wass

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Present-day management is aware of the high work-output characteristic of some “rugged individualists" who have "anti- union" sentiments. Studies concerning individuals classified as "ratebusters” have been made by Dalton (4) and by Roethlisberger and Dickson (5). The higher production efficiency of the “ratebuster" is discussed along with the increased personnel problems related to these workers. Because of anti-union sentiments, the “ratebuster” can have a disruptive effect on the labor force as a whole.

The worker with strong pro- union sentiments has received very little attention in the literature. It is probable that present-day management classifies this worker as an undesirable …

Discrimination As A Function Of Sex And Meaning Of Stimuli, Thomas Joseph Schmitz

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A Study Of Reaction Time As A Test For Validity Of Personality Questionnaires, William Mccague Shearer

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