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Schedule-Induced Drinking And Escape-Avoidance Behaviour As A Function Of Fixed-Time Schedule, Chamber Size, And Chamber Wall Stimuli., Brian Irvine. Burtt
Schedule-Induced Drinking And Escape-Avoidance Behaviour As A Function Of Fixed-Time Schedule, Chamber Size, And Chamber Wall Stimuli., Brian Irvine. Burtt
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The relationship between adjunctive behaviour, in the form of schedule-induced drinking, and escape-avoidance behaviour was investigated, using rats as subjects. Escape-avoidance behaviour consisted of vacating the site of intermittent food delivery and then staying away from the food site. Independent groups were run on fixed-time schedules ranging from 30 seconds to 240 seconds. Groups were run either in a small chamber that prevented movement away from the food site or in a large chamber that allowed considerable movement away from the food site. Each group was exposed to two types of chamber wall stimuli. Chamber wall stimuli either were the …
An Experimental Study Of Informal Advice Strategies: Benefits, Intentions And Responsibility., Helen Ruth. Avigan
An Experimental Study Of Informal Advice Strategies: Benefits, Intentions And Responsibility., Helen Ruth. Avigan
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This study examined the effectiveness of advice for coping with interpersonal conflicts. The focus was on helping with psychological stress and the maintenance of relationships. Recently, advice-giving has been viewed from an attributional framework, a theory emphasizing causality. Brickman et al. (1981), however, suggest the need to consider also the attributions of responsibility for solution. Moreover, strategies focusing on intentions and outcome are quite common but have not been studied systematically within an advice-giving paradigm. This experiment included 320 undergraduate females. A factorial design involved two levels of each of four variables: responsibility for cause, responsibility for solution, outcome and …
Children's Perceptions Of The Elderly: An Attributional Analysis., M. Elizabeth. Mcdermott
Children's Perceptions Of The Elderly: An Attributional Analysis., M. Elizabeth. Mcdermott
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The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not children's attributions would vary as a function of the age of the target person about whom the attribution was being made. Sixteen children, 8 boys and 8 girls, from each of grades 1, 4, 7, and 10 were interviewed. Each child was shown 8 photographs, half of which portrayed elderly individuals, and half of which portrayed young individuals. A behavioural description accompanied each photograph. Following the presentation of each photograph, each child was asked an open-ended question which was designed to elicit his/her spontaneous explanations for the behaviour. Responses …
Object Representation And The Rorschach: Investigation Of A Continuum Of Object Relations Impairment Across A Broad Spectrum Of Psychopathology., Gary Raymond. Keleher
Object Representation And The Rorschach: Investigation Of A Continuum Of Object Relations Impairment Across A Broad Spectrum Of Psychopathology., Gary Raymond. Keleher
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This study investigated the quality or maturity of Rorschach object representation in nonpatient controls (N = 20) and in hospitalized neurotic (N = 24), borderline (N = 26), and schizophrenic (N = 26) patients. Inclusion of these groups was based on the prediction, from object relations theory, of a relationship between severity of psychopathology and object representation impairment. Dependent measures were two object representation scales developed by Krohn and Mayman (1974) and Blatt, Brenneis, Schimek, and Glick (1976). Cross-validation of discharge diagnosis by an independent diagnostician, based on patients' clinical case summaries, was the selection criterion for psychiatric subjects. Following …