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The Role Of Cognitive Differentiation In Conceptual Systems Theory, Mary Flume

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A cognitive approach to theory and research in personality proposes that individuals develop relatively enduring cognitive schemas for experiencing and organizing their .social world. Cognitive schemas are templates through which information is filtered or transformed.

It may be understood that cognitive personality theory emphasises the structure of cognition rather than its content. Such an emphasis is based on the assumption that structural variables are relatively enduring and invariant across situations, whereas the content of personality is expected to fluctuate markedly. Cognitive personality theory should provide the researcher with an efficient basis for describing the actions of a person and lead …

Memory For Persons, Encounters And Sex, William Sturgill

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Recognition of previously seen persons and recall of the circumstances of their encounter were tested in a situation' where subjects were unaware of the subsequent recognition task. Subjects encountered four: persons, one of each sex. in. two separate encounters. Prior to a lineup one week later, only 51 subjects (N = 145) failed to' recall either the number and/or the sex of the persons encountered, while only 28. correctly recalled both the number and sex and that it was two different persons in each encounter. Results from the lineup confirmed, previous suggestions that subjects (N = 155) are better able …

The United States And Malaya: 1945-1953, Joseph W. White Ii

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Historical investigation is a self-justifying effort. The discovery of the forgotten event or a different view of a circumstance or condition contributes to the total body of knowledge and needs no further defense. However, in this instance, there is a benefit in briefly tracing the ruminations that lead to this particular study. In short, the historical significance of the post-World War II American-Malayan relationship is hardly self-evident. The obvious questions: why this subject and wherein lies the value?

Nebraska And Rural Electrification Through 1940, Roberta K. Barndt

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Since Nebraska is primarily an agricultural state, the struggle to bring electricity to its rural areas played an important role in the long-standing battle to decrease the disparity between living standards in rural and urban America. During the first two decades of the twentieth century, telephones and automobiles lessened rural isolation while increased utilization of tractors and other technological innovations rendered farm labor less tedious. Nevertheless, without electricity, the one modern innovation that more than any other brought comfort and convenience within the reach of the urban masses, living and working conditions on the farm remained comparatively primitive. Farm families …

A Historical Study Of The Chap Program In The United States Air Force, Ruth A. Harrington

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Life in the military for most, families is an interesting and enjoyable experience. It offers an opportunity to make many friends, meet interesting people, travel to new places, and live in foreign countries. For the family with a handicapped child these advantages can turn into disadvantages and be an additional area for concern. Frequent moves, long separations, and the strangeness of new communities can cause worry and apprehension. Not knowing what is available for their special child at the next duty station can lead to additional stress and lower the morale of the family.

The Development Of A Comprehensive Long Range Plan To Determine The Financial Facility And Program Needs For The Iowa School For The Deaf Council Bluffs, Iowa, Norman Keith Devine

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Everyone concerned, including parents of deaf children, educators of the deaf, board members, legislators, and eventually the deaf person himself wants the same thing. That is the best possible education for each deaf child. In order to provide programs that will insure this end, there is a need for a well thought out long-range plan of action. Traditionally, long-range planning by schools has been concerned with certain quantitative aspects of operation: enrollment projections, facility needs, current income, current expenditures, and variations of these quantities. The emphasis in this study was that resource planning dominated attention.

A Study Of Basic Characteristics And Views Of Team Teaching Programs And The Expectations Of Elementary School Principals Currently Supervising Team Teaching, Joel G. Christiansen

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Traditionally, in Fremont, Nebraska, the elementary schools have been organized around self-contained classrooms. However, during the past year, efforts have been made in the Clarmar Elementary School to change this arrangement, and capitalize upon the special abilities and interests of the teachers in the intermediate grades. For example, in a fifth grade, one of the two teachers instructed both sections of math, while the other taught English. With this background experience, the fourth and fifth grade staff members concluded that the advantages of "team teaching" and the self-contained classroom should be incorporated into their instructional 1976-77 school year. Toward this …

The Relationship Between Attitudes Toward Women And The Motive To Avoid Success, Rebecca A. Fahrlander

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Although a considerable body of knowledge had been developed on the motive to achieve and the motive to avoid failure (Atkinson, 1953, 1964; McClelland, 1953, 1961; Veroff et al., 1953), the motive to avoid success did not receive much attention until Matina Homer began her work in 1965 (Horner, 1968, 1971; Tresemer, 1974). Since 1965, several other studies (Hoffman, 1974; Feather and Raphelson, 1974; Levine and Crumrine, 1975) have focused on the prevalence and consequences of fear of success, but their results have left several questions unanswered.

The Effectiveness Of Various Omission Training Procedures As A Function Of Reinforcement History, Mary Patricia Brockman

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This experiment analyzed the relative effectiveness of three forms of omission training (OT 20 sec, OT 5 sec, and gradual OT with a time-dependent criterlor) in reducing a bar press response following three different reinforcement histories. Thirty-six children between the ages of 4% and 11 years were initially trained to press a bar according to a VR 35 schedule of reinforcement. The different omission training conditions were introduced directly following the VR 35 baseline, following a lengthened history of VR, and following a DRL intervention condition designed to enhance the effectiveness of the OT condition.

A Follow Up Study On Twenty Five Veterans Who Participated In The Veterans In Education Program At The University Of Nebraska At Omaha, Dobby R. Mccallister

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As the decade of the seventies unfolded, significant innovations were being introduced in public schools across the country for the purposes of improving instruction and enriching the learning experiences of students. These experiments were done on selected bases, some through special funding and others as the result of the initiative of public school and university personnel. Teacher Corps, on the university level, and Title I programs in the public schools are examples. Other examples are reading programs such as HILINC and PRIMALINC and, also, special math programs. A program entitled Veterans in Education came at a most opportune time. Educators …

American Indian Property Rights: Congress And The Supreme Court, Virginia C. Todd

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Demands for citizens' "civil rights" has been a recurrent theme of contemporary society for nearly twenty years; however, it has not been until the last five that the rights of American indians have been accorded great attention. Perhaps because of the romantic characteristics attributed to them by our fixation on the grand development of the nation, the rights of the Indian have become a challenge to the integrity of the United States. The story of the development of the country is the story of acquisition of Indian lands, and this paper is a discussion of the elements and activities of …

A Comparison Of The Anticipated Minimum Measurement Component Scores To Tested Results In Behavioral Objectives At Papillion High School, Michael W. Jinks

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For many years the Papillion Public School District has been a prime example of a suburban school district hard pressed to accommodate a rapidly increasing enrollment. For almost two decades the district has had to face the problem of financing education for larger and larger enrollments from a tax base that has not kept pace.

A Study To Determine Why Nebraska's K-12 Public Approved School Districts Are Not Accredited, Wayne A. West

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The significance of State Accreditation in Nebraska's public and non-public school systems is a fact which is generally recognized by educators. Accreditation represents a means of classifying school districts according to their ability to adhere to State established rules and regulations. It is also a system of labeling school systems according to the quality of educational programs offered. The Nebraska State Department of Education identifies two levels of accreditation. These are an "A" accreditation and "AA" accreditation. Those schools which do not meet the standards for accreditation are classified as "approved".

Peer Tutoring To Increase Mathematics Performance: An Examination Of Generalized Changes In Classroom Behavior., Malinda Lee Mckenzie

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A peer-tutoring package was implemented to improve the accuracy of mathematics performance of two students, aged 11 and 14 years, in an engineered school classroom. A reversal design was employed to evaluate the effectiveness of peer tutoring for one student, with subsequent extension of the tutoring package to the second student. Examinations were made of changes in accuracy as a result of tutoring, as well as the correlated effects of treatment on on-task and disruptive behavior. Investigations were also conducted of the generalized effects of treatment to another math period (with similar problems) in which tutoring was never implemented, differentiated …

The Effectiveness Of Mainstreaming Handicapped Children In Nebraska Head Start Programs., Weslee W. D'Audney

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The Early Childhood Technical Assistance-Resource Center at Meyer Children's Rehabilitation Institute has provided training and technical assistance to the staff of Nebraska Head Start through grants from the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped and the Region VII Office of Child Development since 1973.

Anatomical Data For The Classification Of Muhlenbergia Pungens., C. Martin Warwick

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Introduction: The genus Muhlenbergia Schreb. is a member of the Gramineae. Of the 110 species described to date, 55 species are American (Gleason, 1963). The species are most numerous in the southwestern states. Muhlenbergia includes members of considerable diversity and several efforts have been made to subdivide the genus. Hitchcock (1913) states that members of Muhlenbergia have been classified in other genera such as Vilfa , Sporobolus, Calamagrostis, Clomena, Bealia , Chaboissaea, and Trichloa. However, no classification has been totally satisfactory.

An Analysis Of Generalization In A Parent Training Program From A Laboratory To Home Setting, Carol Mindell

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A mother was trained in a structured laboratory setting, through written and verbal instructions and daily verbal feedback, to modify specific components of her attention to her 4-yr-old daughter’s behavior during an instruct ion-following task. Examinations were made of the effectiveness of parent training in changing the mother’s behavior in the structured laboratory setting, as well as the extent of generalized change in mother’s responses in three other settings in which no training was conducted: 1) a similar structured period in the home, 2) a dissimilar unstructured period in the laboratory, and 3) a-dissimlar unstructured period in the home. The …

The Resolution Of Cognitive Dessonance: A Study Of Catholic Pentecostals, Monica J. Aita

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The following work has both a general and a specific focus. In general, an effort has been made to examine Pentecostalism as a social movement in the United States. Chapter I is devoted to this first concern. The history, and development of the Pentecostal movement is discussed in detail to provide a perspective in which to locate the current Pentecostal thrust. Chapter I attempts to answerthe question: What is the relationship between ClassicalPentecostalism and the Pentecostalism of the 1970's? The remaining chapters of this work deal specifically with a subset of people in the contemporary Pentecostal movement, Roman Catholic Pentecostals. …

A Comparison Of Husband-Wife Perceptions Of Feminism As Related To Marital Adjustment, Leonard R. Decker

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The primary purpose of this thesis is to attempt to discover the type and degree of relationship between married persons' perceptions of feminism and their marital adjustment. More specifically, it is aimed at exploring and describing the influence of discrepant interpretations of feminism by man and wife on their marital adjustment.

The Origins Of State Intervention In The Control Of Juvenile Delinquency: The Nebraska Experience, James L. Massey

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The pages that follow trace the origins of Nebraska's experience in official state intervention in the control of juvenile delinquency. The focus is on the developmental stages of the Nebraska juvenile justice system, and is designed to inform the reader about the foundation upon which this system has been built, as well as the assumptions that were implicit in this activity. The early chapters provide a brief overview of efforts to define and prevent juvenile delinquency from colonial times to just prior to the onset of the American Civil War. It was in this period that some forms of youthful …

A Study Of The Reasons Forty Non-Black Students Chose To Attend Omaha Technical High School For The 1975-1976 School Year, Marty M. Pierson

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Omaha Technical High School is one of eight senior high schools in the Omaha Public School system. Historically, Technical High School is a comprehensive public high school. College preparatory and vocational courses are offered at the school. In the early 1960's special education classes for the educable mentally retarded were started at Technical High School. This program was the only special education program in the Omaha Public Schools system at the high school level.

A Comparative Study Of Attendance In The Senior High Schools Of The Omaha School District For 1974-75 And 1975-76., Robert L. Whitehouse

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Poor student attendance is one of the greatest problems facing most schools in the country today. Omaha is no exception. Absence figures have grown at an alarming rate in recent years. In 1974-75 there were 180,649 absences in the eight Omaha Public senior high schools. Truants and others who are habitually absent are often considered to be non-conformers. It seems true that non-conformers, more than con formers, hold part-time jobs, own cars, "hang around," and smoke. These students also have generally lower vocational ambitions, shorter education­ al plans, and dislike school more than those who attend school regularly. Because of …

Alternatives To Meaninglessness In Ken Kesey's "Sometimes A Great Notion", Dennis L. Beckmann

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At first glance, Ken Kesey appears to be a contemporary prophet of doom. His characters find little meaning in life, as each day brings only hopelessness and despair. For each of these characters, there are many causes of and responses to the problem of meaninglessness. The common denominator which links all of Kesey’s characters, and perhaps all men, is that they cannot progress towards any kind of satisfactory existence until some meaning for life is found.

The Wolbach Title I Remedial Reading Program Is Effective In Improving The Reading Scores Of Participating Wolbach Students, Gary N. Hammack

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Reading is a basic skill that is fundamental to nearly any course a student encounters in his academic career. The teaching of such an important skill as been a subject of controversy for many years; hence, many programs have been initiated, some a failure, some a success. No subject has been more philosophized or argued about or experimented with than the teaching of reading. Some students have succeeded no matter what the program--and still others have had great difficulties.

Situational Determinants Of A Crying Response: Their Interrelations With Cognitive Structure And Level Of Sex-Role Identification, Richard Paul Votta

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An attempt was made to assess the relationships between an individual's level of sex-role identification, degree of cognitive complexity or simplicity, and reported crying behavior. One hundred sixty six students from an introductory sociology class at the University of Nebraska at Omaha were administered three scales: the Bern Sex Role Inventory to assess their level of sex-role identification; the Millimet Rep Test (Version 1) to assess the degree of cognitive complexity, and the Votta Crying Scale-an instrument devised by the author to measure an individual's propensity to crying and the four major types of situations that will elicit the behavior. …

Developmental Aspects Of Nonverbal Communication, Richard Norris

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Developmental differences in encoding and decoding abilities were investigated in this study with subjects ranging from 5 years to 88 years of age. The 94 white, middle-class males and females were placed into five age groups. Subjects were asked to encode each of six emotional expressions, after which they were presented with three decoding tasks. The video tape mode required subjects to decode the same six common nonverbal expressions of emotion (i.e., anger, surprise, fear, happiness, sadness, disgust). A second decoding task consisted of four expressions (anger, fear, sadness, happiness) which were schematically depicted. Subjects' decoding of affect in a …

The Effect Of Two Athletic Training Programs On Aerobic Capacity, Anaerobic Capacity, Reaction Time, And Percent Body Fat, Paul W. Petersen

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What are the effects of two different athletic programs on the aerobic capacity, anaerobic capacity, reaction time, and percent body fat of varsity college athletes?

The Present Status And Future Trends Of Business Education Programs In Nebraska Public High Schools, Pamela A. Troutman

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Curriculum and instruction decision making is a complex problem. Many attempts have been made in the past two decades to develop new curriculum and instructional techniques which the proponents of such programs and procedures hoped would be adopted by schools throughout the nation. In many cases, however, such hopes were never realized since the classroom teacherp were unwilling or unable to use the new approaches. Thus a more realistic picture of what is currently happening or what will happen in any curriculum area can be better determined by finding out what classroom teachers anticipate than by relying on the prediction …

A Study Of The Relationships Between The Wallach & Kogan Tests Of Creativity, The Barron-Welsh Art Scale And Ego Strength, Gail L. Sunderman

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A test of the Wallach and Kogan Tests of Creativity was conducted using the Barron Welsh Art Scale as a criterion of creativity. The Wallach and Kogan Tests measure verbal fluency and uniqueness of ideas, supposedly the basis of creative behavior. The Barron-Welsh Art Scale, on the other hand, differentiates known creative people from non-creative along a dimension of preference complexity or simplicity. The Barron Ego Strength Scale was included as a measure of a trait found to be higher in creative people than in the normal population. High intercorrelations between the three measures were hypothesized. No relationship was found, …

The Mature Woman In A University Setting, Her Career Aspirations And The Impact Of Counseling., Betty G. Foster

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Centuries of societal expectations, reflecting societal needs, have brought woman to this point in history. Her role has been deter­ mined by these expectations and needs in the context of a male dominated- society (Trager, 1974). The roles have been ambiguous, causing guilt and bewilderment (Weitzman, 1975).