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A Comparison Of Personality Self-Descriptions Using A Structured Personality Inventory And Open-Ended Personality Questionnaire And Critical Incident Survey, Birda Lee Walker

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study is to determine whether individuals presented with a well defined list of adjectives demonstrate suggestibility, i.e., would rate themselves differently on the Adjective Check List (ACL), versus the open-ended test such as the Clinical Analysis Questionnaire (CAQ) or Critical Incident Survey (CIS).

The participants in this study were 36 adult volunteers drawn from three different populations: 12 prison inmates, 12 undergraduates from a university, and 12 outpatients of a mental health clinic. The participants were administered the three tests in individual and group sessions.

The prisoners did not fake “bad" or "good" more so on …

Learning To Be A Rorschacher, Richard H. Dana

Richard Dana

A methodology used for 13 years to train students in Rorschach interpretation was described. Multiple sources of feedback on the concepts contained in student reports are provided including consensus with peers, agreement with criterion. acceptability to assessees, skill, and eisegesis. Two studies are reported. An assessment model suggests relationships among training, research. and practice components.

Extended Report Of Interrelationships Between Rorschach And Mmpi Scores For Female College Students, Richard H. Dana, Brian Bolton

Regional Research Institute for Human Services

26 Klopfer scores and 6 Rorschach ratio scores were correlated with 12 MMPI standard scores for 95 female college students. Few statistically significant relationships between the Rorschach and MMPI were obtained. It was concluded that the Rorschach and the MMPI measure different variables in a normal population of female college students.

Extended Report Of Rorschach Personality And Barnum Statements, Richard H. Dana, Patricia A. Thomas

Regional Research Institute for Human Services

Frequent and Infrequent concepts were identified in psychological reports. These concepts were presented with established Barnum statements to 70 college students for estimation of the percentages of persons described by each concept. Significant differences between the three concept categories were obtained although rates of endorsement for all concepts were high.

The Formation Of A Professional Identity, Richard H. Dana

Regional Research Institute for Human Services

This paper explores the author's formation of a professional identity from undergraduate work to development of training materials.

Musical Expertise And Melodic Structure In Memory For Musical Notation, Andrea R. Halpern, Gordon H. Bower

Faculty Journal Articles

Two experiments plus a pilot investigated the role of melodic structure on short-term memory for musical notation by musicians and nonmusicians. In the pilot experiment, visually similar melodies that had been rated as either "good" or "bad" were presented briefly, followed by a 15-sec retention interval and then recall. Musicians remembered good melodies better than they remembered bad ones: nonmusicians did not distinguish between them. In the second experiment, good, bad, and random melodies were briefly presented, followed by immediate recall. The advantage of musicians over nonmusicians decreased as the melody type progressed from good to bad to random. In …

Duration Discrimination In A Series Of Rhythmic Events, Andrea R. Halpern, Christopher J. Darwin

Faculty Journal Articles

Duration discrimination of the last of a series of four clicks was investigated. Examination of psychophysical functions from eight subjects revealed evidence for a Weber’s law model relating discrimination to base interclick interval. Also, the point of subjective equality was seen to change reliably as a function of base rate.