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Effects Of Fixed Interval And Continuous Biofeedback Reinforcement On Emg Frontalis Muscle Activity, Kathleen I. Twinem
Effects Of Fixed Interval And Continuous Biofeedback Reinforcement On Emg Frontalis Muscle Activity, Kathleen I. Twinem
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
The effects of continuous vs. intermittent reinforcement using electromyographic (EMG) feedback as the reinforcer were compared in reducing frontalis muscle activity. Fourteen subjects were chosen from a group of 30 students who had expressed an interest in learning how to relax. Those students having the highest pre-experimental baseline scores were chosen. They were matched according to both those scores and sex and then randomly assigned to either a continuous biofeedback reinforcement group or a 30 sec. fixed interval biofeedback reinforcement group. The experiment consisted of nine sessions (three acquisition, two treatment, and four extinction) with integrated EMG activity from the …
Children's Responses To Medically Induced Discrete, Acute Pain, Brenda D. Ballard
Children's Responses To Medically Induced Discrete, Acute Pain, Brenda D. Ballard
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
Three experiments were carried out with children in a private office on the measurement of distress caused by allergy treatment injections and on a behavioral technique to alleviate this treatment-induced distress. In Experiment 1 a rating scale to measure observable indices of distress with children receiving injections was developed and its construct validity and reliability determined. In Experiment 2, norms were derived for the sample of children studied and the nature of the expression of distress according to age and sex was examined. In Experiment 3 two treatments for alleviating the treatment-induced distress, (a) sensory information, and (b) systematic reinforcement …
A Comparsion Of Verbal Abilities Of Adult Aphasic Speakers : Pica Verbal Subtests And Word-Morpheme Means, Joann Uhley
A Comparsion Of Verbal Abilities Of Adult Aphasic Speakers : Pica Verbal Subtests And Word-Morpheme Means, Joann Uhley
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to determine whether correlations existed between a measure of linguistic complexity in spontaneous speech and performance on the four verbal subtests of the PICA.