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The Cue Value Of Certain Attributes Of Faces, Joseph William Openshaw
The Cue Value Of Certain Attributes Of Faces, Joseph William Openshaw
Doctoral Dissertations
Of all the objects considered to be members of the broad class of things called "stimuli," undoubtedly the most important subset for the understanding of human behavior is other humans. The present research investigates some aspects of the complex stimulus provided by the appearance of another person and the function of selected dimensions of variation of such stimuli in a learning situation. It is an attempt to produce information regarding the relative effectiveness of certain kinds of cues provided by a person's face, when one is required to learn to respond differently to faces. The importance of research in …
The Role Of Learning In Olfactory Sensitivity, Monroe P. Friedman
The Role Of Learning In Olfactory Sensitivity, Monroe P. Friedman
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INTRODUCTION: In recent years the psychological literature has reflected an increasing interest in the role of learning in perception. On the theoretical level, this interest is expressed principally by the considerable attention given to two current attempts to account for perceptual learning (Gibson & Gibson, 1955a: Postman, 1955). On the empirical level, the problems of industry and the military have generated a multitude of investigations in this area. These problems range in diversity from the training of military personnel in the identification of aircraft to the training of tasters in the food industry.
The remainder of this chapter will be …
Partial Reinforcement And Generalization, Henry C. Rickard
Partial Reinforcement And Generalization, Henry C. Rickard
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Introduction: The present investigation was designed to study the interaction of two experimentally established parameters of a habit; partial reinforcement and stimulus generalization. Studies concerning the effects of partial reinforcement have occupied a prominent place in the psychological literature since Skinner's (1938) first major treatment of schedules of reinforcement. Numerous stimulus generalization experiments have been reported since Pavlov's (1927) recognition of the generalization phenomenon. The present study explored the effects of applying the partial reinforcement parameter in conditioning and the stimulus generalization variable in extinction. More specifically, groups of human subjects were conditioned to a verbal response under different schedules …
Experiments In Conditioning Operant Verbal Behavior, Edwin O. Timmons
Experiments In Conditioning Operant Verbal Behavior, Edwin O. Timmons
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In general, the writer's interests lie in the application of the principles of learning theory to the prediction and modification of gross human behavior. It is difficult to overemphasize the role of speech in the formation, shaping, and modification of an individual's behavior, and in the past few years a steadily growing body of investigators have been experimenting directly on speech, treating it as in uncontrollable, supra-human phenomenon. Those who experiment in the area called verbal behavior generally follow Skinner's (45) operant conditioning procedures which entail using the free speech of the S as the dependent variable and the verbal …
The Effect Of Stabilized And Nonstabilized Hunger Drive, Age, And Situation Complexity Upon Exploratory Behavior, Stanley Wechkin
The Effect Of Stabilized And Nonstabilized Hunger Drive, Age, And Situation Complexity Upon Exploratory Behavior, Stanley Wechkin
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Summary: An experiment was conducted to ascertain the effects of nonstabilized food deprivation, stabilized food deprivation, runway complexity, and age on exploratory behavior of male albino rats both during and across five five-minute trials. Three levels of deprivation: zero, twenty-three, and forty-seven hours were used. The stabilization dimension included groups stabilized on the twenty-three hour schedule for zero and fourteen days prior to the beginning of the experiment. The two age groups were respectively about thirty-five and ninety days old at the beginning of the experiment. All groups were equally divided into simple and complex runway groups. The simple runway …
A Developmental Study Of Performance On The Hunter-Pascal Concept Formation Test, Ernest R. Larsen
A Developmental Study Of Performance On The Hunter-Pascal Concept Formation Test, Ernest R. Larsen
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When psychology was closely allied to philosophy, it was defined as the study of "consciousness" or "mind." Its' methodology was investigating introspection, and by necessity, this limited any experimentation to the human species. In Europe, the initial research emphasis was on sensation and perception.
Although this philosophical orientation was questioned by a few investigators, this prevailing theoretical climate was irreversibly changes in America with the arrival and wide acceptance of Watson and his Behaviorism. Behavior then became the proper object of interest, and since all organisms behave, the object of study of psychology increased a thousand-fold.
In America, psychology's interest …
The Relationship Between Experiential Variables And The Occurence Of Duodenal Ulcer, William W. Lothrop
The Relationship Between Experiential Variables And The Occurence Of Duodenal Ulcer, William W. Lothrop
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INTRODUCTION The research about to be reported is part of a larger research program with duodenal ulcer patients carried out at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, under the direction of Drs. Gerald R. Pascal. and William O. Jenkins of the University of Tennessee Psychology Department. This research program has attempted to bring a systematic, behaviorally-oriented approach to the problem ot duodenal ulcer. The early work of Bergmann (3) has been followed by sufficient expermental research, notably that of Wolf and Wolff (28), Mittelmann and Wolff (16), Gantt (8) and Sawrey (24, 25), to make tentative the hypothesis that …
The Relationship Between Experimental Variables And The Occurence Of Duodenal Ulcer, William W. Lothrop
The Relationship Between Experimental Variables And The Occurence Of Duodenal Ulcer, William W. Lothrop
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The research about to be reported is part of a larger research program with duodenal ulcer patients carried out at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, under the direction of Drs. Gerald R. Pascal and William O. Jenkins of the University of Tennessee Psychology Department. This research program has attempted to bring a systematic, behaviorally-oriented approach to the problem of duodenal ulcer. The early work of Bergmann (3) has been followed by sufficient experimental research, notably that of Wolf and Wolff (28), Mittelmann and Wolff (16), Gantt (8) and Sawrey (24, 25), to make tentative the hypothesis that there …
The Effect Of Cue Change And Drive On A Running Response, Warren A. Young
The Effect Of Cue Change And Drive On A Running Response, Warren A. Young
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In studying the learned behavior of organisms, experimenters usually focus on some particular response and its relationship to systematically varied external stimuli and/or deprivations operations. Any given response can be considered to vary in three ways: It can be strengthened, it can be weakened, or it can be maintained at a more or less constant level. The strength (or weakness) of a response can be indexed in several ways. One can, for instance, measure the latency of the response, the amplitude of the response, the number of response elicitations to produce experimental extinction, the probability of response occurrence, the frequency …
A Developmental Study Of Concept Formation Behavior In Pre-School Children As Measured By The Hunter-Pascal Concept Formation Test, Bernard D. Kaiman
A Developmental Study Of Concept Formation Behavior In Pre-School Children As Measured By The Hunter-Pascal Concept Formation Test, Bernard D. Kaiman
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Introduction: In psychology the investigation of the formation of concepts has long been a part of the study of what has been called the thought processes. There are, however, very few studies of early concepts formation in humans, especially in children before and during the development of speech patterns. Most of the studies which have dealt with the investigation of concept formation have depended largely for their data on speech processes. It can, however, be shown that concept formation exists before speech behavior, and that its development seems to be somewhat parallel to the development of speech in the child. …
Development Of An Inventory Of Noncognitive Predictors Of Academic Success, Annie W. Ward
Development Of An Inventory Of Noncognitive Predictors Of Academic Success, Annie W. Ward
Doctoral Dissertations
The journals of education and psychology abound in studies of "prediction of academic success" in various courses, curricula and training programs. Since grades are readily available as a criterion and since previous grades and the scores on varied standardized tests are available as predictors, such studies are simple. The results of these studies are useful in selecting the best of available tests or the best combinations for predictive purposes, thus increasing the usefulness of the tests for group prediction. However, in spite of a number of these studies, and the refinement of statistical procedures used in conducting them, no such …
Construction Of A Forced-Choice University Instructor Rating Scale, Emmoran Benjamin Cobb
Construction Of A Forced-Choice University Instructor Rating Scale, Emmoran Benjamin Cobb
Doctoral Dissertations
Statement of the Problem: The problem, the construction of a rating scale for student evaluation of college teachers, had both "pure" and "applied" psychological research aspects. The "pure" facet of the problem was to develop, apply, and test the effectiveness of certain "forced-choice" principles of rating scale construction. The "applied" aspect was to construct in instrument useful to college teachers in the practice of their profession. Quotation marks are used for these terms to indicated the artificial nature of the dualism applied.
The Effects Of Varied Pre-Experimental Environments On Open Field Behavior And Elevated Maze Learning In The Rat, Herbert C. Hayward
The Effects Of Varied Pre-Experimental Environments On Open Field Behavior And Elevated Maze Learning In The Rat, Herbert C. Hayward
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Introduction: This study was an effort to evaluate the effect or effects of pre-experimental treatment upon the subsequent behavior of white rats of two strains in the presence of stimulus change during the experiment. Two articles in the Psychological Bulletin (2, 9) have pointed up the importance of such studies for the science of psychology.
A Study Of School Desegregation: Self-Prediction Of Behavior And Correlates Of Self-Prediction, Wyman Loren Williams
A Study Of School Desegregation: Self-Prediction Of Behavior And Correlates Of Self-Prediction, Wyman Loren Williams
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(From the Introduction)
On January 11, 1955, the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission directed the school system at Oak Ridge, Tennessee to desegregate beginning with the school year of 1955-1956. Although in general the school system officials felt that the community as a whole would be receptive to this procedure, research oriented toward the anticipation of problems that might arise as a result of the desegregation process was inaugurated by the Philosophy and Psychology Department at the University of Tennessee. The research that developed from this request is reported herein.
Activity And T-Maze Performance Of The White Rat As A Function Of Drive And Apparatus, Paschal Neilson Strong Jr.
Activity And T-Maze Performance Of The White Rat As A Function Of Drive And Apparatus, Paschal Neilson Strong Jr.
Doctoral Dissertations
[From the Introduction]
In the usual psychological experiment certain operations are performed upon the organisms being studied and a certain portion of the total responses are measured. The operations performed upon the organism may be roughly divided into two classes, those which are systematically varied and define the various experi mental groups, and those which are held constant across groups. Certain lawful relationships are then determined between those operations which are varied and the responses measured. Those operations which are held constant are considered to be factors which may also affect the responses being measured. It is usually …
The Contiguity Principle And The Skaggs-Robinson Hypothesis, Junius M. Rowe
The Contiguity Principle And The Skaggs-Robinson Hypothesis, Junius M. Rowe
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Introduction: Abbreviated
The laws governing acquisition and maintenance of behavior have occupied learning theorists in psychology for many years with the result that a great deal of data are available which demonstrate various factors influencing the acquisition of both simple and complex habits. Among the hundreds of factors now known to influence learning, similarity between original and interpolated material has received much attention in retroactive and proactive inhibition settings. The interference effects of these processes with varying degrees of similarity were first stated in 1920 by Woodworth and Poffenberger (23) and separately by Foucault (23) in 1928.
From the many …