Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

1. Introduction, Robert L. Bloom, Basil L. Crapster, Harold L. Dunkelberger, Charles H. Glatfelter, Richard T. Mara, Norman E. Richardson, W. Richard Schubart

Section XXI: Meaning in the Social Sciences

Vastly increased research and a sounder technique in history in the nineteenth century had two influences on the social sciences. When an enthusiasm for the records of history was combined with the evolutionary perspective, it often resulted in the search for and the imposition of patterns of development on history in general or on the history of particular subject matters such as economics, politics, morals, or religion. Social scientists looked to history for explanations, in the hope of finding inevitable laws, stages of development, or the forces that moved human society. As historians worked out a critical method for their …

3. The Science Of Man, Robert L. Bloom, Basil L. Crapster, Harold L. Dunkelberger, Charles H. Glatfelter, Richard T. Mara, Norman E. Richardson, W. Richard Schubart

Section X: The Eighteenth Century Enlightenment

Perhaps the chief achievement of the Enlightenment was the creation of the social sciences and the application of these sciences to the problems of human existence. The selections which follow offer a first-hand glimpse of the type of work that Enlightenment thinkers accomplished in the fields of psychology, economics, political science, and ethics. The selections are but fragments of thorough, systematic analyses of the foregoing subjects. However, our primary interest here is to understand some of the important assumptions and conclusions rather than to acquire a detailed knowledge of each of the sciences. The ideas presented may seem oversimplified and …

Fakability Of Interest Tests , James Anthony Becker

Master's Theses

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A Comparison Of Psychogalvanic Responses With Certain Categories Of The Mmpi , Stanley J. Cabanski

Master's Theses

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Olfactory Discrimination In Lobotomized Patients , Joseph R. Caldwell

Master's Theses

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An Investigation Of The Influence Of Occupations On The Loyola Language Study , Frank Anthony Dinello

Master's Theses

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A Comparison Of The Problems Of Institutionalized And Non-Institutionalized Children , John Walter Keller

Master's Theses

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An Analysis Of Item Order In Seven Subtests Of The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale , William Gregory Klett

Master's Theses

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Sex Differences In The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale For Eighteen And Nineteen Year Olds , David Desales Markert

Master's Theses

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A Validation Study Of Three Non-Verbal Maps Test Signs As Indicators Of Hostility Among Delinquent Boys , Basil Edward Najjar

Master's Theses

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An Mmpi Study Of Religious Seminarians , Patrick John Rice

Master's Theses

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Length Of Deprivation And The Day-Night Cycle As Determinants Of Eating Behavior, George A. Cicala

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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A Comparative Study Of The Problem Of Abstraction Versus Experience Between East And West (As Exemplified In Selected Eastern And Western Sages), Leo Jacob Zeff

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a comparative study of the teachings of a number of Eastern sages and a representative of modern Western depth psychology in connection with the problem of abstraction versus experience (or, thinking about instead of experiencing}. This problem is considered by the writer as the central cause in the suffering of mankind everywhere.

The introductory chapter will present the problem being investigated, why and how it is considered significant, and how it will be dealt with in this study. The second chapter will contain a presentation of the various sages to be considered here, how and why they …

A Comparative Study Of Cerebral Palsied And Normal Adults On Two Forms Of Raven's Progressive Matrices , Vernon Sloan. Tracht

Dissertations

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The Relationship Between A Time Score And Anxiety Score On The Taylor Anxiety Scale, Donald H. Kausler, E. Philip Trapp

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

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Personality Differences Of Three Groups Of College Freshmen Rated High, Average, And Low On Study Habits And Attitudes, Frederic Hamilton Busher

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The problem of this study was as follows: Is there any significant difference in the personality variables, between groups of college freshmen rated high, average, or low in study habits and attitudes? Study habits and attitudes were measured by the Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes by W. H. Brown and W. F. Holtman.

A Comparison Of Free And Controlled Association On The Loyola Language Study , John J. Trainor

Master's Theses

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The Effect Of Values On Classroom Achievement , Neil John Webb

Master's Theses

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Degree Of Hunger In The Rat: A Review Of The Psychological Literature, Donna Lee Erdahl

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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A Personality Comparison Of Students Born In The Mormon Church And Those Who Have Been Converted, Grant Broadbent Smith

Theses and Dissertations

The study of personality and its many facets is one of several significant areas in the field of psychology, which is being studied in detail. Personality, as a construct, is not often well defined and less often well understood, since it is a composite of such varied factors as perception, motivation, learning, culture and so on. Because of this present lack of clarity it must and will be discussed, written about, and experimented with until a clear, operant definition, acceptable to psychology, has been devised.

A Consideration Of The Relationship Between Memory As Measured By The Stanford-Binet And Reading Achievement As Measured By The California Reading Achievement Test At The Fifth Grade Level, Alfred Owen Fonkalsrud

Student Work

In the remote past the reading of written and printed symbols had Its origin when man first began to use pictures and other characters to send messages and to record events. It occurred very slowly and took a lot of effort to change from picture writing to the use of letters In representing specific sounds.

The Egyptians as early as twenty-five centuries before Christ had analysed words and syllables into sounds and had developed a series of symbols to represent them. As a result of the ingenuity of the Semites these sounds and symbols were the beginning of the Phoenician …

The Degree Of Localization Of Function For Handedness In The Rat, Jeanne Rivoire

Psychology ETDs

Statement of the problem. Peterson and Fracoral (1938) studied Localization of the handedness area in ambidextrous rate by the technique of the thermocautery destruction. By this process they were able to locate a small area for handedness, situated at approximately 250 microns posterior to the genu of the corpus callosum and lying directly over the caudate nucleus. Destruction of this area produced transfers of handedness in their rats.

However, this method of locating a specific structural area by finding a common area for a group of animals is at best relatively crude because of the variation in individual animals.

The …

An Empirical Study Of Personality Variables Related To Efficiency Of Problem Solving, Sylvia G. Dickerson

Master's Theses

During the last few years there has been an increasing interest in problem solving behavior and closely related area such as concept formation, decision making and creative thinking. This can be seen by the large number of papers published within the last few years. Taylor and McNemar in the 1955 Annual Review state that between 1949 and 1953, in the United States only, 125 relevant doctoral dissertations have been written and about 60 papers presented at the A .P.A . meetings besides the books written on the subject by Bruner, Vinacke, Humphrey, Rapaport. Despite the amount of work which has …

A Validity Study Of The Wonderlic Personnel Test, William Daniel Buckley

Master's Theses

Business and Industry is turning more and more to the use of standardized psychological tests as an aid in the selection and placement of personnel. Many concerns want to have, along with all other pertinent information, a measure of a potential employee's general intelligence. Therefore, some sort of intelligence test is found in their test batteries. Management, in most cases, prefers these various tests to be as simple as possible in their administration and evaluation, thus avoiding unnecessary time am expense. There are a number of short intelligence tests which meet the above requirement One of these, the Wonderlic Personnel …

An Evaluation Of The Accuracy Of Two Meter Calibration Procedures And The Readability Of A Variety Of Voltmeters, Dan A. Peterson

Psychology ETDs

Statement of the problem. The purpose of the study was (1) to determine the comparative accuracy of two electronic meter calibration procedures, and (2) to evaluate the readability of a variety of voltmeters.

These were accomplished by the analysis of distributions of psychophysical errors and psychological mistakes which were produced by the undergraduate engineering students as they made specified voltage settings, read the various meter scales, and computed the resulting correction factors.

Threat Anticipation In Adolescents, C. Eugene Hampton

Student Work

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A Performance Analysis Of The Upper And Lower 20% Of A Senior High School Group Compared On Tests Of Interest, Personality And Achievement, Richard E. Jensen

Student Work

Since early civilization man has been faced with a multitude of situations demanding that he make a decision or choice on which a future course of action or behavior will be based. We might correctly assume that decisions made by people have never been of such simplicity that they created no tension.

Civilization has become progressively more complicated, and thus more alternatives are present from which a person must choose, In the earliest days of man’s existence, decisions were of the simplest and most fundamental nature, Man’s decisions and choices ware, for the most part, governed by a few biological …

A Study Of Aviation Education In The Secondary Schools Of North Dakota, South Dakota, And Minnesota, Edgar M. Byers Jr.

Theses and Dissertations

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Psychological Adjustment Of The Foreign Born Characters In Willa Cather's Fiction, Sister Irene Marie Kerich

Psychology ETDs

It will be the purpose of this study to show by an analysis of inherent qualities and external manifestations how Willa Cather portrayed in her fiction the psychological adjustment which her foreign born characters had to make in America.

The Predictive Value Of The Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale, Patricia Bledsoe

Dissertations

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