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A Review And Construction Of Career Development Programs In The Elementary School, Chase Driggs
A Review And Construction Of Career Development Programs In The Elementary School, Chase Driggs
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
Overview
Every child has a right to acquire his own realistic selfevaluation of the career he intends to pursue, and the process of exposure to occupational information should be permitted and encouraged to start at an early age. From this point of view we need to foster concepts and techniques designed to facilitate the vocational maturation of the child. Interaction with counselors, teachers, parents, and community will increase the student's ability to understand the opportunities of the world of work as it relates to his aptitudes and interests and values and to enable him to be more aware of the …
Behavioral Modification Of Trainable Mentally Retarded Children, Cheryl Mayo Frair
Behavioral Modification Of Trainable Mentally Retarded Children, Cheryl Mayo Frair
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
In Experiment I, contingency management was employed with five non-institutionalized trainable retardates (mean MA=4.l, CA=9.9, and language age=2.6) in a classroom situation. Empirically determined high probability behaviors were displayed as colored cartoon figures in a reinforcement menu. Tasks from the Peabody Language Development Kit defined the behavior strengthened during 15 one-hour sessions. A quantity of low probability task behavior had to occur in order for subjects to emit 4 minutes of high probability reinforcing activity. Through contingency management, amount of task per reinforcement was shaped from a low ratio to a high ratio. Significant gains in language age (p
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A Psychological Investigation Of Seven Hermaphroditic Children, Peter Lewis Kranz
A Psychological Investigation Of Seven Hermaphroditic Children, Peter Lewis Kranz
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
An in-depth personality and intellectual evaluation of a group of hermaphroditic children residing in the state of Oklahoma was undertaken in this study. The following techniques were utilized in order to extensively study the impact of this anomaly on the families of these children: psychological tests, parental interviews by a social worker, and diagnostic play interviews conducted by the investigator. It was the purpose of this study to examine the psychological impact of sexual ambiguity on the child and his parents.
There were no significant differences between the two groups on any of the tests given. This may be attributed …