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Organismic Psychology And Systems Theory, Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

Heinz Werner Lectures

"This book contains the Inaugural Lectures given at Clark University in honor of the late Heinz Werner, world-famous developmental psychologist. Dr. von Bertalanffy here attempts to establish a new interdisciplinary science of man, a science that would encompass aspects of psychology, biology, psychiatry, linguistics and anthropology by emphasizing the centrality of the concepts of symbol and system. These lectures develop the foundation of this projected science through acute criticism of contemporary images of man and his nature."

Self-Concept Differences In The Alcoholic Under Varying Conditions Of Drinking And Sobriety, James Albert Vanderpool

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Racial Difference In Academic Achievement Of White And Negro High School Students, Christopher J. Thayil

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Sex Differences In The Arousal Of Need For Affiliation, M. C. Robbins, J. M. Bregenzer, R. T. Flint

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

This study reports that the Pelto Projective Pictures when scored by the Atkinson-Heyns-Veroff procedure is a valid instrument for measuring n affiliation. The hypothesis that an experimental group of junior-high-school students exposed to a stimulus would display a significantly higher mean n affiliation score than a control group was rejected. A sex difference was involved in the failure to reject the null hypothesis. There is strong evidence that n affiliation was aroused in an experimental group of females, but not in an experimental group of males. The Pelto Projective Pictures were successful in discriminating this difference. Moreover, the scoring procedure, …

Weather, Crime, And Mental Illness, R. Joseph Lucero, John P. Brantner, Byron W. Brown, Gordon W. Olson

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

ABSTRACT - A simple count of disturbed incidents in the mentally ill and total radio transmissions of the Minneapolis Police Departmenf were collected daily over a six-month period. These were correlated with calendar time, temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure for the same period. Separate comparisons were made of all these measures for December 1959 with those of other Decembers. All the weather variables correlated linearly and significantly with the behavior v.ariables; temperature and humidity, positively; barometric pressure negatively. Calendar time for the half year correlated linearly and negatively. December 1959 had a higher crime and mental disturbance rate than other …

A Study Of Schizophrenic Thinking In Problem Solving Tasks, Ada Izcoa

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Descriptive Analysis Of Responses To The Nuns' Religious Appreception Test, Cel Brocken

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Boy Scout And Aaronic Priesthood Activity (Boys Age Twelve To Fourteen) In Selected Lds Wards, Orval Leonard Nelson

Theses and Dissertations

This study had two main purposes. Its first is to test the theoretical proposition that there is a carry-over into other systems of behavior as a result of group cohesion. For example, as scouting activities increased, Aaronic Priesthood activities increased. And according to the reference group theory, individuals join reference groups to fulfill certain needs, wants, goals, etc. In an active Boy Scout program many of these needs, wants, and goals are satisfied as the boys participate in the activities outlined by the Boy Scouts of America. Furthermore, once these needs are satisfied, change toward conformity tends to carry over …

An Attitude Scale For The Assessment Of Morale In A Psychiatric Hospital, William Gregory Klett

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of Drinking Practices And Problems Among Male Undergraduates At A Midwestern University, Ronald Charles Vanderkooi

Masters Theses

The purpose of this research was to study the patterns and problems of drinking among men at a Midwestern university. The primary method used in the study was a questionnaire given to a cross-section of the male student body. The study was designed to determine the extent of drinking at the university. Such factors as the frequency and locality of drinking were investigated. Attitudes concerning college drinking were also explored. Finally, the study was concerned with problems associated with the use of alcohol by students.

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 …

The Psychologist, His Training And Functions: A Survey Of Graduate Psychologists From Loyola University (1930-1954), Robert Francis Medina

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Prediction Of Academic Achievement And Professional Adjustment Of Student Nurses By Use Of The Group Rorschach Test, Henry Joseph Lambin

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Prognosis Value Of The American Council On Education Psychological Examination., Walter Gilbert Peiser

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

Is The Scientific Behaviorist Scientific?, Methodius F. Cikrit

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Lectures And Addresses Delivered Before The Departments Of Psychology And Pedagogy In Celebration Of The Twentieth Anniversary Of The Opening Of Clark University, Clark University

Conference Materials

Publication of all psychology and pedagogy lectures given at Clark University's historic 1909 conference. The conference, which took place September 6th through September 19th, was a celebration of the institution's twentieth anniversary featuring lectures, discussions, and demonstrations from prominent scientists and scholars across the physical, biological, and social sciences.

Psychology lectures include:

"The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis" by Sigmund Freud (due to the historical significance of this work, we have also made it available on its own here

"The Association Method" by Carl G. Jung

"Abstracts of Lectures on the Psychology of Testimony and on the Study of Individuality" …