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The Application Of Behavioral Principles To The Modification Of An Acting Out Child's Classroom Behavior In A Regular Classroom, Marjorie M. Mcarthur

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Social Reinforcement And Generalization Of Changes In Verbal Behavior Development, William J. Mayville

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Differential Instructions And The Level Of Task Complexity On Decision Time, Dean Robert Mogelgaard

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Relative Efficiency Of Auditory (Social) Reinforcement Vs. Food Reinforcement With The Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri Sciureus) In An Operant Situation, David R. Mcmurray

All Master's Theses

Research using non-deprivation and sensory or food reinforcement has received little attention to the present time. It is possible that, at least in the laboratory, sensory reinforcement under non- deprived conditions may be a much more economical and efficient reinforcer than food reinforcement under deprived conditions, which is traditionally used.

The Effect Of Morphine On Conditioned Suppression And Response Topography Of The Hooded Rat, Douglas Charles Reberg

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Variation In The Order Of Presentation Of Cues As One Variable In Concept Organization, John E. Genasci

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

In the experiment, with forty-eight students as subjects, a series of nonsense syllables (DAX, MEF, TOV, VIC, YOP, ZIP, and ZIL) were to be associated with four geometric figures. The task was so arranged that Zip applied to all figures, Dax and Vic to subsets of two figures each, and the remaining were individual labels. In each of three experiments there was an experimental group that received pre-response cueing by means of an analogy which involved hierarchic concepts in the same general form, i. e ., animal, wild, tame, and individual names.

The results suggest that the order and timing …

A Comparison Of Intellectually Normal Children, Mentally Retarded Adolescents, And Mentally Retarded Adults On A Three Dimensional Concept Formation Sorting Task, James C. Kamprud

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purposes of this study were: (1) to compare nine groups of subjects composed of intellectually normal children, mentally retarded adolescents, and mentally retarded adults on a three dimensional concept formation task; (2) to determine the effects of discrimination training on the sortings of the nine groups on the experimental task.

The 207 subjects of this study were divided into nine groups. Seven of the groups, consisting of high average and low average grade 3, superior high average, and low average grade 6, and high and low adolescent retardates were chosen on the bases of school grade level (3, 6, …

The Relationship Of Delinquent Types In An Industrial School Setting To Personality-Motivation Profiles, Lester A. Carlson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The author serves as Director of Education of the Utah State Industrial School, a school charged with the responsibility for the custody and treatment of delinquents committed to its care from the juvenile courts of the state. For many years he has been concerned about the personality structure of the children committed to the care of the Industrial School. He became particularly interested in the possibility that there is a definable relationship between types of delinquent acts and personality-motivation profiles. Further motivation was given to this interest when he received an answer to some correspondence from a colleague of Dr. …

A Comparison Of Two Non-Verbal Intelligence Tests As Predictors Of Academic Success Of Navajo Students, Stanford S. Larson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This study was a search for a valid and reliable tool for the measurement and appraisal of the Navajo student at Intermountain School whose cultural and bilingual background make many highly verbal tests untrustworthy. The two tests chosen for the study were the Chicago Non-verbal Examination and the Cattell Institute for Personality and Ability Testing Culture Free Test. It was assumed that these tests would call attention to students who had good intellectual ability but were below standard in reading and verbal development and had been overlooked because of their lack of verbal fluency.

The two tests were administered to …

The Use Of Facts And Verbal, Affect, And Content Clues In Clinical Judgements From Interviews, Nicholas Charles Anthony

Master's Theses

The clinical psychologist, experienced social worker, psychiatrist, and others, whose professions involve dealing with people who are experiencing life-problems, are frequently called upon to make judgements about these people. The basis of these judgements are almost always partially formed from interviews with the people they they must judge. The interviewers form their judgements from different cues that the clients communicate to them during these interviews. The cues employed to form these judgements that have thus far been differentiated and investigated are visual, verbal, and content cues. This study is concerned with the latter two.

Background Similarity-Dissimilarity, Interpersonal Attraction And Change In Confidence, Lewis J. Levine

Master's Theses

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of background similarity-dissimilarity on interpersonal attraction and on changing one's confidence in his own judgment. The hypotheses were as follows:

1. A stranger with a similar background to that of the S will be better liked (i.e., more attractive) than a dissimilar stranger.

2. Agreement by another person (regard less of whether he is similar or dissimilar in background) will in­ crease one's certainty of judgment about a particular issue.

3. Disagreement by another person (regardless of whether he is a similar or dissimilar otheii will decrease one' a certainty …

The Relationship Of Locus Of Reinforcement To Change In Initial Perception Of Communicator Credibility And Type Of Decision Generated, Stephen Allan Brown

Student Work

Hovland, Janis, and Kelley (1953) distinguished between expertness and trustworthiness, two variables most relevant to communicator perception. They defined expertness as the extent to which a communicator is perceived to be a source of valid assertions and trustworthiness as the degree of confidence in the communicator's intent to communicate the assertions he considers most valid. They defined communicator credibility (degree of belief) as incorporating both expertness and trustworthiness but concluded that there was experimental confounding of both variables.

Psychotherapy: Therapist Goals, Patient Expectations And Patient Satisfaction, James A. Hill

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Children's Emotional Response To Color, Rodney H. Buffington

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Drive And Reward Upon Concept Formation In Schizophrenia, Donald Edward Fuhrmann

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Significance Of Hostility As Related To Adjustment And Maladjustment In Marriage, Manuel A. Barroso

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Importance Of Hippocampal Remnants In Discrimination Ability, Victor L. Dufour

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Descriptive Study Of The Interests And Personality Characteristics Of Diocesan Priests With Counseling Training Compared With Diocesan Priests Without Counseling Training, Julio Velilla

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Bilateral Lesions Of The Cingulum On The Retention Of Five Sensory Modalities In The Albino Rat, John E. Conneely

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Examiner's Attitude As A Variable In A Modified Draw A Person Technique, Celia Jaes Falicov

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Cross Validation And Supplementary Research On The Loyola Sentence Completion Test For Seminarians, Lawrence Heinrich

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Irradiation As A Function Of Hue, Eugene Skoff

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Tester's Race Influence On Hostility Manifestations On The D-A-P'S Of Negro Culturally Deprived Children, Doris Diamant Machtinger

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

The main purpose of this study is to determine the effects of the race of an examiner upon hostility indicated through drawings of a person made by culturally deprived Negro children. Spontaneous drawings by children have been long suspected of holding a key to the psychology of child development. The history of psychological research on children's drawings has been reviewed by Harris (1963). He found that as early as 1885 Ebenezer Cooke published an article on children's drawings in which he described the successive stages of development as he observed them. Between 1885 and 1908 many studies were conducted on …

The Effect Of The Norm Of Reciprocity In A Two-Person Non-Zero-Sum Game, Thomas G. Jacks

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Supervisory Attitude Change Through Reward Of Verbal Behavior, Gary A. Howitt

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Anonymous Versus Identifiable Individual Judgments Under Social Influence, Charles J. Campolo

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Revision Of The Morgan Test Of Logical Reasoning, Fred K. Mccoy

Master's Theses

Do we learn to reason logically just as we learn grammar or estimating distances? Philosophers usually say we do and have taught logic as a discipline for thousands of years. They are generally not content to teach "about" logic, or in the history of it; they generally state their intent is to teach "logic for everyday thinking". Appendix VI is a personal communication to the author from a philosopher stating this clearly and comparing the skill of logical reasoning with the skill of using grammar.

Or is logical reasoning a relatively inherent trait, as intelligence is generally assumed to be? …

Dyadic Communication As A Function Of Communicative Method And Interpersonal Mutuality, Harry Wallace Craver Jr.

Master's Theses

A large proportion of research in social psychology has been concerned with interpersonal Communication. More often than not, when different investigators got interested in an area of experimentation that is fairly broad and influenced by many variables, an evolvement of several different categories of or approaches to the research area occurs. The area of interpersonal communication is no exception.

Sex Differentiated Reactions To Experimental "Repression" As Measured By Verbal Recall, Stephen Howard Bank

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The purpose of the investigation was to study the evocation of repression in an experimental situation employing the controls made possible by group presentation, using the suggestion of homosexuality as the source of anxiety arousal and ego threat, and providing an opportunity for observing sex differentiated reactions.

The Assessment Of Patient Morale By The Use Of An Attitude Scale, Paul Robert Kennedy

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.