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Influences On Handedness Of Local Application Of Acetylcholine With Glutamic Acid To Cerebral Cortex Of The Rat, Edward R. Suess

Psychology ETDs

This study was undertaken to determine the effects on handedness in the rat upon application of glutamic acid and acetylcholine to the cortex.

The Formation And Retention Of Concepts As A Function Of Their Abstractness, Ruth Baker Hines

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The general problem of the experiment was to investigate the influence of abstractness on the formation and retention of concepts. The specific problems were the following: (1) How does abstractness influence the number of promptings required to learn and relearn concepts? (2) What is the relation of abstractness to the percentage of consistent concepts learned and retained? (3) What is the relation of the number of promptings required to learn and relearn consistent or correct as compared with inconsistent or incorrect concepts? (4) What are the individual differences in the method of learning and relearning highly abstract concepts?

Racial Differences In Intelligence Between Whites And Negroes Of Similar Social And Economic Status In Saline And Graham Counties, William F. Kluge

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

It is the purpose of this paper to discover whether or not the intelligence of the Negro is equal to that of the whites when the two groups are placed on an equal social and economic status.

The Prediction Of Academic Success In Engineering And Chemistry At The University Of New Mexico, Glenn Tuett Easley

Psychology ETDs

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between the marks earned in the beginning chemistry by freshmen students in the College of Engineering at the University of New Mexico and their scores on (a) The Iowa Placement Examination Chemistry Aptitude, (b) The University of New Mexico Mathematics Test, (c) The American Council on Education Psychological Examination, (d) the linguistic sub-test on The American Council on Education Psychological Examination, (e) the quantitative sub-test on The American Council on Education Psychological Examination, (f) the Cooperative English Test, and (g) the reading sub-test on the Cooperative English Test. This investigation …

An Analysis Of Vocabulary Variables At The College Level, Betty Ann Allen

Master's Theses

The strength and growth of vocabulary is one or the decisive factors in successful college work. Educators find it helpful to evaluate not only the general vocabulary ability of the college student, but also the more specialized directions which the development of the student 's vocabulary may take.

The author's interest in this problem grew out of the results obtained with fresh­men in the Westhampton College orientation program in September 1948. In working up the data from 119 freshmen 's scores on the Michigan Vocabulary Profile Test, results were such as to arouse interest in analysis of freshmen performance on …

Influence On Handedness Of Local Application Of Acetylcholine With Dfp And Glycine To Cerebral Cortex Of The Rat, Joseph W. Rigney

Psychology ETDs

The behavior of an organism is the result of functioning of organic structures. Practice modifies behavior. It is not unreasonable to expect, then, that practice also modifies the structures responsible for the behavior.

In recent years, the metabolism of the nerve impulse has received much attention from neurophysiologists. This is particularly true of those workers who adhere to the theory of chemical meditation, which arose out of the discovery that an ester, acetylcholine, is liberated at the synapses and myoneural junctions within the parasympathetic system. As a result of this interest, today there is much evidence that acetylcholine is closely …

Perseveration And The Rate Of Recovery After The Psychogalvanic Response, Charles August Weisgerber

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Factors Which Influence The Teacher's Mark In Arithmetic, Mary Francis Thinnes

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Proposed Study Of The Effect Of Non-Directive Play Therapy Upon The Verbal And Performance I.Q.'S Of Mentally Deficient Boys., George C. Hall

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Proposed Study Of The Affect Of Group Counseling Upon Students On Academic Probation At The University Of Louisville., Morrison L. Cooke

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Speed Of Learning In Relation To The Amount Retained After Different Time Intervals Following Original Learning, George H. Zimny

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Factors Associated With The Adjustment Of One Hundred Delinquent Girls, Mabelle Hathaway Brooks

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Relationship Of School Background To Reading Ability Of One Hundred Disabled Readers, Mary Loretta Nolan

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Practice With Digits Upon The Span Of Retention In Children, Kathleen E. O'Brien

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Between The Graduate Record Examination And College Grades At The University Of New Mexico, Margaret Valliant Handly

Psychology ETDs

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between the Graduate Record examination and grades in (a) all undergraduate courses, (b) all graduate courses, (c) undergraduate major courses, and (d) graduate major courses, at the University of New Mexico. This should help establish the manner in which the Graduate Record Examination may be used.

The Effect Of A Double Ceiling In The Administration Of The Revised Stanford-Binet Scale, Irene Irene Staniszewski

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Primary Mental Abilities Of The Feebleminded, Dorice Elva Ames

Psychology ETDs

It was the purpose of this study (1) to determine whether or not some of various types of feebleminded fall down differentially on any of the components of the tests more than on others, i.e., whether or not the hydrocephalics, for example, would run relatively high on verbal-meaning, whereas the mongoliana would run relatively high on space; and (2) to determine whether or not, considering the feebleminded group as a whole, there would be any significant differences in primary mental abilities .

A Theoretical And Experimental Study Of Jost's Law, David T. Benedetti

Psychology ETDs

It is the purpose of this paper to subject Jost's Law to a critical examination, as regards the method by which it was derived, the factors involved in the phenomenon to which it applies, and its validity as a scientific principle. This examination shall consist of a theoretical analysis based in part on an experiment designed in order to observe what may be termed the Jost phenomenon.

Predictive Validity Of The United States Armed Forces Institute Tests Of General Educational Development, Samuel Howell King

Psychology ETDs

It is the purpose of this study to determine the validity for predicting college success (as measured by grade point average) of the United States Armed Forces Institute Tests of General Educational Development. (High School Level), Form A, and to establish an adequate critical score as an entrance requirement for the University of New Mexico.

Some Principles, Practices And Techniques In Musical Therapy, Wilhelmina Keniston Harbert

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

One of the purposes in writing this thesis has been to present to the reader some of the guiding principles and practices which have grown outof the writer's experiences in Musical Guidance and Therapy.

During the years immediately preceding the first World War, assignments as a volunteer music worker in hospitals and settlement houses in and around Boston gave the writer practical experience in such institutions as the North End Settlement House, the Home for Crippled Children, and McLean Hospital for the mentally ill.

Some of the experiences provides a type of education which could not have been obtained in …

Standardization Of The Bradley Tests And The Effects Of Hypoglycemia On One Subject's Scores, Jim Mae Coy

Psychology ETDs

In April, 1942, Captain Jack Bradley was captured by the Japanese on Bataan. Before entering the army, he had been a student at the University of New Mexico and had taken several courses in psychology. He was in his third year of undergraduate work when called into the service in 1940, along with other members of the well-known 200th Coast Artillery of the New Mexico National Guard.

The results of his work are his story, and he should have the opportunity to tell it when and as he wishes. Meanwhile, Mrs. Coy, whose study follows, has used his problems on …

Differential Prediction Of College Grades For Spanish-American And Anglo-American Students, George Kenner Cantrell

Psychology ETDs

It is the purpose of this study to determine the effectiveness of the college entrance examinations at the University of New Mexico in the differential prediction of grades for the Spanish-American and Anglo-American students.

An Experimental Study Of A New Approach To Manuscript Writing, Mary Madeleine Adamczyk

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of The Vocabulary Score Of The Revised Stanford-Binet Scale And The Word Meaning Of The Stanford Achievement Test, Mary Patrice Mcglone

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Remedial Reading Program At The College Freshman Level, William T. Wallace

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Re-Education Of Handedness In The Rat Following Cerebral Injuries, David Roland Mcgiboney Jr.

Psychology ETDs

Answers to the following questions were sought in this study:

1. Although the loci of lesion will usually involve a single general area of the frontal lobe, will there be any noticeable difference between the amount of recovery or re-education with the variations in the loci within the general area?

2. Is mass of destruction significant with regard to re-educability of handedness?

3. Is there a difference in re-educability between animals with lesions involving the cortex only and animals which have both cortical and subcortical destructions?

4. Are there significant differences in the recovery of young adult versus older adult …

A Further Validation Of Role Therapy, Alexander Robinson

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

This study has been planned as a means of throwing more light on certain psychotherapeutic techniques and methods in order that a more valuable, direct, and understandable method of treating neurotic patients may some day be worked out. The specific problem is to understand and recognize more clearly various actions in Edwards and Kelly's (5) "Role Therapy” to learn what in the therapy benefited the patient, and discover how and to what kind of disorders it might be most effectively applied. This paper is an attempt to help explain, criticize, and continue with the problem, as described and studied by …

A Study Of Japanese International Short Wave Radio Propaganda, Leonard A. Smoll

Psychology ETDs

This study of Japanese war-time propaganda, beamed toward the United States and disseminated by the medium of international short wave radio, was inspired by these considerations. War-time restrictions on the press, local broadcasting, and landline facilities close the channels to which Japan could get the desired propaganda material into a neutral country, she would have no assurance that the material would reach the ultimate objective in unadulterated form. These obvious barriers to Japan's propaganda machine raise the question: Is there any channel or communication through which Japan may direct biased information straight to the recipient, and delivered uncensored? The answer …

An Analysis Of A Test Of General Culture., Delton Clifford Beier

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

The Pauline Concept Of The New Man, Clarence William Franz

Graduate Thesis Collection

This thesis is to be primarily a character analysis. Naturally that will eliminate considerations that might be easily included. As far as possible a strenuous effort will be made to avoid detailed discussions about theological issues that inescapably belong to such a study as this. In a character analysis we must be concerned principally with individuality in persons. By that we mean to treat all those features and characteristions which distinguish the new man from the old. Those theological factors having to do primarily with the state of man in his relation to God will only be touched upon. It …