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Behavioral Contrast After Errorless Discrimination Learning As A Function Of Non-Contingent Shock, James H. Kaye Dec 1973

Behavioral Contrast After Errorless Discrimination Learning As A Function Of Non-Contingent Shock, James H. Kaye

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Peer Recording And Its Effects On Observer Behavior, Ronald J. Gumm Dec 1973

Peer Recording And Its Effects On Observer Behavior, Ronald J. Gumm

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Effects Of Changes In Response-Independent Pay Upon Human Masseter Emg, Tullio J. Proni Dec 1973

The Effects Of Changes In Response-Independent Pay Upon Human Masseter Emg, Tullio J. Proni

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Personality Correlates Of Reticent And Nonreticent High School Students, Nancy Adele Mohrlock Dec 1973

Personality Correlates Of Reticent And Nonreticent High School Students, Nancy Adele Mohrlock

Student Work

The development of communication skills is vital to socialization in the classroom and to personality development. Petty and Starkey (1966) suggest that language is the greatest force for socialization that exists and at the same time is the most potent single factor in the development of individuality. Rosenberg and Coopersmith (1965, 1967) showed that a person's verbal behavior will influence others ’ attitudes toward him, while Mead (1934) indicated that an individual’s behavior is affected by the kind of image that he has of himself. This image comes largely from the individual's perceptions of o thers’ attitudes toward himself until …


The Effects Of Dental Hygiene Information And Consequation On Plaque Control, Janel R. Walker Dec 1973

The Effects Of Dental Hygiene Information And Consequation On Plaque Control, Janel R. Walker

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Schedule Induced Polydipsia, A Study Of The Contrast Effect On A Multiple Fixed Time Schedule Of Food Delivery, Arlyne J. Gutmann Dec 1973

Schedule Induced Polydipsia, A Study Of The Contrast Effect On A Multiple Fixed Time Schedule Of Food Delivery, Arlyne J. Gutmann

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Backpacking: A Pilot Study Of Hikers, Vincent Bolduc Oct 1973

Backpacking: A Pilot Study Of Hikers, Vincent Bolduc

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

No abstract provided.


The Protestant Ethic Effect: A Multiple Dependent Variable Analysis, Ronald Stephens Aug 1973

The Protestant Ethic Effect: A Multiple Dependent Variable Analysis, Ronald Stephens

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

When an organism is allowed to choose "between working for food or receiving "free" food, what will its decision "be? For years such a question would have been addressed within the framework proposed by Clark Hull (1943): the organism would choose the alternative requiring the least amount of effort and eat the free food. However, several recent investigations have cast doubt on the generality of this lav: of least effort. Typically these studies have involved training organisms to respond for a reinforcer, defined as a stimulus that increases the probability of a response (Hilgard ?z Bower, 1966), and subsequently allowing …


Political Verbal Behavior, Paul Richard Shukovsky Aug 1973

Political Verbal Behavior, Paul Richard Shukovsky

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Contrast Modulated Schedule-Induced Polydipsia, Thomas L. Fisher Aug 1973

Contrast Modulated Schedule-Induced Polydipsia, Thomas L. Fisher

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Measuring Attitudes Toward Work Of Males And Females From A Student Population And From A Bank Population, Edward Henry Foley Aug 1973

Measuring Attitudes Toward Work Of Males And Females From A Student Population And From A Bank Population, Edward Henry Foley

Master's Theses

An experiment was designed in order to measure the attitude toward work of 50 males and 50 females in a student sample and of 39 male managers and 39 female managers in a bank sample. The attitude scale, presented to the Ss, was designed by the author and contained 50 statements. Each of 44 statements pertained either to a Motivation factor, e.g. achievement, responsibility, etc. or to a Hygiene factor, e.g. salary, status, etc. with the remaining six used as Fillers. All statistical tests were performed at the .01 level of significance. An analysis of variance revealed a significant three …


The Replicability Of Behavioral Definitions: Implicit Vs Explicit Definitions, Robert W. Dobes Aug 1973

The Replicability Of Behavioral Definitions: Implicit Vs Explicit Definitions, Robert W. Dobes

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Concept Acquisition As A Function Of Two Verbal Training Sequences: Nonvocal-Vocal And Vocal-Nonvocal, Kim Thomas Pisor Aug 1973

Concept Acquisition As A Function Of Two Verbal Training Sequences: Nonvocal-Vocal And Vocal-Nonvocal, Kim Thomas Pisor

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Assessment Of Remedial Activities In An Instructor-Paced Course, Edward James Barton Aug 1973

The Assessment Of Remedial Activities In An Instructor-Paced Course, Edward James Barton

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


A Study Of The Acquisition Of Learning-Set Behavior In Pigeons, E. Jill Moir Aug 1973

A Study Of The Acquisition Of Learning-Set Behavior In Pigeons, E. Jill Moir

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Effect Of Temporal Separation On Performance Of A Discrimination Task, Stanley Dale Winter Aug 1973

The Effect Of Temporal Separation On Performance Of A Discrimination Task, Stanley Dale Winter

Masters Theses

Test trials, consisting of the selection of two color cubes from a set of three different color cubes, were presented with: (1) a 15-second time delay between trials, (2) a single-color selection task between trials, (3) an unrelated motor task between trials and (4) no interspersion between trials. All Ss performed the task with more accuracy when test trials were separated by the unrelated motor task. The lowest level of accuracy occurred when test trials were presented sequentially with no interspersion. Performance appeared to be facilitated by the temporal separation of test trials.


A Comparison Between Self-Paced And Instructor-Paced Instructional Systems, Laura Lee Winter Aug 1973

A Comparison Between Self-Paced And Instructor-Paced Instructional Systems, Laura Lee Winter

Masters Theses

Two college level systems of instruction derived from basic behavioral principals were compared. Community college students enrolled in two sections of an introductory psychology course served as subjects. Students in one section experienced a self-paced system of instruction. Students in the second section went through the course under an instructor-paced system of instruction. Students in the self-paced section received higher course grades and performed better on unit quizzes. However, the final examination performance for the two groups was about the same. Suggestions for further research are given.


The Effects Of Instructions With And Without Contingencies On Parent’S Attending Behavior, Betty Lou Fry Aug 1973

The Effects Of Instructions With And Without Contingencies On Parent’S Attending Behavior, Betty Lou Fry

Masters Theses

Mother attending to appropriate child behavior and accompaning changes in appropriate child behavior were measured to assess the effects of various instructional conditions. Several appropriate behaviors for a group of child subjects were measured con currently under various stimulus conditions using interval recording procedures. A multiple baseline design was used with instructional conditions of (a) no instructions to mother, (b) instructions to mother to attend to all appropriate behaviors and only to appropriate behaviors, (c) instructions to mother to attend to specific behaviors as defined by one-word definitions, (d) instructions to mother to attend to the same specific behaviors as …


Observer Reliability As A Function Of The Number Of Behaviors Being Simultaneously Recorded, Response Rate, And Definition Adequacy, Roger Frame Aug 1973

Observer Reliability As A Function Of The Number Of Behaviors Being Simultaneously Recorded, Response Rate, And Definition Adequacy, Roger Frame

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


A Measure Of The Differential Effects Of Two Language Training Sequences: Expressive-Receptive And Receptive-Expressive, Melbourne Frank Hovell Aug 1973

A Measure Of The Differential Effects Of Two Language Training Sequences: Expressive-Receptive And Receptive-Expressive, Melbourne Frank Hovell

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


An Analysis Of The Effects Of Time And Competing Responses On Data Reliability, Paul B. Williams Aug 1973

An Analysis Of The Effects Of Time And Competing Responses On Data Reliability, Paul B. Williams

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Behavioral Comparison Of Septal Lesioned And Anosmic Rats, Sharon Kay Suppes Aug 1973

Behavioral Comparison Of Septal Lesioned And Anosmic Rats, Sharon Kay Suppes

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Reduction Of Long Latency Verbal Responding In A Multiplihandicapped Adolescent Utilizing An Avoidance-Positive Reinforcement Procedure, Steven H. Spiro Aug 1973

The Reduction Of Long Latency Verbal Responding In A Multiplihandicapped Adolescent Utilizing An Avoidance-Positive Reinforcement Procedure, Steven H. Spiro

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Effects Of Reinforcement On The Rate And Generalization Of Play Behavior In Four Severely Retarded Children, Elizabeth Anne Labanowski Aug 1973

Effects Of Reinforcement On The Rate And Generalization Of Play Behavior In Four Severely Retarded Children, Elizabeth Anne Labanowski

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Effects Of Septal Lesions On A Free Food Vs. Response Produced Food Task, Teresa L. Cornett Jul 1973

The Effects Of Septal Lesions On A Free Food Vs. Response Produced Food Task, Teresa L. Cornett

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology in the Graduate School of Morehead State University by Teresa L. Cornett on July 25, 1973.


Differential Assessment Of Retrograde Amnesia Produced By Hypothermia Following One-Trial Avoidance Conditioning, Duane E. Brookhart Jul 1973

Differential Assessment Of Retrograde Amnesia Produced By Hypothermia Following One-Trial Avoidance Conditioning, Duane E. Brookhart

Master's Theses

Two different measures of the retention of avoidance conditioning, frequently used in the investigation of retrograde anmesia (RA), were examined. Rats were given a single training trial on either passive or active avoidance in a conventional black-white discrimination apparatus and step-through latencies were recorded. Task sequence, footshock and hypothermia were experimentally varied across eight groups of subjects. Each S was returned to the experimental apparatus 24 hours after training and given retention tests on both passive and active avoidance tasks. Test trial latencies failed to demonstrate any retention deficits attributable to RA, and both passive and active avoidance test latencies …


Trait Anxiety, Leadership And Group-Induced Decision Change, Chester D. Gaston Jul 1973

Trait Anxiety, Leadership And Group-Induced Decision Change, Chester D. Gaston

Student Work

The twelve item Choice Dilemmas Questionnaire (CDQ) developed by Kogan and Wallach (1964) has been used extensively for investigating individual and group decision-making processes. Each item presents a hypothetical life situation in which the central character must choose between two courses of action, one of which is more risky than the other but also more rewarding if successful. For each situation the Sis must select the lowest probability of success they would accept before recommending that the potentially more rewarding (and risky) alternative be chosen. After Ss have made their private individual choices, a group is formed and each item …


Between Words And Actions: The Problem Of Motivation In Symbolic Interactionism, Robert Scott Broadhead Jun 1973

Between Words And Actions: The Problem Of Motivation In Symbolic Interactionism, Robert Scott Broadhead

Dissertations and Theses

The development of a theory of motivation in symbolic interactionism is traced, with particular reference to the work of G.H. Mead, Kenneth Burke, C.W. Mills, Nelson Foote, and Ernest Becker. Specific attention is focused on comparing the original theoretical assumptions of particularly Mead and Burke to the varying formulations of the problems of motivation that were later developed by symbolic interactionists. Specifically, it is argued that, primarily due to Burke's analysis, the traditional practice of deterministically explaining human action as being the result of variously imagined motives "in" people is, in fact, no explanation at all but simply a variety …


Weight Loss As An Operant Response, John Emerich Orban Jun 1973

Weight Loss As An Operant Response, John Emerich Orban

Master's Theses

The present study was designed to show that reinforcing a loss of' body weight relative to a previous measurement would affect an increase in the frequency of' trials during which a weight loss was observed. Volunteer females who reported problematic eating leading to overweight served as Ss. Baseline data were collected indicating each S's daily body weight and the median amount of daily body weight change across baseline. Ss were then reinforced for any daily weight loss which exceeded this median value. An extinction period followed during which no reinforcement followed a weight loss. The data failed to indicate either …


Anticholinesterase Action And Electroconvulsive Shock-Induced Disruption Of Taste-Illness Association, Terry J. Debriere Jun 1973

Anticholinesterase Action And Electroconvulsive Shock-Induced Disruption Of Taste-Illness Association, Terry J. Debriere

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Electroconvulsive shock (ECS) interpolated temporally between the pairing of a novel taste and an induced gustatory illness prevents the taste from being associated with the illness (Kral, 1971). Physostigmine has been shown to protect against retrograde amnesic effects of ECS on learning of a passive avoidance task (Davis, Thomas, and Adams, 1971). Physostigmine protection of ECS induced disruption of a conditioned taste aversion was investigated using a 2 (physostigmine vs. saline) x 2 (ECS vs. sham shock) x 2 (conditioned vs. nonconditioned) x 2 (conditioning day vs. test day) factorial design with repeated measures over the last factor. Results indicated …