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The Effects Of Continuous Shock Punishment On Fr Reinforced Behavior, John Carter Moore

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

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 …

Spatial Reasoning As Related To Solving "Story Type" Problems, James R. Holder

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

In this study it was hypothesized that the ability to mentally solve II story type" problems, those presented in the form of sentences, is significantly related to one's spatial reasoning ability and that a weakness in this ability, when tested by the "story type" problems, could be compensated for by training in and utilization of overt "paper and pencil" manipulations.

To test the hypothesis, three measures were used. These were the DAT Verbal Reasoning test--used to control the factor of verbal reasoning, the DAT Space Relations test--used to measure spatial reasoning ability, and two forms of a test composed of …

Retention Of Conservation Acquired By Instructional Methods, Eight Months After Termination Of Instruction, Wenden W. Waite

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This study attempted to determine if subjects that had been instructed in the principle of conservation, maintained conservation after termination of instructions. Using subjects from kindergarten to third grade that had received instructions by use of both concrete example and mental imagery methods. Those S's that received instructions were compared with S's that had received no instructions. A test of conservation was administered to a total of 96 S's approximately eight months after termination of instructions to determine if the scores received on a test of those students that had received instructions exceeded those S's that had not received instructions. …

Reading Instruction And Phonetic Control In Materials Development Based Upon Relative Frequency Of Phoneme-Grapheme Correspondences, Richard T. Grow

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This dissertation suggests a new approach to reading instruction and phonetic control in materials development. The central feature of this approach is its reliance on phoneme-grapheme correspondence data.

Specifically, the products of this dissertation were (1) the development of relative frequency tables depicting the various phonemes produced by a given grapheme structure, (2) the development of five different levels of phonetic sophistication, (3) the classification of 974 words as regular or irregular in accordance with each level of sophistication, and (4) the phonetic rewriting of three existing short stories to make them phonetically regular.

One of the phonetically rewritten stories …

The Effects Of An Introduction To Psychology Course On College Students' Superstitions And Beliefs Which Have Some Scientific Sanction, Helen Daines Mitchell

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The study was conducted to investigate the effects of an introduction to psychology course on college students' superstitions and beliefs which have some scientific sanction. The test used was selected from H. K. Nixon's 1925 study on answers to psychological questions and considers 30 statements to be marked true or false.

Subjects used for this study were 100 men and 100 women students in a beginning psychology course at Utah State University, Logan, Utah. The first administration of the questionnaire was given during the first week of the class with a follow-up administration given during the final week of class. …

A Study Of The Difference In Short-Term Memory Between Seventh Grade Students Rated High And Low In The Ability To Acquire Sport Skills, Vera Jeppesen Watkins

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This study investigated the possibility that the short-term memory factor may be one of the variables involved in the learning of motor skills.

The subjects of the study were all of the seventh grade gym students at Logan Junior High School who were rated by their teachers as being in the upper or lower one-fourth of their class in respect to their abilities in sport skills. After a short-term memory (STM) test developed by the researcher was administered to this group, their scores were compared to determine whether there was a significant difference between the upper and lower one-fourth.

An …

Cpi Achievement Motivation Scales In Differential Prediction Of Academic Achievement, Dwight J. Petersen

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The grade-point average (GPA) of 4 groups of college sophomores, representing high and low scores on the CPI Ac and Ai scales, was analyzed to test the hypothesis that conforming and independent achievement motivation (as measured by the CPI) is related to scholastic achievement reflective of conforming or independent behavior. Specific hypotheses regarding differential achievement as a function of Ac and Ai scores were tested and, in general, supported. From this study, it was found that the CPI Ac and Ai scales do provide a basis for differentially predicting the scholastic achievement of students in settings rewarding dependent and/or independent …

Reinforcement Of Sitting Behavior In Retardates In An Institutional Setting, Robert James Bonner

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Influence Of Extrinsic And Intrinsic Decision Factors On Company Selection Among College Seniors, Lawrence J. Hahn

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Assessment Of Parental Attitudes Toward Mental Retardation In Relation To The Mentally Retarded Child's Adjustment In School, June S. Church

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

A review of developmental psychology reflects vigorous research concerning the relationships between parental behavior and attitudes and child personality and behavior.The research findings are generally consistent in demonstrating that the child's familial experiences are prime determinates of his personality. Within this context, there is mounting evidence of the pervasive and dramatic effects of early experience on later development. The significance of the attitudes and conceptions. which parents exhibit toward their children is aptly illustrated by Schulman, Shoemaker and MQelis (1962). In a study of conduct problem children and non-conduct problem children, they found that the parents of conduct problem children …

A Study Of The Relationship Between Liberalism-Conservatism And Maturity, Mary Jo. Kupst

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Use Of The Slingerland Screening Tests To Delineate Reading Problems Among Retarded Children, James Over Rust

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Image Of Limited Good In Ojibway Society, Jeffrey C. Moore

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Ojibway Indians of the north-central United States have had great difficulty in organizing effectively to work toward common economic, social, and political ends. This has been the case historically and remains true today. The basic reason for the inability to organize is on orientation to life which Foster has described in his theory of the Image of Limited Good, and which was observed on a Minnesota reservation.

A Study Of Personality Factors And Academic Achievement In The Elementary School, Judith P. Kuehn

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Ego-Involvement And Fear Appeals Upon Task Performance, Stephen Steinmetz

Masters Theses

Researchers and scholars in the fear appeal area have been unable to determine what factor or factors make fear appeals effective. Two studies, Hewgill and Miller (1965) and Powell (1965), suggest that the personal involvement of the audience with who or what is threatened is the factor which causes fear appeals to be effective. If ego-involvement is the personal involvement factor indicated by these studies, then it would appear to be the key to fear appeal effectiveness. Therefore, the present investigation was designed to experimentally compare the effects of ego-involvement and fear appeals upon task performance.

Sixty nine undergraduates enrolled …

The Contract Group: Small Group Approaches To Interpersonal Growth, Gerard Egan

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Field Independent Girls And Their Ability To Solve Problems While Distracted, Paul J. Wolf

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Academic Underachievement And Level Of Psychological Adjustment: The Importance Of Parental Identification And Parental Child-Rearing Attitudes, Walter P. Knake

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Investigation Of The Relation Of Sentence Completion Scales To Academic Aptitude And Achievement, Margaret J. La Plante

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Ecs, Ether, And Pentobarbital On Single Trial Passive Avoidance Learning, Stephen Charles Milliser

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of An Intake Interview In An Out-Patient Clinic On The Client's Anxiety And "Maladjustment", Chacko K. Poovathumkal

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Three Models Predicting Group Productivity From Initial Individual Knowledge Certainty And Familiarity, John A. Scileppi

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Ribonucleic Acid On Pole Climbing Performance In Rats, Thomas J. Hinkel

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Relationship Between Children's Verbal Ability And Social Class, Ronald P. Mcdermott

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Human Movement Factor Of The Rorschach Test As A Predictor Of Intelligence, Samuel Cucciare

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It is possible to determine the degree of intelligence of an individual by use of the M (human movement) response of the Group Rorschach Blank arranged by M. R. Harrower.

Is there a significant difference between the correlation of summed human movement Rorschach scores and intelligence test scores earned in a sixth grade elementary school population.

The writer is attempting to determine further whether or not it is possible to predict the intelligence of an individual by use of the M (human movement) response of the Group Rorschach Blank.

Determinants Of Agression Between Mother And Child, Margaret Rose Procyk

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Syllogistic Approach To Attitude Change, James M. Torcivia

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of Aggressive Display In The Game Cock: Response Decrement And Reinstatement, William Herbert Fullmer

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Early Experience Upon Open-Field Behavior And The Conditioning And Extinction Of Conditioned Suppression, Larry D. Irey

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.