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

Master's Theses

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An Investigation Into The Relationship Between Racial Prejudice And Personality, Donald Edward Williams

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Effects Of A Coloured Episcotister On Brightness Matches With Grays, Lillian-Frances Bowden

Master's Theses

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.

The Relationship Between Scores On A Battery Of Nursing Tests And Scholastic Achievement At The End Of The Pre-Clinical Period, Patrick Fitzmaurice

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.

An Experimental Study Of Related Processes In Span Of Attention And In Perception, Jesse Ralph Pearson

Master's Theses

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A Proposed Design For The Evaluation Of Change In A Small Reference Group., Irene Perry

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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A Comparative Analysis Of Four Types Of Psychotherapy Used With Children, Margaret P. Moore

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Psychotherapeutic work with children started in 1905, when Dr. Sigmund Freud undertook the first child analysis. The third decade of the twentieth century near the beginnings of the work of Melanie Klein and Anna Freud in Europe, and the growing strength of the child guidance movement in this country.

A Proposed Study Of Verbal Employment References., Bernard M. Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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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

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A Clinical Investigation Of The Schizophrenia Scale Of The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Leroy A. Wauck

Master's Theses

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Relationships Among Personality Scores, Mental Ages, And Achievement Scores In Seventh Grade Classes At La Porte, Indiana, And Comparisons With Findings Previously Reported, Roy S. Stuffle

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

It was the purpose of this study: (1) to ascertain the amount and distribution of mental ability and scholastic achievement of the seventh-grade pupils of La Porte Junior High School, (2) to learn the degree to which these pupils were adjusted in self and social relationships, (3) to find existing relationships among achievement, intelligence, and personality adjustment as measured by standardized tests, and (4) to analyze the personality maladjustment that seemed present.

The Effects Of Volitional Factors On The Processes Of Perception And Abstraction, Marian Dolores Robinson

Dissertations

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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 …

War Psychological Research And Its Implications, John E. Anderson

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

An Inquiry Into The Relation Existing Between Introversion-Extroversion And Susceptibility To Certain Geometrical Optical Illusions, Marion Frances Holstein

Master's Theses

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The Relationship Existing Between Span Of Perception And Voluntary Shift Of Attention, Marian Dolores Robinson

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Observations Of The Use And Efficacy Of Changing A Patient's Concept Of His Role: A Psychotherapeutic Device, Ethel D. Edwards

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The problem we faced was to try to develop some form of psychotherapy that would not consume a great deal of time. It was desirable that it should be applicable to a wide range in type of cases and that it should be simple enough so that it would require little training on the part of the therapist. Semantics suggests that a personality may be built up because of language. The use of words as a means of communication has created a civilization yet each person because of individual differences and experiences has his own interpretation of these words. As …

The Persistence Of Erroneous Assent In True-False Tests, Francis J. Sweeney

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Personal Experiences In The Formulation Of Social Attitudes Of Liberalism And Conservatism, Harry J. Older

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The purpose of this study is to discover if the following hypothesis, which was set up on the basis of clinical experience, is true. The social attitudes of an individual are as much the product of local personal incidents as of the bias of the education and training of that individual.

The Influence Of Separate Answer Sheets On The Reliability And Norms Of Standardized Achievement Tests, James Edward Kuntz

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

Do the mechanics involved in recording answers for standardized tests on separate answer sheets reduce the reliability and the average raw scores made? It is the purpose of this investigation to answer this question. In a previous research made by the writer, significant differences were found between the Modern School Achievement Test norms and average scores made by several thousand pupils of Western Kansas on a modified form of this test in which separate answer sheets were used.

A Clinical Study Of The Consistency Between Verbal And Behavioral Expressions Of Socio-Economic Attitudes, Elizabeth Lee Downs

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

For the promotion of socio-economic programs for relief clients which will be of mutual benefit to the individuals and to society it is necessary to determine the actual attitudes of those individuals toward socio-economic problems. The verbal statements of attitudes toward social, economic and personal problems of relief children of relief parents are inconsistent with and non-indicative of their actual attitudes as revealed by their clinical case studies. The purpose of this study is to discover whether or not such radical differences between verbal and actual attitudes do appear and with sufficient frequency to prevent uncritically the acceptance of verbal …

Transient Aphasia And Some Methods Of Controlling The Transient Aphasia Cycle, James Harvey Wright

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

A high incidence of transient aphasia among its cases has been recognized for some time by the Fort Hays Kansas State College Psychological Clinic. Clinical tests of transient aphasia are a routine part of the Clinic’s psychometric procedure, especially with children showing speech and reading disabilities. Abnormally long eye fixations where the word is known to the subject momentary binocular divergence, periodic eye tremors, blocks in phonation either with or without the usual symptoms of stuttering, superficial appearance of transitory deafness, and various motor blocks have been suspected as being evidence of transient aphasic conditions.

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

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

The Influence Of Explicit Instructions To Plan Upon Perfomance, Helen Cecelia Quinn

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Value Of Relaxation As Preparation For Rational Psychotherapy, John M. Hadley

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The suggested uses of relaxation given by the technique of Freud coupled with the findings of Jacobson, Ferenczi and Bagchi have prompted the investigator to make some observations of the function of relaxation in rational psychotherapy. This presupposes that relaxation is used with considerable discretion. The investigation has been stimulated by a growing tendency in the Fort Hays Kansas State College Psychological Clinic to treat patients from the standpoint of the whole individual until specific traumata can be discovered In considering the value of relaxation, it may be well to think of the individual in much the same manner as …

Factor Analysis Versus Clinical Analysis Of Intelligence, Betty Margaret Martinson

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The technique of mental testing has in the period since 1905 grown to its present status as a useful tool in every psychological clinic and laboratory. A very brief discussion of its development is here included to indicate the relation of its historical antecedents to various theories of intelligence and especially the one on which the present work rests.