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A Developmental Approach To Color-Mood Associations, Thomas D. Affourtit

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The effect of color on the organism has been the subject of extensive research for many years. Several psychological experiments have attempted to relate color and mood adjectives.

A Comparison Of Cognitive Achievement Measures In Student Evaluation, Ladonna Wallace Childers

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Tyler (i932, 1934) was responsible for some of the most important research with cognitive achievement measures. In studies with college students he found that factual knowledge gains dissipated after one year at the rate of seventy-seven per cent of the initial gain during the period of instruction. In the same study the gain in ability to apply principles to new situations and the ability to interpret new experiments resulted in no loss after one year. Rather, the ability to interpret new experiments showed an increase after one year, though none of the Subjects (Ss) in the study had taken additional …

The Development Of A Tree Drawing Test: A Feasibility Study, Garry Lee Edwards

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The analysis of drawings has long been recognized as a method for investigating varied aspects of the psychology of child development. Goodenough {1926) cites studies by Cooke in 1885 and Ricci in 1387 as being the earliest accounts of interest in children's drawings. These early collections and observations were mainly descriptive in nature. They generally included such areas of investigation as single child longitudinal observations; longitudinal group observations; observations on the drawings of primitive peoples; observations on selected groups of artistically talented children; and later, observations made on groups of psychopathic subjects.

The Relationship Between Food And Fear, Henry Tjahjono

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Traditionally, the procedure of feeding an organism in a fear-producting situation has been viewed as having a fear-reducing effect, called counterconditioning. English and English define counterconditioning as the procedure of conditioning a second and conflicting response to a conditioned stimulus that is not simultaneously being reinforced. Fear is reduced by conditioning to the fear-producing stimuli the incompatible emotional responses associated with eating (e.g.--Miller, 1951)

The strength of fear was illustrated by Miller in 1951. He found that albino rats, trained to run down an alley to secure food at a distinctive place and motivated by a 46-hour hunger, would pull …

The Interaction Of Delay And Magnitude Of The Reward On Acquisition And Extinction In The Straight Alley Runway, Peter Charles Habley

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to clarify and accurately describe the interactive effects of several amounts of reward and delay on acquisition and extinction or rats in a straight runway. A factorial study involving several levels of reward and delay is presented to further describe and possibly predict what effects these independent variables have on learning curves.

The major purpose of this paper, then, is to determine the interactive effects of delay and magnitude of reward, and to present the results in a clarifying and informative manner.

The Effects Of Drive And Ego-Involving Instructions Upon Verbal Behavior During Delayed Auditory Feedback, Donald Edward Fuhrmann

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Anxiety, Stress, And Competing Response Tendencies On The Learning Of Verbal Concepts, Ralph F. Dunn

Dissertations

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

Dissertations

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Classically Conditioned Licking And Acquired Orienting As A Function Of Qualitatively Different Ucs Values : Acquisition, Shifting And Extinction, Jerry Weeks Rudy

Master's Theses

The purpose of the present study was twofold: (A) to study classically conditioned licking in rats as a function of a qualitative UCS difference, defined as 15% sucrose concentration and 0% concentration (plain tap water); (B) to study acquired orienting as a function of these UCS values. Several aspects of conditioned performance were investigated: (1) the effect of UCS intensity on level of responding during acquisition; (2) the effect of UCS intensity on rate of approach to terminal level of responding; (3) a possible learning performance distinction in appetitive classical conditioning; (4) rate of extinction as a function of the …

Partial Reinforcement With A Small Number Of Acquisition Trials : The Effects Of Thwarting On Extinction Performance, W. Schuyler Miller

Master's Theses

The present study is an attempt to provide a setting in which to examine the possible contribution of the fixed time reward technique to the PREE obtained by McCain and his associates

Manipulation Of Abusive Behavior With Time-Out And Shock, Sharon Lane '67

Honors Projects

A significant trend apparent in recent psychological literature is the increasing amount of attention to punishment and such aversive methods of behavior control.

An Inquiry Into Personality Development: A Theory Of Symbiotic Relationship, Kenneth William Chittick

Graduate Thesis Collection

This thesis presents an inquiry into personality development, that is, it advances a theory of personality formation based on the symbiotic relationship between mother and child. It will show indications from the research of Rappoport, Ottinger and Simmons, and the writings of Mahler, that in the relationship between the infant and its mother, the infant at first thinks that the mother is an actual part of its own wholeness. Therefore, the theory will attempt to explain how a normal, a neurotic or a psychotic personality structure of later years can be traced back to the symbiotic phase of the infant's …

On The Development Of Memory And Identity, Jean Piaget

Heinz Werner Lectures

"This is the second lecture given at Clark University in honor of the late Heinz Werner, world-famous developmental psychologist. In these two lectures, Professor Piaget raises fundamental questions concerning the nature of memory in the developing child and his response to invariance. In the first, "Memory and Operations", he examines the way in which memory schemata are transformed during the course of the formation of "concrete operations" in early childhood. In the second, "Identity and Conservation", he outlines a developmental sequence of identity responses, starting with simple recognition of persons in infancy and leading up to conservation as an understanding …

Visual Recognition Following Periods Of Sensory Deprivation And Sensory Bombardment, Thomas W. Vodde

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

An Investigation Of The Influence Of Varying Lengths Of Rest Following Differential Amounts Of Practice On The Practice Effect In Tachistoscopic Word Recognition, John G. Platt

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

An experiment was carried out to investigate the influence of varying rest periods after three different amounts of practice on the practice effect in word recognition.

Analysis of the data revealed: (1) rest resulted in a sharp increment in recognition thresholds except at short rest intervals after a brief practice period, (2) the threshold scores immediately after rest were found to be an inverse function of the length of the rest period, and (3) larger threshold increments were observed following greater amounts of practice than after lesser amounts.

The results were discussed in terms of two interpretations of the practice …

A Study Of Color Reactions And Preferences Of Certain Seventh And Eighth Grade Students, Gerald Lee Norris

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

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

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Deliberate Faking In The Mmpi With Seminarians , John Gerald Grant

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Investigation Into The Effects Of Immediate Knowledge Of Performance And Subsequent Test Results, Thomas John Ginley

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Factor Analytic Study Of Ability And Personality Tests Currently Used In The Philippines, Isabel R. Juan

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Incidental Learning As A Test Of The Overinclusion Hypothesis In Schizophrenia, Dale G. Lenoue

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Faculty Ratings In A Minor Seminary, John W. Mccloskey

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Differences In Motivational Patterns Of Inadequate And Inept Psychopathic Deviant Prison Inmates As Revealed By Tat Story Sequence Analysis, Basil Edward Najjar

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Amount Of Information Retained As A Function Of Visual Presentation And Value, Felix A. Ortega

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Stress, Manifest Anxiety, And Clinical Judgment, Joseph F. Pribyl

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Factor Analysis And Pattern Analysis Of The Loyola National Institute Of Mental Health Attitude Scale, A. H. Rittenhouse

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Tactually Induced Unilateral And Bilateral Electric Shock On The Auditory Threshold: An Interpretation Based On Brain Blood-Shift Theory, Robert M. Shannon

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Experimental Investigation Of Autonomic Responses To Threatened Stimuli, Francis Joseph Simal

Dissertations

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.