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A Study Of Frustration Tolerance In Handicapped Children, Barbara Ellen Bower

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

What is adjustment? There are almost as many ways of defining it as there are ways of achieving it. To anwer the question one must first try to find the common factor of the varied definitions of adjustment. Sheviakov and Friedberg in their report of the Eight Year Study say, Desirable adjustment was thought of, generally as a process of maturation and adaptation, during which the individual is able to integrate successfully (i.e., without neurotic compromises or delinquent episodes) his primitive impulses and drives with those expectations or demands which are imposed upon him (with reference to his age, sex, …

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.

War Psychological Research And Its Implications, John E. Anderson

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Perseveration: Its Correlation With The Intelligence Quotient, Jeanne Collins

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Previous Intelligence History Of Children Referred To The Loyola Center For Child Guidance, M. Rosalita Hurley

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

No abstract provided.

One-Dimensional Size Constancy In Two Planes, James Hominuke

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.

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

The Relationship Of Personality Traits As Measured By The Bernreuter Personality Inventory To Some Physical Traits Of Freshmen College Women Of Kansas State Teachers College At Pittsburg, Kansas, Lois Watson Smith

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Purpose. The purpose of this study is to determine the amount of relationship existing between certain personality traits and certain physical traits of approximately 135 freshmen women at the Kansas State Teachers College of Pittsburg, Kansas.

Procedure. A personality test and various physical tests were administered to approximately 135 freshmen women at the Kansas State Teachers College of Pittsburg. The six personality trait scores measured by the Bernreuter Personality Inventory were correlated with the physical test scores measuring General Motor Capacity, General Motor Ability, Physical Fitness Index, and body build. Pearson's formula for determining the coefficient of correlation was used …

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 …

The Standardization Of The Kelly Spatial Insight Test, Darlieene Thompson

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The purpose of this study is to standardize the Kelly Spatial Insight Test, a test of performance ability. The task was to establish norms by which individual cases can be compared with each other.

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

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

The Performance Of Young Children In A Classification Task, Frances Virginia Rau

Master's 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 …

A Statistical Analysis Of The New Mexico State Merit System 1941 Oral Examination Program, Anchard Zeller

Psychology ETDs

The purpose of the present study is to analyze the oral examination mentioned above and the results obtained. This analysis will consist of three parts: first, a description of the statistical methods by which the oral ratings were converted into quantitative results; second, an internal analysis of the examination itself with a brief discussion of the validity and reliability of the examination; and third, a survey of the external factors inherent in the examinees and situations which influenced the ratings of the judges.

A Comparative Study Of Certain Characteristics Of Thinking In Adult Aments And Normal Children., Edwin Terry Prothro

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

The Influence Of Induced Attitudes In Problem Solving, Elizabeth Ann Mueller

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Some Contributions To The Understanding Of The Stability Of Attitudes, Betty Bennett

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The field of attitude research may be placed in three categories: 1. Determination of the consensus of public opinion regarding social issues. 2. Attitude measurement techniques. 3. Investigation of the intrinsic psychological nature of human attitudes. This study has to do with the third category. Unless this point is clearly borne in mind, the purpose of the investigation which is reported herein may be obscure. Here we are not concerned with the content of the attitude, but with the mechanism of the attitude. We are studying the attitude to determine its inner characteristic s, its make-up, rather than to show …

A Factor Analysis Of Verbal Ability, Floyd Edward Reynolds

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

For many years the practical value of tests of intelligence, aptitude and other qualities has been demonstrated. As the “testing movement” has grown, a multitude of tests has been devised and is now available for testing of human abilities. Two of the most important attempts to understand intellectual abilities are found in the theories and methods of Spearman and Thurstone. There is a possibility that the statistical studies of these theorists have overlooked a valuable source of information, that is existing experimental information about different processes included in mental ability. It is this possibility that prompted this study.

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.

Extrapyramidal Mechanisms In Handedness In The Rat, James Chaplin

Psychology ETDs

From the previous work on handedness from Peterson, we know that there is a sharply localized area in the contralateral cerebral cortex of the frontal region for the control of handedness in the rat. Widespread occipital and temporal destructions are without influence when this area is intact.

Size Constancy In Filled And Unfilled Space In Relation To Intelligence, Loretto M. Olson

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.