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A Study In The Psychology Of Religious Sentiment, Wm. Linton Davis Jan 1941

A Study In The Psychology Of Religious Sentiment, Wm. Linton Davis

Graduate Thesis Collection

Religion is a vital subject. This dissertation either makes a contribution to the study of the psychology of religion, or else it is a waste of time trifling with a very vital subject. There are various phases of the psychology of religion such as the origin of religion; the phenomena connected with conversion and religious revivals; with mysticism, spiritism, occultism, ecstasy, and prophetism; with the subconscious, faith-cure, Christian Science, etc.; the interconnection of mind and body; and the growth of the religious consciousness.


A Psychological Approach To Christian Marriage, Francis L. Getz Jan 1941

A Psychological Approach To Christian Marriage, Francis L. Getz

Graduate Thesis Collection

We will make it our purpose of this thesis to approach Christian marriage from a two-fold standpoint; we will search for the New Testament concept of marriage, unhampered by set theological patterns of thought; we will approach it psychologically.


Some Factors Affecting The Change Of Attitude Of College Freshmen, Iris Mabel Stevenson May 1940

Some Factors Affecting The Change Of Attitude Of College Freshmen, Iris Mabel Stevenson

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The purpose of this study was to investigate some of the factors which influence the change of attitude toward a proposition, using 314 college students enrolled in elementary and educational psychology courses at the Fort Hays Kansas State College during the winter 1938-1939.


Studies In Clinical Psychology, George A. Kelly, F.B. Streeter Jan 1940

Studies In Clinical Psychology, George A. Kelly, F.B. Streeter

Fort Hays Studies Series

The manuscript of which this issue is the first part, contains studies by nine graduate students made under the direction of Dr. George A. Kelly, Director of the Fort Hays State College Clinic, and consists of 243 pages. The manuscript will be published in three or four parts.


The Distracting Influence Of Radio Speech Upon Performance In Silent Reading, Thomas Michael Kennedy Jan 1940

The Distracting Influence Of Radio Speech Upon Performance In Silent Reading, Thomas Michael Kennedy

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


An Investigation Of Then Training Afforded By The New Mexico Home And Training School For Mental Defectives, Octavia Pearl Butler Aug 1939

An Investigation Of Then Training Afforded By The New Mexico Home And Training School For Mental Defectives, Octavia Pearl Butler

Psychology ETDs

The purpose of this study is to investigate the academic, vocational, and recreational training afforded by the New Mexico Home and Training School for Mental Defectives at Los Lunas, New Mexico. The criteria for judgment of the training techniques and procedures are three-fold: comparison with recommended training, the present activities of discharged inmates of the institution, and comparison with offerings of other state institutions.


The Influence Of Separate Answer Sheets On The Reliability And Norms Of Standardized Achievement Tests, James Edward Kuntz Aug 1939

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 Jun 1939

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 May 1939

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.


Effect Of Expressive Methods Of Child Psychotherapy Upon Intellectual Efficiency, Viola Caprez Ames Apr 1939

Effect Of Expressive Methods Of Child Psychotherapy Upon Intellectual Efficiency, Viola Caprez Ames

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

It is the purpose of this study to investigate the effectiveness of a certain type of child training in accelerating the development of intellectual efficiency. By expressive methods is meant the use of different media through which the child can find self-expression for otherwise inarticulate ideas. Such media as finger-painting, clay modeling, dramatization and free hand drawing give opportunity for the child to create or objectify his subjective feelings or ideas. By child psychotherapy is meant a method of treatment in readjusting the personality of children. The change in I.Q. means a change in the relation of mental age to …


Studies In Gross Bodily Movement., Alan Douglas Grinsted Jan 1939

Studies In Gross Bodily Movement., Alan Douglas Grinsted

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.


An Investigation Of Drawing By Pueblo Indian Children, Marian Eller May 1938

An Investigation Of Drawing By Pueblo Indian Children, Marian Eller

Psychology ETDs

The purpose of this study is the investigation of drawing made by Pueblo Indian children. it involves the construction of a scale by which the drawings may be graded.


Factors Affecting Vocational Guidance, Margaret Pankaskie May 1938

Factors Affecting Vocational Guidance, Margaret Pankaskie

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

It is the special purpose of this study to find how personality factors affect the employability of youth. In a study of this kind it is necessary to consider the personality as a whole in relation to a larger situation, the ethnological traits of the group, the society in which the youth lives, the economic changes taking place in the community, and the physical and mental capacities in which he is endowed.


Teachers' Use Of Cathartic Methods, Harry Mason Apr 1938

Teachers' Use Of Cathartic Methods, Harry Mason

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The specific problem of this study is to ascertain some of the difficulties experienced by teachers in eliciting emotional catharsis from their pupils and interpreting its results, and to describe these difficulties in operation concepts. The term emotional catharsis is used to mean a spontaneous expression of emotionally toned thoughts or ideas. The term operational concept is taken to mean a unified representation of a state of affairs which is organized so as to suggest its outcome. The term repression is used as defined by Freud. The term rationalization used in the Freudian sense, and refers to the tendency for …


The Influence Of College Courses On Individual Differences, Clarke Carson Mcilree Apr 1938

The Influence Of College Courses On Individual Differences, Clarke Carson Mcilree

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

What is the effect of college training upon individuals? More specifically, do college students become more alike or more unlike in , respect to the achievement involved in a college course as a result of taking the course? That is the question which this study will investigate. The importance of this question to the educator is that it involves educational technique and philosophy. If it is found that our educational system decreases individual differences and has the effect therefore, of equalizing opportunity, our philosophy of universal education as an important factor in the achievement of democracy is valid. On the …


Comparison Of Navajo And Pueblo Indians In Musical Talent, Shlanta A. Boghdan Apr 1938

Comparison Of Navajo And Pueblo Indians In Musical Talent, Shlanta A. Boghdan

Psychology ETDs

The object of this investigation is to make a comparison in musical talent of the Navajo and Pueblo Indians from the seventh to twelfth grade inclusive. Since these two tribes have different characteristics, one purpose is to determine the differences in musical talent which may exist. Although some of the Indian tribes have been tested by the Seashore Measure of Musical Talent, no comparison has been made of these two tribes.


The Prognosis Value Of The American Council On Education Psychological Examination., Walter Gilbert Peiser Jan 1938

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

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.


An Experimental Study Of The Effect Of The Introduction Of An Intellectual Factor In A Problem Of The Motor Learning Type, Ernest Vernon Mcclear Jan 1938

An Experimental Study Of The Effect Of The Introduction Of An Intellectual Factor In A Problem Of The Motor Learning Type, Ernest Vernon Mcclear

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


A Technique For Inter-Translating Psychological Theories, Joseph C. Trainor Jan 1938

A Technique For Inter-Translating Psychological Theories, Joseph C. Trainor

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

The present situ.at ion in psychology is a strange mixture of para.dox, dilemma and confusion, with many self-confident schools of thought in the field, each somewhat antagonistic to the others. The history of other sciences reveals that these are the growing pains out of which there will emerge the matured science. Meanwhile, the squabbles and the confusion are here and we must do something about them.


The Influence Of Explicit Instructions To Plan Upon Perfomance, Helen Cecelia Quinn Jan 1938

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 Nov 1937

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 …


The Relative Influence Of The Locus And Mass Of Destruction Upon The Control Of Handedness By The Cerebral Cortex, La Charles Fracarol Jun 1937

The Relative Influence Of The Locus And Mass Of Destruction Upon The Control Of Handedness By The Cerebral Cortex, La Charles Fracarol

Psychology ETDs

Specifically the experiment sought an answer to the following questions: (1) Is there evidence for a critical area in the cerebral cortex for the control of handedness, and if so, what are the limits of this area, i.e., what is the least destruction within this region that will produce transfers in handedness? (2) Will a destruction outside of the critical area have an effect, and if so, how large must such a destruction be to cause it? (3) What bearing will the results have upon current theories of cerebral functioning, including localization of function, physiological gradients, mass action, and equipotentiality?


A Study Of One Hundred Relief Welfare Cases In Kingman County, Kansas, Jasper C. Witter May 1937

A Study Of One Hundred Relief Welfare Cases In Kingman County, Kansas, Jasper C. Witter

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

This thesis is an analysis of relief welfare cases in Kingman County, Kansas. The case studies cover the economic abilities of the families and attempts to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of available welfare programs.


The Narcotic Problem And Its Possible Solutions, Margaret Esther Wiley May 1937

The Narcotic Problem And Its Possible Solutions, Margaret Esther Wiley

Bachelors’ Theses

Because of the importance of drug addiction this thesis will consider the problem of narcotics in the United States medically, sociologically, and psychologically and will offer possible solutions through education, legislation, and medicine. Other works on this subject are: "The Opium Problem", by Dr. Charles E. Terry and Mildred Pellens, and the many pamphlets published yearly by the Narcotics Bureau of the Treasury Department from 1929 to 1937. The thesis is divided into two parts, the first part discusses the problem of Narcotics, and the second part discusses the possible solutions to the problem. The first part is made up …


Euthanasia Or Mercy Killings, George Joseph Nicoud Apr 1937

Euthanasia Or Mercy Killings, George Joseph Nicoud

Bachelors’ Theses

In this modern and changing world new problems are constantly arising and older ones are being dispensed with. Man has to adapt himself almost daily to changing and more complex situations. The world has advanced to such an extent that in this present generation we are known as "human machines" rather than human beings. Men are worked until they drop off from the strain or they work until they are broken, decrepit old men, no longer a use to anybody and a burden to almost everybody. As our modernity progressed, so also did conventions and ideas. Ideas of morals changed. …


The Ethics Of William James, W Dean Lowry Mar 1937

The Ethics Of William James, W Dean Lowry

Bachelors’ Theses

In our own time Psychology holds the vital position in philosophical discussion. This came about naturally in the trend of modern thought. Towards the middle of the nineteenth century the Science-Philosophy arose emancipating the philosophical theory of evolution based upon data of the Physical Sciences. This theory was confidently claimed to be the solution and the explanation of all Wings. To realize these hopes its advocates contended that man also was included in the great evolutive process. Hence the discussion about man’s place in nature became the crucial problem. Had man a spiritual nature with an immortal destiny, or was …


A Study Of The Bell Adjustment Inventory, Nina Acona Jan 1937

A Study Of The Bell Adjustment Inventory, Nina Acona

Psychology ETDs

The University of New Mexico, through its personnel department, has, for three years, made use of the Bell Adjustment Inventory as an instrument for rating the personality adjustments of members of the freshman classes. The Inventory provides four measures of adjustment, and also a total score which is the sum of the scores of the four measures. The test has proved to be of value in determining cases of maladjustment and the several scores furnish a clue to the sources of such maladjustment. The results have been sufficiently satisfactory to warrant the use of the scores in comparing certain student …


The Influence Of Attention In Establishing The Finger-Withdrawal Response, Ignatius Anthony First Jan 1937

The Influence Of Attention In Establishing The Finger-Withdrawal Response, Ignatius Anthony First

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Factor Analysis Versus Clinical Analysis Of Intelligence, Betty Margaret Martinson Oct 1936

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.


The Soul In Modern Thought, Joseph Talsky May 1936

The Soul In Modern Thought, Joseph Talsky

Bachelors’ Theses

Many strange things happen in this world to add their particular bit to the general bafflement of man. Perhaps the strangest of all is the paradox of man's belief. He knows one thing in that heart of his and yet to all external appearances believes another. It is his prerogative to believe what he will but it is distressing that there is such great diversity of opinion concerning the very thing that is the ultimate principle and source of his ability to believe. Experience tells him that he has the enviable functions of thinking, feeling and willing but his experience …