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A Longitudinal Evaluation Of The Ogden City Head Start Program, Robert D. Eyestone

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This study attempted to investigate the differences in the Head Start population of the Ogden City Schools and to determine if the differences had a significant influence on ability comparisons. An attempt was also made to evaluate the longitudinal benefits of Head Start training. The original data was collected in the 1966-67 evaluation of the Head Start program. Additional data was collected as this original group of Head Start children progressed through kindergarten, first, and second grades.

Variables considered in this study were, residence, age, sex, socio-economic deprivation, family constellation, and ethnic group. In addition, a comparison was made of …

The Effect Of Short-Term Counseling And Tutoring On Reading Achievement, Study Skills, And Personal Adjustment, Michael Lynn Maughan

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This study was designed to investigate more completely the effects of counseling and tutoring on reading achievement, study skills, and personal adjustment within the context of a college reading and study skills program. The study consisted of three phases which corresponded with the three regular school quarters.

The subjects used in Phase I of this study were 12 college students who voluntarily registered for a reading and study skills class at Utah State University during the 1969 fall quarter plus 40 students who transferred into the class from a remedial study class. In Phase II, there were 45 students who …

The Effects Of Cholinergic And Adrenergic Chemicals On Drinking Behavior (Thirst), G. Ron Norton

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Because of inconsistencies in the research literature following Grossman's (1960) demonstration that drinking behavior (thirst) could be modulated by intrahypothalamic injections of adrenergic and cholinergic chemicals, a series of studies were undertaken to clarify the relation between introducing chemicals into the brain and drinking behaviors.

The first study attempted to determine the effect of water deprivation on post-deprivation drink sequencing. It has been demonstrated that 75% - 90% of the water consumed by normal rats is taken during the evening hours (Fitzsimmons, 1957; Stellar & Hill, 1952). Grossman's (1960; 1962a) studies failed to consider normal drinking rhythms and consequently modulated …

The Effectiveness Of Teacher Attention As A Reinforcer In The Conditioning And Extinction Of Classroom Behaviors Of Delinquent Girls, Mary Fulcher Geis

Master's Theses

The present study was designed to assess the effectiveness of a combination of teacher approval for appropriate behavior and teacher ignoring of inappropriate behavior in modifying the classroom behavior of institutionalized juvenile delinquents.In a classroom at a residential facility for female juvenile offenders, baseline recordings of student and teacher behaviors were collected. After baseline, the teacher introduced three rules specifying appropriate student behavior. Next , in a multiple baseline procedure, the teacher approved of the students' appropriate interrupting and ignored their inappropriate interrupting; later, she also approved of the students not engaging in inappropriate talking and ignored their inappropriate talking.The …

The Effect Of Inequitable Payment Upon Selected Task-Related Cognitions, Robert Dennis Moulton

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Electrophysiological Correlates Of The Basolateral And Corticomedial Amygdaloid Divisions Associated With Biting-Behavior, Jon F. Defrance

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effectiveness Of Information Feedback On The Conformity Behavior Of Children, John Jay Wicks

Student Work

This paper summarizes a developmental study concerning the effects of correctness feedback on the conformity behavior of children. Specifically, the study proposes to test the following assumption: (1) that conformity is a positive function of age on ambiguous stimulus tasks and (2) that the effectiveness of correctness feedback is greater for older than younger Ss. To test these assumptions, the Ss were divided, at each grade level, into three groups: (1) a reward conformity group where the Ss received a "correct” signal for agreeing with the group and a "wrong" signal for disagreeing, (2) a reward nonconformity group where Ss …

An Experimenter Variable: Subjects' Perception Of The Psychologist-Clergyman In Psychological Testing, John M. Cade

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Use Of The Pals Test To Differentiate Between High Achieving And Low Achieving Fifth Gradestudents: A Validity Study, Mickey H. Parson

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this investigation was to determine if the PALS Tests (Williams, 1958, 1961, 1964) would significantly differentiate between low achieving and hie;h achieving 5th-grade students. The basic design was the same basic design as used by Williams (1961), except that high achieving and low achieving students were used instead of acting-out and normal children. It was intended that this research supplement existing data concerning validity of the PALS Tests. The test author (Williams 1958, 1961, 1964) seems to be the only person who has conducted research regarding the PALS.

The Curriculum Demonstration Project: How Effective Is It?: A Program In Quincy, Illinois For The Dropout Prone Student, Edward John. Baranowski

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of The Classical And Modern Concepts Of Memory With Suggestions For Further Study, Kathleen Oros Reed

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Of The Wechsler Preschool And Primary Scale Of Intelligence To The 1960 Revision Of The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Form L-M, James William Futterer

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Early Reasoning Skills In The Trainable Mentally Retarded : As Related To Piaget's Seriation Theory, Robert William Ginther

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In terms of Piaget's theory of cognitive development and the relationship he attributes between reasoning and the development of classification and seriation skills, the following questions arise: can early reasoning ability be enhanced through training? If IQ tests are accepted as measures of intellectual function, do they then contain a significant number of seriation type questions? If so, will the seriation test be an accepted measure of intellectual function?

The Effects Of Level Of Education, Exposure To Psychology, And Diagnostic Nomenclature On The Psychodiagnostic Judgments Of Nonprofessionals, Everett S. Jacobson

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Extinction Of An Instrumentally Conditioned Avoidance Response In High And Low Anxiety Subjects, Anthony Paul Gillette

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of A Human Relations Laboratory Experience By The Focal Conflict Method, Denis E. Quinlan

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Human Person, Thomas P. Fogarty

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Dogmatism And Some Social Attitudes Of Lithuanian Immigrants: Parents Versus Their Children Attending College In The United States, Kestutis A. Trimakas

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Normative Study And Developmental Theory Of Social Intelligence, Luke A. Shanley

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Convergent And Discriminant Validity Of Human Figure Drawings Of Children As Indicators Of Psychological Traits, Timothy Ward Starkey

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Trainer Personality And The Social Intelligence Factor In Effective Sensitivity Group Leadership, Mary Elizabeth Suran

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Are Pschological Principles Useful?(A Guid To The Study Of Human Learning), David R. Stone

Faculty Honor Lectures

To some extent, each person is his own doctor, his own economist, his own historian, his own counselor, his own psychologist, and his own teacher.

It is said that a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. Can the same be said of a man's other roles? At least for learning (which professionally intersects education and psychology) any person may have the goal of helping himself to appreciate and evaluate the role of the learning professional.

A knowledge explosion has taken place in the area of learning, as in the many fields of science in …

A Methodological Approach To Shifts In Drive Simuli., Peggy A. Keilman

Psychology ETDs

A study employing different and equal strengths of the hunger and thirst drive stimuli was conducted in an 8-ft. modified T-maze in an attempt to provide a somewhat more methodologically sound approach to the experimental analysis of the construct drive. The 11 rats used in the experiment underwent a pretraining phase that used a titration procedure to equate the strength of hunger and thirst for each animal by varying the conditions rather than the schedules of feeding and -watering the animals. The only restriction was that each animal's daily intake must sum to 24 (e.g., 13 g. food and 11 …

An Analysis Of Worker Satisfaction, Thomas W. Westrate

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Philosophy Of Human Nature As A Function Of Political Preference, Political Involvement, And Age, Ralph L. Anderson

All Master's Theses

The present study used the Philosophy of Human Nature (PHN) Scale and a 2X2X2 factorial design with party preference, level of political involvement, and age as the three main effects to test twelve specific hypotheses. One hundred twenty subjects were randomly selected from among the Democratic and Republican parties of Kittitas County and students from Central Washington State College, and the PHN Scale was administered to them.

The Effects Of Varying A T Group Design Upon Self Concept, George Richard Woodruff

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to examine what effects the varying of a T Group design would have upon self-concept and also to determine whether or not individuals who had participated in a T Group would report more positive self-concepts than persons who had not had such an experience.

"Suicide As A Way Of Life", John Kerr, Hugo Maynard, Ronald Snodgrass

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

A panel discussion with Hugo Maynard (PSU Institute for Psychological Study), Ronald Snodgrass (Willamette Learning Center), and John Kerr (Director of Schoolhouse), participants.

The Relationship Of Liberalism-Conservatism To Anxiety And Ego Strength, Orpha Sherman Harris

Master's Theses

Through the medium or television our senses are everyday bombarded by the sights and sounds of student unrest on our college campuses. Radical students take over campus buildings, go on strike and refuse to attend classes until their "demands" are met. They want a "piece of the action" even to the hiring and firing of professors, and will risk expulsion to attain their goals. Even conservative students demand that curricula and instruction be upgraded though their methods for achieving their goals are less disruptive or dramatic. Liberal youth today are demanding the right to smoke marijuana,to "trip" on LSD, to …

Significant Personality Variables Involved In Noetic Problems, Richard A. Depue

Master's Theses

The purpose of the study reported here is to examine further the nature of noogenic neurosis, and to attempt to determine what personality variables might be related to it and its development. This will be done by administering the PIL and a number of personality scales to samples of male college students and inpatient neurotics. From the resulting data it will be possible to teat the following hypotheses: (1) that the male college students will have a significantly higher mean PIL score than the inpatient neurotics; and (2) that significant correlat­ions will appear among the relationships between PIL scores and …

A Replication Of Gouldner's Latent Role Identifications Of Cosmopolitan And Local In A Public High School, Ronald S. Godwin

Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.