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A Study Of The Relationship Between Anxiety, Manifest Needs, And Creativity In Upward Bound Students, Neal A. Davidson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Previous investigators have indicated that low socio-economic students have difficulty experiencing success on tests heavily loaded with verbal material. Differences in personality characteristics between students of high and low creativity have also been found. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the influence of manifest needs and anxiety on creative thinking.

The Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale, which determines anxiety level, the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule, which measures manifest needs, and the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, which provides an index of creativity were administered to Spanish-American, Anglo-American, Negro, and Navaho high school students, who constituted the 1967 Upward …

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.

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

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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

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 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.

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

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.

The Effect Of Anxiety And Motivation On A Subject's Performance When Subjected To A Stress Condition Of Delayed Auditory Feedback, Charles Joseph Arens

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Importance Of Hippocampal Remnants In Discrimination Ability, Victor L. Dufour

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Relationship Between Communality Of Thought On The Loyola Language Study And Empathic Ability On Kerr's Empathy Test, Mary Lucinia Szpak

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of School Desegregation On Need Achievement Of Catholic High School Girls, Constance S. Clune

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Personality Changes In Two Small Groups Of Maryknoll Seminarians, Thomas John Malone

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Rorschach Defense Checklist: Rationale And Validity, Ida A. Parlanti

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Incidence Of Extreme Prejudice In Negro And White Elementary School Children As Related To Personality, Age And Experience In Mixed Versus Segregated Schools, Henry Pozdol

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Assessment Of Children's Attitudes Towards Their Institutional Environment, Rudolph R. Deyle

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Irradiation As A Function Of Hue, Eugene Skoff

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Dogmatism And Decision-Making In A Variable Risk Situation, Robert E. Jones

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Weighted Application Blank As A Predicter Of Academic Success In A Junior College, Richard J. Ritchie

Master's Theses

There has been a great of research conducted to find factors which can be used to predict academic success. A number of these factors have already been identified. For example, college board scores, high school rank, and high school grades are widely used a predictors of academic success. Most of the research that has been conducted has dealt with intellectual factor, but there has been some research done to find non-intellectual factors related to academic success. These non-intellectual factors include: study habits, personality, traits, and environmental factors.

One possible predictor of academic success which has received little attention is biographical …

A Comparison Of Estimates Of Relative Frequency Vs. Subjective Probability, Duncan Muir Mcquarrie

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study is to extend the investigation of the general area of subjective probability by exploring three methods of asking for estimates. Inasmuch as this area has not been a major focus of interest for experimental studies, a brief review of the kinds of studies emanating from subjective probability notions will be given.

The Relationship Between Shock Duration And Shock Induced Fighting In The Domestic Hen, Elliott Seligman

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Anonymous Versus Identifiable Individual Judgments Under Social Influence, Charles J. Campolo

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Verbal And Visual Mnemonic Devices On The Paired Associate Learning Of An Aged Population, Franklin Peter Knill

Master's Theses

The literature on aging is abundant with studies using a variety of tasks indicating that there is a decline in learning with increasing age.

Subjects were presented pairs of words accompanied by a black and white sketch that contained both words

In a further attempt to study more directly the effects of visual vs. verbal mediators, a second condition was included where subjects were presented pairs of words accompanied by a phrase that contained both of the words.

The following bypotheaee were postulated:

1. Performance of younger subjects will be superior to old ones over all conditions.

2. Performance will …

An Experimental Study Of Three Programed Methods, David Robinson Grove

Master's Theses

All programed training makes use of successively presented units of information, usually accompanied by a test question and usually providing the subject with. immediate knowledge of whether his answer is right or wrong. The purpose of a program whose assimilated data is in questions and answers is to shape a series of responses into a complex act.

Within this common framework there is--for psychologists, at any rate--a difference between two schools of thought which dominates the field and is reflected in the tasks and types of programs given to the trainee.

The question now becomes one in determining the "best …

An Inquiry Into The Kuder Preference Record Vocational Verification Scale And The Guilford Zimmerman Temperament Survey Falsification Scale, Ann Denton Ryder

Master's Theses

This study investigated the variables measured by the verification scale of the Kuder Preference Record-Voca tiona l and the falsification scale of the GuilfordZimmerman Temperament Survey. Responses of an experimental group of Protestant seminary students were compared with those of a control group of general psychology students. These groups were shown to be different in self-perceived values and attitudes, as defined by results on the Allport Vernon Lindzey Study of Values and the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey, with the experimental group presenting the more altruistic outlook. This was taken to indicate that this group would not be falsifying in giving positive …

A Revision Of The Morgan Test Of Logical Reasoning, Fred K. Mccoy

Master's Theses

Do we learn to reason logically just as we learn grammar or estimating distances? Philosophers usually say we do and have taught logic as a discipline for thousands of years. They are generally not content to teach "about" logic, or in the history of it; they generally state their intent is to teach "logic for everyday thinking". Appendix VI is a personal communication to the author from a philosopher stating this clearly and comparing the skill of logical reasoning with the skill of using grammar.

Or is logical reasoning a relatively inherent trait, as intelligence is generally assumed to be? …

The Relationship Of The Detection Of Unpredictable Visual Binary Sequences And Selected Personality Measures, Currell L. Pattie

Master's Theses

To a certain extent the everyday incidents of life occur in a chaotic and orderless fashion. But in such an unpredictable world people must predict such events even if they present themselves at random. This suggestion by Restle (1961) is especially relevant to an experiment by Pattie (1964a) in the area of human binary prediction. This study seemed to indicate that individuals search for and believe in orderly, predictable solutions in apparently orderless, random situations. Ss were given a randomized deck of 200 index cards, of which 75% displayed an easily discriminable symbol with the remaining 25% bearing another symbol. …

A Study Of The Function Of Visual Imagery, Type Of Mediator, And Associative Frequency In Induced Mediation Paradigms, Ted Christiansen

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Bugelski and Sharlock (1952) credit McGeoch with saying that although the concept of mediation was an old one, it had generated more discussion than experimentation. Bugelski and Sharlock in commenting on McGeoch's statements had this to say, "The concept of mediation is of great potential value for the psychological analysis of learning, thinking, and insight." (Bugelski and Sharlock, 1952, p. 334) The views of Bugelski and Sharlock represent the current thinking in verbal learning circles relevant to the importance of mediation in symbolic forms of behavior. The experimental emphasis, at the present time, is upon the conditions underlying the process. …