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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 …

A Comparison Of Intellectually Normal Children, Mentally Retarded Adolescents, And Mentally Retarded Adults On A Three Dimensional Concept Formation Sorting Task, James C. Kamprud

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purposes of this study were: (1) to compare nine groups of subjects composed of intellectually normal children, mentally retarded adolescents, and mentally retarded adults on a three dimensional concept formation task; (2) to determine the effects of discrimination training on the sortings of the nine groups on the experimental task.

The 207 subjects of this study were divided into nine groups. Seven of the groups, consisting of high average and low average grade 3, superior high average, and low average grade 6, and high and low adolescent retardates were chosen on the bases of school grade level (3, 6, …

Relationship Between Self-Concept Discrepancies And The Expression Of Need Achievement In Children, Ian Griggs

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that a significant relationship exists between self-concept discrepancies and expressed need for achievement.

A self-concept discrepancy score was obtained and a low and high discrepancy group was isolated.

Expressed need for achievement was measured by the use of the Thematic Apperception Test and scored according to the Atkinson method.

Mean comparisons of need achievement scores of subjects whose discrepancies between actual and ideal self-concept were in the upper or lower one-third of the distribution were found not to be significant at the 5 percent level of confidence.

The Relationship Of Delinquent Types In An Industrial School Setting To Personality-Motivation Profiles, Lester A. Carlson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The author serves as Director of Education of the Utah State Industrial School, a school charged with the responsibility for the custody and treatment of delinquents committed to its care from the juvenile courts of the state. For many years he has been concerned about the personality structure of the children committed to the care of the Industrial School. He became particularly interested in the possibility that there is a definable relationship between types of delinquent acts and personality-motivation profiles. Further motivation was given to this interest when he received an answer to some correspondence from a colleague of Dr. …

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

Dissertations

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The Examiner's Attitude As A Variable In A Modified Draw A Person Technique, Celia Jaes Falicov

Master's Theses

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The Significance Of Hostility As Related To Adjustment And Maladjustment In Marriage, Manuel A. Barroso

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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

Dissertations

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

Dissertations

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

Dissertations

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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 Stimulus Value Of A Clergyman As The Administrator Of Psychological Tests, Pius Carroll Lartigue

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.

Transfer Of Spatial Relations Abilities From The Game-Situation To The Test-Situation, Timothy Ward Starkey

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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

Dissertations

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The Effects Of Pentobarbital Upon The Gross Activity Of The White Rat And Modification Of These Effects By Means Of Water Immersion, Dominic Amante

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Tester's Race Influence On Hostility Manifestations On The D-A-P'S Of Negro Culturally Deprived Children, Doris Diamant Machtinger

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

The main purpose of this study is to determine the effects of the race of an examiner upon hostility indicated through drawings of a person made by culturally deprived Negro children. Spontaneous drawings by children have been long suspected of holding a key to the psychology of child development. The history of psychological research on children's drawings has been reviewed by Harris (1963). He found that as early as 1885 Ebenezer Cooke published an article on children's drawings in which he described the successive stages of development as he observed them. Between 1885 and 1908 many studies were conducted on …

Revision Of Subjective Probabilities Under A Bayesian Model, Gary A. Sterner

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to examine the degree to which subjective probability judgments conform to the Bayesian model of mathematical probability theory; more specifically, the degree to which subjective probability estimates for intersections of events approximate the product of the subjective judgments for component events.

Effects Of Ribonuclease Upon The Regenerating Tissue Of Conditioned Planaria, Harland E. Noll

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

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? …

Dyadic Communication As A Function Of Communicative Method And Interpersonal Mutuality, Harry Wallace Craver Jr.

Master's Theses

A large proportion of research in social psychology has been concerned with interpersonal Communication. More often than not, when different investigators got interested in an area of experimentation that is fairly broad and influenced by many variables, an evolvement of several different categories of or approaches to the research area occurs. The area of interpersonal communication is no exception.

The Effect Of Neurological Training On Reading Retardation, Mary Julia Masterman

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Group Counseling With Underachievers, Mary Frederick Arnold

Dissertations

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Creativity And Deviant Set Responding In Third Grade Children, Elizabeth S. Waller

Master's Theses

This study will be an investigation of the relationship between test scores of creativity, according to the Minnesota Tests of Creative Thinking (Torrance, 1960), and teacher ratings of creativity for third grade children. The hypothesis that highly creative individuals tend to give deviant response patterns on the PRT will also be tested.

The Effect Of Aging On Ratings Of Self, Physical Self And Related Body Concepts As Measured By A Semantic Differential, Gary V. Whalen

Master's Theses

Present Study. Although there is considerable overlap between the body image and the self concept, it would be premature to draw any conclusions regarding one based upon the other until the nature and extent of correlation is obtained. This study is an attempt to determine the extent and direction that an individual's body image may fluctuate as a function of growing old. It is concerned with how the human organism may change over time with respect to a single aspect of the constellations of factors that go into making up a person's self concept. More specifically, do body part ratings …

Brentano's Empirical Psychology: An English Translation With An Evaluation Of Its Influence Upon Contemporary Scientific Psychology Volume 2, Antos C. Rancurello

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Experimental Investigation Of The Relationship Between The Galvanic Skin Response And Stimulus Words Related To Religious Values, Bernard G. Suran

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Rorschach In Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study Of Intellectually Superior Girls, M. Clare Zuercher

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Extinction And Re-Acquisition Of A Food-Reinforced Motor Response In Hippocampectomized Cats, Peter G. Kaufmann

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.