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A Study Of The Most Outstanding Problems Of Boys In The Third Year Of Three Catholic High Schools, James Joseph Merwick

Master's Theses

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Beliefs And Attitudes Of Recent High School Graduates On The Subject Of Beverage Alcohol, Francis E. Chape

Masters Theses

Introduction

During recent years, many investigations concerning the teen-ager and beverage alcohol have been carried out. A survey of the available literature on this subject revealed that most of the studies have been made to determine the attitudes toward drinking and the drinking behavior of this age group. These studies, Maddox¹ states, provide "The basis for generalizations about drinking in high school which are more substantial than impressionistic guesses."

Generalizations, however, have not been limited to drinking behavior alone. Alcohol education programs, required by law in every state in the union,² have received much criticism in recent times. …

The Effect Of Manifest Anxiety And Failure Instructions On Delinquents' Performance On The W.I.S.C. Coding Test, Herbert J. Cross

Master's Theses

It is generally accepted by most researchers that motivational factors are important in the prediction of behavior. The nature of the relationship between those factors and behavior is not well understood but appear to depend at least on such variables as effect the difficulty of the behavioral task and the degree of the motivation involved.

The Relationship Of Certain Personality Traits To The Underachievement Of Bright Students In Nursing, Muriel Arline Glover

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The problem of underachievement among bright students of nursing at the college of Medical Evangelists School of Nursing revealed a need for a better understanding of these students by instructors and guidance personnel in order that improved selection and guidance of these students might result.

It was the purpose of this study to identify the relationships of certain personality traits to certain levels of achievement among bright students of nursing at the college of Medical Evangelists, in order to obtain information which might guide the faculty in the selection and guidance of these students.

Bright students were defined as those …

The Experimental Study Of The Relation Between The Alpha Rhythm Of The Electroencephalogram And Intelligence, David Gordon Shacter

Student Work

During in the year 1808, Gall was assessing a person's intellectual attributes by means of bumps in their heads. He held the opinion that an intellectual trait, as well as any other trait, would show the degree of its development by exerting a local pressure, pressing outward and finally appearing as a bump.

Changes In The Relationship Between A Delinquent's Self-Concept And Ideal Self-Concept Produced By Intensive Counseling, Violet Dolores Quimby

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The problem under investigation was whether or not intensive counseling as defined by the Pilot Intensive Counseling Organization at Deuel Vocational Institution would bring about a significant change in the relationship between a delinquent's self-concept and his ideal self-concept. The Q-sort was the instrument used to measure change as a result of therapy.

The Allegiance Patterns Of Unionized Professionals, Francis Xavier Paone

Dissertations

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Selective Reinforcers In The Operant Conditioning Of Normal And Exceptional Children, Frank Anthony Dinello

Dissertations

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Determination Of Patterns Of Behavior Through Controlled Early Experience, Betty Lou Penhale

Master's Theses

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A Program Of Correlation For The Sixth Grade Teachers Of India, Jagdish C. Goyal

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The people of India had long been dissatisfied with the educational program which existed prior to the Basic system of education. The traditional system which preceded Basic education originated with the Charter Act of 1813 of the East India Company of Britain. Only a relatively few persons benefited directly from this system; it never reached the masses. This policy of "downward infiltration" created some complex and unfavorable results. It is important to note in this connection a statement from the 1958 UNESCO world Survey of Education that "owing to defects in the official policies, the position of mass education in …

A Comparison Of The Revised Stanford-Binet Scale And The Terman-Mcnemar Test Of Mental Ability With Respect To The Prediction Of Scholastic Achievement, Sanford L. Mcdonald

Student Work

Although more than fifty years have passed since the Frenchmen Alfred Binet and Theophile Simon published the first effective intelligence test, psychological testing has evolved through many stages since that time. There are many different types of psychological tests now, with numerous methods of interpretation. However, through all of this evolution the basic purpose of the tests has remained the same— to measure Individual differences. Just as Binet and Simon's first intelligence test ". . . succeeded in differentiating between children of various age and grade levels and made possible the prediction of the child's progress in school, so psychological …

A Re-Standardization Of The Loyola Language Study On A Far Western Population, William Anthony Guppy

Dissertations

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A Comparison Of A Factorial And A Multidimensional Approach To The Scaling Of Psychological Data, Joseph Reynolds Devane

Dissertations

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An Experimental Study Of The Relation Between Perception Of Self And Evaluation Of Another, Henry Joseph Lambin

Dissertations

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Changes In Impulse-Control Balance Following General And Specialized Treatment Of Institutionalized Delinquent Boys, George Ridley Lewis

Dissertations

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The Use Of Prochlorperazine With Brain-Damaged Children, John Michael Mccauley

Dissertations

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The Structured Diary As An Aid In Counseling Parents, Helen K. Pancerz

Dissertations

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A Partial Validation Of The Manifest Hostility Scale, Thomas F. Grib

Master's Theses

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An Investigation Of The Relationship Between Skill In Deductive Reasoning And Adjustment And Between Skill In Problem Solving And Adjustment At Various Levels Of Education, Mary Rosaire Lucassen

Master's Theses

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A Discriminative Scoring System For The Tat: An Investigation, Thomas Leo Qinn

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Relation Between Deductive And Inductive Reasoning Ability And Adjustment In Adults, Mary Mcneil

Dissertations

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A Further Investigation Of The Effects Of Achievement Imagery And Differential Instructions On Maze Learning Performance, Ann Hunter

Master's Theses

One of the personality variables that has been the object of considerable interest in recent years is "need achievement." This variable was first defined by Murray as the need for "success in competition with some standard of excellence." McClelland and his associates, measuring need for achievement from written responses to TAT-type pictures, have reported Significant and useful relationships between this variable and several behavioral criteria.

In order to have a more objective method of measuring need achievement, the Iowa Picture Interpretation Test (IPIY) was developed at the State University of Iowa laboratories. The IPIT obtains scores on four variables: achievement …

A Pantoscopic View Of Law And Psychology, Robert S. Redmount

Journal of Legal Education

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An Analysis Of Item Order In Seven Subtests Of The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale , William Gregory Klett

Master's Theses

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An Investigation Of The Influence Of Occupations On The Loyola Language Study , Frank Anthony Dinello

Master's Theses

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A Comparative Study Of Cerebral Palsied And Normal Adults On Two Forms Of Raven's Progressive Matrices , Vernon Sloan. Tracht

Dissertations

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A Comparison Of The Problems Of Institutionalized And Non-Institutionalized Children , John Walter Keller

Master's Theses

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An Mmpi Study Of Religious Seminarians , Patrick John Rice

Master's Theses

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An Empirical Study Of Personality Variables Related To Efficiency Of Problem Solving, Sylvia G. Dickerson

Master's Theses

During the last few years there has been an increasing interest in problem solving behavior and closely related area such as concept formation, decision making and creative thinking. This can be seen by the large number of papers published within the last few years. Taylor and McNemar in the 1955 Annual Review state that between 1949 and 1953, in the United States only, 125 relevant doctoral dissertations have been written and about 60 papers presented at the A .P.A . meetings besides the books written on the subject by Bruner, Vinacke, Humphrey, Rapaport. Despite the amount of work which has …

Religious Attitudes And Beliefs In Relation To Adjustment , Gerd Maximilian Cryns

Dissertations

No abstract provided.