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Group Effects On Reasoning Functions, Walter Joseph Smith

Dissertations

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A Study Of The Organization And Function Of The Coaches' Associations Of The United States, Alfred Carrier Larvick

Theses and Dissertations

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Correlations Between The Johnson Temperament Analysis And The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Based Upon 100 Male Counselees, F. Alec Phillips

Student Work

The field of personality is one of the most popular, challenging, important, and confused in present-day psychological studies.

During the psychology’s infancy, the study was neglected by the psychologists and left to the uncontrolled clinical methods of the psychiatrists and psychoanalysis. Finally, study in this field has been undertaken by psychologists possessing scientific method, but too often lacking the orientation to persons as such, which characterizes the clinically trained psychiatrists. It should, therefore, he no surprise to find chaotic conditions ruling the study of the psychology of personality.

An Experimental Study Of The Effect Of Five Variables On The Rate Of Reversal Of Reversible Figures., Clarence Howard Amster

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Many conflicting reports have been given in the literature concerning the effect of various factors on the rate of reversal of figure and ground in reversible perspective. Flugel (7, 8) suggested that changes in eye movement increased the number of reversals. He thought that fixation on one part of the figure could lead to S’s interpretation of this part as being "nearer” the observer and that changes in perspective were induced by changing the fixation point. Donahue (5) found that there was a rhythm in the reversals but the shift in the fixation point was not in rhythm with the …

The Communication Of Supervisory Functions And Its Relationship To Employee Attitude, Betty Jane Neitzel

Wayne State University Theses

The history of industrial and personnel psychology contains a large amount of literature of the investigations made of personal traits and characteristics, individual differences, and of the psychological tests which measure these factors. More recently personnel and industrial psychologists have become interested in other phases of research. The employee in industry has increasingly become the focal point in investigations and discussions and at present personnel interrelationships and the dynamics of the working situations are attracting the attention of a number of psychologists. This shift in interest has brought with it new emphasis in the literature.

The study to be presented …

The Formation And Retention Of Concepts As A Function Of Their Abstractness, Ruth Baker Hines

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The general problem of the experiment was to investigate the influence of abstractness on the formation and retention of concepts. The specific problems were the following: (1) How does abstractness influence the number of promptings required to learn and relearn concepts? (2) What is the relation of abstractness to the percentage of consistent concepts learned and retained? (3) What is the relation of the number of promptings required to learn and relearn consistent or correct as compared with inconsistent or incorrect concepts? (4) What are the individual differences in the method of learning and relearning highly abstract concepts?

The Role Of The Minister In Psychotherapy, Samuel Schwartz

Master's Theses

why should the minister intrude on the field of psychotherapy? Physicians will say that many a pastor who has come into the sick-room has done the patient more harm than good. The solemn appearance of the "man of God" and his mournful players have set back many a recovery, they will tell you.

An Analysis Of Vocabulary Variables At The College Level, Betty Ann Allen

Master's Theses

The strength and growth of vocabulary is one or the decisive factors in successful college work. Educators find it helpful to evaluate not only the general vocabulary ability of the college student, but also the more specialized directions which the development of the student 's vocabulary may take.

The author's interest in this problem grew out of the results obtained with fresh­men in the Westhampton College orientation program in September 1948. In working up the data from 119 freshmen 's scores on the Michigan Vocabulary Profile Test, results were such as to arouse interest in analysis of freshmen performance on …

The Factors Which Influence The Teacher's Mark In Arithmetic, Mary Francis Thinnes

Master's Theses

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An Evaluation Study Of The Rehabilitation Service In Virginia, Mabel Leigh Rooke

Master's Theses

Since 1920 the Commonwealth 0£ Virginia bas had an organized Civilian Vocational Rehabilitation Program, having enacted the legislation creating the Service. a few weeks prior to the passage of the Federal Act in June of that year. A national consciousness of tho crippled and disabled had been awakened following World War I which culminated in the Veteran Rehabilitation Act. This was, actually, the forerunner of all later legislation meeting the popular demand tor a program available to all citizens, and which now reaches into all of the forty-eight states and the District of Columbia as well.as Alaska, Puerto Rico, and …

A Study Of The Effects Of A Coloured Episcotister On Brightness Matches With Grays, Lillian-Frances Bowden

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

An Investigation Into The Relationship Between Racial Prejudice And Personality, Donald Edward Williams

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Factors Associated With The Adjustment Of One Hundred Delinquent Girls, Mabelle Hathaway Brooks

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Relationship Of School Background To Reading Ability Of One Hundred Disabled Readers, Mary Loretta Nolan

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Perseveration And The Rate Of Recovery After The Psychogalvanic Response, Charles August Weisgerber

Dissertations

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Psychological Factors In Marital Sex Problems, Leonard Manning Ware

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Primary Mental Abilities Of The Feebleminded, Dorice Elva Ames

Psychology ETDs

It was the purpose of this study (1) to determine whether or not some of various types of feebleminded fall down differentially on any of the components of the tests more than on others, i.e., whether or not the hydrocephalics, for example, would run relatively high on verbal-meaning, whereas the mongoliana would run relatively high on space; and (2) to determine whether or not, considering the feebleminded group as a whole, there would be any significant differences in primary mental abilities .

The Psychology Of Religious Edification As Applied To Children, Hazel Alta Oliver

Graduate Thesis Collection

This dissertation is important for all Christians and especially for teachers in Bible School. It is not a theological study aiming to tell how to prepare souls for a world to come,-- though it does that incidentally, nor in that it adopts its premises from revelation. But it is theological insofar as it unifies all of religious education in one objective, purpose, goal or ideal. It is philosophical in the same sense, that it unifies all of religious education in one objective. It aims to simplify all the efforts of religious education which we here call edification of the saints, …

A Clinical Investigation Of The Schizophrenia Scale Of The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Leroy A. Wauck

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

An Evaluation Of Non-Directive Counseling In The Treatment Of Delinquents, George D. Watt

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

It was the purpose of this study to make application of Carl H. Rogers' non-directive method of psychotherapy in the treatment of juvenile delinquents. The study was set up in an effort to determine the value of such a treatment procedure as one method of treating this type of individual.

The hypothesis to be tested was that non-directive psychotherapy would improve the personal and social adjustment of institutionalized delinquents. Supporting this general assumption the following three corollaries were assumed: (1) that improved personal adjustment would be reflected in adjustment inventories, (2) that improved social behavior would be reflected in social …

The Effects Of Volitional Factors On The Processes Of Perception And Abstraction, Marian Dolores Robinson

Dissertations

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A Study Of Frustration Tolerance In Handicapped Children, Barbara Ellen Bower

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

What is adjustment? There are almost as many ways of defining it as there are ways of achieving it. To anwer the question one must first try to find the common factor of the varied definitions of adjustment. Sheviakov and Friedberg in their report of the Eight Year Study say, Desirable adjustment was thought of, generally as a process of maturation and adaptation, during which the individual is able to integrate successfully (i.e., without neurotic compromises or delinquent episodes) his primitive impulses and drives with those expectations or demands which are imposed upon him (with reference to his age, sex, …

Perseveration: Its Correlation With The Intelligence Quotient, Jeanne Collins

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Previous Intelligence History Of Children Referred To The Loyola Center For Child Guidance, M. Rosalita Hurley

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

An Inquiry Into The Relation Existing Between Introversion-Extroversion And Susceptibility To Certain Geometrical Optical Illusions, Marion Frances Holstein

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Remedial Reading Program At The College Freshman Level, William T. Wallace

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Performance Of Young Children In A Classification Task, Frances Virginia Rau

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Pauline Concept Of The New Man, Clarence William Franz

Graduate Thesis Collection

This thesis is to be primarily a character analysis. Naturally that will eliminate considerations that might be easily included. As far as possible a strenuous effort will be made to avoid detailed discussions about theological issues that inescapably belong to such a study as this. In a character analysis we must be concerned principally with individuality in persons. By that we mean to treat all those features and characteristions which distinguish the new man from the old. Those theological factors having to do primarily with the state of man in his relation to God will only be touched upon. It …

Some Contributions To The Understanding Of The Stability Of Attitudes, Betty Bennett

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The field of attitude research may be placed in three categories: 1. Determination of the consensus of public opinion regarding social issues. 2. Attitude measurement techniques. 3. Investigation of the intrinsic psychological nature of human attitudes. This study has to do with the third category. Unless this point is clearly borne in mind, the purpose of the investigation which is reported herein may be obscure. Here we are not concerned with the content of the attitude, but with the mechanism of the attitude. We are studying the attitude to determine its inner characteristic s, its make-up, rather than to show …

A Factor Analysis Of Verbal Ability, Floyd Edward Reynolds

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

For many years the practical value of tests of intelligence, aptitude and other qualities has been demonstrated. As the “testing movement” has grown, a multitude of tests has been devised and is now available for testing of human abilities. Two of the most important attempts to understand intellectual abilities are found in the theories and methods of Spearman and Thurstone. There is a possibility that the statistical studies of these theorists have overlooked a valuable source of information, that is existing experimental information about different processes included in mental ability. It is this possibility that prompted this study.