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Letter Frequency And Versatility Retrieval Constraints On Thinking Of A Word, Gene E. Topper

Dissertations

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Meaning Formation, Gail F. Czukar

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

An attempt was made to demonstrate laboratory conditions in which experiential components of meaning (i.e. perceptual and emotional correlates of observable stimuli and responses) pattern to form a gestalt. Semantic differential scales were used to measure the meaning of simple visual figures in two phases of the experiment. The first phase consisted of a pre- and post-exposure measurement of meaning with an intervening exposure to a compound visual display. In the second phase, subjects were exposed to an altered visual display and then rated the stimuli again.

Results do not support the predictions that (1) the meaning of the central …

Personality Factors And Operant Heart Rate Conditioning, Jerry M. Malkiewicz

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The present study was concerned with certain individual differences that relate to a subject’s ability to increase his heart rate on command when given appropriate external feedback. The main purpose was to extend to the operant conditioning paradigm Eysenck’s theory that introverts classically condition more readily than extraverts. A second purpose was to determine which personality factors—extraversion, anxiety, and ability to perceive autonomic responses—contribute to heart rate control in operant conditioning. The Eysenck Personality Inventory and the Autonomic Perception Questionnaire were administered to 46 undergraduate males who attempted to accelerate their heart rates, with visual proportional feedback provided, during 20, …

Obesity : Two Behavioral Approaches To Weight Reduction, Albert Blake Davidson

Dissertations and Theses

Much of the research on obesity has been designed to explore its relationship to the behavior of overeating. Although a number of physiological, societal, cultural and family background variables have been detailed, researchers have sought an approach that does not rely heavily on these considerations. Most weight reduction programs fail to recognize and concentrate on empirically demonstrated differences between obese and normal subjects. Researchers have shown that obese subjects seem to be more sensitive to external than internal stimuli. A behavioral approach to weight reduction that emphasizes and uses these external stimuli was hypothesized to be the treatment of choice. …

An Analysis Of Participation And Leadership In A College Seminar, Hugh J. Phillips

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The task of this research was to describe the rates and patterns of verbal behavior emitted in a college seminar, under two leadership conditions, teacher leadership and student leadership. The subjects were 12 college students and the course's associate professor. The data were gathered by using R. F. Bale's interaction process analysis. Results indicate that rates of verbal behavior and numbers and rates of paired student-to-student interaction were higher under student leadership than under teacher leadership. In addition, there was a more equitable distribution of responses under student leadership than under teacher leadership.

Decision-Making Style As A Factor In The Selection Of Task-Group Coordinator, David E. Morris

Student Work

To date, emergent leadership literature has not clearly indicated what variables influence group members' perception and subsequent selection of a group leader. One approach to the study of this problem has been to analyze group members' verbal behavior to identify empirically behaviors which are more frequent among leaders than nonleaders within a task group. The basic assumption underlying this approach appears to be that a group selects as its leader that individual from the group who most frequently exhibits some specific "leadership behavior(s)." The literature indicates, however, that this approach has been misleading and inconclusive. For example, in an early …

Temporal Patterning In Adjusting Avoidance, Bruce Edward Hamilton

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Prediction Of Turnover In A St. Louis Bank By Use Of A Weighted Application Blank, Soon Meng Tow

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Temperature Dependent Behavior In Goldfish: (Carassius Auratus): Some Implications For Memory Processes, Jean M. Hamberg

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

Goldfish maintained in water temperatures of 18°C or 31°C received active avoidance training in a shuttlebox. Subjects housed in warm water acquired the response more quickly than those in cold water. A photophobic response in warm water may have affected acquisition rates. Subjects were tested for retention of the avoidance response after 10 minutes, 2.5 hours, 24 hours, or 72 hours. No significant evidence of the Kamin effect was found. A second study investigated shock threshold levels as a function of temperature levels. Cold water was found to lower the threshold level at which a motor reaction to electric shock …

Social Work, Sociology, And Social Diagnosis, Harris Chaiklin

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Excerpt from the full-text article:

A new type of scholar-practitioner is needed; one who can contribute to both sociology and social work. To this point sociology has had the advantage because it has more of the needed people than social work; it just won't let them out of the closet. Social work has always been better than its own self-image. Lack of scholarship has hindered organizing and presenting the hard won knowledge which the field has acquired. The way to bring this scattered information together is by developing typologies which are refined in practice and common to both fields. Only …

Future-Time Perspective In Negro And White Adolescents, Anees A. Sheikh, Michael Twerski

Psychology Faculty Research and Publications

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The Convergence Of The Interactionist And Behavioral Approaches To Deviance, Stuart A. Kirk, Eileen D. Gambrill

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper compares two theoretical perspectives on deviance, the behavioral and interactionist. Although these two perspectives arise from separate disciplines and intellectual traditions, we will argue that their approaches to the study of deviance in general and to mental illness in particular share many basic similarities, as well as some important differences, and that an analysis of each helps us understand the limitations and strengths of the other.

The behavioral and interactionist perspectives are chosen for examination for three reasons. First, it is our opinion that these two theoretical approaches represent the most creative recent work by sociologists and psychologists …

The Interaction Between Response-Independent Fixed-Time Tail Shock And Chronic Voluntary Alcohol Consumption In Squirrel Monkeys, J. Leonard Peebles

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Different Behavioral Definitions On Peer Recording And Observer Behavior, James T. Mecoli

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Job Satisfaction And Work Effort: A Study Involving Use Of The Herzberg Two Factor Theory, Thomas J. Mccann

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Different Litter Control Procedures On Movie Audiences, Thomas Lee Zane

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Three Different Mastery Criterion Levels On Undergraduate Test Performance, David R. Barkmeier

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A "Systems Analysis" Of An Applied Behavior Analysis Laboratory Course And An Experimental Analysis Of Attendance And Prompt Assignment Completion, Ansley Bacon

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Discussion Procedures In College Teaching, Victor A. Arredondo

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Availability Of An Aggressive Response During Sidman Avoidance, Michael Albert Minervini

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Acquisition Of Number Identification As A Function Of The Type Of Stimulus Presentation, Marco W. Salas Martinez

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Cognitive Differentiation And Information Processing, Monica Brien

Student Work

Thirty-eight subjects selected on the basis of extreme REP test scores participated in a task requiring them to make ratings of comfort when presented with hypothetical persons with differing personality attributes. Attribute sets were composed of five bipolar construct dimensions determined individually for each subject by extracting constructs that were mutually unrelated (differentiated) or mutually related (undifferentiated). Subjects rated each of 32 different attribute combinations. It .was expected that the mutually related construct dimensions ot the undifferentiated group would increase the likelihood of cue inconsistency and result in ratings formed on the basis of a nonadditive model of information processing …

Response Duration In Acquisition, Discriminated Avoidance, And Extinction, Michael Oliver Duncan

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Positive Effects Of Study Objectives Generalize To Novel Probes, Joan Warmbold Boggs

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of An Absence Policy On Attendance And Grades, Judith A. Adelman

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

An Investigation Of Variables Affecting Self Modification Techniques, Patricia Ann Hartlep

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Different Levels Of L-Dopa On The Aggressive Biting Behavior Of Rats, Kathryn A. Scholas

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Development Of Generalized Imitation In An Autistic Boy, Andrew L. Reitz

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Correlation Between Specific Curiosity And Intelligence In Adults, Charles R. Schwenk

Dissertations and Theses

Previous studies done on the correlation between specific curiosity and intelligence have been inconclusive. In the present study, a test of state specific curiosity and a test of intelligence were administered to 76 Ss from two introductory psychology courses. Three hypotheses were tested. These were, (a) that a significant specific curiosity-intelligence correlation would exist, (b) that the specific curiosity-verbal subscale correlation would be higher than the specific curiosity-abstraction sub-scale correlation, and (c) that there would be a sex difference in the specific curiosity-intelligence correlations. The data did not support hypothesis (a) or (b). However, they did support hypothesis (c). …

The Effect Of Bar Holding Training On Subsequent Shock Escape Behavior Under Different Shock Intensities In Rats With Septal Lesions, John W. Moore

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology in the Graduate School of Morehead State University by John W. Moore on July 23, 1974.