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

Dissertations

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A Descriptive Study Of The Interests And Personality Characteristics Of Diocesan Priests With Counseling Training Compared With Diocesan Priests Without Counseling Training, Julio Velilla

Master's Theses

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Experimenter Influence In Psychological Testing: Religious Versus Layman, Robert F. Weickert

Master's Theses

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

Master's Theses

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Differential Sex Performance On The Language Section Of The Leiter Adult Intelligence Scale For A College Population, Shula Avni Luber

Master's Theses

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

Master's Theses

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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

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

Master's Theses

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An Einstellung Test Correlation With Milgram's Word Meaning Test, Dennis E. Lager

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

A most important consideration in the area of Psychometrics is the concept of "validity". The question raised by the concept is: "What does this test measure?" To answer the question, We may either correlate the test being examined with some objective criteria or with another test. As we attempt to validate tests our knowledge of what the basic mental and personality traits are and how they relate to one another continues to grow and change.

The test instruments in this study are thought to measure rigidity in personality and concreteness in cognition. Therefore, a specific population considered high in these …

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

Dissertations

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Pain Elicited Aggression As A Function Of Withdrawal From Morphine Addiction, Brian G. Teel

Masters Theses

One branch of aggression research has concentrated on the elicitation of aggressive behavior by means of exteroceptive stimulation. Electric shock or similar painful stimuli (Ulrich & Azrin, 1962) are well known to produce fighting in the laboratory rat. This basic method has allowed experimental analysis of a wide scope of associated variables.

Ulrich and Azrin (1962) investigated several different parameters. They found that laboratory rats increased their fighting behavior as the frequency of shocks increased from 0.1 to 38 shocks per minute. With frequency fixed, the fighting response rate resembled an inverted U-shaped curve when shock intensity was increased from …

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 …

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

Masters Theses

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Conditioned Suppression In Humans, Eric W. Pott

Masters Theses

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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. …

The Relation Of Anxiety Level To The Performance Of An Abstract Reasoning Task Under Stressful And Non-Stressful Conditions, Melvin J. Necamken

Masters Theses

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Conditioned Avoidance To Water Following Exposure To X-Irradiation, Albert E. Roberts

Masters Theses

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Authoritarianism And Proposition 14, Herbert Henry Foster

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In November of 1964, California voters approved by a very substantial margin the legislative measure known as Proposition 14, a hotly contested constitutional amendment which abolished all then-existing Fair Housing Legislation and prohibited local levels of government from acting in such matters in the future. This legislation was sponsored by the California Real Estate Association and essentially was a response to a recently passed Fair Housing Law known as the Rumford Act, which prohibited discrimination in the sale and rental of housing and assigned enforcement responsibilities to the State Fair Employment Practices Commission.

During the year preceding the election, the …

Concept Meanings Of Senior Women Students Who Completed Student Teaching At The State College Of Iowa, Jean Wilma Downs

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to explore the concept meanings of senior women students of the State College of Iowa who had completed the student teaching requirement of the Professional Sequence for the Bachelor of Arts Degree--Teaching Program. An attempt was made to ascertain the similarities and differences in the meanings of the concepts held by the students, and to assess the extent to which they had identified with the role of teaching. The subjects consisted of three groups of senior women students, with no teaching experience other than a nine weeks' period of full-time student teaching completed during …

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

Master's Theses

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Personality Characteristics Related To Volunteering, Pseudovolunteering And Non-Volunteering For Different Kinds Of Psychological Experiments, Donald S. Sale

Master's Theses

Volunteer subjects are utilized in a large portion of experiments concerned with human behavior. Yet the use of volunteers is a form of systematic sampling bias which may well distort research findings. This study was undertaken to explore some of the factors related to volunteering for psychological experiments at Richmond College in the hope of providing future researchers with insight into reasons why the use of volunteer subjects may bias their research results and of stimulating them to use more representative, albeit less convenient sampling procedures.

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.

Attitude Change And Morale In Small Groups As Functions Of Leadership Style, Joel Kaplan

Master's Theses

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A Study Of Personality Characteristics Which Distinguish Between Achievers And Underachievers In A Talented Group Of Eighth Grade Pupils, Carl Gustav Mueller Jr.

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In the present study an attempt is made to discover some of the personality differences which contribute to the underachievement of certain talented pupils. Perhaps, by investigating the presence of such characteristics, it will be possible to develop curricula to assist these talented pupils in the fullest development of their academic potential.

Brentano's Empirical Psychology: An English Translation With An Evaluation Of Its Influence Upon Contemporary Scientific Psychology Volume 1, Antos C. Rancurello

Dissertations

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Child Aggression As A Function Of Task Inteference, Judith A. Elbert '66

Honors Projects

Aggression was produced as a consequence of inteference with a reinforced task. Four ten-year-old subjects were reinforced with dimes for completing two stacks of bottle stoppers during twenty-trial sessions.

An Investigation Of The Effects Of Three Levels Of Stress On The Operant Conditioning Of Verbal Behavior, Bruce N. Christensen

Dissertations

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Pupillary Size And Its Relationship To The Problem Solving Process, Raymond M. Daly

Dissertations

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