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Some Personality Factors In Tuberculosis, Margery C. Peple

Master's Theses

In my capacity as Occupational Therapist and Rehabilitation Director at Pine Camp Hospital. I have become aware of the urgent need by the patients for constant understanding and encouragement. I became interested in learning more of the personalities of the tuberculous and how they might be helped through any knowledge gained from the administration of personality inventories.
In this study, I have given a brief resume of some of the literature written on the subject of emotions and tuberculosis and how the progress of the disease may be affected because of emotional disturbances. There follows some discussion of the data …

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?

Racial Differences In Intelligence Between Whites And Negroes Of Similar Social And Economic Status In Saline And Graham Counties, William F. Kluge

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

It is the purpose of this paper to discover whether or not the intelligence of the Negro is equal to that of the whites when the two groups are placed on an equal social and economic status.

The Cowan Adolescent Adjustment Analyzer Used As An Instrument For The Evaluation Of Academic Functional Efficiency, Wilbert J. Mueller

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The development of The Cowan Adolescent Adjustment Analyzer, an Instrument of Clinical Psychology, was the product of more than twenty-five years of study by its original author, the late Dr. Edwina Abbott Cowan. This study is a further contribution to needed research to enhance an already accepted instrument of clinical psychology. The area of major emphasis in the present study is academic functional efficiency. To this has been added, however, some significant data relating to the comparison of the Analyzer scores to I. Q. scores and a comparison of the scores of students in early adolescence with those in middle …

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 …

A Proposed Design For The Evaluation Of Change In A Small Reference Group., Irene Perry

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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A Proposed Study Of Verbal Employment References., Bernard M. Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Nature Of Errors In Serial Learning, Kiyoshi Matsukuma

Master's Theses

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A Proposed Study Of The Effect Of Non-Directive Play Therapy Upon The Verbal And Performance I.Q.'S Of Mentally Deficient Boys., George C. Hall

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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

Master's Theses

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

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Speed Of Learning In Relation To The Amount Retained After Different Time Intervals Following Original Learning, George H. Zimny

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.

The Relationship Between Scores On A Battery Of Nursing Tests And Scholastic Achievement At The End Of The Pre-Clinical Period, Patrick Fitzmaurice

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.

The Effect Of Practice With Digits Upon The Span Of Retention In Children, Kathleen E. O'Brien

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

An Experimental Study Of Related Processes In Span Of Attention And In Perception, Jesse Ralph Pearson

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Analysis Of Four Types Of Psychotherapy Used With Children, Margaret P. Moore

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Psychotherapeutic work with children started in 1905, when Dr. Sigmund Freud undertook the first child analysis. The third decade of the twentieth century near the beginnings of the work of Melanie Klein and Anna Freud in Europe, and the growing strength of the child guidance movement in this country.

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

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Relationships Among Personality Scores, Mental Ages, And Achievement Scores In Seventh Grade Classes At La Porte, Indiana, And Comparisons With Findings Previously Reported, Roy S. Stuffle

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It was the purpose of this study: (1) to ascertain the amount and distribution of mental ability and scholastic achievement of the seventh-grade pupils of La Porte Junior High School, (2) to learn the degree to which these pupils were adjusted in self and social relationships, (3) to find existing relationships among achievement, intelligence, and personality adjustment as measured by standardized tests, and (4) to analyze the personality maladjustment that seemed present.

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

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Some Principles, Practices And Techniques In Musical Therapy, Wilhelmina Keniston Harbert

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

One of the purposes in writing this thesis has been to present to the reader some of the guiding principles and practices which have grown outof the writer's experiences in Musical Guidance and Therapy.

During the years immediately preceding the first World War, assignments as a volunteer music worker in hospitals and settlement houses in and around Boston gave the writer practical experience in such institutions as the North End Settlement House, the Home for Crippled Children, and McLean Hospital for the mentally ill.

Some of the experiences provides a type of education which could not have been obtained in …

War Psychological Research And Its Implications, John E. Anderson

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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An Experimental Study Of A New Approach To Manuscript Writing, Mary Madeleine Adamczyk

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.

The Relationship Existing Between Span Of Perception And Voluntary Shift Of Attention, Marian Dolores Robinson

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Observations Of The Use And Efficacy Of Changing A Patient's Concept Of His Role: A Psychotherapeutic Device, Ethel D. Edwards

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The problem we faced was to try to develop some form of psychotherapy that would not consume a great deal of time. It was desirable that it should be applicable to a wide range in type of cases and that it should be simple enough so that it would require little training on the part of the therapist. Semantics suggests that a personality may be built up because of language. The use of words as a means of communication has created a civilization yet each person because of individual differences and experiences has his own interpretation of these words. As …

The Persistence Of Erroneous Assent In True-False Tests, Francis J. Sweeney

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Personal Experiences In The Formulation Of Social Attitudes Of Liberalism And Conservatism, Harry J. Older

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The purpose of this study is to discover if the following hypothesis, which was set up on the basis of clinical experience, is true. The social attitudes of an individual are as much the product of local personal incidents as of the bias of the education and training of that individual.

The Influence Of Separate Answer Sheets On The Reliability And Norms Of Standardized Achievement Tests, James Edward Kuntz

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

Do the mechanics involved in recording answers for standardized tests on separate answer sheets reduce the reliability and the average raw scores made? It is the purpose of this investigation to answer this question. In a previous research made by the writer, significant differences were found between the Modern School Achievement Test norms and average scores made by several thousand pupils of Western Kansas on a modified form of this test in which separate answer sheets were used.