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Psychodrama: Review And Analysis, Richard F. Daigneault

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

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Eye Color And Its Possible Relation To Behavior, Debra Lee Hollister

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

A variable that is capable of indicating one's cognitive and motor capacities has been the dream of many researchers. Until recently however, no researcher has seriously considered an independent variable that is obvious among all people regardless of race or culture. This variable is eye color. This paper is a review of the experimental literature in this field and covers many areas including sociability, perception, learning, athletic abilities, and a few medical anomalies. Several alternative hypotheses are also offered as reasons for the obtained correlations. These ideas include culture, learning, and environment. Two other hypotheses are also presented to explain …

Alcoholism In Women, Sandi Abilock Levine

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

Alcoholism is a serious public health problem. There is strong evidence that the rate of alcoholism, especially among women is increasing. Until recently, there has been very little research on alcoholic women. The recent increase in the number of known female alcoholics may be related to the new liberation and freedoms women have gained. While the research literature does not support the notion of a typical female alcoholic personality type, certain recurrent characteristics have been noted. This paper attempts to document the problems which appear to be related to women who become alcoholics and to look at the variety of …

Locus Of Control As Related To Personality Variables In Special Adolescent Populations, Mary Ellen Moore Kinnaird

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

Locus of control refers to the individual's perception of the degree to which he controls the outcome of events in his life through his own behavior. Locus is further defined and related concepts discussed. Literature is reviewed, exploring determinants in the development of personal locus. Differential descriptions of the Internal and External individual are outlined, according to studies on locus as it affects personality and social-interactions. Delinquent, socially maladjusted and dependent-neglected adolescents were tested and significant differences in locus and personality characteristics examined. Final discussion is directed to implications of the results of this study with regards to the needs …

Use Of Cattell's Music Preferences Test With Alcoholics Before And After Treatment, Lisa Anne Aiken

Master's Theses

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Childhood Behavior Disorders And Parental Background Variables, Dale Susan. Gody

Master's Theses

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A Comparison Of Three Behavioral Methods For The Treatment Of Shyness, Patricia Hunter

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the present study was to compare both existing and new behavioral treatments for a prevalent problem, shyness. The relative contributions of mastery imagery, coping imagery, and self-instructions in a systematic desensitization procedure were evaluated in an SPF 3.3 design. Sixteen severely shy college students were randomly assigned to 3 groups of 5, 6, and 5, respectively, and were treated by either desensitization using mastery imagery, desensitization using coping imagery, or desensitization using both coping imagery and self instructions. Results indicate that although each of the three treatment procedures helped to reduce shyness anxiety, the treatment employing self-instructional …

Word Identification Processes For Children And Adults: The Role Syllables And Phonemic Recoding, Christopher Gude

Dissertations

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The Relationship Between Maternal Reinforcement Behavior For High And Low Achieving Children, Constance Anita Fullilove

Dissertations

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Critical Expression And Subsequent Physiological Response As A Function Of Selected Situational Variables, Thomas M. Beall

Theses and Dissertations

This research investigated the influence of two social situational factors, anonymity and expected audience, on the expression of criticism and subsequent physiological and psychological response. The expression of criticism towards a disagreeable stranger was studied under the provision of either anonymity or no anonymity to the critic factorially combined with an expected audience for the criticism of either the person criticized (criticism-relevant expected audience), or someone who knew neither the critic or the person criticized (criticism-irrelevant expected audience).

A series of hypotheses were derived from Zillman's (1972) two factor theory of aggressive responding concerning the expression of criticism and subsequent …

Selected Characteristics Of Children Referred For Psychiatric Evaluation, Rebecca Louise Pigott

Dissertations

Problem

Behavior-problem children constitute a main concern in the field of education today. The ability to recognize when the needs of the individual student call for procedures beyond the scope of the school is a professional necessity. The purpose of this research was to investigate whether students with school-related problems referred for psychiatric evaluation can be distinguished by a set of selected characteristics.

Method

Using multiple-discriminant analysis, students who had been referred for psychiatric evaluation were compared with students not referred for psychiatric evaluation on such criteria as teacher-pupil rating, as measured by Burks' Behavior Rating Scales; self-concept as …

A Construct Validity Inquiry Of The Mosak-Shulman Theory Of Neurosis, Maria Pappas Nikolas

Dissertations

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Shifts In Self-Concept And Locus Of Control In College Students As A Function Of Volunteering With Emotionally Disturbed Children, Patrick Joseph Mckian

Dissertations

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Adolescent Tat Responses: Normative And Developmental Approaches, Aaron Cooper

Dissertations

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Impact Of Age-Segregated Public Housing Upon Self-Actualization And Other Personal-Adjustment Variables Among The Aged: A Ten Month Follow-Up, Gerald Raymond Rak

Dissertations

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Machiavellianism, Perspective Taking, And Partner's Response As Predictors Of Interpersonal Behavior Measured By A Modified Prisoner's Dilemma Game, Willaim Bryant

Dissertations

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Personality And Smoking: A Complex Multivariate Problem, Dale A. Bespalec

Master's Theses

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Personality Correlates (Cpi & I-E) Of Vocational Satisfaction And Commitment For Professional Religious Women, M. Jean Keeley

Master's Theses

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The Relationship Of Temporal And Spatial Parameters In Backward Masking, Darlene Cacciato Habinek

Master's Theses

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Living With Life-Threatening Illness, Teresa Foreman

Master's Theses

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Impact Of Age-Segregated Public Housing Upon Self-Actualization And Other Personal-Adjustment Variables Among The Aged, Gerald Raymond Rak

Master's Theses

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Prediction Of Industrial Rate In Handicapped Workers Using Subject Variables, Psychometric Data, Evaluator Ratings, And Work Samples, Joseph Schreiner

Master's Theses

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Roles, Functions, And Training In Psychology: A Survey Of Psychologists Graduated From Loyola University Of Chicago, Janet Kamer Bleier

Master's Theses

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Effects Of Operant Conditioning Of Cooperative Play On Non-Reinforced Behaviors In Severely And Profoundly Retarded Adults, Martha Wade Aenchbacher

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

A group of seven severely and profoundly retarded adults from a sheltered workshop program were trained in cooperative play (basketball skills and hand clapping) using social and edible reinforcement and fading procedures. The generalization effects of the training on non-reinforced (undesirable) behaviors in an extratraining setting was investigated. A reversal technique in which the reinforcement was temporarily withdrawn demonstrated the reliable functioning of the training procedures. Independent observers recorded target behaviors during five phases: Baseline; Training; Generalization Testing; Extinction; Generalization Testing. The rate of undesirable behaviors decreased significantly in the extra-training setting (activity room) following the training phase. The findings …

Psychotherapy For Overeaters: The Category Experiential Directive Method, A. Jesse Ivanhoe

Theses

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Investigation Of The Responsive And Initiative Dimensions In The Client-Therapist Relationship In Gestalt And Behavior Therapy, Lynda M. Pierce

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Research findings to the present have indicated the responsive and initiative dimensions to be important in the therapeutic process in influencing positive outcome; yet, investigators of current therapeutic approaches have not discussed how these dimensions might be integrated into their particular orientation. Therefore, a review of the literature investigating emphasis on the responsive and initiative dimensions in the major theoretical approaches seems warranted. This procedure involves superimposing Carkhuff’s theoretical model, developed for facilitation of therapeutic outcome, upon certain of the therapeutic approaches.

Alcohol Addiction & The Rat As A Possible Animal For The Study Of Alcoholism, John Graham

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

An attempt was made to produce an animal model for the study of alcoholism. It was hypothesized that the laboratory rat could be brought to physical dependency and maintained in that state under a free-choice circumstance. Two groups of 60-day-old Max hooded rats, consisting of 8 males and 8 females per group, were established to serve as experimental and control subjects. Two experiments were conducted. The intention of the first experiment was to install physical alcohol dependency in the experimental subjects with the use of a totally liquid diet. After the first experiment a 6-hr. period of total abstinence was …

Response Preferences Of Blacks And Roleplaying Whites To Affirmative Action Subscripts In Job Advertisements, David Richard Macdonald

Masters Theses

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Self-Reinforcement In The Classroom: Assessing Efficacy, Durability, Prior History And Unmerited Self-Reward, Mark Henry Lewis

Masters Theses

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The Role Of Cognitive Differentiation In Conceptual Systems Theory, Mary Flume

Student Work

A cognitive approach to theory and research in personality proposes that individuals develop relatively enduring cognitive schemas for experiencing and organizing their .social world. Cognitive schemas are templates through which information is filtered or transformed.

It may be understood that cognitive personality theory emphasises the structure of cognition rather than its content. Such an emphasis is based on the assumption that structural variables are relatively enduring and invariant across situations, whereas the content of personality is expected to fluctuate markedly. Cognitive personality theory should provide the researcher with an efficient basis for describing the actions of a person and lead …