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Series Of Lectures On Personality Development

Historical Documents of Bryant University (1863-present)

These lectures and demonstrations on personality development were given to Bryant freshmen in the School of Secretarial Science by faculty members and off campus specialists in 1958.

4. Psychology, Robert L. Bloom, Basil L. Crapster, Harold L. Dunkelberger, Charles H. Glatfelter, Richard T. Mara, Norman E. Richardson, W. Richard Schubart

Section XXI: Meaning in the Social Sciences

Psychology is the scientific study of the behavior of organisms, particularly the processes involved in the complex organization of these organisms as individuals. The processes are studied from the analytic biochemical view (overlapping physiology) to the broad view of the effect of group activities on individual behavior (overlapping sociology). [excerpt]

3. The Science Of Man, Robert L. Bloom, Basil L. Crapster, Harold L. Dunkelberger, Charles H. Glatfelter, Richard T. Mara, Norman E. Richardson, W. Richard Schubart

Section X: The Eighteenth Century Enlightenment

Perhaps the chief achievement of the Enlightenment was the creation of the social sciences and the application of these sciences to the problems of human existence. The selections which follow offer a first-hand glimpse of the type of work that Enlightenment thinkers accomplished in the fields of psychology, economics, political science, and ethics. The selections are but fragments of thorough, systematic analyses of the foregoing subjects. However, our primary interest here is to understand some of the important assumptions and conclusions rather than to acquire a detailed knowledge of each of the sciences. The ideas presented may seem oversimplified and …

1. Introduction, Robert L. Bloom, Basil L. Crapster, Harold L. Dunkelberger, Charles H. Glatfelter, Richard T. Mara, Norman E. Richardson, W. Richard Schubart

Section XXI: Meaning in the Social Sciences

Vastly increased research and a sounder technique in history in the nineteenth century had two influences on the social sciences. When an enthusiasm for the records of history was combined with the evolutionary perspective, it often resulted in the search for and the imposition of patterns of development on history in general or on the history of particular subject matters such as economics, politics, morals, or religion. Social scientists looked to history for explanations, in the hope of finding inevitable laws, stages of development, or the forces that moved human society. As historians worked out a critical method for their …

Fakability Of Interest Tests , James Anthony Becker

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Study Of Cerebral Palsied And Normal Adults On Two Forms Of Raven's Progressive Matrices , Vernon Sloan. Tracht

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Psychologist, His Training And Functions: A Survey Of Graduate Psychologists From Loyola University (1930-1954), Robert Francis Medina

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of The Problems Of Institutionalized And Non-Institutionalized Children , John Walter Keller

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

An Mmpi Study Of Religious Seminarians , Patrick John Rice

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Group Counseling Of Junior High School Students With Certain Adjustment Problems, Urma Peterson English

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Three years ago, when the writer first entered the Cedar Falls Junior High School as a classroom teacher, students who did not conform to school regulations were assigned to detention during the period following the regular school day. The policy was to assign each teacher to one week of detention duty on a rotating basis as part of the teaching load. It was apparent that the teachers considered the detention assign.ment among the least desirable of their duties. The primary objective of detention was to make the experience disagreeable enough that the students would conform to school regulations and remain …

Personality Differences Of Three Groups Of College Freshmen Rated High, Average, And Low On Study Habits And Attitudes, Frederic Hamilton Busher

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The problem of this study was as follows: Is there any significant difference in the personality variables, between groups of college freshmen rated high, average, or low in study habits and attitudes? Study habits and attitudes were measured by the Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes by W. H. Brown and W. F. Holtman.

A Consideration Of The Relationship Between Memory As Measured By The Stanford-Binet And Reading Achievement As Measured By The California Reading Achievement Test At The Fifth Grade Level, Alfred Owen Fonkalsrud

Student Work

In the remote past the reading of written and printed symbols had Its origin when man first began to use pictures and other characters to send messages and to record events. It occurred very slowly and took a lot of effort to change from picture writing to the use of letters In representing specific sounds.

The Egyptians as early as twenty-five centuries before Christ had analysed words and syllables into sounds and had developed a series of symbols to represent them. As a result of the ingenuity of the Semites these sounds and symbols were the beginning of the Phoenician …

A Performance Analysis Of The Upper And Lower 20% Of A Senior High School Group Compared On Tests Of Interest, Personality And Achievement, Richard E. Jensen

Student Work

Since early civilization man has been faced with a multitude of situations demanding that he make a decision or choice on which a future course of action or behavior will be based. We might correctly assume that decisions made by people have never been of such simplicity that they created no tension.

Civilization has become progressively more complicated, and thus more alternatives are present from which a person must choose, In the earliest days of man’s existence, decisions were of the simplest and most fundamental nature, Man’s decisions and choices ware, for the most part, governed by a few biological …

A Relationship Between Eastern Thought And Western Psychotherapy : An Application Of Taoism And Zen To Client-Centered Therapy, Lloyd Saxton

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This paper does not purport to be an examination of Zen or Taoism, but rather a view of certain aspects of Zen and Taoism, but rather a view of certain aspects of Zen and Taoism from the vantage point of contemporary psychology, to see if a metaphysic, a philosophical resting-place, might not be found for the admittedly pragmatic science of clinical psychology.

The questions the paper asks, then, and attempts to answer, are (1) can such a formulation be made, and (2) does psychotherapy conducted from this point of view move satisfactorily.

An Experimental Investigation Of The Relationship Between Personality Traits And Social Preference Of Classmates , Mary Brudny

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Attitude Changes Toward Mental Health As Related To A College Course In Abnormal Psychology, E. Philip Trapp

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Application Of The Principles Of Mental Hygiene To The Social Development Of Primary Children, Olive Holsapple

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Visual Perception In Reading Readiness, Reva Cougill

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Review Of The Transactional Approach To Perception With Implications For Audio-Visual Instruction, Floyd A. Landsaw

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

An Experimental Investigation Of Psychogalvanic Responses In A Threat Situation , Eugene Joseph Albrecht

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Does Smoking Produce An Emotional Relaxation?, Louis Allen Kreiss Jr.

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Need for this investigation: The interest that has been aroused in the general public by the cigarette manufactures with their publicity claims, pro and con, as to the effects of their particular brand of cigarettes upon the emotional reaction of the smoker has offered the stimulus tor this research.

Statement of problem: Physiological or psychological. The research reported here represents an experimental attempt to reveal the relationship between the physiological or psychological responses to smoking.

The Thesis: Does smoking produce emotional relaxation? This report is an outgrowth of experiments of similar nature which have been completed in the past. The …

A Study Of Rorschach Characteristics Of Asthmatic Children , Robert Neil Traisman

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Q Technique Applied To Changes In Self-Concepts And Ideal Self-Concepts In A High School Class, Robert Edward Eaton

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The problem in this experiment was to determine whether significant changes in the relationship between self-concepts and ideal self-concepts take place in a twelfth-grade family life class.

Christian Worship: A Psychological Study, Jonas M. Berkey

Graduate Thesis Collection

Both Psychology and Christianity are concerned with the well-being or wholeness of the human person. Since God is no respecter of persons, then all men are alike in their basic nature. Psychology bears out this conclusion. Therefore, upon the foundation of this basic agreement psychology may be used effectively in helping to establish a fundamental agreement for the effective worship of Christian men. The scope of this treatment will consider only three of the basic acts of Christian worship - prayer, baptism and the Lord's Supper.

Developmental Behavior Of Primary Grade School Children, Freida L. Brown

Research Problems, 1940-1991

This investigation was designed to secure information concerning the relationship of physical development to the social and emotional behavior of children in the primary classroom. It was written to utilize research already done by experts in this field.

Psychological Effects Of Segregation On Buses, Martin M. Grossack

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

An Experimental Study Of The Responses Of Mentally Retarded Children And Normal Children With Reading Problems To The Keystone Visual Survey Tests, Clarence Luther Hall

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to: (1) analyze the value of the Keystone Visual Survey sub-tests in discriminating between mentally deficient children and normal children with reading difficulties; (2) investigate the effect of intelligence in determining responses to the Keystone Visual Survey Tests; and (3) test the validity of the use of the Keystone Visual Survey Tests for vision screening of the mentally retarded.

Schizophrenia, Charles Verlis Bartimus

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of The Vocational Interests And Aptitudes Of Delinquent And Nondelinquent Adolescent Girls, Daniel Francis Novak

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Ascendance-Submission And The Psychogalvanic Response To Stress, John Joseph Flanagan

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.