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A Study In The Psychology Of Religious Sentiment, Wm. Linton Davis

Graduate Thesis Collection

Religion is a vital subject. This dissertation either makes a contribution to the study of the psychology of religion, or else it is a waste of time trifling with a very vital subject. There are various phases of the psychology of religion such as the origin of religion; the phenomena connected with conversion and religious revivals; with mysticism, spiritism, occultism, ecstasy, and prophetism; with the subconscious, faith-cure, Christian Science, etc.; the interconnection of mind and body; and the growth of the religious consciousness.

Size Constancy In Filled And Unfilled Space In Relation To Intelligence, Loretto M. Olson

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Studies In Gross Bodily Movement., Alan Douglas Grinsted

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

Factors Affecting Vocational Guidance, Margaret Pankaskie

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

It is the special purpose of this study to find how personality factors affect the employability of youth. In a study of this kind it is necessary to consider the personality as a whole in relation to a larger situation, the ethnological traits of the group, the society in which the youth lives, the economic changes taking place in the community, and the physical and mental capacities in which he is endowed.

The Prognosis Value Of The American Council On Education Psychological Examination., Walter Gilbert Peiser

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

An Experimental Study Of The Effect Of The Introduction Of An Intellectual Factor In A Problem Of The Motor Learning Type, Ernest Vernon Mcclear

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Influence Of Explicit Instructions To Plan Upon Perfomance, Helen Cecelia Quinn

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Value Of Relaxation As Preparation For Rational Psychotherapy, John M. Hadley

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The suggested uses of relaxation given by the technique of Freud coupled with the findings of Jacobson, Ferenczi and Bagchi have prompted the investigator to make some observations of the function of relaxation in rational psychotherapy. This presupposes that relaxation is used with considerable discretion. The investigation has been stimulated by a growing tendency in the Fort Hays Kansas State College Psychological Clinic to treat patients from the standpoint of the whole individual until specific traumata can be discovered In considering the value of relaxation, it may be well to think of the individual in much the same manner as …

The Narcotic Problem And Its Possible Solutions, Margaret Esther Wiley

Bachelors’ Theses

Because of the importance of drug addiction this thesis will consider the problem of narcotics in the United States medically, sociologically, and psychologically and will offer possible solutions through education, legislation, and medicine. Other works on this subject are: "The Opium Problem", by Dr. Charles E. Terry and Mildred Pellens, and the many pamphlets published yearly by the Narcotics Bureau of the Treasury Department from 1929 to 1937. The thesis is divided into two parts, the first part discusses the problem of Narcotics, and the second part discusses the possible solutions to the problem. The first part is made up …

Euthanasia Or Mercy Killings, George Joseph Nicoud

Bachelors’ Theses

In this modern and changing world new problems are constantly arising and older ones are being dispensed with. Man has to adapt himself almost daily to changing and more complex situations. The world has advanced to such an extent that in this present generation we are known as "human machines" rather than human beings. Men are worked until they drop off from the strain or they work until they are broken, decrepit old men, no longer a use to anybody and a burden to almost everybody. As our modernity progressed, so also did conventions and ideas. Ideas of morals changed. …

The Ethics Of William James, W Dean Lowry

Bachelors’ Theses

In our own time Psychology holds the vital position in philosophical discussion. This came about naturally in the trend of modern thought. Towards the middle of the nineteenth century the Science-Philosophy arose emancipating the philosophical theory of evolution based upon data of the Physical Sciences. This theory was confidently claimed to be the solution and the explanation of all Wings. To realize these hopes its advocates contended that man also was included in the great evolutive process. Hence the discussion about man’s place in nature became the crucial problem. Had man a spiritual nature with an immortal destiny, or was …

The Influence Of Attention In Establishing The Finger-Withdrawal Response, Ignatius Anthony First

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Factor Analysis Versus Clinical Analysis Of Intelligence, Betty Margaret Martinson

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The technique of mental testing has in the period since 1905 grown to its present status as a useful tool in every psychological clinic and laboratory. A very brief discussion of its development is here included to indicate the relation of its historical antecedents to various theories of intelligence and especially the one on which the present work rests.

The Soul In Modern Thought, Joseph Talsky

Bachelors’ Theses

Many strange things happen in this world to add their particular bit to the general bafflement of man. Perhaps the strangest of all is the paradox of man's belief. He knows one thing in that heart of his and yet to all external appearances believes another. It is his prerogative to believe what he will but it is distressing that there is such great diversity of opinion concerning the very thing that is the ultimate principle and source of his ability to believe. Experience tells him that he has the enviable functions of thinking, feeling and willing but his experience …

Some Evidence Of The Interests Of Eighth Grade Children In The Materials Of Science., Cora B. Burlingame 1872-1958

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Psychic Ego Of William James, Mary Of Mercy Mcgucken

Bachelors’ Theses

An amazing originality and. perfection of style, a marvelously vivid, and delicate feeling for concrete realities, a penetrating vision in the realms of the particular, an aptitude for seizing on that which was characteristic and unique made William James one of the most brilliant psychological writers of his day. Although he appreciated, as few are capable of doing, the material beauty of objects round about him, it was to the observation of the mysterious and fascinating psychic experience that he resolved to devote his great genius and exceptional mental powers

Is The Scientific Behaviorist Scientific?, Methodius F. Cikrit

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Nursery School Puts Psychology To Work, Barbara Biber

69 Bank Street

Volume 1 Number 3, December 1934

"Describes, in part, the working attitude of a progressive nursery school with respect to the important problem of individual adjustment."

The Status Of Psychology In Secondary Schools Of Kansas, Roy Scott Douglass

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

The writer has been teaching psychology in a small high school in Kansas. He found that the students who were taking psychology seemed to take but little interest in the subject. He became interested in knowing if this condition were true in other secondary schools in Kansas. The author was unable, after a thorough investigation, to find any account of a previous research of this nature. Out of the desire to know what was being done by the other psychology teachers this study-The Status of Psychology in Secondary Schools in Kansas-evolved.

A Sociological And Psychological Survey Of One Hundred Patients Of The Hays Crippled Children's Clinic, Helen Starbuck

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The major and minor problems of the thesis are as follows: Are the children treated at the Hays Clinic as a group mentally, temperamentally and socially normal enough to justify the state in attempting to make them physically well? What are the sociological and psychological effects of occupational therapy and school work upon patients in the clinic? In order to arrive at a solution of the foregoing problems, a study of 100 children entering the Hays Crippled Children's Clinic was made . Both laboratory and questionnaire methods were used.

The Influence Of The Number Of Readings On The Rate Of Forgetting., Yuba L. Hunsley

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The object of the investigation was to find the relation of retention to the number of readings of factual prose articles and to the study of other factors which may influence retention. Students of the freshman and sophomore college classes were used as subjects. The experimental material consisted of reading material of highly factual articles and objective tests. Memory was measured at the end of two weeks after one, two, three, four and five readings. The other factors investigated in relation to memory ability were the effect of rereading upon retention, sex differences, and the correlation of retention of factual …

Early Childhood Fears, Lenore Bernadette Mccarthy

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Attitude Of Children Toward Self-Control, Marie Bernadette Rochford

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study In Eidetic Imagery, Elizabeth Lourdes Mcgrath

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Initiative And Cooperation In The Convalescent Hospitalized Child, Sibyl Catherine Davis

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study In The Psychology Of Conversion, Dorothy Catherine Kleespies

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Children's Concepts Of Truthfulness, Marcella Ann Twomey

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Stuttering; Its Cause And Age Of Incidence, Sarah Honan Blake

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Importance Of Play, Laura V. Douglas

Education Student Dissertations

While reading the "Principles of Educational Sociology" by Walter Robinson Smith, the writer was deeply impressed by the statement that "Next to the family group and home life, the play group and play life exert the most vital influence upon the unfolding personality of the child." The writer wondered if it was the absence of play life, as American born children of fair social background experience it, that would in some measure explain the dullness of the Italian-American child of Sicilian and Neapolitan origin, who, as the writer knew him, was so lovable, so anxious and eager to please and …

Is Sex Necessary? Or Why You Feel The Way You Do, James Thurber, E. B. White

Zea E-Books in American Studies

Contents: The Nature of the American Male : A Study of Pedestalism • How to Tell Love From Passion • A Discussion of Feminine Types • The Sexual Revolution: Being a Rather Complete Survey of the Entire Sexual Scene • The Lilies-and-Bluebird Delusion • What Should Children Tell Parents? • Claustrophobia, or What Every Young Wife Should Know • Frigidity in Men • Answers to Hard Questions • Glossary

Two paragons of twentieth-century letters launched their publishing careers in 1929 with this wry and delightful book about sex and sexuality.

James Thurber (1894–1961) was a journalist, writer, cartoonist, and longtime …