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The Effects Of Morphine On Shock-Induced Aggression In The Squirrel Monkey, Grace S. Emley

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

"Suicide As A Way Of Life", John Kerr, Hugo Maynard, Ronald Snodgrass

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

A panel discussion with Hugo Maynard (PSU Institute for Psychological Study), Ronald Snodgrass (Willamette Learning Center), and John Kerr (Director of Schoolhouse), participants.

The Relationship Of Liberalism-Conservatism To Anxiety And Ego Strength, Orpha Sherman Harris

Master's Theses

Through the medium or television our senses are everyday bombarded by the sights and sounds of student unrest on our college campuses. Radical students take over campus buildings, go on strike and refuse to attend classes until their "demands" are met. They want a "piece of the action" even to the hiring and firing of professors, and will risk expulsion to attain their goals. Even conservative students demand that curricula and instruction be upgraded though their methods for achieving their goals are less disruptive or dramatic. Liberal youth today are demanding the right to smoke marijuana,to "trip" on LSD, to …

Significant Personality Variables Involved In Noetic Problems, Richard A. Depue

Master's Theses

The purpose of the study reported here is to examine further the nature of noogenic neurosis, and to attempt to determine what personality variables might be related to it and its development. This will be done by administering the PIL and a number of personality scales to samples of male college students and inpatient neurotics. From the resulting data it will be possible to teat the following hypotheses: (1) that the male college students will have a significantly higher mean PIL score than the inpatient neurotics; and (2) that significant correlat­ions will appear among the relationships between PIL scores and …

A Study Of The Generality Of The Herzberg Two-Factor Theory Of Motivation To Elements Of The Chronically Underemployed And Unemployable Population, John R. Murray

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Parent Counseling For Parents Of Special Education Students In The Public Schools, Janyce Halprin

Communication Disorders & Special Education Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

A Replication Of Gouldner's Latent Role Identifications Of Cosmopolitan And Local In A Public High School, Ronald S. Godwin

Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

Generalization Of A Matching Discrimination, Klaus E. Liebold

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Randomness As An Element Of Stimulus Complexity, Norman M. Kiracofe

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Nature Of The Effect Of Verbal Labels On Recognition Memory For Form., Terry C. Daniel

Psychology ETDs

When an S is presented with a visual form stimulus and is subsequently required to reproduce or recognize that form after the absence of the physical stimulus, he will be reasonably accurate even though highly complex forms are involved. It would appear, and is generally agreed, that Ss are able to internalize and store some representation of the form in such a way that it is available for later use. Investigation and conjecture into the nature of the processes involved in the internalization and storage of visual form stimuli has a long history in experimental psychology. Since a number of …

A Comparison Of Differential Response Rates With Children Under Two Schedules Of Reinforcement And Extinction Using Programmed Mathematics Instruction, David L. Sorenson

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Birth Order And Social Personality Characteristics In College Upperclassmen, James Stevens Robertson

Master's Theses

Over the past few decades, many research articles have accumulated linking birth order with different psychological variables. Much of the research was inspired by an interest developed in Alfred Adler's theory of birth order position. Historically, Adler (1931) considered birth order in the family an important psychological variable. He was strongly interested in the social determinants of personality and observed that the personalities of the oldest, middle, and youngest child in a family were likely to be quite different. These differences were attributed to the distinctive experience that each child has as a member of a social group. Therefore, going …

Attention: Its Meaning And Its Control In The Classroom, Robert G. Packard

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Mid-Task Motivation On Risk-Taking, Speed, And Persistence, Joel S. Stephenson

Student Work

Theoretical advances in science are often precipitated by some methodological development that permits a new approach to the guest for knowledge. Such was the case with the study of human motivation in psychology. This thesis represents, in part, a review of the work in achievement motivation that followed the development of the thematic apperceptive measure of achievement motivation by McClelland, et. al. in 1953. In addition, it is hoped that this study will make a significant contribution to the large body of knowledge spawned in the field of achievement motivation.

Difference In Self-Esteem Between Two Religious Groups, Roland A. Havis

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

This study was a preliminary endeavor concerned with an investigation of self-esteem difference between fundamental religious groups and other religious groups in the Pittsburg, Kansas area for the year 1969.

On the basis of religious doctrines 161 volunteer church members were divided into two religious groups: fundamental religious groups and other religious groups. Of the 161 volunteers, 85 church members were classified as members of other religious groups and 76 church members were classified as members of fundamental religious groups. After numbering subjects in each classification, thirty subjects were chosen from each classification by the use of a table of …

Intersensory Transfer: A Component Analysis, Ronald W. Shaffer

Psychology ETDs

Recently, a number of investigators have examined the effect of changes in the sensory modality by which stimuli are presented in a two-stage, paired-associates transfer of training task. The positive transfer effects usually found have been termed intermodal or intersensory transfer IST. Inferences as to the precise nature of component sources of transfer contributing to this positive effect have been limited, however, due to the type of controls that have been employed. The present study was designed to identify two sources of specific transfer, that of stimulus-response associations and stimulus learning, by the use of controls not normally employed. All …

Verbally-Controlled Selective Perception In Stimulus Predifferentiation, Robert L. Feuge

Psychology ETDs

The purpose of this dissertation was to test the hypothesis that verbal labels, which are in some way representative of visual forms or portions of visual forms, will modify S's perception of those forms during a paired-associates predifferentiation task such that the Ss will tend to sample only those portions of the shape which are suggested by the verbal labels. Prior to the main experiment, the six random shapes used in this study were scaled in order to identify those specific line segments (aspects) of the shapes which were suggested by their respective verbal labels. This scaling procedure provided data …

Assessment Of Conceptual Behavior In Children With Nonoutcome Trials, Mary L. S. Warner

Psychology ETDs

Conceptual and nonconceptual bases for responding in acquisition in a concept identification task were assessed for individual 4-0 to 5-0 and 5-6 to 6-6 year old Ss by either interspersing nonoutcome stimuli with outcome stimuli during acquisition or by presenting them after acquisition. The interspersed nonoutcome trial (NCT) condition was followed by a reversal shift. Geometric stimuli were used to compose three stimulus conditions varying on intratask stimulus similarity (3 or 4 stimulus dimensions) and number of stimuli (8 or 16). Interspersing NCTs did not significantly impair performance or alter the proportion of conceptual to nonconceptual solvers. Classification of solution …

Observing Behavior In Children's Discrimination Learning Under Constant, Variable, And Covariable Delay Of Reinforcement., Daniel B. Berch

Psychology ETDs

Two empirical generalizations which have emerged regarding the effects of delayed reinforcement on discrimination learning in children are: (1) the greater the difficulty of the task, the more likely will delayed reward have adverse effects upon learning; (2) procedures which lead the S to attend carefully to the task are more likely to eliminate the detrimental effects of delayed reward (Terrell, 1965).

An Analysis Of Incentive And Behavioral Contrast, Amado M. Padilla

Psychology ETDs

In 1942 Crespi reported the results of an experiment in which rats were given runway training with one magnitude of reward and then shifted to another magnitude of reward. He found that animals shifted from a small to large reward showed an abrupt increase in performance, while Ss shifted from a large to small reward showed an immediate decrease in running speed. These changes in performance were found to exceed the performance levels expected from the absolute postshift magnitude of reinforcement. Crespi called these effects "elation" and "depression," respectively. Later, Zeaman (1949) conducted an experiment which closely paralleled Crespi's and …

Transfer Of Response Differentiation: A Quantitative Analysis, David M. Grilly

Psychology ETDs

Recent transfer of response differentiation studies have found that training Ss on easy differentiations and then transferring them to harder differentiations along the same continuum facilitates performance as compared to giving all training on the harder differentiations. These results are analogous to those found in transfer of stimulus discrimination and have been interpreted as evidence for the proposition that response differentiation is a special instance of stimulus discrimination. The only difference between the two is hypothesized to be in the nature of the cues used by the organism, interoceptive versus exteroceptive. More recent evidence, however, has suggested that the generalization …

Affect And Meaningfulness As Variables In Mediate Association, James A. Aagard

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of this study was to determine whether affect influences mediate association. A second purpose of this experiment was to test whether there could be found an interaction between affect and meaningfulness in the verbal mediation scores.

The subjects were all of the students registered for an Educational Psychology class at Utah State University, Spring Quarter, 1969. These students were randomly assigned to one of two groups, designated Phase I or Phase II. Phase I was designed to study the influence of affect upon mediation and the subjects in this group learned two lists of seven paired associates. Phase …

Superordinate Words And Subordinate Words In Mediate Association, Chalermwong Vajanasoontorn

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of the superordinate and subordinate words as mediators in mediate association learning across three different age groups in the A-B, B-C, A-C mediation paradigm. The effects of sex difference, high and low levels of associational fluency, as well as a type of pre-training which was done by requiring subjects to create associations to the mediating B terms, were considered .

The subjects used were, 50 fourth graders (22 boys and 28 girls), 54 seventh graders (26 boys and 28 girls), and 51 tenth graders (22 boys and 29 girls), for …

The Availability And Adequacy Of Some Spanish Translated Tests, Nelson Diaz-Mora

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Continuous Shock Punishment On Fr Reinforced Behavior, John Carter Moore

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Review And Construction Of Career Development Programs In The Elementary School, Chase Driggs

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Overview

Every child has a right to acquire his own realistic selfevaluation of the career he intends to pursue, and the process of exposure to occupational information should be permitted and encouraged to start at an early age. From this point of view we need to foster concepts and techniques designed to facilitate the vocational maturation of the child. Interaction with counselors, teachers, parents, and community will increase the student's ability to understand the opportunities of the world of work as it relates to his aptitudes and interests and values and to enable him to be more aware of the …

Spatial Reasoning As Related To Solving "Story Type" Problems, James R. Holder

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

In this study it was hypothesized that the ability to mentally solve II story type" problems, those presented in the form of sentences, is significantly related to one's spatial reasoning ability and that a weakness in this ability, when tested by the "story type" problems, could be compensated for by training in and utilization of overt "paper and pencil" manipulations.

To test the hypothesis, three measures were used. These were the DAT Verbal Reasoning test--used to control the factor of verbal reasoning, the DAT Space Relations test--used to measure spatial reasoning ability, and two forms of a test composed of …

The Effects Of An Introduction To Psychology Course On College Students' Superstitions And Beliefs Which Have Some Scientific Sanction, Helen Daines Mitchell

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The study was conducted to investigate the effects of an introduction to psychology course on college students' superstitions and beliefs which have some scientific sanction. The test used was selected from H. K. Nixon's 1925 study on answers to psychological questions and considers 30 statements to be marked true or false.

Subjects used for this study were 100 men and 100 women students in a beginning psychology course at Utah State University, Logan, Utah. The first administration of the questionnaire was given during the first week of the class with a follow-up administration given during the final week of class. …

Effects Of Gold Compounds On Rat Behavior, Jonas Kaye

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Seven rats were trained on Fixed Ratio 20 and two on Fixed Ratio 12 Escape Schedules until a stable baseline was established. Five of the subjects were administered gold thioglucose, three received gold thiomalate, and one was injected with gold, gold thioglucose, and gold thiomalate, allowing for an intrasubject comparison. Colloidal gold appeared to suppress response rate for one or two sessions, while gold thioglucose and gold thiomalate suppressed normal response rates from several to a number of sessions. This response rate suppression was often followed by gradual recovery, although in several subjects recovery of response rate could not be …

A Study Of The Difference In Short-Term Memory Between Seventh Grade Students Rated High And Low In The Ability To Acquire Sport Skills, Vera Jeppesen Watkins

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This study investigated the possibility that the short-term memory factor may be one of the variables involved in the learning of motor skills.

The subjects of the study were all of the seventh grade gym students at Logan Junior High School who were rated by their teachers as being in the upper or lower one-fourth of their class in respect to their abilities in sport skills. After a short-term memory (STM) test developed by the researcher was administered to this group, their scores were compared to determine whether there was a significant difference between the upper and lower one-fourth.

An …