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A Study Of Certain Aspects Of Creativity As Related To Artistic Behavior, Michael Eugene Reynolds

Masters Theses

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Personality Differences In Alcoholic And Nonalcoholic Brothers, Laurence Miller

Master's Theses

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Testing Seminarians With Mmpi And Kuder: A Report Of Ten Years Of Testing, Robert Howard Sweeney

Master's Theses

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The Screening Value Of Rorschach Scales Designed To Assess Ego-Structure And Ego-Functioning, Lamaurice H. Gardner

Dissertations

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Personality Correlates Of Decision Making In A Perceptual Task, Charles Lane

Dissertations

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The Relationship Between Anxiety And Gsr Conditioning, Frank James Macchitelli

Dissertations

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Problem Solving Processes Amd Grades In Mathematics, Mira H. Bhandari

Master's Theses

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The Attitude Of College Students Toward Heterosexual Relationships As Expressed On Thematic Apperception Test Stories, Patricia Diane Dore

Master's Theses

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A Comparison Of The Intelligence Of A Group Of Spinal Cord Injury Patients, As Measured By The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (Wais) And The Quick Test (Qt), Edward D. Doyle

Master's Theses

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The Aged Person And Psychobiological Processes, James A. Hill

Master's Theses

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A Comparative Study Of Four Catholic College Groups On The Mmpi, Juan B. Lafarga

Master's Theses

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The Therapeutic Effect Of Group Therapy Sessions Upon The Ward Society On A Male Admission Ward Of A Mental Hospital, David Joseph Reid

Master's Theses

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A Comparison Of An M Limits Method Using Pictures Of Human Beings With The Standard M Limits Procedure, Sylvia D. Searight

Master's Theses

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A Developmental Study Of Temporal Judgment, Faye Florena Hagemeyer

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Temporal disorganization is a symptom of disorder manifested by both the aged psychotic and the harmless sanile. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship of temporal judgment, specifically the adult human’s ability to judge the passage of time accurately, to chronological age. The study was suggested by a prominent geriatrician who conjecture as to whether the disability to estimate and to order time effectively was a dysfunction peculiar to senility and its gradual deterioration even in normal human beings in the ability to judge time accurately.

Using a time estimation test requiring judgement of various intervals of …

The Use Of Photographs As A Performance Measure Of Personality Rigidity, Edgar Allen Smith

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The literature on rigidity reveals a concentration in two fairly distinct areas: that of problem solving for cognitive rigidity) and motor rigidity. The early investigators felt that assessing these peripheral response mechanism would give a measure of the deeper, central personality mechanism that affects all of behavior. However, such an assumption was highly questionable and based more on analogical reasoning than on empirical evidence. It was Cattel who first pointed out that assuming motor rigidity "extends also through all dissappontement to feel or think perseveratively is a speculation undertaken at one's own risk" (1946, p. 233). Luchins (1951), concerned with …

Reliability Of Measurements Of Level Of Intellectual Functioning Of Geriatric Patients, Janet Aline Baker

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The primary purpose of this study was to measure geriatric patients’ levels of intellectual functioning in order to determine the reliability of several specific test instruments. From the battery of measurements used in the study, it was an additional objective to recommend which of these test instruments, or combination thereof, would be most applicable for geriatric patients, based on the empirical findings of this study.

Level of intellectual functioning may certainly be influenced by many factors. Therefore, it was part of this study to measure and control for the effects of the following variable: sex, age, education, and medication.

Dogmatism And Perceptual Rigidity, Sylvia Joan Joy

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Early efforts to relate personality rigidity and perceptual rigidity have left volumes of data which are somewhat ambiguous and largely inconclusive. These studies have, in general, rested upon two assumptions: (1) that any measure of perceptual rigidity may be related to a measure of personality rigidity, and (2) that the relationship between the two variables is linear. Subsequent data have placed both assumptions in doubt. Several studies indicate that only certain forms of perceptual rigidity may be directly related to personality rigidity (Baer, 1961; Bogen, 1962; Chown, 1959). Other studies have, directly or indirectly, introduced the possibility of a non-linear …

Kinesthetic Perception And Schizophrenia, Charles Robert Cherry

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It was the purpose of this study to compare normals with schizophrenic psychiatric patients as to their ability to reproduce movements perceived by kinesthetic stimulation. Kinesthetic perception, for the purpose of this study, was restricted to the reproduction of single arm-hand movements in a horizontal plane, away from the body. The magnitude of errors as a function of distance moved was defined as an indicator of kinesthetic perception.

Rater Sensitivity To Behavioral And Inferential Phenomena Of Schizophrenics, James G. Georgas

Dissertations

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The Assessment Of Attitudes Of Alcoholics Toward An In-Patient Alcoholic Treatment Center, Vincent D. Pisani

Dissertations

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Relationships Within And Between The 1960 Stanford-Binet L-M And The Goodenough Intelligence Test With Intellectually Sub-Average Children, Frederick M. Rudie

Student Work

The examination of relationships within and between the 1960 Stanford-Binet and the Goodenough Intelligence Test provided the basis for this thesis, Before considering the relationships, some background on the testing movement, Binet Scales, Stanford-Binet, Goodenough Draw- A-Man Test, Stanford-Binet vocabulary subtest* Stanford-Binet scatter, and the slow learner would prove useful.

Learning Set Formation In The Guinea Pig, Paul E. Burk

Masters Theses

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Anxiety And Fear In Personality Structure, Robert Robert Mickelson

Graduate Student Research Papers

The problem to be studied is the effect of anxiety and fear on the personality. Concern with this problem stems from the fact that on many occasions anxiety and fear blocks a person's free approach to experience and often anxiety and fear prevent one from building sound interpersonal and intergroup relations.

A Comparison Of Sprague-Dawley And Wistar Albino Rats On Maze Learning Ability, Richard W. Daniels

Masters Theses

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Anatomical Associations On The Rorschach Test As A Predictor Of Assaultive Behavior, Keith O. Schmidt

Masters Theses

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Effects Of A Multiple Schedule Of Collective Reinforcement On Shaping The Cultivative Response Rate Of Three-Man Teams, David D. Burnstein

Psychology ETDs

The principle of reinforcement developed by experimenting with individual subjects has been extended in recent years for use with groups. In most of these studies some social interaction within the group is reinforced. For example, Azrin and Lindsley (1956) and Lindsley (1961) have manipulated imitation, cooperation, and competition between two subjects in an operant conditioning situation. Levin and Shapiro (1962) manipulated conversation between members of a group through appropriate reinforcement. Glaser and Klaus (1962) conditioned a team of two monitors and an observer to respond as a unit by reinforcing the group only when each member had made the proper …

The Concept Of Adaptive Behavior In An Institutional Setting, John C. Jones

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

The present study is an attempt to objectify the subjective concept of adaptive behavior and to show the effect of institutionalization upon adaptive behavior.

The development of an Adaptive Behavior Rating Sheet consisting of forty-five items is a major portion of this study.

The Adaptive Behavior Rating Sheet was administered to a sample of ninety patients who, at the time of administration, had been in the Parsons State Hospital and Training Center (PSH&TC) between one year six months and two years six months.

The raw scores were statistically reduced to comply with the five levels of adaptive behavior employed at …

Application Of Bower's Association Model To Paired-Associate Transfer, Edward J. Rickert

Psychology ETDs

The purpose of this experiment was to examine the predictive power of Bower’s associative model in an investigation of the “hook-up” phase of paired-associate transfer. Presumably, if the model had sufficient power to generate results predicting transfer performance, then other aspects of the verbal learning process, e.g., the response-learning stage, might conceivably submit to a similar analysis. Thus a synthesis of the laws governing verbal learning could possibly be achieved via mathematical integration.

The Comparative Efficiency Of Two Instruments For The Diagnosis Of Juvenile Delinquency, Judith A. Nixon

Psychology ETDs

The present research concerns itself partially with the study of the delinquent and possibilities of differentiating between the delinquent and the non-delinquent using two different types of tests. However, before proceeding directly into the purpose of the study, a brief discussion of the delinquent will be undertaken in order to present background or foundation for this research.

A Comparative Study Of Two Approaches To The Teaching Of Spelling, Freda M. Dysert

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Statement of the problem. It was the purpose of this study (1) to determine the desires of the elementary school teachers employed ln the Metropolitan School District of Washington Township, Marion County, Indiana, as to the sources of words for each of the grade levels one through six; (2) to use the majority opinion in the foregoing survey to establish word lists for each grade level; (3) to sample creative writing at given grade levels to detect number and kind of spelling errors made; (4) to compare these writings with others or a later date when emphasis in teaching spelling …