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A Comparison Of The Illinois Test Of Psycholinguistic Abilities And The Parsons Language Sample In Assessing The Linguistic Functioning Of Institutionalized Mentally Retarded Children, Ralph Donald Lee Horner

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to compare the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities and the Parsons Language Sample in assessing the linguistic functioning of institutionalized mentally retarded children. A stratified sample of mentally retarded children was administered both the ITPA and PLS in counterbalanced order. The results were correlated through the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient and the correlation matrix analyzed through a principle-components factor analysis. The ITPA, PLS comparison produced high correlation coefficients with the exception of the Intraverbal Gesture sub-test of the PLS. The factor analysis of the correlation matrix revealed one or more sub-tests had high loadings …

A Study Of The Function Of Visual Imagery, Type Of Mediator, And Associative Frequency In Induced Mediation Paradigms, Ted Christiansen

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Bugelski and Sharlock (1952) credit McGeoch with saying that although the concept of mediation was an old one, it had generated more discussion than experimentation. Bugelski and Sharlock in commenting on McGeoch's statements had this to say, "The concept of mediation is of great potential value for the psychological analysis of learning, thinking, and insight." (Bugelski and Sharlock, 1952, p. 334) The views of Bugelski and Sharlock represent the current thinking in verbal learning circles relevant to the importance of mediation in symbolic forms of behavior. The experimental emphasis, at the present time, is upon the conditions underlying the process. …

Dyadic Communication As A Function Of Communicative Method And Interpersonal Mutuality, Harry Wallace Craver Jr.

Master's Theses

A large proportion of research in social psychology has been concerned with interpersonal Communication. More often than not, when different investigators got interested in an area of experimentation that is fairly broad and influenced by many variables, an evolvement of several different categories of or approaches to the research area occurs. The area of interpersonal communication is no exception.

Conditioned Avoidance To Water Following Exposure To X-Irradiation, Albert E. Roberts

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Relation Of Anxiety Level To The Performance Of An Abstract Reasoning Task Under Stressful And Non-Stressful Conditions, Melvin J. Necamken

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Radiation Upon Consumption Of Alcohol As A Discriminated Fluid Stimulus In The Rat, Joseph A. Straka

Masters Theses

Introduction

In the recent history of psychology, considerable interest has arisen concerning the use of radiation (usually as a UCS fitted into a classical conditioning paradigm) to effect changes in behavior. Mechanisms by which radiation induces behavioral changes are obscure, and psychology, along with the disciplines of physiology and medicine, has been attempting to clarify variables in operation.

The study of drug {including alcohol) effects upon behavior has had a somewhat parallel development in the field of psychology in terms of its recency and the obscure nature of the variables operating upon resultant behavior.

These two areas of interest have …

Biographical Data Related To Achievement In Undergraduate Psychology, Keith E. Fleming

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Activity In A Random Light-Dark Environment, Robert O. Baldwin

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Ua3/3/1 Psychology Department 1961-1966, Wku President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Psychology Department folder from Kelly Thompson's Subject/Correspondence File.

• A Patch of Blue
• College Reading Association
• Correspondence
• Cravens, Raymond
• Dotson, Elsie
• Downing, Dero
• Handicapped students
• Institute for Community Leaders in Mental Health
• Kansas State Teachers College - Emporia
• Kentucky. Commissioner of Health
• Kentucky. Dept. of Child Welfare
• Kentucky. Dept. of Corrections
• LaGrange Reformatory
• Literacy Center (WKU)
• Page, Tate
• Regional Mental Health Planning Committee
• Shedd, Charles
• Spano, Bart
• Thompson, Kelly
• Upward Bound

Sex Differentiated Reactions To Experimental "Repression" As Measured By Verbal Recall, Stephen Howard Bank

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The purpose of the investigation was to study the evocation of repression in an experimental situation employing the controls made possible by group presentation, using the suggestion of homosexuality as the source of anxiety arousal and ego threat, and providing an opportunity for observing sex differentiated reactions.

The Relationship Between The College And University Environment Scales (Cues) And Social Class, Thomas R. Dorworth

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

This document analyzes the relationship between college environment scales and social class perceptions among students. CUES (College and University Environment Scales) measures five aspects: Practicality, Scholarship, Community, Awareness, and Propriety. Each scale assesses different features of the college environment. Developed to provide insights into students' perceptions of their college experiences.

The study concludes that perceptions of college environments are relatively uniform across different social classes. Highlights the need for further research on the influence of social class on college experiences.

Characteristics Of The D 48 Test When Used At The College Level, Maynard E. Boyd

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Group tests of mental ability are used far more extensively than individual tests in selection and classification procedures where large numbers of individuals are concerned. Historically, group testing was developed in America during the time of the First World War, in 1917, to meet the practical demands of selection and classification of the overwhelming number of recruits. One of the first men to experiment with these group measurement techniques was Arthur S . Otis.

The Assessment Of Patient Morale By The Use Of An Attitude Scale, Paul Robert Kennedy

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

An Empirical Comparison Of The Techniques For The Differentiation Of Handedness, Margaret Rose Procyk

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Learning-Performance Distinction In The Water Jar Test, Carol Rothman Karzen

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Otis As Intelligence Test: A Comparison Of 2nd And 4th Grade Scores, Virginia Wenzel Hill

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Neurological Training On Reading Retardation, Mary Julia Masterman

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Group Counseling With Underachievers, Mary Frederick Arnold

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Personality Characteristics Related To Volunteering, Pseudovolunteering And Non-Volunteering For Different Kinds Of Psychological Experiments, Donald S. Sale

Master's Theses

Volunteer subjects are utilized in a large portion of experiments concerned with human behavior. Yet the use of volunteers is a form of systematic sampling bias which may well distort research findings. This study was undertaken to explore some of the factors related to volunteering for psychological experiments at Richmond College in the hope of providing future researchers with insight into reasons why the use of volunteer subjects may bias their research results and of stimulating them to use more representative, albeit less convenient sampling procedures.

Creativity And Deviant Set Responding In Third Grade Children, Elizabeth S. Waller

Master's Theses

This study will be an investigation of the relationship between test scores of creativity, according to the Minnesota Tests of Creative Thinking (Torrance, 1960), and teacher ratings of creativity for third grade children. The hypothesis that highly creative individuals tend to give deviant response patterns on the PRT will also be tested.

An Investigation Of The Novelty Effect In Programed Instruction, Frederick Sale Jr.

Master's Theses

The present study was designed to overcome, at least to some extent, the problems by using older, experimentally naive subjects am shorter programs. A comparison is made between successive performances by a group of college students on a series of three programs. The null hypothesis is that there will be no significant differences between performances on the three programs. On the other hand, significant decreases in effectiveness of performance by the subjects on the successive program could be taken as evidence that the expected novelty effect operating initially in the learning situation dissipates with increasing exposure of the subjects to …

The Effect Of Aging On Ratings Of Self, Physical Self And Related Body Concepts As Measured By A Semantic Differential, Gary V. Whalen

Master's Theses

Present Study. Although there is considerable overlap between the body image and the self concept, it would be premature to draw any conclusions regarding one based upon the other until the nature and extent of correlation is obtained. This study is an attempt to determine the extent and direction that an individual's body image may fluctuate as a function of growing old. It is concerned with how the human organism may change over time with respect to a single aspect of the constellations of factors that go into making up a person's self concept. More specifically, do body part ratings …

An Examination Of The Phenomenon Of Preference For Bar Pressong Over Freeloading, Phyllis Thomson

Honors Projects

Since the discovery of the law of effect, psychologists have been investigating a number of the parameters of reinforcing stimuli. The law of effect states that a response is learned, or not learned, depending upon the events (effects) that follow it. To evaluate the aspects of reinforcing stimuli. typically an organism is deprived of food or water and an increase in the probability or speed of a response is noted when small amounts of food or water are made to follow a response. Using this type of paradigm, characteristics of reinforcing stimuli which have been investigated are number of reinforcers, …

Child Aggression As A Function Of Task Inteference, Judith A. Elbert '66

Honors Projects

Aggression was produced as a consequence of inteference with a reinforced task. Four ten-year-old subjects were reinforced with dimes for completing two stacks of bottle stoppers during twenty-trial sessions.

Organismic Psychology And Systems Theory, Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

Heinz Werner Lectures

"This book contains the Inaugural Lectures given at Clark University in honor of the late Heinz Werner, world-famous developmental psychologist. Dr. von Bertalanffy here attempts to establish a new interdisciplinary science of man, a science that would encompass aspects of psychology, biology, psychiatry, linguistics and anthropology by emphasizing the centrality of the concepts of symbol and system. These lectures develop the foundation of this projected science through acute criticism of contemporary images of man and his nature."

Heinz Werner 1890-1964 Papers In Memoriam, Seymour Wapner, Bernard Kaplan

Heinz Werner Lectures

"This monograph consists of papers presented during the Spring of 1965 in honor of the late Heinz Werner."

A Critical Analysis Of The Church Viewed As Struggling Within The Continuum Of Matriarchal-Patriarchal Principles, Robert C. Alexander

Graduate Thesis Collection

It is the thesis of this paper the the Church possesses traits which are characteristic of the human personality; therefore, her spiritual movement can be understood and dealt with through insights of the Oedipus Complex Theory initially described by Sigmund Freud in his discussion of personality development, greatly elaborated upon by Erich Fromm in his book, The Forgotten Language.

Individual Vs. Group Problem Solving: An Analysis Of Processes, Gary Karl Burger

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Attitude Change And Morale In Small Groups As Functions Of Leadership Style, Joel Kaplan

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Personality Characteristics Which Distinguish Between Achievers And Underachievers In A Talented Group Of Eighth Grade Pupils, Carl Gustav Mueller Jr.

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In the present study an attempt is made to discover some of the personality differences which contribute to the underachievement of certain talented pupils. Perhaps, by investigating the presence of such characteristics, it will be possible to develop curricula to assist these talented pupils in the fullest development of their academic potential.