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The Validation Of A Short Form Test Of Adult Intelligence, Carolyn Marsh O'Neal

Master's Theses

This thesis deals with the validation of a short form of the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale. The data used for this validation were obtained from the Psychology Clinic of the Medical College of Virginia, The State Mental Hygiene Clinic, and the files of the Psychology Department of the University of Richmond.

An Evaluation Of The Guidance Tests Given At Utah State Agricultural College For The Year 1946-1947, Robert L. Egbert

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The guidance tests given at Utah State Agricultural College are used in helping students in the selection of their vocational objectives and in helping in the planning of a program of study. The problem of this thesis is threefold: (1) to determine the value of the entrance tests given at the Utah State Agricultural College in the Fall of 1945-47 for predictive purposes in counseling students on vocational choices; (2) to compare by statistical analysis, using the entrance tests as criteria, students from the various high schools, and to compare by similar analysis the quality of students entering the various …

The Effects Of Serial Testing Upon The Results Of The Standford-Binet Tests Of Intelligence, Betsey Rogers Mccullough

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The Revised Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale probably is the best instrument we now have for measuring the general intelligence of young people. Using this scale we can foretell to a large degree a child's future mental growth; and with this knowledge as an important part of the total knowledge needed for prediction, we can more scientifically plan his further education and his vocational choice.

Elements Of Personality Maladjustment Among Freshmen Students Entering Utah State Agricultural College, 1947, William R. Dobson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

For the past number of years, in attempting to diagnose maladjustment, psychologists have made and used a great number of tests. These tests have ranged from the simple question-answer test up to complicated projective tests. In any personality test an inescapable question is its validity. Especially is this question important in the so-called personality inventories where the person taking the test merely answers yes or no to a number of questions about himself. In this situation it is easy to see how a person could, if he wished, make himself appear to be "better" than he actually is.

A Study Of The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory As An Index Of Maladjustment In Certain Areas Of College Life, Glenn Rogers Hawkes

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

It is apparent to college workers that inadequate adjustment to college loses many potential scholars to the world. It is further apparent that many students fall short of realizing their full capabilities because of lack of adjustment. To meet this condition, more and more colleges and universities are instituting and developing counseling services. Because of the increases cost of such service and the extended time involved, it has become apparent that any device which improves the efficiency of counseling is highly desirable.

The Effect Of A Double Ceiling In The Administration Of The Revised Stanford-Binet Scale, Irene Irene Staniszewski

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Psychological Factors In Marital Sex Problems, Leonard Manning Ware

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Psychology Of Conversion : Being A Critical Study In The Findings Of Starbuck, Coe And James, James Roy Smith

Master's Theses

The present study of conversion is approached through the medium of psychology, which, like the Christian religion, is extremely interested in human beings. Christianity owes to psychology a great debt of gratitude for the light which it has thrown upon the vast recesses of the human mind and upon the possibilities in the personality which Christianity would convert.

Primary Mental Abilities Of The Feebleminded, Dorice Elva Ames

Psychology ETDs

It was the purpose of this study (1) to determine whether or not some of various types of feebleminded fall down differentially on any of the components of the tests more than on others, i.e., whether or not the hydrocephalics, for example, would run relatively high on verbal-meaning, whereas the mongoliana would run relatively high on space; and (2) to determine whether or not, considering the feebleminded group as a whole, there would be any significant differences in primary mental abilities .

The Psychology Of Religious Edification As Applied To Children, Hazel Alta Oliver

Graduate Thesis Collection

This dissertation is important for all Christians and especially for teachers in Bible School. It is not a theological study aiming to tell how to prepare souls for a world to come,-- though it does that incidentally, nor in that it adopts its premises from revelation. But it is theological insofar as it unifies all of religious education in one objective, purpose, goal or ideal. It is philosophical in the same sense, that it unifies all of religious education in one objective. It aims to simplify all the efforts of religious education which we here call edification of the saints, …

The Psychology Of Action Applied To Works And Faith, William Harold Neeriemer

Graduate Thesis Collection

The problem of works and faith -- A problem of long standing -- Will faith "alone" save? Or Works? -- Extremes on this issue lead to indifference -- The value of this study is the psychological approach -- It will support the tenets of the Reformation of the Nineteenth Century -- This study supports the combination of works and faith -- The believing man -- To him the combination is essential -- The study is psychological. not theological -- The plan of the study is (1) a definition of works, (2) a definition of faith, and (3) the application of …

A Clinical Investigation Of The Schizophrenia Scale Of The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Leroy A. Wauck

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Theoretical And Experimental Study Of Jost's Law, David T. Benedetti

Psychology ETDs

It is the purpose of this paper to subject Jost's Law to a critical examination, as regards the method by which it was derived, the factors involved in the phenomenon to which it applies, and its validity as a scientific principle. This examination shall consist of a theoretical analysis based in part on an experiment designed in order to observe what may be termed the Jost phenomenon.

Predictive Validity Of The United States Armed Forces Institute Tests Of General Educational Development, Samuel Howell King

Psychology ETDs

It is the purpose of this study to determine the validity for predicting college success (as measured by grade point average) of the United States Armed Forces Institute Tests of General Educational Development. (High School Level), Form A, and to establish an adequate critical score as an entrance requirement for the University of New Mexico.

Relationships Among Personality Scores, Mental Ages, And Achievement Scores In Seventh Grade Classes At La Porte, Indiana, And Comparisons With Findings Previously Reported, Roy S. Stuffle

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

It was the purpose of this study: (1) to ascertain the amount and distribution of mental ability and scholastic achievement of the seventh-grade pupils of La Porte Junior High School, (2) to learn the degree to which these pupils were adjusted in self and social relationships, (3) to find existing relationships among achievement, intelligence, and personality adjustment as measured by standardized tests, and (4) to analyze the personality maladjustment that seemed present.

An Evaluation Of Non-Directive Counseling In The Treatment Of Delinquents, George D. Watt

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

It was the purpose of this study to make application of Carl H. Rogers' non-directive method of psychotherapy in the treatment of juvenile delinquents. The study was set up in an effort to determine the value of such a treatment procedure as one method of treating this type of individual.

The hypothesis to be tested was that non-directive psychotherapy would improve the personal and social adjustment of institutionalized delinquents. Supporting this general assumption the following three corollaries were assumed: (1) that improved personal adjustment would be reflected in adjustment inventories, (2) that improved social behavior would be reflected in social …

Some Dimensions Of Criminal Behavior, Austin Earnest Grigg

Master's Theses

The purpose of the present study is to ascertain the relative roles of certain measureable factors in influen­ cing or predisposing criminal behavior. The study also represents an initial attempt to conduct scientific research on the white male adult criminal confined in Virginia.

The Effects Of Volitional Factors On The Processes Of Perception And Abstraction, Marian Dolores Robinson

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Some Principles, Practices And Techniques In Musical Therapy, Wilhelmina Keniston Harbert

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

One of the purposes in writing this thesis has been to present to the reader some of the guiding principles and practices which have grown outof the writer's experiences in Musical Guidance and Therapy.

During the years immediately preceding the first World War, assignments as a volunteer music worker in hospitals and settlement houses in and around Boston gave the writer practical experience in such institutions as the North End Settlement House, the Home for Crippled Children, and McLean Hospital for the mentally ill.

Some of the experiences provides a type of education which could not have been obtained in …

A Study Of Frustration Tolerance In Handicapped Children, Barbara Ellen Bower

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

What is adjustment? There are almost as many ways of defining it as there are ways of achieving it. To anwer the question one must first try to find the common factor of the varied definitions of adjustment. Sheviakov and Friedberg in their report of the Eight Year Study say, Desirable adjustment was thought of, generally as a process of maturation and adaptation, during which the individual is able to integrate successfully (i.e., without neurotic compromises or delinquent episodes) his primitive impulses and drives with those expectations or demands which are imposed upon him (with reference to his age, sex, …

Standardization Of The Bradley Tests And The Effects Of Hypoglycemia On One Subject's Scores, Jim Mae Coy

Psychology ETDs

In April, 1942, Captain Jack Bradley was captured by the Japanese on Bataan. Before entering the army, he had been a student at the University of New Mexico and had taken several courses in psychology. He was in his third year of undergraduate work when called into the service in 1940, along with other members of the well-known 200th Coast Artillery of the New Mexico National Guard.

The results of his work are his story, and he should have the opportunity to tell it when and as he wishes. Meanwhile, Mrs. Coy, whose study follows, has used his problems on …

Differential Prediction Of College Grades For Spanish-American And Anglo-American Students, George Kenner Cantrell

Psychology ETDs

It is the purpose of this study to determine the effectiveness of the college entrance examinations at the University of New Mexico in the differential prediction of grades for the Spanish-American and Anglo-American students.

War Psychological Research And Its Implications, John E. Anderson

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Perseveration: Its Correlation With The Intelligence Quotient, Jeanne Collins

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

An Experimental Study Of A New Approach To Manuscript Writing, Mary Madeleine Adamczyk

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Previous Intelligence History Of Children Referred To The Loyola Center For Child Guidance, M. Rosalita Hurley

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

An Inquiry Into The Relation Existing Between Introversion-Extroversion And Susceptibility To Certain Geometrical Optical Illusions, Marion Frances Holstein

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

One-Dimensional Size Constancy In Two Planes, James Hominuke

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of The Vocabulary Score Of The Revised Stanford-Binet Scale And The Word Meaning Of The Stanford Achievement Test, Mary Patrice Mcglone

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Existing Between Span Of Perception And Voluntary Shift Of Attention, Marian Dolores Robinson

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.