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A Remedial Reading Program At The College Freshman Level, William T. Wallace

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Re-Education Of Handedness In The Rat Following Cerebral Injuries, David Roland Mcgiboney Jr.

Psychology ETDs

Answers to the following questions were sought in this study:

1. Although the loci of lesion will usually involve a single general area of the frontal lobe, will there be any noticeable difference between the amount of recovery or re-education with the variations in the loci within the general area?

2. Is mass of destruction significant with regard to re-educability of handedness?

3. Is there a difference in re-educability between animals with lesions involving the cortex only and animals which have both cortical and subcortical destructions?

4. Are there significant differences in the recovery of young adult versus older adult …

Observations Of The Use And Efficacy Of Changing A Patient's Concept Of His Role: A Psychotherapeutic Device, Ethel D. Edwards

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The problem we faced was to try to develop some form of psychotherapy that would not consume a great deal of time. It was desirable that it should be applicable to a wide range in type of cases and that it should be simple enough so that it would require little training on the part of the therapist. Semantics suggests that a personality may be built up because of language. The use of words as a means of communication has created a civilization yet each person because of individual differences and experiences has his own interpretation of these words. As …

A Further Validation Of Role Therapy, Alexander Robinson

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

This study has been planned as a means of throwing more light on certain psychotherapeutic techniques and methods in order that a more valuable, direct, and understandable method of treating neurotic patients may some day be worked out. The specific problem is to understand and recognize more clearly various actions in Edwards and Kelly's (5) "Role Therapy” to learn what in the therapy benefited the patient, and discover how and to what kind of disorders it might be most effectively applied. This paper is an attempt to help explain, criticize, and continue with the problem, as described and studied by …

The Relationship Of Personality Traits As Measured By The Bernreuter Personality Inventory To Some Physical Traits Of Freshmen College Women Of Kansas State Teachers College At Pittsburg, Kansas, Lois Watson Smith

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Purpose. The purpose of this study is to determine the amount of relationship existing between certain personality traits and certain physical traits of approximately 135 freshmen women at the Kansas State Teachers College of Pittsburg, Kansas.

Procedure. A personality test and various physical tests were administered to approximately 135 freshmen women at the Kansas State Teachers College of Pittsburg. The six personality trait scores measured by the Bernreuter Personality Inventory were correlated with the physical test scores measuring General Motor Capacity, General Motor Ability, Physical Fitness Index, and body build. Pearson's formula for determining the coefficient of correlation was used …

A Study Of Japanese International Short Wave Radio Propaganda, Leonard A. Smoll

Psychology ETDs

This study of Japanese war-time propaganda, beamed toward the United States and disseminated by the medium of international short wave radio, was inspired by these considerations. War-time restrictions on the press, local broadcasting, and landline facilities close the channels to which Japan could get the desired propaganda material into a neutral country, she would have no assurance that the material would reach the ultimate objective in unadulterated form. These obvious barriers to Japan's propaganda machine raise the question: Is there any channel or communication through which Japan may direct biased information straight to the recipient, and delivered uncensored? The answer …

The Standardization Of The Kelly Spatial Insight Test, Darlieene Thompson

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The purpose of this study is to standardize the Kelly Spatial Insight Test, a test of performance ability. The task was to establish norms by which individual cases can be compared with each other.

An Analysis Of A Test Of General Culture., Delton Clifford Beier

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

The Performance Of Young Children In A Classification Task, Frances Virginia Rau

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Pauline Concept Of The New Man, Clarence William Franz

Graduate Thesis Collection

This thesis is to be primarily a character analysis. Naturally that will eliminate considerations that might be easily included. As far as possible a strenuous effort will be made to avoid detailed discussions about theological issues that inescapably belong to such a study as this. In a character analysis we must be concerned principally with individuality in persons. By that we mean to treat all those features and characteristions which distinguish the new man from the old. Those theological factors having to do primarily with the state of man in his relation to God will only be touched upon. It …

A Statistical Analysis Of The New Mexico State Merit System 1941 Oral Examination Program, Anchard Zeller

Psychology ETDs

The purpose of the present study is to analyze the oral examination mentioned above and the results obtained. This analysis will consist of three parts: first, a description of the statistical methods by which the oral ratings were converted into quantitative results; second, an internal analysis of the examination itself with a brief discussion of the validity and reliability of the examination; and third, a survey of the external factors inherent in the examinees and situations which influenced the ratings of the judges.

The Influence Of Induced Attitudes In Problem Solving, Elizabeth Ann Mueller

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Study Of Certain Characteristics Of Thinking In Adult Aments And Normal Children., Edwin Terry Prothro

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

The Persistence Of Erroneous Assent In True-False Tests, Francis J. Sweeney

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Some Contributions To The Understanding Of The Stability Of Attitudes, Betty Bennett

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The field of attitude research may be placed in three categories: 1. Determination of the consensus of public opinion regarding social issues. 2. Attitude measurement techniques. 3. Investigation of the intrinsic psychological nature of human attitudes. This study has to do with the third category. Unless this point is clearly borne in mind, the purpose of the investigation which is reported herein may be obscure. Here we are not concerned with the content of the attitude, but with the mechanism of the attitude. We are studying the attitude to determine its inner characteristic s, its make-up, rather than to show …

A Factor Analysis Of Verbal Ability, Floyd Edward Reynolds

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

For many years the practical value of tests of intelligence, aptitude and other qualities has been demonstrated. As the “testing movement” has grown, a multitude of tests has been devised and is now available for testing of human abilities. Two of the most important attempts to understand intellectual abilities are found in the theories and methods of Spearman and Thurstone. There is a possibility that the statistical studies of these theorists have overlooked a valuable source of information, that is existing experimental information about different processes included in mental ability. It is this possibility that prompted this study.

The Role Of Personal Experiences In The Formulation Of Social Attitudes Of Liberalism And Conservatism, Harry J. Older

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The purpose of this study is to discover if the following hypothesis, which was set up on the basis of clinical experience, is true. The social attitudes of an individual are as much the product of local personal incidents as of the bias of the education and training of that individual.

Extrapyramidal Mechanisms In Handedness In The Rat, James Chaplin

Psychology ETDs

From the previous work on handedness from Peterson, we know that there is a sharply localized area in the contralateral cerebral cortex of the frontal region for the control of handedness in the rat. Widespread occipital and temporal destructions are without influence when this area is intact.

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

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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.

A Psychological Approach To Christian Marriage, Francis L. Getz

Graduate Thesis Collection

We will make it our purpose of this thesis to approach Christian marriage from a two-fold standpoint; we will search for the New Testament concept of marriage, unhampered by set theological patterns of thought; we will approach it psychologically.

Some Factors Affecting The Change Of Attitude Of College Freshmen, Iris Mabel Stevenson

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The purpose of this study was to investigate some of the factors which influence the change of attitude toward a proposition, using 314 college students enrolled in elementary and educational psychology courses at the Fort Hays Kansas State College during the winter 1938-1939.

Studies In Clinical Psychology, George A. Kelly, F.B. Streeter

Fort Hays Studies Series

The manuscript of which this issue is the first part, contains studies by nine graduate students made under the direction of Dr. George A. Kelly, Director of the Fort Hays State College Clinic, and consists of 243 pages. The manuscript will be published in three or four parts.

The Distracting Influence Of Radio Speech Upon Performance In Silent Reading, Thomas Michael Kennedy

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

An Investigation Of Then Training Afforded By The New Mexico Home And Training School For Mental Defectives, Octavia Pearl Butler

Psychology ETDs

The purpose of this study is to investigate the academic, vocational, and recreational training afforded by the New Mexico Home and Training School for Mental Defectives at Los Lunas, New Mexico. The criteria for judgment of the training techniques and procedures are three-fold: comparison with recommended training, the present activities of discharged inmates of the institution, and comparison with offerings of other state institutions.

The Influence Of Separate Answer Sheets On The Reliability And Norms Of Standardized Achievement Tests, James Edward Kuntz

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

Do the mechanics involved in recording answers for standardized tests on separate answer sheets reduce the reliability and the average raw scores made? It is the purpose of this investigation to answer this question. In a previous research made by the writer, significant differences were found between the Modern School Achievement Test norms and average scores made by several thousand pupils of Western Kansas on a modified form of this test in which separate answer sheets were used.

A Clinical Study Of The Consistency Between Verbal And Behavioral Expressions Of Socio-Economic Attitudes, Elizabeth Lee Downs

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

For the promotion of socio-economic programs for relief clients which will be of mutual benefit to the individuals and to society it is necessary to determine the actual attitudes of those individuals toward socio-economic problems. The verbal statements of attitudes toward social, economic and personal problems of relief children of relief parents are inconsistent with and non-indicative of their actual attitudes as revealed by their clinical case studies. The purpose of this study is to discover whether or not such radical differences between verbal and actual attitudes do appear and with sufficient frequency to prevent uncritically the acceptance of verbal …

Transient Aphasia And Some Methods Of Controlling The Transient Aphasia Cycle, James Harvey Wright

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

A high incidence of transient aphasia among its cases has been recognized for some time by the Fort Hays Kansas State College Psychological Clinic. Clinical tests of transient aphasia are a routine part of the Clinic’s psychometric procedure, especially with children showing speech and reading disabilities. Abnormally long eye fixations where the word is known to the subject momentary binocular divergence, periodic eye tremors, blocks in phonation either with or without the usual symptoms of stuttering, superficial appearance of transitory deafness, and various motor blocks have been suspected as being evidence of transient aphasic conditions.

Effect Of Expressive Methods Of Child Psychotherapy Upon Intellectual Efficiency, Viola Caprez Ames

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

It is the purpose of this study to investigate the effectiveness of a certain type of child training in accelerating the development of intellectual efficiency. By expressive methods is meant the use of different media through which the child can find self-expression for otherwise inarticulate ideas. Such media as finger-painting, clay modeling, dramatization and free hand drawing give opportunity for the child to create or objectify his subjective feelings or ideas. By child psychotherapy is meant a method of treatment in readjusting the personality of children. The change in I.Q. means a change in the relation of mental age to …

Studies In Gross Bodily Movement., Alan Douglas Grinsted

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.