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Child Behavior In Venezuela And The U.S.: A Cross-Cultural Comparison., John Michael Fitch Jan 1980

Child Behavior In Venezuela And The U.S.: A Cross-Cultural Comparison., John Michael Fitch

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purposes of this study were (a) to carry out a factor analysis of the Spanish translation of the Children's Behavioral Classification Project questionnaire on data obtained from Venezuela, and (b) to compare the result with that of parallel data obtained in the United States with the original English version of the same questionnaire. The Children's Behavioral Classification Project questionnaire is an instrument designed to be administered to parents of children 6-13 years old for the purpose of contributing information about the child's outward behavior useful in understanding the psychological, physical, or conduct problems which the child might display. The …

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Investigation Of Effects Of Hypnosis, Relaxation, And Mental Rehearsal On Performance Scores Of Golfers And Runners., Julie Nelson Jan 1980

Investigation Of Effects Of Hypnosis, Relaxation, And Mental Rehearsal On Performance Scores Of Golfers And Runners., Julie Nelson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to investigate the benefit of hypnotic techniques, relaxation, and mental rehearsal for improvement in performance scores for golfers and runners. Treatments were designed to be similar to interventions reported to be successful with individual athletes yet unsupported by larger investigations. No significant results were obtained for either sport. Explanations for obtained results included an actual absence of true effect, masking of effects by continuing methodological problems in the area of athletics and hypnosis, and the lack of generalizability of positive effect. Well controlled, indepth case studies were recommended for future investigation.

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Sex Typed Language., Margaret Estes Johnson Jan 1980

Sex Typed Language., Margaret Estes Johnson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychological sex typing and patterns of language usage. Seventy-nine Louisiana State University undergraduate students were categorized according to the Personal Attributes Questionnaire (Spence, Helmreich and Stapp, 1975). Sex type groups included: psychologically androgynous (High Masculine/High Feminine); masculine (High Masculine/Low Feminine); feminine (Low Masculine/High Feminine); and undifferentiated (Low Masculine/Low Feminine), for both male (n = 40) and female (n = 39). Three written language samples were gathered for each subject. Subjects were asked to spend ten minutes writing in response to each of the three verbal stimuli. Two of the …

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Jack London's South Sea Narratives., David Allison Moreland Jan 1980

Jack London's South Sea Narratives., David Allison Moreland

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Although Jack London is recognized as one of the most popular American fiction writers in the world, critics of American literary naturalism have tended to rank him considerably below the other well-known naturalists: Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, and Theodore Dreiser. The consensus has been that London wrote too much, too hastily, and weakened his art by imposing "ideas" (Darwinian, Spencerian, Nietzschean, Marxian) upon his narratives. However, in recent years a serious reevaluation of "the boy wonder of the naturalist carnival" has begun. As a master of the action narrative, Jack London, who both mirrored his age and anticipated later twentieth-century …

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The Dimensions Of Social Behavior Of Monkey Infants., Steven Mark Buco Jan 1980

The Dimensions Of Social Behavior Of Monkey Infants., Steven Mark Buco

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The present study investigated the underlying dimensions of social behavior of infant monkeys. Three species of mother-infant dyad-reared monkeys were studied: crab-eating macaques (Macaca fascicularis), rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), and patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas). In addition, the behavior of crab-eating macaques reared in mother-sibling-infant triads and in nuclear family triads was investigated. Independent maximum likelihood factor analyses of the mother-oriented and peer-oriented behavior of each of the five groups yielded seven factors, five of which were grossly similar across groups: social play, maternal comfort and care, affiliation, mother-oriented social play, and social exploration. The remaining two factors were not consistent …

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A Film Analysis Of Motor Pattern Development Of Educable Mentally Retarded Children., Leonard Max Hill Jan 1980

A Film Analysis Of Motor Pattern Development Of Educable Mentally Retarded Children., Leonard Max Hill

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of the study was to compare the standing long jump, place kick, overarm throw and striking patterns of educable mentally retarded children to the mature patterns of highly skilled individuals. It was also the purpose of this study to determine if these same motor patterns were inherent in educable mentally retarded subjects and to determine if these patterns would emerge naturally in a goal-centered teaching-learning environment. Eleven educable mentally retarded children between the ages of five and eight years were selected to participate in the study. The children participated in a one week (fifteen minutes per day) orientation …

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Cancer's Impact On Living: A Psychoanalytic Study Of Psychological Effects In Newly Diagnosed, Early Remission, And Late Remission Outpatients., Sandra Brignac Durdin Jan 1980

Cancer's Impact On Living: A Psychoanalytic Study Of Psychological Effects In Newly Diagnosed, Early Remission, And Late Remission Outpatients., Sandra Brignac Durdin

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Hypotheses derived from psychoanalytic theory of body image were tested using 80 female cancer outpatients at various stages of the disease. Subjects were administered the following measures: Body-Cathexis Scale, Tennessee Self-Concept Scale, Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior Scale, Beck Depression Inventory, and a general information questionnaire. Results showed that body image is significantly related to self image and depression, but no significant relationship was found between body image and interpersonal needs behavior scores. Data also suggested the existence of denial as manifested by low self-criticism, personality integration, interpersonal needs behavior, and depression scores. Early remission patients differed most from newly diagnosed …

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A Comprehensive Study Of Black Students Attending An Historically Black University: Selected Characteristics, Experiences, Level Of Satisfaction, And Similarity To Other College Populations., Charles Ruffin Burchell Jan 1980

A Comprehensive Study Of Black Students Attending An Historically Black University: Selected Characteristics, Experiences, Level Of Satisfaction, And Similarity To Other College Populations., Charles Ruffin Burchell

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Although a large body of literature exists on the characteristics and experiences of black students attending predominantly white colleges and universities, very little empirical research on blacks attending predominantly black colleges and universities is available. Existing studies usually lack comparative groups of black and white students who attend predominantly white colleges and universities, hence it is difficult to determine the unique characteristics of the blacks who attend black colleges. To remedy this situation the present study surveyed a representative group of black students attending a publicly-supported black university. The purpose of the study was to determine unique or attractive features …

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Conflict Theory And Segregation Academies: Application And Refinement Of Dahrendorf's Theory., Jerry Douglas Himelstein Jan 1980

Conflict Theory And Segregation Academies: Application And Refinement Of Dahrendorf's Theory., Jerry Douglas Himelstein

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study is an exploratory case study which applies and refines Ralf Dahrendorf's theoretical work in an effort to understand the social organization of segregation academies. One location is studied intensively through guided interviews with a variety of subjects who had some role in one of four local private schools or some relationship to them. School documents and other recorded data are also used to trace the development of these schools. Variables suggested by Dahrendorf and by Nevin and Bills are explored and further developed. Enrollment figures are used in a state-wide analysis of the effect of potential black enrollment …

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Student Achievement In Biology In Terms Of Cognitive Styles Of Students And Teachers., Pauline E. Jolly Jan 1980

Student Achievement In Biology In Terms Of Cognitive Styles Of Students And Teachers., Pauline E. Jolly

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study was designed to determine whether biology students who were matched to their teachers in cognitive style achieved significantly higher mean scores on a cognitive test in biology than biology students who were mismatched to their teachers in cognitive style. The hypotheses tested.

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Para-Proxemic Attributions: An Investigation Into The Relationship Between Close-Up And Extreme Close-Up Camera Shots And Audience Response., David Mitchell Klein Jan 1980

Para-Proxemic Attributions: An Investigation Into The Relationship Between Close-Up And Extreme Close-Up Camera Shots And Audience Response., David Mitchell Klein

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to determine if there were differences in para-proxemic attributions (effectations based upon the relative distance of a media source) to the extreme close-up as opposed to the close-up camera shots. Differences in audience response by sex of subject were found. Two stimuli were simultaneously videotaped of a man making an informative speech. The first tape was composed of establishing shots and extreme close-up shots. The second tape was comprised of establishing shots and close-up shots. The establishing shots were constant in both tapes. In the first tape a cut from the establishing shot to …

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Stylistic Differences Between Preadolescents And Adolescents In The Expression Of Effectance Motivation., Randell Leon Elkins Jr Jan 1980

Stylistic Differences Between Preadolescents And Adolescents In The Expression Of Effectance Motivation., Randell Leon Elkins Jr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Thirty-six preadolescents and 36 adolescents were given 12 minutes to explore the game possibilities in a TV game apparatus. Two instructional sets included a free play set and an instructional set to master the games. Video tape analysis of the exploratory behavior revealed some differences attributable to cognitive differences between the age groups and also to mastery set differences. The younger group, consistent with Piaget's model, was demonstrated to be less able to isolate and test hypotheses and was more rigid in changing hypotheses. This resulted in a more rapid mastery rate seen in the adolescent group. The instructional set …

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Effects Of Explicit Discussion Guidelines And An Acceptance Goal On The Acceptance And Quality Of Group Decisions., Courtland Merlyn Chaney Jan 1980

Effects Of Explicit Discussion Guidelines And An Acceptance Goal On The Acceptance And Quality Of Group Decisions., Courtland Merlyn Chaney

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A study was conducted using a total of 144 male and female college undergraduates to determine whether an explicit statement of the group goal of acceptance along with specific discussion guidelines on how to achieve this goal could have a facilitative effect on the quality and/or acceptance of the solution reached by a group. Hypothesis were generated from Hoffman's hierarchical model of the group problem-solving process and previous research. The results revealed nonsignificant increments in individual acceptance, individual and group improvement, and time required by groups to reach a decision, as a result of providing a greater amount of explicitness …

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Cognitive Processes In Depression., Sally Ann Davis Jan 1980

Cognitive Processes In Depression., Sally Ann Davis

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Hypotheses derived from Beck's cognitive theory of depression were tested using 60 depressed and non-depressed males and females as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory. Subjects rated their performance before and after they received "positive," "negative," and "neutral" feedback regarding their performance on a social interaction task. They were also asked to recall feedback they received and explain reasons for their post-feedback self-rating. Results showed depressed males and females had a more negative evaluation of present circumstances and poorer memory for feedback. Further, depressed males lowered their self-evaluation upon feedback significantly more than did non-depressed males. In addition, depressed males …

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Cross-Validation Of The Adolescent Behavioral Classification Project Instrument: A Factor Analytic Study., Katherine M. Krefft Jan 1980

Cross-Validation Of The Adolescent Behavioral Classification Project Instrument: A Factor Analytic Study., Katherine M. Krefft

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The Adolescent Behavioral Classification Project is one aspect of the larger Behavioral Classification Project, a long-term project designed to develop a behaviorally-based taxonomy of emotional disorders. The Adolescent Behavioral Classification Project (ABCP) instrument is a comprehensive list of 518 behavioral items and 3 demographic variables that cover the range of emotional problems of youth 13 to 18 years of age. This research concerns the cross-validation of the ABCP instrument on a sample of clinic and nonclinic youngsters. Results from a total of 810 questionnaires, 300 from subjects seen in clinics and 510 from nonclinic subjects, were submitted to a principal …

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The Impact Of The Structural Parameters Of Age And Race Upon Residents' Evaluations Of Community., Gary Martin Stokley Sr Jan 1980

The Impact Of The Structural Parameters Of Age And Race Upon Residents' Evaluations Of Community., Gary Martin Stokley Sr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The research reported in this dissertation deals directly with an individual's perception of his or her community and family circumstances. The major question explored deals with what structural factors influence individuals' perceptions. In order to examine this question, the study primarily employs structural parameters such as age, sex, race, community, etc. to note differences or similarities among subpopulations. Specifically, the study explores the differences or similarities between adults and adolescents in rural communities. The data includes both an adult and adolescent sample taken in three rural communities in South Louisiana. The racial composition of the communities includes black, Indian, and …

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Exploration Of Generalization Effects Of Social Skills Training In Children., Catherine Alice Seiler Jan 1980

Exploration Of Generalization Effects Of Social Skills Training In Children., Catherine Alice Seiler

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The generalization effects of social skills training (consisting of instructions, feedback, behavior rehearsal, and modeling) were examined in a multiple baseline design across settings and across subjects. The five male and female subjects, ranging in age between 10 and 13 years, were referred for treatment by teachers and parents because of difficulties with interpersonal relationships. Response latency, ratio of eye-contact to speech duration, intonation, smiles, gestures, verbalizations in five content areas and overall social skills were the target behaviors selected for modification within the clinic setting. Teacher and parent ratings of interpersonal behaviors considered problematic for each subject and sociometric …

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Lsu General Catalog 1980-1981, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College Jan 1980

Lsu General Catalog 1980-1981, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

LSU General Catalog

The LSU General Catalog describes all undergraduate and graduate departments and programs with degree requirements and courses offered for each one. The General Catalog includes information on registration and financial aid as well as academic services offered to all students.

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Group Influence And Cognitive Consistency As Determinants Of Value Change: A Methodological Analysis Of Self-Confrontation Theory., Mark L. Paris Jan 1980

Group Influence And Cognitive Consistency As Determinants Of Value Change: A Methodological Analysis Of Self-Confrontation Theory., Mark L. Paris

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The present study attempted to either extend, modify or challenge Rokeach's (1973) Self-confrontation theory of value change. Rokeach (1973) found that subjects who were confronted with specific self-confrontation messages, which were designed to make differences between their value systems and self-concepts salient, were more likely than control subjects to change the rank-ordering of the values Freedom and Equality in a ranking task containing 18 values. Rokeach explained this phenomenon by invoking the concept of self-dissatisfaction, which he said subjects came to feel as a result of being exposed to the self-confrontation messages. The present study compared this explanation with the …

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An Empirical Analysis Of Brain Damage And Minimal Brain Dysfunction In School Age Children., Gregory Blaine Sisk Jan 1980

An Empirical Analysis Of Brain Damage And Minimal Brain Dysfunction In School Age Children., Gregory Blaine Sisk

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Minimal brain dysfunction (MBD) in children is described in terms of diagnosis, symptomatology, etiology, prevalence, and prognosis. The MBD area is reviewed with reference to brain damage (BD), non-BD, and empirical models of classfication. A rationale is developed for empirically derived categories of MBD using (a) a comprehensive assessment battery, (b) the administration of this battery to BD, MBD, and normal children, (c) a factor analysis of the children's scores on the test variables, and (d) a cluster analysis of all the children based on the similarity of their factor score profiles. In addition, a canonical correlation between early life-history …

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Clothing Expenditures Among The Expenditure Priorities Of Elderly Couples Before And After Retirement, Eleanor Kelley Jan 1980

Clothing Expenditures Among The Expenditure Priorities Of Elderly Couples Before And After Retirement, Eleanor Kelley

LSU Agricultural Experiment Station Reports

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Selective Antagonism Of The Rate‐Decreasing Effect Of D‐Amphetamine By Chlorpromazine In A Repeated‐Acquisition Task, Donald M. Thompson Jan 1980

Selective Antagonism Of The Rate‐Decreasing Effect Of D‐Amphetamine By Chlorpromazine In A Repeated‐Acquisition Task, Donald M. Thompson

Faculty Publications

Pigeons acquired a different four‐response chain each session by responding sequentially on three keys in the presence of four colors. The response chain was maintained by food presentation under a fixed‐ratio schedule. When d‐amphetamine was administered alone, the overall response rate decreased and the percent errors increased with increasing doses. When a small dose of chlorpromazine, which was ineffective when given alone, was administered in combination with d‐amphetamine, the rate‐decreasing effect was antagonized. The antagonism was selective, however, in that the error‐increasing effect of d‐amprotamine was augmented by chlorpromazine. The nature of the joint effect of the two drugs thus …

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Effects Of D‐Amphetamine, Cocaine, And Phencyclidine On The Acquisition Of Response Sequences With And Without Stimulus Fading, Joseph M. Moerschbaecher, Donald M. Thompson Jan 1980

Effects Of D‐Amphetamine, Cocaine, And Phencyclidine On The Acquisition Of Response Sequences With And Without Stimulus Fading, Joseph M. Moerschbaecher, Donald M. Thompson

Faculty Publications

In each of three components of a multiple schedule, monkeys were required to emit a different sequence of four responses in a predetermined order on four levers. Sequence completions produced food on a fixed‐ratio schedule. Errors produced a brief timeout. One component of the multiple schedule was a repeated‐acquisition task where the four‐response sequence changed each session (learning). The second component of the multiple schedule was also a repeated‐acquisition task, but acquisition was supported through the use of a stimulus‐fading procedure (faded learning). In a third component of the multiple schedule, the sequence of responses remained the same from session …

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An Exploratory Analysis Of The Relationships Between Self-Images, Perceived-Risk, And Purchase Intention Horizons., Corbett Fay Gaulden Jr Jan 1980

An Exploratory Analysis Of The Relationships Between Self-Images, Perceived-Risk, And Purchase Intention Horizons., Corbett Fay Gaulden Jr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study is to examine in some detail the nature of some commonly acknowledged psychological constructs related to consumer behavior. These constructs, perceptual in nature, are self-image and perceived risk. In addition, a third concept of more recent vintage was included: purchase intention expectations, or more simply time perceptions. The focus of the study was an exploration of interrelationships among the three constructs. The following objectives were specified: (1) to analyze the relationship between self-image and ideal self-image across a group of products, across time, and as this relationship relates to risk, (2) to investigate the relationships …

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An Exploratory Investigation Of Post Purchase Consumer Satisfaction Within A Cognitive Process Framework., David Joseph Ortinau Jan 1980

An Exploratory Investigation Of Post Purchase Consumer Satisfaction Within A Cognitive Process Framework., David Joseph Ortinau

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Consumer researchers, in an endeavor to further understand and explain consumers' market behavior, have devoted significant effort toward conceptualizing and empirically researching the socio-psychological phenomena of attitude formation and changes. One concept which has only recently emerged.

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Social Competency In Adolescent Chemical Abusers And Nonabusers., Patricia Mary Aptaker Jan 1980

Social Competency In Adolescent Chemical Abusers And Nonabusers., Patricia Mary Aptaker

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Subjects were 32 adolescents from a private, inpatient drug abuse treatment unit and 32 university laboratory high school adolescents with no history of treatment for drug abuse (16 females and 16 males in each group). Each subject completed the Rathus Assertiveness Schedule, the High School Self Expression Scale, and the Polydrug Assessment Scale and role-played and wrote responses to eight items involving familiar and unfamiliar female and male peers. Judges independently rated assertiveness and aggressiveness for all responses and affect and anxiety for role-played responses. Interrater reliabilities ranged from .79 to .92. Scores on self-report inventories were submitted to 2 …

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Charismatic Communication And Faith Healers: A Critical Study Of Rhetorical Behavior., Todd Vernon Lewis Jan 1980

Charismatic Communication And Faith Healers: A Critical Study Of Rhetorical Behavior., Todd Vernon Lewis

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Faith healing evangelists attract devoted followers who perceive these religious leaders as possessors of charisma. Charisma is a concept that is often applied to any leader/communicator whose eloquence, persuasion, transcendence, and personal aura set him or her apart from the average person. In this dissertation charisma is operationally defined, linked to a process of communication, and applied to the rhetorical behavior of three prominent faith healing evangelists: Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944), A. A. Allen (1911-1970), and Kathryn Kuhlman (1907-1976). A survey of selected theories of charisma provides elements for a synergistic "charismatic-communication-influence-process-model." The newly formed model amalgamates charisma research from …

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Melville And The Art Of Satire: Perspective Through Parody And Caricature., Shannon Louise Antoine Jan 1979

Melville And The Art Of Satire: Perspective Through Parody And Caricature., Shannon Louise Antoine

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

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Personality And Behavioral Characteristics Of Physically Abused Children., James Alexander Duncan Jan 1979

Personality And Behavioral Characteristics Of Physically Abused Children., James Alexander Duncan

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

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Psychological Androgyny And Autobiographical Forecast Of One's Future., Anne-Marie Meehan Jan 1979

Psychological Androgyny And Autobiographical Forecast Of One's Future., Anne-Marie Meehan

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

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