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A Study Of The Effects Of Professional Authority On The Attitude Change Of High School Sophomores, Sandra Lee Kelley, Lane Alan Myers

Dissertations and Theses

This research project was designed to test, directly, the effects of perceived professional authority on producing attitude change among high school sophomores. The study utilized a social psychological theoretical orientation to examine a specific aspect of socially mediated information, namely, persuasive communication as it is influenced by the source or communicator of the persuasive message, “Authority, as it has been defined in this study, includes two factors: (1) the prestige and (2) the credibility of the source. The two professions selected were that of a physician and a social worker. It was expected that the physician, by virtue of his …

A Translation Of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov's Opisanie Zemli Kamchatki (The Description Of The Land Of Kamchatka) By E.A.P. Crownhart Vaughan, Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis is the only complete and unabridged English translation of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov’s Opisanie Zemli Kamchatki (The Description of the Land of Kamchatka), first published in 1755 by the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. Krasheninnikov (1711-1755) was a member of the Second Bering Expedition (1733-1741), one of the most ambitious scientific expeditions of any age. Its purpose was sixfold: 1) to explore and map Siberia; 2) to establish whether Asia and America were separated by water; 3) to explore Kamchatka; 4) to chart all waters between Kamchatka, America and Japan; 5) to map the entire Arctic …

Validation Of The Orthogonal Dimensions Underlying The Icl And The Octant Constellations Assumed To Be Their Measure, Donald Edward Lange

Dissertations and Theses

Validity of the orthogonal dimensions underlying the Interpersonal Check List (ICL) and the octant constellations assumed to be their measure was investigated by inferential design. Experimental conditions consisted of 4 role-played videotapes produced so that the interpersonal behavior of the main character would illustrate the 4 poles of the ICL’s 2 bipolar dimensions -- Dominance-Submission and Love-Hostility. So were 200 students enrolled in 8 beginning-psychology summer classes. Each class viewed, via closed-circuit TV, only 1 of the 4 videotapes; then members were asked to describe the main character viewed, by using an ICL form IV. Protocols were scored by a …

Studies On The Distribution And Habitat Of Demodex Folliculorum, Michael James Gimbol

Dissertations and Theses

The present study was undertaken to determine the incidence of infestation with Demodex folliculorum, a skin mite parasitizing man, and to investigate those factors which influence its occurrence. These factors were the personal hygiene, sex, age and skin condition of the human host. A detailed view of the habitat of this parasite is also included so that the controversy surrounding its role as a possible pathogen or vector of disease could be explored in light of the current knowledge. A number of sites of infestation were sampled by a number of different techniques. The primary sample site was the nasal …

A Comparison Of Object Dropping And Echoic Vocalizing As Response Modes To Pure Tone Stimuli Among Mentally Retarded Children, Elton L. Stewart

Dissertations and Theses

Mentally retarded children demonstrate an abnormally high incidence of hearing impairment, and many, particularly those with IQs below 40, are difficult for audiologists to test. Consequently, there is great need among this population for investigating response modes and conditioning of responses to auditory stimuli. A review of the literature reveals no studies of echoic vocalization as a conditioned response mode to pure tone stimuli among the retarded.

In this study, a heterogenous sample of 13 moderately and severely retarded children ranging in age from 7 years 7 months to 16 years 3 months were compared on two response modes to …

Factors In Assessing Effectiveness Of Orientation Programs For Public Welfare Caseworkers, Clyde Ferguson

Dissertations and Theses

A study done in 1968-1969 by students at Portland State University School of Social Work at the request of the Oregon State Public Welfare Commission Staff Development Division sought to devise an instrument for assessing the effectiveness of teaching the casework principles of Felix P. Biestek to casework trainees in the public welfare's orientation program. The test instrument developed was found to have low, but acceptable, internal reliability.

Building on the previous year's work, this 1969-1970 study sought to determine the validity of the test instrument by relating test scores to two measures of job performance, namely the latest supervisory …

Report On Constitutional Amendment Lowering The Voting Age (State Measure No. 5), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Italy 1830-1848: The Role Of The Press And The Theatre In The Formation Of The National Spirit, Albert Louis Cereghino

Dissertations and Theses

The research problem in Part I, the Press, concerns the question as to whether the Italian journals, 1830-1848, were efficacious in the formation of the Italian national spirit to the degree postulated by Professor Kent Roberts Greenfield in his thesis: Economics and Liberalism in the Risorgimento, Part II "Thought and Action," subtitled "National Journalism, 1818-1848," (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1965). Specifically, this problem involves ascertaining: (1) who read the journals; (2 whether the contents of these journals were of interest to a significant portion of the population of the eight states; and (3) whether the journals were disseminated to any …

Attitudes Of Youth Toward Social Institutions: A Comparative Study, Connie Mcgonigle, James F. Bakke

Dissertations and Theses

In August, 1968, after a series of confrontations in the city parks between young dissidents and the police, the Mayor of Portland called upon the Metropolitan Youth Commission to form a special study committee to explore the areas of conflict and to recommend ways in which municipal government might constructively respond to the young people in the community. The independent research project on the alienation of youth, the results of which are reported here, was an outgrowth of the interest generated by the request from the Office of the Mayor. Under the auspices of the Metropolitan Youth Commission (MYC), a …

"North Vietnam And The War", Madeline Duckles

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

Income Distribution Effects Of The Urban Property Tax With Emphasis On The Reappraisal Lag: A Theoretical And Empirical Analysis Of The Multnomah County Experience, Michael Steven Fogarty

Dissertations and Theses

There exist a number of factors which operate as potentially significant determinants of the distributional impact of the property tax within any specific urban or metropolitan area. This study is an attempt to explain the income distribution effects of one factor -- the property tax reappraisal lag. The study is limited mainly to the impact of the lag on owners of single-family housing.

An income distribution problem arises because each property subject to the property tax is reappraised only every five or six years. Each Oregon county is divided into five or six maintenance districts to facilitate reappraisal. For example, …

"Hopes And Hazards Of The 70s For American Secondary Education", Robert Blanchard

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"Address To Faculty And Students On The Black American", Nathan Hare

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

Recorded in the Old Main (Lincoln Hall) auditorium at Portland State.

"The University In American Power", Louis Kampf

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

Clarion Defender-January 15, 1970

Clarion Defender

Publisher

Jimmy "Bang Bang" Walker

Address

1223 N.E. Alberta

Harbor Drive Closure, Lloyd T. Keefe, Oregon. State Highway Department

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.

Reactions To Harbor Drive, Unknown

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.

Dick Ivey Speech (Draft), Richard Ivey

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Portland State Perspective; January 1970, Portland State University

Portland State Perspective

A quarterly alumni newsletter. In this issue: discussion of new urban campus design; inauguration of three new doctoral programs; and an essay by Charlie Hanna.

Cleveland Housing Papers, Ernest Bonner

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.

Correspondence Schrunk, Et Al., Glenn Jackson, Lloyd T. Keefe, Floyd Query

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.

The 1958 Good Offices Mission And Its Implications For French-American Relations Under The Fourth Republic, Lorin James Anderson

Dissertations and Theses

In both a general review of Franco-American relations and in a more specific discussion of the Anglo-American good offices mission to France in 1958, this thesis has attempted first, to analyze the foreign policies of France and the United States which developed from the impact of the Second World War and, second, to describe Franco-American discord as primarily a collision of foreign policy goals--or, even farther, as a basic collision in the national attitudes that shaped those goals--rather than as a result either of Communist harassment or of the clash of personalities.

A Survey Of Work Facilities And Rehabilitation Services Available To The Handicapped In The United States, Morgan William Dickerson

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this paper is to survey the work facilities and rehabilitative services available to the handicapped person in the United States. Information for this paper was obtained from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Goodwill Industries of Oregon, library sources and the Department of vocational Rehabilitation for many of the fifty states … The area of interest for this paper is that of rehabilitation. By the term rehabilitation is meant, "To return to an individual the ability to function as he did before becoming handicapped by physical or mental illness, or in the case of those born …

"Repression In Education: The Need For Black Studies, By Dave Barnett And Charles Jackson", Dave Barnett, Charles Jackson

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"Address To Faculty And Students On The Significance Of The 1968 Chicago Riot And The Subsequent Trial Of The Chicago Seven", John Froines

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"Faculty Meeting: Called To Discuss A Proposed Resolution In Support Of The November 13-14, 1969 Portland State University Student Strike", Portland State University

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

City Club Of Portland Bulletin Vol. 50, No. 23 (1969-11-7), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

"All-University Conference On University Goals (Session 2)", Harold Linstone, David Minar, Judah Bierman

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"Speeches Condemning The United States' Military Involvement In Vietnam", Portland State University

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

Recorded on the occasion of the Vietnam War Moratorium at Portland State University.

"Our National Priorities And Military Policy", Joseph S. Clark

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

Sponsored by the United World Federalists, Portland Chapter.