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The New Hampshire, Vol. 71, No. 29 (Feb. 3, 1981), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 71, No. 28 (Jan. 30, 1981), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 71, No. 26 (Jan. 23, 1981), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

Town Of Bath, New Hampshire, Annual Report Of The Town Officers, Year Ending December 31, 1980., Bath Town Representatives

Bath, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Reports Of The Town Of Gilford, New Hampshire, For The Year Ending December 31, 1980., Gilford Town Representatives

Gilford, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Durham, 1980. Annual Report., Durham Town Representatives

Durham, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Report Of The Officers Of The Town Of Albany, New Hampshire For The Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1980., Albany Town Representatives

Albany, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Town Of Benton, New Hampshire. Annual Report Of The Town Officers, Year Ended December 31, 1980., Benton Town Representatives

Benton, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Reports For The Year 1980 Of The Officials And Committees, Town Of Derry, New Hampshire., Derry Town Representatives

Derry, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Report Of The Officers Of The Town Of Eaton, New Hampshire, For The Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1980., Eaton Town Representatives

Eaton, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Report Of The School Board, Treasurer, Auditors, Budget Committee, Superintendent And Department Heads Of The School District Of Pelham, N.H. For The Year Ending June 30, 1980., Pelham Town Representatives

Pelham, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

City Of Franklin, New Hampshire Annual Report 1980, Operating Budget 1981., Franklin Town Representatives

Franklin, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Report Of The Town Officers Of The Town Of Jefferson, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 1980., Jefferson Town Representatives

Jefferson, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Report Of The Town Officers Of The Town Of Stark, N.H. For The Year Ending December 31, 1980 Including Stark School Report., Stark Town Representatives

Stark, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

The Sociological Critique Of American Sociology, 1960-1978: Its Shortcomings And Its Promise, Gerald Allen Ginocchio

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation represents an attempt to explicate and critically analyze an important movement in contemporary American sociology. This movement, which I am calling the sociological critique of American sociology, aimed to change predominant trends in American sociology. Basic tenets of sociological practice were called into question, such as the principle of value neutrality, an empirical methodology, and a functionalist theoretical framework. The goal of this critical movement was to bring about a more significant sociology, a sociology which would lead the way to the realization of a more humane social order. In general, however, the criticisms offered by these critical …

The Influence Of Visual Texture On The Visual Facilitation Of Auditory Localization, George Raymond Mastroianni

Doctoral Dissertations

A substantial but contradictory literature on intersensory effects exists. Studies have been reported showing facilitation of sensitivity in one modality when other modalities are stimulated, as have studies showing inhibition of sensitivity in one modality when other modalities are stimulated. Studies reporting no effects whatever of multimodal stimulation have also been reported. This literature is reviewed in detail.

A recent series of experiments by Warren and his colleagues report a facilitating effect of simultaneous visual facilitation on the variability of responding in an auditory localization task. They hypothesize that the presence of visual texture in the light in conjunction with …

Drinking Induced By Second-Order Food Schedules: Multiple Controlling Factors, Leroy Keene Clark

Doctoral Dissertations

Second-order schedules, in which brief stimuli replace some food presentations, have been used to differentiate between physiological and psychological factors which might contribute to the induction of excessive drinking during exposure to periodic food schedules. Post-stimulus drinking is regarded as reflecting the influence of psychological factors.

In preliminary research, post-stimulus drinking was typically less reliable than post-food drinking. Rats which drank most reliably during post-stimulus periods also often resumed drinking after lever-pressing during post-food periods. Such drinking, like post-stimulus drinking, consisted of short bouts which alternated with bouts of lever-pressing. It was hypothesized that short-bout licking might be a terminal …

Maintenance Of Nonsmoking Following Self-Initiated Cessation, Susan J. Goldstein

Doctoral Dissertations

The process of trying to maintain abstinence from cigarettes was assessed in a longitudinal, descriptive study of self-initiated quitters. Participants completed: (1) a preliminary questionnaire; (2) six follow-up questionnaire packets mailed to them monthly; and (3) a final questionnaire sent with the sixth follow-up packet.

Abstainers and relapsers differed in the following ways: (1) Relapsers more often indicated cessation goals which left open the possibility of future smoking; (2) Although both groups began their participation with relatively high levels of commitment to quit, abstainers' levels were slightly higher than relapsers'. At the conclusion of their participation, relapsers' commitment to quit …

The Development Of Picture-Generated Stories, Dina Lee Anselmi

Doctoral Dissertations

Recently, certain aspects of story production, comprehension, and recall have stirred up much interest within psychology. Most of this research has focused on these story processes in adults; less work has been done on the development of story knowledge in young children. This dissertation explored the similarities and differences among nursery school, first and second grade children, and adults. Each individual was asked to produce an oral story after having viewed a set of story-book pictures.

The stories were evaluated on several different dimensions which included: the thoughts, intentions and emotions of the characters, how single elements from the pictures …

Simple And Contingent Chromatic Aftereffects In Pigeons, Jean Roberts Atak

Doctoral Dissertations

In order to assess whether pigeons acquire simple and contingent chromatic aftereffects, four White Carneaux pigeons were trained to discriminate between colored and achromatic slides: Right and left key-pecks were reinforced following exposure to colored and achromatic slides, respectively. The chromatic set included slides of six different hues, added sequentially. Behavior on the first day each new color was added and on two transfer tests involving novel stimuli indicated that a 'chromaticity' concept had been acquired by all four birds.

In Experiment II, an attempt was made to demonstrate the McCollough effect (ME). In five procedures, various conditions known to …

Effects Of Stimulus Complexity, Subject Age, And Stimulus Coding On Selective Stimulus Control, Ronald Louis Michaud

Doctoral Dissertations

Selective stimulus control refers to the functional relationships that are developed between the various stimulus elements of a discriminative stimulus and the subject's response. A multi-element conditional discrimination problem is an effective means of studying these relationships. In the first experiment, preschool and adult subjects were presented with a series of conditional discrimination problems. They were required to respond differentially to two multi-element stimulus cards by touching one of two response circles, one red and one blue. Each problem set contained either two, four, six, or eight elements per stimulus card. The discrimination was established using an errorless training procedure …

Dietary Obesity, Exercise Training, And Thermogenesis In Rats, James Oakley Hill

Doctoral Dissertations

The exact contributions of changes in thermogenesis to the energy balance of either rats or humans is not known. There is some evidence that differences in post-prandial heat production (dietary-induced thermogenesis), can explain why some individuals gain weight easily when overeating and others do not. There is also evidence that exercise enhances dietary-induced thermogenesis. However, it may be the effects of exercise training rather than the exercise itself which enhances dietary-induced thermogenesis. Aerobic exercise training may produce increases in dietary-induced thermogenesis and allow more calories to be expanded as heat when overeating.

In these three experiments, the effects of diet …

How Communication And Confirmatory Strategies Affect The Search For Truth, Michael Ernest Gorman

Doctoral Dissertations

Scientific reasoning has become a topic of recent psychological research. Studies have focused on Karl Popper's idea that scientists should try to falsify, or disconfirm, their hypotheses instead of verifying them. Results indicate that both scientists and college students prefer to use confirmatory logic on simple tasks that model scientific reasoning. The only attempt to instruct subjects to use disconfirmatory reasoning failed (Mynatt, Doherty & Tweney, 1977) though subjects that falsified on their own initiative were more successful than subjects who tried to confirm.

All the studies of scientific reasoning have focused on individuals. But major advances in science are …

A Family Structural Approach To The Study Of Adolescent Depression, Tina Marie Lindegren

Doctoral Dissertations

The primary purpose of this study was to better understand the antecedents of depression among adolescents by taking a family structural perspective. Based on clinical observations, Minuchin (1974) and Haley (1976) have developed theories of family functioning which define types of dysfunctional family structures (described as patterns of relating among family members) characteristic of disturbed families. This research attempts to empirically assess these dysfunctional structures in relation to adolescent depression.

A self-report questionnaire was designed and administered to 358 students from three high schools in southern New Hampshire. The questionnaire included assessments of: (1) behavioral interactions among family members representing …

The Heroic Plot In Epic And Romance: A Study Of The Monster-Fight Motif From "Beowulf" To The "Faerie Queene", Feroza Rustom Vaghaiwalla

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation focuses on the Heroic Plot or the hero-monster conflict as it appears in five major works: Beowulf, Tristan, Yvain, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Book One of The Faerie Queene. It traces the survival of this motif from its archetypal deployment in epic song through its various forms in the romance narratives to its ultimate metamorphosis in Christian allegory.

The Heroic Plot is central in Beowulf where heroism is defined in purely physical terms. The monsters are treated seriously as superhuman creatures which must be destroyed in physical combat, and the conflicts are described in vivid …

Women And Work In Transition: Their Work Participation, Social Class, Sex Role And Political Attitudes, And Alienation, Lawrence Allen Rosenberg

Doctoral Dissertations

The focus of this dissertation is the transition of American women's economic positions during the last two centuries. Women's participation in the economy has developed from that of the preindustrial period, in which women were primarily partners in an agricultural economy, through several stages during the development of industrialism and urbanism, when most women were housewives, to the present situation in which over 50% of women are active participants in the labor force of an advanced industrial economy. This transition has been characterized not just by increasing numbers and changing characteristics of women participating in the work force, but by …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 71, No. 24 (Dec. 5, 1980), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 71, No. 23 (Nov. 25, 1980), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 71, No. 22 (Nov. 21, 1980), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 71, No. 21 (Nov. 18, 1980), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.