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Pitch And Intensity Characteristics Of American Dramatic Speech, J. M. Cowan Jan 1936

Pitch And Intensity Characteristics Of American Dramatic Speech, J. M. Cowan

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Physical analyses of these factors are presented in the form of a graphical speech score. A simultaneous presentation of recorded speech and scores will be made.


Officers, Committees, Past Presidents, And Members, Iowa Academy Of Science Jan 1936

Officers, Committees, Past Presidents, And Members, Iowa Academy Of Science

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


Let's Psychologize On The Curriculum, Lyle K. Henry Jan 1936

Let's Psychologize On The Curriculum, Lyle K. Henry

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

It is generally believed that psychology has made a significant contribution to teaching methods. Can not the psychologist he of service in determining what is to be taught as well as in determining how teaching methods can be improved?


Preliminary Study Of Certain Changes Occurring Under Sodium Amytal, James W. Layman Jan 1936

Preliminary Study Of Certain Changes Occurring Under Sodium Amytal, James W. Layman

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The present report deals with a quantitative study of certain intellectual and motor changes which occur in schizophrenic patients under the influence of sodium amytal, a hypnotic drug used for therapeutic purposes with patients receiving psychiatric treatment at the Psychopathic Hospital of the State University of Iowa.


Intensive And Durative Aspects Of The Interpretation Of A Musical Score, Arnold Small Jan 1936

Intensive And Durative Aspects Of The Interpretation Of A Musical Score, Arnold Small

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The purpose of this study was to determine how closely the violinist follows the printed score in assigning temporal and intensity values to notes and to demonstrate some ways in which duration and intensity are utilized in stress and phrasing.


An Analysis Of The Berger Rhythm, With Special Reference To The Duration And Amplitude Of The Individual Wave, John R. Knott Jan 1936

An Analysis Of The Berger Rhythm, With Special Reference To The Duration And Amplitude Of The Individual Wave, John R. Knott

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The rhythmical electrical potential waves recorded from the human brain have been classified by their discoverer, Berger2 into two types: alpha-waves, and beta-waves. This classification is made on the basis of the duration and amplitude of the waves. Waves having a duration of about .10 sec. and an amplitude of about 20 microvolts fall into the category of alpha-waves. Waves having a duration of about .04 sec. and an amplitude of about 10 microvolts make up the beta-waves. In general, the beta-wave is formed on the sides of the larger and more predominant alpha-wave.


A Measure Of The Amount Of Chance In True-False Tests, E. O. Finkenbinder Jan 1936

A Measure Of The Amount Of Chance In True-False Tests, E. O. Finkenbinder

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

When students were informed of the number of errors they had made on a 30-point true-false test and given their answer sheets on which they crossed out and changed the answers they thought might be the ones in error, they could not significantly raise their scores (corrected for chance) when the number of true and false statements were approximately equal. If the number of true statements were greatly in excess of the false statements, say two true to one false, they lowered the score by their changes. On the other hand, if the false statements greatly outnumbered the true ones, …


Table Of Contents Jan 1936

Table Of Contents

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


Proceedings Of The Fiftieth Annual Meeting Of The Iowa Academy Of Science, Held At Iowa City, April 3 And 4, 1936: Minutes Of The 1936 Meeting; Staff & Committee Reports Jan 1936

Proceedings Of The Fiftieth Annual Meeting Of The Iowa Academy Of Science, Held At Iowa City, April 3 And 4, 1936: Minutes Of The 1936 Meeting; Staff & Committee Reports

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


Semantic Psychology, O. M. Norlie Jan 1936

Semantic Psychology, O. M. Norlie

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Semantic psychology is the psychology of language. This paper will call attention to the need of a more psychological alphabet.


Perception Of Relations In Reading, Dan L. Adler Jan 1936

Perception Of Relations In Reading, Dan L. Adler

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The present study deals with the measurement of intelligence on the college level by means of a new type of test employing the medium of reading comprehension. The test was first described by Dr. D. D. Feder at the 1934 meeting of this group. Basic to the new approach is the hypothesis that intelligence is manifested in the ability to perceive relationships in problem situations. In accordance with this hypothesis, individual differences in reading comprehension are due to variations in ability to perceive interrelationships of ideas in reading materials. The new reading test assumes that there are gradations of comprehension …


A Validation Of Certain Measures Of Personality Adjustment At The College Level, D. R. Mallett Jan 1936

A Validation Of Certain Measures Of Personality Adjustment At The College Level, D. R. Mallett

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

This report deals with some preliminary data on the validity of the Bell Adjustment Inventory, a questionnaire scale designed to locate personality maladjustments in high school and college students. Other similar measurements being studied are the Thurstone Personality Schedule and the Woodworth-House Mental Hygiene Inventory.


Are There Types Of Learning And Thinking That Are Functionally Distinct, And If So, What?, Robert Leeper Jan 1936

Are There Types Of Learning And Thinking That Are Functionally Distinct, And If So, What?, Robert Leeper

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The field covered by the concepts of learning and thinking is so extensive, and includes such a diversity of concrete material, that it would be very surprising if all could be covered by the same explanatory subject matter. If the field is heterogeneous, effective research on learning and thinking is contingent upon the classification of these materials into functionally distinct groups. Relatively little attention has been paid to this problem, however, and much of the discussion that has existed has been patently superficial (maze learning an example of "motor habits," e.g.). The present paper discusses the basis for such classificatory …


Some General And Specific Factors In Transfer Of Training, Charles Van Riper, Robert L. Milisen Jan 1936

Some General And Specific Factors In Transfer Of Training, Charles Van Riper, Robert L. Milisen

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Two groups were used, one of which was trained in a right hand clockwise, and the other in a right hand counter-clockwise direction of motor skill. The transfer to the untrained hand in both groups was greatest in the direction opposite to training, although every case improved in both directions. The improvement due to the specific training was felt to account for the higher scores in the opposite direction, the remainder being due to general transfer.


Statistical Analysis Of Change-Over Or Reversal Tests, A. E. Brandt, A. Starbuck Jan 1936

Statistical Analysis Of Change-Over Or Reversal Tests, A. E. Brandt, A. Starbuck

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The arithemetical procedure known as the analysis of variance is offered as a method determining the reliability of a test when two forms are given to subjects of known differences in ability or determining proficiency of students when given scaled questions. Results obtained by members of the English Department of Iowa State College in the process of designing a progress test are used as an example. The students were divided into high and low groups on the basis of scores received previously on the Iowa State College aptitude test, on a theme and on the Iowa State College English Department …


The Effect Of Penalty Upon Frequency Of Stuttering Spasms, C. Van Riper Jan 1936

The Effect Of Penalty Upon Frequency Of Stuttering Spasms, C. Van Riper

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

One of the features with which the psychologist must constantly deal when investigating stuttering is the great amount of variation in the frequency of stuttering blocks or spasms. Steer 1 has shown that frequency of stuttering spasms is, at least to a certain degree, a function of the type of speech situation. Van Riper and Hull2 showed a progressive decrease in frequency of spasms as the stutterer adapted to any given speech situation. However, little knowledge was gained from these experiments as to what factors in the situations were responsible for the variations in frequency.


Interrelation Of Seven Tests Of Laterality, D. W. Morris Jan 1936

Interrelation Of Seven Tests Of Laterality, D. W. Morris

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Seven tests of laterality or sidedness were applied to a group of 80 subjects, 20 each of right-handed, left-handed, ambidextrous and stutterers. Except for the stutterers, the groups were classified on the basis of a laterality index questionnaire. A major purpose of the investigation was to determine whether or not a technique developed by Dallenbach (1, 2 and 3) for investigating conditions of visual clearness could be applied to naive observers. The essential point of the apparatus he used is an arrangement by which two areas of light are presented simultaneously to the subject who reports as to their comparative …


Intonation In Violin Performance, Paul C. Greene Jan 1936

Intonation In Violin Performance, Paul C. Greene

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

A controversy exists as to whether artists who play stringed instruments perform in the so-called "natural" (sometimes called the "just" or "pure") musical scale, in the "equally tempered" scale, or in some other scale. A related question is whether these artists characteristically enlarge (augment) or contract (diminish) certain intervals as compared with their theoretical scale values.


Timbre And Sonance Aspects Of The Sustained Vowel "O", Curtis E. Tuthill Jan 1936

Timbre And Sonance Aspects Of The Sustained Vowel "O", Curtis E. Tuthill

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


A Study Of Creative Imagination In Artistic Expression, William A. Mccloy Jan 1936

A Study Of Creative Imagination In Artistic Expression, William A. Mccloy

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

In this investigation of the nature of artistic expression, creative imagination is studied through the medium of a model stage, appreciation of colored slides, and imaginative insight by abstract paintings.


Characteristic Features Of Intellectual Deterioration In Schizophrenia And Organic Psychoses, Eleanor Palmer Jan 1936

Characteristic Features Of Intellectual Deterioration In Schizophrenia And Organic Psychoses, Eleanor Palmer

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

This study compares the performance of a group of deteriorated schizophrenics and organic brain diseases on the short form of the Stanford-Binet Scale with that of a control group of subnormals grading at the same mental age. Analysis of the data reveals significant differences with respect to vocabulary level, extent of scatter, and relative difficulty of particular test items which may be described in terms of an objectively recognizable "scatter pattern."


Summer Term Commencement [Program], August 22, 1935, Iowa State Teachers College Aug 1935

Summer Term Commencement [Program], August 22, 1935, Iowa State Teachers College

UNI Commencement Programs

The program of the commencement ceremonies, including a list of institutional leadership, a list of the departments by college, awards given at the ceremonies, and a list of undergraduate and graduate degree candidates.


Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting Of The Iowa Academy Of Science And The Fourth Annual Convention Of The Junior Academy Of Science Of Iowa, April 19 And 20, 1935, Iowa Academy Of Science Apr 1935

Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting Of The Iowa Academy Of Science And The Fourth Annual Convention Of The Junior Academy Of Science Of Iowa, April 19 And 20, 1935, Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

No abstract provided.


A Study Of The Process Of Word Discrimination In Individuals Beginning To Read, Mary Buffum Hill Jan 1935

A Study Of The Process Of Word Discrimination In Individuals Beginning To Read, Mary Buffum Hill

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Various recognized types of confusions in word recognition were studied in an experimental setting in which the attempt was made to isolate each as purely as possible. A critique of earlier studies in this field upon which the present study is based is involved in the experimental set-up.


Iowa State Teachers College Program Of Recitations, Winter 1934-1935, Iowa State Teachers College Jan 1935

Iowa State Teachers College Program Of Recitations, Winter 1934-1935, Iowa State Teachers College

UNI Schedule of Classes

A listing and schedule of the courses being taught as well as policies and procedures concerning attending classes at the Iowa State Teachers College.


Betts' Physiological Approach To The Analysis Of Reading Disabilities As Applied To The College Level, Donald E. Swanson Jan 1935

Betts' Physiological Approach To The Analysis Of Reading Disabilities As Applied To The College Level, Donald E. Swanson

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Betts has recently concluded that visual refractive errors and anomalies of binocular coordination are important causes of poor reading among first-grade entrants. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether such visual deficiencies, as revealed by Betts' tests, differentiate significantly between poor and good readers at the college level.


A Study Of Student Reading, A. R. Lauer Jan 1935

A Study Of Student Reading, A. R. Lauer

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

A method was devised to make a plan for self improvement in reading available to persons who are not conversant with the experimental literature. This consists of a self-administered experiment in reading material ordinarily read, with suggestions on ways and means of improving the speed and comprehension. A progress graph was kept by each reader to keep up his comprehension.


The Alumnus, V19n1, January 1935, Iowa State Teachers College Jan 1935

The Alumnus, V19n1, January 1935, Iowa State Teachers College

The Alumnus

Inside This Issue:
-- Chicago Alumni Unit Holds Annual Meeting
-- "Democracy is Deathless," Declares Dr. Abbott
-- Help Wanted - Locating Alumni, Class of 1910
-- Alumni - Faculty Active in Iowa School Conventions
-- Design and Beauty Stressed in Manual Arts
-- Four Whose Lives Were Close to Campus Affairs, Taken By Death During Fall Term
-- Teachers College Joins North Central Conference
-- Reconstruction of Entire Team Faces Court Coach
-- Gridders Set Field Record - Roll Up 101 Points
-- Alumni News
-- Marriages
-- Births
-- Deaths
-- Just To Show That If You'll Send …


1935 Old Gold, Iowa State Teachers College Jan 1935

1935 Old Gold, Iowa State Teachers College

UNI Yearbooks

The student yearbook of the Iowa State Teachers College, later known as the University of Northern Iowa.


Proceedings Of The Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting Of The Iowa Academy Of Science, Held At Grinnell, April 19 And 20, 1935: Minutes Of The 1935 Meeting; Staff & Committee Reports Jan 1935

Proceedings Of The Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting Of The Iowa Academy Of Science, Held At Grinnell, April 19 And 20, 1935: Minutes Of The 1935 Meeting; Staff & Committee Reports

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.