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Effects Of Task Difficulty, Performance Consequence, And Social Interaction On Physiological Reactivity In Post-Coronary Patients, A. Janelle Maldonado

Dissertations

Three experiments were performed to determine the effects of three task variables and Type A behavior pattern on physiological reactivity to time-limited math and anagram tasks. In the first experiment, ten post-coronary patients performed time-limited computer tasks under two performance consequence conditions: Point Reward or presentation of an Auditory Blast combined with two task difficulty conditions (40% and 60% difficult). The findings of Experiment 1 indicated that while the tasks did produce levels of physiological reactivity comparable to those observed in the literature, there were no significant main effects for either variable for any of the five measures. A significant …

Construct Validation Of The Family Of Origin Scale: A Factor Analysis, Omar L. Mangrum

Dissertations

The major purpose of this two-part study was to contribute to the body of knowledge concerned with the construct validity of the Family of Origin Scale (FOS). The issues of construct and discriminative validity were specifically addressed. The first phase was an attempt to empirically establish the underlying factor structure of the Family of Origin Scale (FOS) through factor analytic techniques. The analysis utilized data collected from a previously studied population (i.e., college students) and a demographically different population (i.e., prison inmates). Results from this study indicate that the FOS appears to measure at least seven distinct factors/constructs, four of …

Generalized Distance In Graphs, Garry L. Johns

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Ability Of Teachers Of Preschool Handicapped To Use Observational Behavioral Assessment Techniques In Assessing Social Skills, Stephen P. Barbus

Dissertations

Socially competent preschool children effectively use a variety of social skills, including initiating and maintaining interactions, using others as resources, expressing affection and hostility appropriately, and competing with, leading, and following peers. Children lacking these behaviors are at greater risk of interpersonal difficulties, delayed cognitive development, poor academic performance, school maladjustment, and mental health problems. Handicapped children are deficient in a variety of social skills. Before special education can provide effective intervention in requisite social skills it must establish accurate and reliable assessment techniques.

One such technique, behavioral assessment of social skills, uses several methods. Of these, observation in the …

The Effectiveness Of Feedback Procedures On Machine Set-Up Time In A Manufacturing Setting, Connie J. Wittkopp

Dissertations

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a treatment package designed to improve and maintain set-up time in the extrusion department of a rubber manufacturing company. Subjects were exposed to various behavioral techniques including training and a feedback system in the form of both written and verbal supervisory comments with an emphasis placed on improving performance through use of videotaping. An attempt was made to maintain treatment gains by teaching supervisors how to give information concerning set-up performance to their employees. Results indicate that average weekly set-up times for each machine were significantly below baseline …

Recidivism After Youth Imprisonment In Relationship To Criminal Career: A Twenty Year Follow Up Study, Helmut F. Janssen

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of early biographical factors on the future development of the juveniles and focusses on recidivism and factors influencing the development of a criminal "career." It includes a twenty year follow-up period, studying 500 juveniles released from two juvenile prisons of West Germany in 1961.

From a data set originally created in 1966, which included 290 variables, 29 variables, including individual and social characteristics as well as variables dealing with prior experiences with sanctioning, were ultimately used for this study. In addition, some new variables were created from the variables of …

Choice Responding In Pigeons Exposed To Sequences Of Fixed-Ratio Schedules: Effects Of Multiple Components, Susan Goeters

Masters Theses

The present study used a discrete-trials procedure to examine choice in pigeons presented with two- to five-component sequences of fixed-ratio schedules of reinforcement. Results of the first phase indicate that the majority of choice responses were allocated to the schedule containing the shorter initial fixed-ratio component regardless of the number of components assayed. These findings support the notion that temporally prior reinforcers minimize the effects of subsequent reinforcers and overall response requirements. Phase two findings indicate, however, that under some conditions, fixed-ratios other than the first, lawfully, although weakly, influence choice.

An Analysis Of Four Empathy Variables As Predictors Of Marital Satisfaction, Teck Seong Chee

Masters Theses

The objective of this study was to determine if empathy was predictive of marital satisfaction, and which, if any, of the four empathy variables from Davis' Interpersonal Reactivity Index (1980), would serve as predictors of marital satisfaction. Correlation and regression analyses were used to evaluate the relationships of fantasy, empathic concern, perspective taking and personal distress with marital satisfaction. Variables of secondary interest included those of sex. birth order, length of marriage and age married. Both Individuals and couples were used as units of analysis.

Empathic concern and perspective taking were found to be predictors of marital satisfaction. No significant …

Recoil Corrected Continuum Shell Model Form Factor Calculations For 4He(E,E’)4He(0+), Jiang Yu

Masters Theses

Charge form factor calculations for the electroexcitation of the ⁴He, 0⁺ state have been performed within the context of the recoil corrected continuum shell model. A pure Os⁴ ground state structure is assumed and full internal coordinate recoil corrections are made. The result is compared with available data. It is demonstrated that the 0+ state may be described in a 1p -1h shell model context. Inclusion of nsOs^-1 ground state correlations is suggested for further research.

The Effects Of Using Print Media In Teaching Critical Thinking Skills To Adult Students, Gloria Jean Mccormick

Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of an educational program in which print media were employed to teach critical thinking skills to adult education students. The major problem of this research was whether or not adult students, who lack a high school diploma, show greater improvement in critical thinking if they participate in a critical thinking skills program using print media, than if they do not. Adult education students in three suburban school districts of Macomb County, Michigan were the subjects of this study.

The methodology used in this study was a non-randomized control group, prettest-posttest …

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting July 29, 1988, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Approval of the Minutes
• Correspondence
• Remarks by the President
• Executive Session
• Ratification of Contract
• Resolution regarding Official University Positions
• Recommendation Regarding Fall Semester 1988 Tuition and Fee Schedule
• Grant Report
• Personnel Report
• Master's of Science Degree in Industrial Engineering
• Gift Report
• Personnel Report
• General Fund Budget for 1988/89
• Tax Exempt Resolution
• Food Service Facility Agreement
• Reciprocal Law Enforcement Aid Agreement
• Provost's Remarks
• Public Comments
• Adjournment

Western News, July 28, 1988, Western Michigan University

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Story highlights: Research and sponsored program funding nearly doubles in two years, Stamm participates in institute at Bryn Mawr, Tuition increase proposal on agenda for Board meeting

Western News, July 14, 1988, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Jaksa named to position in faculty development, Haenicke expresses relief after Bergman plea, Kellogg Foundation continues survey funding

Strategic Preferences Of Good And Poor Beginning Readers, Beverly B. Swanson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The purposes of this study are the following: (1) Can the "talk aloud" procedure elicit a variety of responses from students as young as first grade? ... even poor readers? (2) Can strategic preferences be differentiated between the poor and good beginning readers?

Reading Horizons Vol. 28, No. 4

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 28, issue 4.

A Pleasant Reminder: There Is An Established Criteria For Writing Alphabet Books, Betty L. Criscoe

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Since alphabet books are usually entertaining, as well as colorful, they continue to be favorites of young children. Teachers select them to develop language and to teach sound-symbol relationships. Illustrators and authors of alphabet books, however, continue to violate the criteria for these books established by Huck and Kuhn. According to Huck and Kuhn, a good alphabet book should have: 1. One or two easily identifiable objects--objects meaningful for the age level of the child for whom the book was written--should be presented on a page. 2. Objects such as rabbit, having several correct names, should be avoided. 3. The …

Making Repeated Readings A Functional Part Of Classroom Reading Instruction, Timothy Rasinski

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Students often fail to connect the rereading they are asked to do with some purpose that is functional and meaningful within their real life experiences. Because of this students often see repeated reading as a meaningless school task.

Article Index

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Index to articles published in volume 28.

Author Index

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Index to authors in volume 28.

Readability And Parent Communications: Can Parents Understand What Schools Write To Them?, Nancy A. Mavrogenes

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

In the past two decades, much has changed in education. The civil rights movement in the 1960s focused attention on the unequal schooling of minorities and the poor preparation of those groups for school. At the same time Jerome Bruner and Benjamin Bloom were claiming that children can learn any subject at any age and that they attain half their intellectual ability by the age of 4, thus emphasizing the importance of early childhood education (Elkind, 1986). In the later 60s and early 70s, when it was becoming clear that new early childhood programs were not enough alone to meet …

Reading Difficulties: Eradication Of Causes Treatment Of Symptoms?, John H. Warren

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

In the literary treatment of causes and symptoms pertaining to reading disability, it is obvious to this writer that a rather consequential shift has occurred over the past two decades or so. This perceived change has not been one of semantics involving "cause" and "symptom" but, seemingly, has reflected some modulation in expectations articulated about the two. For all practical purposes in reading diagnosis and for clarification here, "symptom" is regarded as an indicator of probable causation of a problem; and "cause," a factor actually responsible for some difficulty. Before proceeding, however, two questions must be addressed: (1) Concerning symptoms …

Turning Contemporary Reading Research Into Instructional Practice, Alan Frager, Amos L. Hahn

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

This article highlights four promising areas of contemporary reading research as well as the instructional practices implied by recent findings.

Western News, June 30, 1988, Western Michigan University

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Story highlights: University awards honorary degree to Nelson R. Mandela, WESTOPS to move into office space downtown

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting June 24, 1988, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Approval of the Minutes
• Correspondence
• Remarks by the President
• Recommendation re Honorary Degree
• Grant Report
• Personnel Report
• Revocation of Degree
• Gift Report
• Personnel Report
• Revised 1987/88 General Fund Operating Budget
• Continuation of 1987/88 Budget into 1988/89
• Fall Semester 1988 Tuition Schedule
• Mini-Mall Contract
• Residence Hall Renovation Contract
• Columbia Plaza Letter of Understanding
• Liquor Licenses
• Recommendation re Executive Officials Policy
• Remarks by Provost
• Public Comments
• Adjournment
• Attachment A - Revised 1987/88 General Fund Budget
• Attachment B - Executive Officials Policy
• Attachment C - Provost's Remarks

Western News, June 16, 1988, Western Michigan University

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Story highlights: Freshman class could reach 3,600; Dennison says, WMU joins with Detroit Public Schools to offer middle school students 'incentive', Bachelor's in production technology reflects continued WMU commitment, Hayden awarded grant to study in Canada, WMU playing host to unique sports training site for the visually impaired, Center to assess Chicago urban development projects

Faculty Achievements As Future Foundations: Faculty Recognition Dinner 1988, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

Faculty Achievements as Future Foundations

Faculty Recognition Dinner

June 3, 1988

Our Honored Guests:

• Darwin A. Buthala
• Sidney Dykstra
• Joseph J. Eisenbach
• Dona J. Fowler
• Paul E. Holkeboer
• Norma L. Hungerford
• William H. Kanzler
• George G. Mallinson
• Dorinne L. McKeag
• June Mochizuki
• Minoru Mochizuki
• Helmi K. Moulton
• James H. Powell
• Lawrence B. Schlack
• Lloyd . Schmaltz
• Robert Jack Smith
• Nancy Y. Stone

Faculty Recognition Dinner Photo 1988, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

Faculty Recognition Dinner Photo

June 3, 1988

Photoed:

• Paul Holkeboer
• Robert Jack Smith
• Sid Dykstra
• Lloyd Schmaltz
• James Powell
• William Kanzler
• President Diether H. Haenicke
• Helmi Moulton
• Jospeh Eisenbach
• Norma Hungerford

Western News, June 2, 1988, Western Michigan University

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Story highlights: Several physical improvement projects get under way this summer, Remarks by provost; election, report included on Senate agenda for tonight, Logo is out; signature is in with new design for official documents, Telecommunications department ann0unces new FAX service

Affirmative Action Defended, Laurence Thomas

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

This paper is based on a presentation made to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society October 14, 1987.

The Effect Of Ph Variation On The Evolution Of Non-Condensible Gases From Hardwood Black Liquors, Gregory Allen Goode

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

A distillation process utilizing hardwood black liquor samples from Mead in Escanaba was used to determine the effect of ph on non-condensible gas evolution.

Ph was found to be highly negatively correlated to the volumetric production of non-condensible gas. The correlation for all the black liquor samples tested was found to be greater than -.990. This indicates that as ph increases the volumetric production of non-condensible gas decreases.

Ph was found to be more correlated to the effect of gas volume reduction in the ph range of I 1.5 to 12.5.

Non-condensible gases produced in the fifth and sixth effects …