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A Systems Approach To Complex Social Behavior: The Formulation Of A Methodology And Its Application To The Peasant Village Of Tzintzuntzan, William Earl Reynolds

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The Effects Of Instructions With And Without Contingencies On Parent’S Attending Behavior, Betty Lou Fry

Masters Theses

Mother attending to appropriate child behavior and accompaning changes in appropriate child behavior were measured to assess the effects of various instructional conditions. Several appropriate behaviors for a group of child subjects were measured con currently under various stimulus conditions using interval recording procedures. A multiple baseline design was used with instructional conditions of (a) no instructions to mother, (b) instructions to mother to attend to all appropriate behaviors and only to appropriate behaviors, (c) instructions to mother to attend to specific behaviors as defined by one-word definitions, (d) instructions to mother to attend to the same specific behaviors as …

Conflicting Perspectives And Policies: An Analysis Of The Failure Of The United Nations Capital Development Fund, Marjon Vashti Kamara

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The United Nations Capital Development Fund was established by the U. N. General Assembly under Resolution 2168 (XXI) of 13 December 1966. Its expressed purpose was to assist developing countries in the development of their economies by supplementing existing sources of capital assistance by means of grants and loans, particularly long-term loans made free of interest or at low interest rates.

More than its actual or potential role, the Fund has a symbolic meaning for the developing nations. To them, it represents the best hope of overcoming their problem of capital shortage. It symbolizes also the expected role of the …

Seating Patterns In The College Classroom: The Relationship Between Spatial Location And Selected Role, Personality, And Status Variables, Dolores Burchell Jones

Masters Theses

Purpose and Theory

The Problem

Studies dealing with the use of space have been concerned primarily with territoriality, the way man perceives space through his senses, and with the manner by which culture affects the location of persons in space. This study, like others, falls under the rubric of spatial ecology in that it deals with the occupation of space. This study focuses on the college classroom in an attempt to determine if the occupation of space is systematically patterned, that is, whether particular areas of the classroom are occupied by students with specifiable characteristics. In this context, the particular …

Dimensionality And Internal Composition Of The Twenty-Two Item Mental Health Inventory, John William Fox

Masters Theses

Chapter I

Introduction

Social scientists have long been concerned with the relationships between mental disorder and various sociocultural factors, such as, social economic status, ethnic background, sex, age, and marital status. Until quite recently, the majority of studies that have investigated these relationships have defined cases of mental disorder solely in terms of whether or not an individual was in psychiatric treatment (see Faris and Dunham, 1939; Rose and Stub, 1955; Hollingshead and Redlich, 1958).

The utilization of psychiatric treatment as the only criterion of mental disorder, however, has been criticized by a number of researchers. Felix and Bowers (1948), …

Contrast Modulated Schedule-Induced Polydipsia, Thomas L. Fisher

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My Internship Experience At The Western Michigan University Counseling Center, Bruce Vern Weller

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The Questionable Moral Value Of Major Characters In The Later Works Of Henry James, Joseph R. Fiore

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Chapter I: Introduction

As human beings, when we cannot see clearly into the workings of life, we call it ambiguous--and rightly so. Judgment of our own behavior and that of others is always suspect. We have a tendency to label this person as "good" or that act as "evil," but there should always be a certain amount of uncertainty as to whether or not our perceptions and our ensuing judgments are correct. Those of us who are literature have also, by habit, come to look at literature as reflecting the same standards of right and wrong, of good and evil. …

The Use Of Token Punishers And Delayed Timeout With Emotionally Disturbed Children, Joel C. Frost

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A Single Session Design To Assess Schedule Interactions, Thomas J. Edwards

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Racial Integration And Educational Policy In Kenya, Suhashni Datta

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The Influence Of Nicotine On The Effect Of Secretin On Gastric Secretion In The Rat And Dog, Donald H. Currie

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The Administration Of The North Central Association Study And Visitation In The Parchment Public Schools, Richard D. Buehler

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Blinding The Medusa's Eye: Prolegomena To A Social Hermeneutics, David Boyer

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Two Internships: Professional Training And Personal Discovery, Susan C. Bolon

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Concept Acquisition As A Function Of Two Verbal Training Sequences: Nonvocal-Vocal And Vocal-Nonvocal, Kim Thomas Pisor

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An Experience With College Administrators At Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Christopher E. Nord

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A Comparison Between Self-Paced And Instructor-Paced Instructional Systems, Laura Lee Winter

Masters Theses

Two college level systems of instruction derived from basic behavioral principals were compared. Community college students enrolled in two sections of an introductory psychology course served as subjects. Students in one section experienced a self-paced system of instruction. Students in the second section went through the course under an instructor-paced system of instruction. Students in the self-paced section received higher course grades and performed better on unit quizzes. However, the final examination performance for the two groups was about the same. Suggestions for further research are given.

Toward The Third Metntal Health Revolution: A Program To Prepare High School Students For Parenthood, Linda Wienir

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Parent Training: A Critical Review And Analysis, Mara Sapon Shevin

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A Study Of Visual Pollution From Overhead Wires And Associated Structures, Robert J. Schodorf

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The Integrated Basic Science Course At Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Dorothy Nichols Hackett

Dissertations

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Behavioral Comparison Of Septal Lesioned And Anosmic Rats, Sharon Kay Suppes

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A Study Of University Research Administration; Organizational Structure, Function And Effectiveness, Louis H. Steinberg

Dissertations

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Faculty Attitudes Toward The Role Of Intercollegiate Athletics In Selected Institutions Of Higher Education, William D. Neal

Dissertations

This study investigated the attitudes of faculty members toward the role of intercollegiate athletics in selected institutions of higher education. The perceptions of the faculty members were collected by means of a questionnaire comprised of three sections: Section 1 requested demographic data; Section 2 requested responses to forty-eight items relating to intercollegiate athletics, and Section 3 requested additional comments, A five-point Likert scale containing five response categories including strongly agree, agree, undecided, disagree, and strongly disagree was utilized in Section 2.

The forty-eight items included in the questionnaire were formulated primarily through the literature review, and from discussions with leading …

Teaching Higher-Order Concepts In Philosophy Using Siegfried Engelmann's Concept Analysis, Jonathan E. Spiegel

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The Effect Of Integrated Grouping And Of Studying Minority Culture In Reducing Cultural Cleavage In Elementary Classrooms, Daniel L. Paul

Dissertations

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A Theoretical Model For The Development Of Organizational Goals And Objectives, John W. Kofel

Dissertations

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Triplet-Triplet Energy Transfer In Indolylketones, Larry E. Hewitt

Dissertations

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A Study Of Selected Factors Relating To Success Achieved By Beginning Typewriting Students At The High School Level, Loren A. Cook

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