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The Effects Of Two Training Procedures On The Acquisition And Retention Of A Sight-Word Vocabulary In Remedial Readers, Marilyn Monteiro

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A Trial and Error and an Errorless procedure were used to teach phonically-irregular words to remedial readers. Subjects were six elementary-school students enrolled in a tutorial program. The Errorless procedure consisted of the use of an echoic prime, prompting and cumulative review over words mastered while the Trial and Error procedure consisted of the use of corrections for errors. Five subjects both mastered and retained more words with the Errorless procedure. The average percent of words mastered across all subjects was greater for the Errorless procedure (73% versus 43%), as was the average percent of words mastered on the six-week …

A Discrete-Trial Choice Procedure And The Psychophysics Of Amount Of Reinforcement: A Preliminary Analysis, Frans Van Haaren

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A discrete-trial choice procedure, in which pigeons were exposed to one constant and one variable duration of reinforcement, was used to assess the effects of session-by-session manipulations in the variable reinforcement duration on the choice behavior of the subjects. Two groups of pigeons were used. Each subject in the first group was exposed to the same constant reinforcement duration (1.5, 3.0 or 6.0 sec), but different fixed-ratio trial completion requirements (5, 15 and 45). The subjects in the second group were exposed to all three different constant reinforcement durations while the trial completion requirement was kept constant with a variable-interval …

A Discrete-Trial Procedure To Measure Preference For Variable-Interval Over Fixed-Interval Schedules Of Food Reinforcement In Pigeons, Robert I. Cobez

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A discrete-trial choice procedure was conducted in which pigeons were sequentially exposed to four constant variable-interval schedules against each of which five different fixed-interval schedules were compared. The five fixed-interval comparison values were presented in a descending then ascending sequence for the first three variableinterval standard conditions. The fixed-interval sequence was reversed for the last variable-interval standard condition. The variableinterval standard conditions were 10, 20, 40, and 40 seconds, respectively, and the five fixed-interval comparison steps for each variable-interval standard condition ranged from a maximum of twice the variable-interval standard to continuous reinforcement in five equal steps. There were 50 …

The Amelioration Of Interpersonal Perceptual Accuracy And Psychological Adjustment Of Psychiatric Outpatients Through Brief Perception Therapy: Three Case Studies, Carole Marie Bullmer

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Programmed Review Tests In A Psi Course, Terry E. Mcsween

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Two experiments demonstrated that carefully programmed review tests can result in 90% mastery of course objectives. Introductory psychology students participated in two group comparisons of the effectiveness of review tests versus no review tests. Review tests were programmed in that difficult items were repeated on several review tests. In both studies, students taking review quizzes outperformed students not taking review quizzes on final examinations. In addition, students not taking review quizzes were more likely to drop the course.

A Descriptive, Reliability, And Validity Study Of The Enneagram Personality Typology, Jerome P. Wagner

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The Death Motif In The Love Poems Of Theodore Roethke, George Wendt

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Runaway Adolescents' Perception Of Their Parental Behavior And Environment, Saleth John Arulanandam

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An Analysis Of The Long Range Planning Processes Being Used In Selected Institutions Of Higher Education, E. Arthur Stunard

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An Analysis Of Procedures And Methods Of Educational Planning Utilized In Ogun State, Nigeria, Olusegun Akanji Ogunsaju

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Opiates And Neuro-Effector Transmission In The Mouse Vas Deferens: Intracellular Recordings Of Excitatory Junction Potentials, Lauren Vaile Vitek

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The Effects Of Gender Of Respondent, Nature Of Assault, Severity Of Assault, And Resistance Of Victim On Respondents' Perceptions Of Assault Victims, Glenn N. Paule-Carres

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A Factorial Description Of Tasks Of The Family, Hideyo Ogawa

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Problem

An understanding of the adjustment of the family may be facilitated by analyzing the tasks and the task performance of the family. This analysis requires a knowledge of the content and the construct of family tasks. The purpose of the study was to describe a factorial construction of the tasks of the family in exploring the content and the construct of family tasks.

Method

An instrument was developed which identified the extent to which family member percieved a wide variety of tasks relevant to family living. This instrument was administered to individuals in 280 families living in Lincoln Township, …

Epilepsy And The Menstrual Cycle: The Contribution Of Stressful Life Experiences And The Menstrual Cycle To Epileptic Seizures, Janet Marie Kamer

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Immuno- And Bioassayable Extrapituitary Growth Hormone And Thyroid Stimulating Hormone From Discrete Areas Of The Central Nervous System, Sally Ann Hojvat

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An Analysis Of Students' Semantic Space: Implications For Admissions In Optometry School, Sheldon Lloyd Siegel

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An Analysis Of The Background Characteristics And Management Styles Of The Mobile Superintendents In The Counties Of Cook And Dupage, Edward S. Noyes

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Cognitive Effects Of Birth Order And Parental Absence, Joy A. Moss O'Shields

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The Effects Of Oedipally-Related Stimuli In The Subliminal Psychodynamic Activation Paradigm: A Replication And An Extension, Robert J. Swanson

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Willingness To Accept The Sick Role In Men And Women Professionals, Kimberly Evans Merrill

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Empathy, Assertiveness, Socialization And Values: And Their Relationship To Altruism In College Students, Ornum William Edward Van

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Victim Blame As A Strategy For Coping With Criminal Victimization: An Analysis Of Victim, Community, And Police Reactions, Dennis P. Rosenbaum

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Effects Of Feedback Of Psychological Results On Parental Attitudes Toward Their Child Referred For A Psychological Evaluation, Deidra Genelle Roberson

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The Role Of The Central Office Instructional Leader In Selected Public Elementary School Districts, William J. Loftus

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An Analytical Survey Of Principal Evaluation In Large Secondary Public School Districts In Cook County, Illinois, Ann E. Ludwig

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Developmental Progress In Premature Infants As A Function Of Oscillating Waterbed And Auditory Stimulation, Kayreen Ann Burns

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Teaching The Bible To Black Africans : (Toward A Methodological Approach To Bible Teaching Applied To The Beti Tribes Of South-Cameroon), Joseph Nkou

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Problem. This study is concerned with methods of teaching the Bible in Black Africa and particularly among the Beti tribes of South Cameroon. The Gospel message has been brought to the Beti people through the ministry of Western instructors. Some have claimed their teaching to be irrelevant to the Africans. It appeared necessary, then, to find out in what way that teaching was irrelevant to Beti people and to suggest positive methods which could be applied in order to facilitate the Beti grasp of the Christian message and, consequently, to predispose them to a full and inner acceptance o f …

A Study Of The Educational Administrator's Responsibility For Facility Planning As Seen By The Public-School Superintendents And Private-School Principals In Southwestern Michigan, Gado Appollo Ongwela

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Problem

Planning of educational facilities is recognized as the responsibility of the educational administrator (Anderson & Van Dyke, 1972; McClurkin, 1964). Much has been written about planning of educational facilities and about the role of the architect and the facility planning specialist, but the details of the educational administrator's responsibility for facility planning has not been clearly defined (Boyer, 1973).

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To determine the essential elements of the administrator's responsibility in planning educational facilities, an extensive review of literature was undertaken. Sixty-three educational administrators in southwestern Michigan--thirty from private schools and thirty-three from public-school systems--were involved through a structured interview …

Intrinsic-Extrinsic Religious Motivation And Patterns Of The Self-Concept : An Analysis Of Selected Single Young Adults Of The North Caribbean Conference Of Seventh-Day Adventists, Eugene F. Daniel

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Problem. The development of an authentic Christian lifestyle is commonly accepted as a desirable goal which the church organization seeks to foster. The Seventh-day Adventist Church has accepted the development of the Christian personality within the youth and young adults as one of its goals. The purposeof this study was to investigate the relationship between intrinsic-extrinsic religious motivation and patterns of self-concept for a selected sample of single young adults of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Since earlier studies have postulated negative and positive relationships between religious motivation andthe self-concept, there was a need to know if a significant relationship existed …

Effects Of Electromagnetic Fields On The Visually Evoked Response In The Visual Cortex, Arni Holm

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Problem. This study sought to determine if electromagnetic fields affect the visually evoked response of the visual cortex. From the fact that nerve impulses are propagated by the motions of electrically charged ions, the question arose whether the presence of an external electromagnetic field might affect either the propagation of nerve impulses traveling through the optical nerve pathway or the functioning of the visual cortex itself.

Method. Evoked responses were produced in the visual cortex of cats by visual stimulation (light flashes). Surface electrodes, located at the visual cortex (and connected to a preamplifier and an oscilloscope) detectedthe evoked responses …