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A Comparison Of Nonverbal Behaviors Of Beginning Student Clinicians And Advanced Student Clinicians, Carol A. Stevens

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences between advanced and beginning student clinicians in the observed frequency of each of eleven selected nonverbal behaviors. A beginning clinician was defined as a student enrolled in clinical practicum with not less than five clock hours of clinical case contact experience and not more than tx^elve hours of clinical case contact at the onset of this study. An advanced clinician was defined as a student enrolled in clinical practicum with not less than twenty-five hours of clinical case contact experience and not more than fifty hours of clinical case contact …

Nonverbal Immediacy In Dyads As A Function Of Degree Of Acquaintance And Locus Of Control, Bryan D. Bartels

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Mehrabian (1971) has summarized evidence that nonverbal "immediacy" behaviors such as interpersonal distance, gaze, and shoulder orientation are important in communicating interpersonal attraction. Several authors (Duke & Nowicki, 1972; Efran, 1968; Efran & Broughton, 1966) have conceptualized nonverbal immediacy differences between friends and strangers within the context of Social Learning Theory (SLT). Duke and Nowicki, for example, proposed that interpersonal distancing is mediated by specific expectancies in interactions among friends, but by generalized expectancies, such as locus of control (Rotter, 1972), when interactions involve strangers. Some support for this hypothesis is provided by a study showing that locus of control …

Experiments And Observations In Painting And Serigraphy, Steve R. Garner

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This thesis discusses the concepts and techniques I used while a graduate student in painting and printmaking.

In the area of painting I have utilized many diverse methods and materials. I discuss the actual painting application and the special surface I prepared to paint on. In application, I dwelled on studying the bleeding of one color through another with oil base paints. I could control the bleeding process by altering the application techniques through the use of different applicators. The special surface I prepared was made up of styrofoam insulation board, lathe stripping and cotton fabric. The complete preparation of …

Incumbency And Turnover In United States House Elections 1934-1974, Vincent A. Borlaug

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This work aims at laying the groundwork for a new approach to Congressional elections: turnover theory. Turnover is simply the change in membership of a Congressional chamber, and occurs in two forms: short-run turnover, in which seats change hand3 over a single election, and long-run turnover, in which incoming classes of Congressmen are decimated over several successive elections. The former is referred to in the body of this work as simply "turnover," the latter as "attrition."

The work is based on original data gathered from the Biographical Directory of the American Congress and other sources. It tests relationships between factors …

Affective Influences On Nonverbal Immediacy, Steven F. Dreyer

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This dissertation focused on compensatory relationships among the nonverbal "immediacy" behaviors—interpersonal distance, gaze, trunk lean, and body orientation--which are hypothesized to be important in the communication of interpersonal attitudes (Mehrabian, 1972; Patterson, 1973). Argyle and Dean (1965) have proposed that in social situations there are both approach and avoidance forces (e.g., affilia- tive needs, fear of intimacy) which eventually balance at some level of mutual comfort for the interactants. Once a comfortable intimacy-equilibrium has been established, any change in immediacy by one interactant requires a compensatory adjustment by the other. Since distance, gaze, trunk lean, and body orientation are assumed …

An Analysis Of Supervision During The Clinical Fellowship Year (Cfy), Alison M. Lyngby

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The present study was designed to accomplish two purposes: (1) to accumulate information regarding the effectiveness of supervision during the Clinical Fellowship Year (CFY) as defined in the September 1, 1972, Revised CFY Guidelines, and (2) to accumulate and analyze suggested changes concerning the CFY requirements, and to report a summary of these recommendations to the Committee of the Clinical Fellowship Year.

A questionnaire was designed to solicit pertinent information. Of the 1,000 questionnaires mailed, 218 completed questionnaires were returned. The data were analyzed in terms of total number and percentage of responses received from the questionnaires.

Results obtained indicated …

Judgment Analysis And Learning Disabilities: An Empirical Procedure For Construct Explication, Walter S. Mabee

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Purpose: The purpose of this study is the exp1ic ion of the learning disability (LD; construct. Construct explication is a process whereby an abstract variable is made explicit in terms of concrete variables. The purpose of this construct explication is to provide a description as opposed to a cause of the phenomena of learning disabilities.

Research: This study was designed to answer the following research questions: 1. Does a relationship exist between the selected profile variables and each criterion? Which variables are most useful for prediction by this group of LD specialists? 2. Does a relationship exist between the three …

An Investigation Of Modal Auxiliary Verb Acquisition By Children Three To Seven Years Of Age, Cheryl Rae Mayer

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The present study was designed to investigate the performance of twenty-one modal and quasi modal auxiliary verbs by normally-developing children aged 3-0 to 6-11 years on two experimental tasks involving each an imitated and elicited language task.

A one-hundred utterance elicited language task in response to toy and picture stimuli and a seventy-eight sentence imitation task were administered to fifteen subjects at each of the four age levels: 3-0 to 3-11 years, 4-0 to 4-11 years, 5-0 to 5-11 years, and 6-0 to 6-11 years.

Statistical analysis of the performance of the four subject groups revealed significant differences among subject …

Effects Of Psychodrama On Self-Actualization And Perceived Locus Of Control, Stanley W. Rosenthal

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Despite psychodrama’s popularity as a clinical procedure, few adequately controlled outcome studies have been reported. The purpose of this study was to determine whether participants in short-term psycho drama groups, relative to controls would show greater change in selfactualization, locus-of-control, and positive "back-home" behavior reported by significant others. Since protagonists emerged spontaneously from their groups, it was also possible to: (a) determine whether protagonists gained more from the psychodrama experience than less active group members, and (b) identify personality and demographic characteristics associated with participants’ willingness to assume the protagonist role.

Forty-four volunteers from a university community were randomly assigned …

An Investigation Of The Relationship Between Occupational Noise And Hearing Loss In Firefighters, Jane Callahan Rackl

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The present study was designed to measure the noise levels to which professional firefighters are exposed during the process of responding to emergency calls and to investigate the effects of these noise levels upon the auditory sensitivity of the professional firefighters .

Subjects for this study consisted of two groups of firefighters at the Minneapolis Fire Department who were less than 35 years of age. Group A consisted of 17 firefighters with six months to two years of continuous paid firefighting experience. Group B consisted of 17 firefighters with eight to eleven years of continuous paid firefighting experience. An air …

The Effects Upon Specific Nonverbal Behaviors Of Focusing Student Clinician's Attention On These Behaviors Through Videotape Feedback And Instruction, Pamela Hagen Gudmundson

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The purpose of this study was to determine if a systematic approach to the study of nonverbal movements through the use of videotape playback and instruction provides a useful procedure for teaching nonverbal patterns and actions to student clinicians.

Thirty female student clinicians who had completed between ten and 400 hours of clinical practice were divided into three groups and matched according to the number of practicum hours completed by each student.

Group I received a one-hour training session which involved viewing of their videotapes accompanied by verbal instructions to attend to specific, defined, nonverbal behaviors. Group II received a …

The Effects Of A Family Designed Learning Program Upon Selected School Related Student Attitudes, Scott J. Norsted

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The Problem: This study had as its purpose the investigation of the relationship between changes in selected school related student attitudes and participation in an experimental educational program, Family Designed Learning. The objective of Family Designed Learning was the individualization of learning through a goal-referenced model giving students, their parents and school faculty the opportunity to cooperate in the planning of the student's academic program.

Sample: Students at Edina East Secondary Schools, Edina, Minnesota, participating in Family Designed Learning did so voluntarily. These students registered on a one semester or one full academic year basis for one or more courses …

Program Budgeting In Institutions Of Higher Education, Daniel Danielson

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The Measurement And Reporting Of Human Resources - Its Feasibility And Utility, Wesley J. Simonson

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Financial accounting is dynamic. It's generally accepted accounting principles are the result of an evolutionary process that can be expected to continue. Accounting is not an art which is an end in itself, rather it is an activity with a purpose. It is an information system whose principles change in response to changes in economic and social conditions, to new knowledge, and to demands of users for more serviceable financial information. Human Resource Accounting (H.R.A.) is a part of this evolutionary process. It is a response to a need for information in an area previously considered to be outside the …

Special Problems Of The Small Business, Teresa Kjelshus

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No abstract provided.

Futures Research: A New Approach To Long-Range Corporate Planning, Conley A. Byrnes

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This study is an attempt to illustrate the potential use of futures research in long-range corporate planning. The basic purpose of futures research is to involve the corporate concern with an active role in creating future conditions. Outcomes and even the seemingly inevitable can be changed.

The paper will study the development of futures research, discuss various techniques and approaches, apply these to the corporation and discuss problems of forecasting. The paper will show that futures research concentrates on the development and application of systematic processes and procedures which are intended to unveil alternatives available to companies over the long-run. …

Decision-Making In The Public Service And The Necessity For Ethical Guidelines, Linda S. Mason

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The Effect Of The Presence Of An Unfamiliar Peer On Stranger Preference And Separation From The Mother In 15-Month-Olds, Robert Arlyn Harms

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the responses of 15-month-old toddlers to unfamiliar peers in the context of toddler-mother attachment. The subjects were twenty-two 15-month-old toddlers, who were observed singly and in pairs under mother-present and mother-absent conditions. Each toddler was involved in a sequence of six 3-minute episodes in an experimental room with toys. Using a counter-balanced procedure, three of the episodes for one toddler overlapped with three of the episodes for the other toddler so that one experimental session consisted of nine episodes. In both the one- toddler and the two-toddler halves of the six-episode …

An Investigation Of The Effects Of Imagination Enhancement Materiials On The Creative Abilities Of Fifth Grade Students, Michael William Radis

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Problem: The purpose of this study was to determine if enhancement of children's imaginations by activities in a school classroom could improve their creative abilities.

The study was divided into two parts. Part one dealt with the effect of the imagination enhancement materials on the figural and verbal creativity of children as measured by the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. Part two looked at the effect of the imaginative materials on children's choice of reading materials and on the fantasy content of their creative writing.

Procedure: The research population for this study was one fifth grade classroom consisting of 25 …

An Analysis Of Perceptions Of Job Specifications For Secondary Principals As Viewed By Principals And Teachers In Selected Minnesota Secondary Schools, Ervin F. Garbe Jr.

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine what differences in perception existed between teachers and principals when they viewed the job specifications of a secondary school principal. Further purposes were to determine if any differences existed between teachers and principals in their perceptions of a secondary school principal's general job categories and to attempt to identify those educational and demographic variables whose presence significantly affected the respondents' perceptions.

Procedure: The population of the study was limited to 253 public secondary schools in the state of Minnesota. The study sample included 169 principals and 273 teachers. The teachers and …

An Investigation Of The Vocabulary Recognition And Syntactic Performance Of Normally-Developing And Educable Mentally Handicapped Children, Myrna Fladeland Moore

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This study was designed to investigate the relationship between the performance of normally-developing subjects and educable mentally handicapped (EMH) subjects on standardized measures of vocabulary recognition and syntax.

Nine male and nine female normally-developing subjects, with a mean age of five years seven months, and ten male and seven female educable mentally handicapped subjects, with a mean age of nine years six months, participated in this study. All of the subjects were administered the Full Range Picture Vocabulary Test (FRPVT) (Ammons and Ammons, 1948) and Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) (Lee, 1974) in the present study and were administered the Peabody …

Effects Of Emotional Inoculation And Supportive Therapy On Stress Incurred From Nursing Home Placement, Mary B. Carman

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Research indicates that relocation of an elderly person to a nursing home constitutes a major stress to the individual which can be life threatening. The present study was designed to assess the efficacy of two different treatment approaches in attenuating that stress.

Thirty-six elderly persons being placed in nursing homes for the first time were randomly assigned to one of three groups. Subjects in the Emotional Inoculation (El) Group x;ere seen for three consecutive days in the hospital, prior to entering a nursing home, for purposes of giving them information about the facility and preparing them for some of the …

Source And Setting Credibility As Determinants Of Self-Referring Attitude Change, Charles D. Sullivan

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The present study was designed to demonstrate the possible applicability of the concepts and findings from attitude change research to a counseling or psychotherapy situation. Expanding and elaborating on a study by Bergin (1963), the effects of source credibility and setting credibility were investigated with respect to their independent and combined effects upon changes in the self- referring attitude of masculinity following a male subject's reception of communication indicating a discrepancy between his own and the communicator's judgment. Changes in anxiety as a result of receiving the discrepant communication were also measured.

Each of 60 male college student volunteers was …

The Concept Of Materiality As Exemplified By Court Decisions Relating To Three Dependent Factors Of Morality, Annie Ortega

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No abstract provided.

Financial Reporting Of Environmental Information, Richard Peters

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No abstract provided.

A Study Of Historical Evidences Related To Lds Church As Reflected In Volumes Xiv Through Xxvi Of The Journal Of Discourses, Terry J. Aubrey

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The material in this study is a follow-up of a thesis done by Paul C. Richards entitled, "A Study of Evidences Related to LDS Church History as Reflected in Volumes I through XIII of the Journal of Discourse." That same basic format has been employed in treating the last thirteen volumes of the Discourses.

The Discourses contains addresses delivered by General Authorities of the LDS Church and others from 1854 to 1886. Until Richards did his thesis, no one had compiled an index of those volumes that dealt exclusively with history related to the LDS Church. This study …

Determining Competence In Management Services, Kathleen Jacobs

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The Acting Career Of Dean Jagger, Crae James Wilson

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The purpose of this study is to follow the acting career of Dean Jagger through a list of theatrical productions, motion pictures, radio and television appearances. The study will also include a brief biography of his life and personal philosophies which contribute to the success of the actor and the person.

The study will follow an appraisal of personal interviews with Mr. Jagger and his wife, information gained from the "Dean Jagger Collection" located at Brigham Young University Manuscrips Library, and critical review and interviews with his fellow actors.

Fixation Of Dormant Tilletia Teliospores For Thin Sectioning, John Scott Gardner

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Dormant Tilletia caries teliospores in fixative solution or distilled water were frozen onto specimen chucks of an FTS Sorvall- Christensen frozen thin sectioner and cut or fractured at various temperatures (-20 to -75 C) and thickness settings (10, 15, 20, and 25 um). Cytoplasm of dormant spores was well preserved and organelles were found to differ from those of germinated spores in morphology. Irregular electron dense and electron opaque areas of lipid bodies were sometimes evident in dormant and germinating Tilletia caries teliospores. When dormant teliospores were sectioned in buffered fixative, lipids had an appearance similar to lipids in thin …

Some Educational Aspects Of The Music Training Program Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, 1935-1969, Grant L. Anderson

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This study consisted of two parts: (a) an historical description of the music classes, divided into three time periods for comparison and explanation, and (b) an evaluation of the effort determined from questionnaire sampling of teachers, students and stake music leaders. Historically, music courses for beginning and advanced organists and conductors were organized and maintained by the General Music Committee of the Church, designed to improve musical attitudes and performance in religious services. Many thousands completed the short, comprehensive classes, which offered an opportunity to study and prepare for church music service.

Findings indicated that successful courses were given in …