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Reactions To Personality Test Feedback As A Function Of Attribution (Weiner, Locus, Stability, Controllability)., Daniel Eric Rubanowitz

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The literature on Weiner's (1979) model of attribution, attribution tendencies of therapists and clients, and the Barnum effect was discussed and integrated. An experiment was conducted in which the Barnum effect was investigated as a function of attribution. Subjects took a battery of personality tests that was composed of measures which previous research has related to the Barnum effect or to attributional styles. Later, subjects received handwritten personality interpretations, purportedly based on their test results and supposedly derived by a clinical psychologist. The feedback contained "Barnum" statements which indicated that the subject had decision making difficulties. In the feedback, subjects …

The Effects Of Gender, Sex-Role Traditionality, And Sex-Role Orientation On Drinking Behavior, Shelly I. Wright

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The Intrapersonal Language Use Of Preschool Children, Sylvia Wutschke

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The Concept Of Wandern In Hermann Hesse's Early Works : A Journey Through Light And Dark Toward The Self, Karin I. Pagel

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Articulatory Performance Of English-Speaking Children Enrolled In The Manitoba French Immersion Program, Suzanne Smalley

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The Locus Of Control Orientation Of Stutterers And Nonstutterers, Alanna Nielsen

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The Secret Of Countess Valerena By Gregorios Xenopoulos : Translation And Critical Analysis, Maria Psallidopoulou

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Seeing Carlos Castaneda's A Separate Reality : The Fictions Of Reality, Steven Rand

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Health Habits And Self-Esteem In Postmastectomy Patients, Barbara Jenenne Peter Nelson

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Regional Economic Growth A Policy Framework For Crookston, Minnesota, Jerry L. Nagel

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The Relative Frequency Of Sounds And Various Sound Groups Used In The Initial Position Of Phrases By Standard Speakers During Reading And Monologue, Gail C. Tonsaker

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Cognitive Slowing : The Effect Of Alcohol On The Serial Position Curve, Gary Aaron Sacks

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Personality Types Of Students And Faculty Members Of Speech-Language Pathology, Leane M. Wilson

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The Auditory Effects Of Exposure To Single-Engine Aircraft Noise, Marta Lydia Wasylkewycz

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Attenuation Of Amnesia With Arginine Vasopressin In A Reactivation Paradigm, Nancy J. Wagner

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Influence Of Physically Attractive People On Consumers In Advertising, Rick W. Caylor

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When meeting another person for the first time, the most prominent factor in formulating an impression is the person's physical attractiveness. It has been stated that "A person's physical appearance, along with his sexual identity, is the personal characteristic most obvious and accessible to others in the social interaction" (Dion, Berscheid, and Walster 1972). There are numerous studies in this area and they will be examined and analyzed with respect to their immediate and long-term implications within the marketing and advertising arenas of the business world.

Heuristics, Schemas And Biased Social Judgement: An Explanation Of The Reports Of The Sources Of Self-Knowledge, David L. Nash

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This study investigated subjects' reports of the sources of self-knowlege in light of the growing literature about the shortcomings of social judgment. The hypothesis of this study was the subjects' tendency to report self-observation at the expense of feedback and social comparison as the best source of self-knowledge is based on an implicit evaluation bias similar to Schlenker's (1980) notion of "self-projection" and Jellison and Greens' (1981) "norm of internality". It was predicted that subjects' intuitive notions about the sources are such that self-observation is seen as a generally "better" method of self-knowledge than feedback which, in turn, is better …

Adult Age Differences In Recall And Reading Times For Prose, Dee Rene Ramsel

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One strategy used by good college-age readers is to spend additional time viewing or reading information which is relevant to their goals or purpose in reading. Additional viewing time of goal-relevant information then presumably leads to superior retention of this information, at the expense of information which is irrelevant to the reader's goals. One way to detect different strategies used by younger and older readers is to measure how much viewing time readers allot to goal-relevant information and how much of this information is recalled. Relevant information can be designated as that material which contains answers to previously-memorized questions or …

A Study Of Selected Style And Content Variables In The Drawing Of Depressed And Nondepressed Adults, Catherine F.S. Dawson

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This study investigated differences between the drawings of depressed and nondelpressed adults. A procedure for obtaining objective scbres for structural and content variables was developed. Subjects were patients of the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona v.rho were high and low scorers on the Beck Depression Inventory. Based on the research of Wadeson (1980) and Wright and McIntyre (1982) the following differences between the drawings of depressed and nondepressed subjects were hypothesized: the drawings of depressed subjects would have less color, more empty space, smaller forms, more missing details, and fewer extra details than those of nondepressed subjects. Based …

A Study Of The Relationship Between Secondary Mathematics Teachers' Beliefs About The Teaching-Learning Process And Their Observed Classroom Behaviors, Cecil E. Grant

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The Changing Role Of Data Processing In The Business Firm, Ernesto Rosado

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Four Major Federal Laws From 1973 To 1983 And Their Impact Upon The Education Of Handicapped Individuals, Susan Mosolf Mast

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Three research questions provided a focus for this study: (1) What is the historical foundation in relation to federal mandates which have an impact upon the education of handicapped individuals? (2) What are the differences and, correspondingly, the interdependencies in the selected major federal laws that impact upon the education of handicapped individuals? and (3) What are the broad perspectives and implications of this information upon the education of handicapped individuals?

The answers to these research questions were accomplished by: (1) A brief overview of all education legislation that affects the handicapped individual, (2) Selection of four major federal laws …

Reading Ability And Perception, Christopher J. Revis

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Skilled reading can be partly understood as a set- of interrelated component processes (Perfetti & Lesgold, 1979). The efficiency with which any one of these component pro cesses operates could limit or improve the efficient opera tion of the other component processes. However, there is some controversy over which of these component processes are important in showing differences in overall reading ability. The processes of interest in this study are those at the perceptual level. The purpose of the existing study was to examine the relationship between perceptual processes involved in reading and individual differences in reading ability among college …

Assessing The Procedures For Teaching Basic Skills In The Cleveland Public Elementary Schools, Marlene Burr Ward

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The purpose of this study was to assess how the Cleveland public elementary schools were perceived by teachers, principals, parents, and students to be addressing the basic skills. The hypotheses state that the perceptions of these groups did not differ significantly in the following variables: planning, organizing, delivering, and monitoring of basic skills in regard to school policies and procedures, the school plan, learning support, teaching strategies, verification of student learning, performance expectations, and parent involvement.

Parent and community volunteers administered and collected both adult and student surveys. The instruments yielded data on 184 statements in the adult survey and …

An Analysis Of A Nonverbal Training Program's Effect Upon Business Communications Students' Sensitivity To Nonverbal Facial Expressions, Larry R. Honl

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Problem. The problem of this study was to determine if a specific training program in nonverbal facial communication for business communications students affects their sensitivity to nonverbal facial cues. A secondary problem was to determine if there was a difference between those groups trained in nonverbal facial communication and their sensitivity to para-language and kinesics (areas that received no formal training) and groups who received no such formal training.

Procedures. The study was conducted during the second semester of the 1982-83 school year. The study involved eight business communication classes, four teachers, and two post-secondary schools.

Of the 202 students …

Burnout Among Rural Special Education Specialists: An Investigation Of Selected Variables, Linda Jean Reetz

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Stress induced burnout among special education specialists has become a concern of administrators. This study was conducted to investigate burnout among the rural itinerant and non-itinerant specialists specifically.

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent of burnout among rural itinerant and non-itinerant specialists and the relationship of selected demographic and situational variables to this burnout. The relationship of role ambiguity and role conflict to burnout of this group was also investigated.

Design of the Study. The Maslach Burnout Inventory, the Role Questionnaire and a demographic/situational data sheet were mailed to rural special education specialists in North …

An Experimental Study Of Contact With The Elderly Upon Second-Grade Students' Attitudes And Factual Knowledge, Theresa Ann Haman

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Purpose Purposes of this study were: (a) to assess the effects of inter- generational contact on the attitudes and knowledge of second-grade students and (b) to determine if similarities existed between second- grade students' and their parents' attitudes and knowledge concerning the elderly. Procedure The research population for this study was comprised of 91 Grand Forks Public School second-grade students and 61 of their parents. The experimental group of students (46) participated in an intergenerational program with elderly persons in a nursing home. The control group of students (45) was not involved in this intergenerational program. All of the students …

The Young Child's View Of Human Diversity: An Exploration, Sara Fritzell Hanhan

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The Young Child's View Of Human Diversity: An Exploration, Sara Fritzell Hanhan

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A Character Study Of Two Trouser Roles For Mezzo-Soprano In Opera: "Cherubino" From W. A. Mozart's Le Nozze Di Figaro And "Octavian" From R. Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, Tammy Jo Hensrud-Kerian

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Trouser roles are roles in opera in which women portray young men. These roles present a special problem for the singer-actor - the problem of performing a character through transvestism.

This thesis is a study of two popular trouser roles for mezzo-soprano. It addresses the general history of trouser roles and the specific characters of "Cherubino" from W. A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro and "Octavian" from R. Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. The study analysis of these two roles incorporates the history of the characters as reflected through the development of librettos in which they appear, a character study focusing on …