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Regional Variation In Mandibular Morphology In The Prehistoric Japanese Populations Of The JōMon And Okhotsk, Rogelio A. Arenas Aug 2012

Regional Variation In Mandibular Morphology In The Prehistoric Japanese Populations Of The JōMon And Okhotsk, Rogelio A. Arenas

Anthropology

Examination of 11 metric mandibular traits was conducted on data collected from several Jōmon and Okhotsk sites for the purpose of analyzing potential impacts of dietary differences on mandibular morphology for these groups. Based on the dietary history of the populations and their respective regions, Middle Jōmon (5,000 - 3,000 BP) sites would share comparable robusticities across all regions based on social and economic continuity as a stable climate resulted in abundant dietary resources which fostered a growth in population in the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. As the climate cooled in the Late/Final Jōmon (4,000 - 2,000 BP), …

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Physical Environmental And Biological Correlates Of Otolith Chemistry Of Arctic Marine Fishes In The Chukchi Sea, Christine Marie Gleason Aug 2012

Physical Environmental And Biological Correlates Of Otolith Chemistry Of Arctic Marine Fishes In The Chukchi Sea, Christine Marie Gleason

Marine Biology

Life history movement patterns in marine fishes can be determined by otolith chemistry if environmental variables are reflected in the otoliths. Arctic cod (Boreogadus Saida), Arctic staghorn sculpin (Gymnocanthus tricuspis), and Bering flounder (Hippoglossoides robustus) are abundant Arctic fishes in the Chukchi Sea with overlapping distributions. Physical environmental data, demersal fishes, bottom seawater, and sediment interface seawater samples were collected from the Chukchi Sea Offshore Monitoring in Drilling Area (COMIDA) cruise on July 30, 2009 and the Russian American Long-term Census of the Arctic (RUSALCA) cruise from September 3 to 30, 2009 in the Chukchi Sea. Magnesium (Mg), strontium (Sr), …

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Continuity Of Conduct And Substance Use Disorders Among Adolescents In The One Year And Two Years Following Exposure To Substance Abuse Treatment, Brian Mcmanus Aug 2012

Continuity Of Conduct And Substance Use Disorders Among Adolescents In The One Year And Two Years Following Exposure To Substance Abuse Treatment, Brian Mcmanus

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

The current study utilized a sample of 138 adolescents from a short-term inpatient chemical dependency recovery hospital. Analyses utilized scales from the Global Appraisal of Individual Needs (GAIN), a semi-structured interview that was administered multiple times over the two years after treatment intake. Analyses examined the persistence of substance abuse, conduct disorder symptomatology, delinquent behavior, and mental distress following treatment. A primary goal of the study was to examine whether adolescents with severe conduct disorder (i.e., those engaging in behaviors causing considerable harm to others) followed different trajectories than their mild/moderate counterparts. This inquiry was predicated largely on research that …

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Growth Of Juvenile Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus Tshawytscha) As An Indicator Of Density-Dependence In The Chena River, Megan T. Perry Aug 2012

Growth Of Juvenile Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus Tshawytscha) As An Indicator Of Density-Dependence In The Chena River, Megan T. Perry

Biological Sciences

In management of Pacific salmon, it is often assumed that density-dependent factors, mediated by the physical environment during freshwater residency, regulate population size prior to smolting and outmigration. However, in years following low escapement, temperature may be setting the upper limit on growth of juvenile chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha during the summer rearing period. Given the importance of juvenile salmon survival for the eventual adult population size, we require a greater understanding of how density-dependent and independent factors affect juvenile demography through time. In this study we tested the hypotheses that (1) juvenile chinook salmon in the Chena River are …

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Nutritional Ecology Of Moose In An Urban Landscape, Joseph H. Welch Aug 2012

Nutritional Ecology Of Moose In An Urban Landscape, Joseph H. Welch

Biological Sciences

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER), Alaska supports a large population of moose that lives in and around the urban and industrial development of Anchorage. This study evaluates the body condition of adult female moose on JBER and calculates the relative nutritional value of habitat for planning development and for mitigating the effects of development on this population. Body condition of moose on JBER was similar to that of other populations of moose in Alaska. Our nutritional model predicted that shrublands could support 11-81 times more moose than any other habitat on JBER. Activity patterns of JBER moose were similar to those …

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Applicant Behavior On Internet Job Boards: The Effects Of Content And Style, Samuel Young Aug 2012

Applicant Behavior On Internet Job Boards: The Effects Of Content And Style, Samuel Young

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

Although job boards are the largest single source of recruitment in the modern workplace, little research on what influences job seeker behavior has been conducted in this context. In order to address this gap in the literature, the present research draws on the theories of planned behavior and signaling theory to hypothesize a series of factors that may impact job seeker behavior. Despite theoretical support for many job posting characteristics, only formatting influenced job seeker behavior. Discussion of the implications and areas for future research are presented.

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Assembly Of The Didymium Iridis Mitochondrial Genome By Genome Walking, Dale Kopp Aug 2012

Assembly Of The Didymium Iridis Mitochondrial Genome By Genome Walking, Dale Kopp

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

Organelle inheritance and RNA editing has been studied in Didymium iridis even though the genome has not been completely sequenced. Four segments, comprising 66 kb, have been sequenced in the past. Several approaches have been taken to complete the sequence including restriction mapping and southern hybridization, as well as screening clone banks by PCR with the sequence of contig ends. In this study, genome walking was used to uncover sequences connecting the four segments. Using genome walking, approximately 4,113 bp of new sequence was identified. With the new sequence and the characterization of two previously sequenced D. iridis mt regions …

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Reproductive Indices Of Male Snow Crab, Chionoecetes Opilio, From The Eastern Bering Sea, Marilyn Fox Zaleski Aug 2012

Reproductive Indices Of Male Snow Crab, Chionoecetes Opilio, From The Eastern Bering Sea, Marilyn Fox Zaleski

Fisheries

The reproductive success of male snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) is complicated by two different life history stages; male C. opilio undergo a terminal molt prior to adulthood which is marked by an allometric change in chela size. While adolescent males can produce spermatophores, terminally molted males are most successful in mating and reproduction. Molting and mating are hormonally linked, with molting regulated primarily by ecdysteroids and mating regulated by the putative reproductive hormone methyl farnesoate (MF). Methyl farnesoate is structurally related to the insect juvenile III hormone and, in addition to reproduction, may have a role as a juvenilizing hormone …

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"I Won't Grow Up", Kathryn R. Kent Aug 2012

"I Won't Grow Up", Kathryn R. Kent

Criticism

The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century by Kathryn Bond Stockton. Series Q. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. Pp. 312, 44 illustrations. $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.

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Leo Bersani And The Universe, Brian Glavey Aug 2012

Leo Bersani And The Universe, Brian Glavey

Criticism

Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays by Leo Bersani. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. 224. $75.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.

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Introduction, Erin Murphy, J. Keith Vincent Aug 2012

Introduction, Erin Murphy, J. Keith Vincent

Criticism

This special issue grew out of the event "Honoring Eve: A Symposium celebrating the Work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick," which was held on 31 october 2009 at Boston University (BU), about six months after Sedgwick passed away on 12 April. More than two hundred people came to the symposium from all over the United States and as far away as Spain and Israel. they were not just academics, but artists, musicians, writers, and many others who had been touched by Sedgwick's work. Within BU, faculty members from across the university prepared for the symposium by assigning Sedgwick's work in courses …

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Book Reviews, Criticism Editors Aug 2012

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Charles Olson: Call Him Ishmael (Paul Christensen) (Reviewed by Marjorie Perloff, University of Southern California)

Charles Olson: The Scholar's Art (Robert von Hallberg) (Reviewed by Marjorie Perloff, University of Southern California)

Olson's Push: Origin, Black Mountain and Recent American Poetry (Sherman Paul) (Reviewed by Marjorie Perloff, University of Southern California)

The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response (Wolfgang Iser) (Reviewed by Wallace Martin, University of Toledo)

The Failure of Criticism (Eugene Goodheart) (Reviewed by Michael Grimaud, Wellesley College)

What is Literature? (Paul Hernadi) (Reviewed by Michael Grimaud, Wellesley College)

The Sceptical Vision of Moliere (Robert McBride) (Reviewed by …

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Book Reviews, Criticism Editors Aug 2012

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Names on Trees: Ariosto into Art (Rensselaer W. Lee) (Reviewed by R. W. Hanning, Columbia University)

The Growth of a Personal Voice: Piers Plowman and The Faerie Queene (Judith H. Anderson) (Reviewed by Judith Dundas, University of Illinois)

The Harmonies of "The Merchant of Venice" (Lawrence Danson) (Reviewed by Marilyn Williamson, Wayne State University)

Virginia Woolf: Sources of Madness and Art (Jean O. Love) (Reviewed by Diane Filby Gillespie, Washington State University)

Augustus Caesar in "Augustan" England: The Decline of a Classical Norm (Howard D. Weinbrot) (Reviewed by Thomas E. Maresca, State University of New York at Stony Brook)

Carlyle …

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Book Reviews, Criticism Editors Aug 2012

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

The Picaresque Saint: Representative Figures in Contemporary Fiction (R. W. B. Lewis) (Reviewed by Harry T. Moore, Southern Illinois University)

Henry Purcell, 1659-1695: Essays on His Music (ed. Imogen Holst) (Reviewed by Otto Kinkeldey, South Orange, New Jersey)

The Interior Distance (Georges Poulet, trans. Elliot Coleman) (Reviewed by Henri Peyre, Yale University)

Shelley's Later Poetry: A Study of His Prophetic Imagination (Milton Wilson) (Reviewed by Richard Harter Fogle, Tulane University)

The Subtler Language: Critical Readings of Neoclassic and Romantic Poems (Earl R. Wasserman) (Reviewed by Edward E. Botstetter, University of Washington)

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Book Reviews, Criticism Editors Aug 2012

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Painting and Reality (Etienne Henry Gilson) (Reviewed by Theodore J. Prichard, University of Idaho)

Stewards of Excellence (A. Alvarez) (Reviewed by Chester H. Cable, Wayne State University)

Camus (Germaine Brée) ((Reviewed by Haskell M. Block, University of Wisconsin)

The Fugitives, A Critical Account (John M. Bradbury)
Fugitives' Reunion, Conversations at Vanderbilt May 3-5, 1956 (ed. Rob Roy Purdy, intro. Louis D. Rubin, Jr.)
(Reviewed by W. K. Wimsatt, Jr., Yale University)

The Critical Writings of James Joyce (ed. Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann)
A James Joyce Miscellany: Second Series (ed. Marvin Magalaner)
The Sympathetic Alien: James Joyce and Catholicism (J. …

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08-16-2012 Swosu Students Invited To The Starting Block And Project Blue This Saturday, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Aug 2012

08-16-2012 Swosu Students Invited To The Starting Block And Project Blue This Saturday, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2012

The News Student Orientation Office at SWOSU invites students to several events that the office is hosting during Dawg Days on the Weatherford campus.

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Influence Of Electrostatic Charge Upon The Deposition Behavior Of Pharmaceutical Aerosols Within Cascade Impactors, Megha Mohan Aug 2012

Influence Of Electrostatic Charge Upon The Deposition Behavior Of Pharmaceutical Aerosols Within Cascade Impactors, Megha Mohan

Theses and Dissertations

Cascade impactors, routinely used for in vitro particle size characterization of pharmaceutical aerosols, are calibrated using dilute, charge-neutralized, monodisperse aerosols. But pharmaceutical aerosols are known to generate concentrated, inherently charged, polydisperse aerosol clouds. A computational model of the Andersen Cascade Impactor (ACI) suggested that the presence of charge on aerosol particles may influence their deposition within the ACI, but experimental validation of the model is warranted. This dissertation investigates the influence of electrostatic charge upon the deposition behavior of aerosols within cascade impactors, to address the impact of charge on particle size characterization. The influence of applied charge upon the …

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Movement, Habitat Use And Detection Probability Of Bridle Shiner Estimated By Patch Occupancy Modeling In A Connecticut Watershed, Timothy Jensen Aug 2012

Movement, Habitat Use And Detection Probability Of Bridle Shiner Estimated By Patch Occupancy Modeling In A Connecticut Watershed, Timothy Jensen

Master's Theses

The bridle shiner (Notropis bifrenatus) is believed to have once been an important prey item throughout its native range; however, recent reports suggest populations have declined significantly and the species is now widely considered as imperiled. Habitats that are associated with this species are typically difficult to sample using traditional methods, making it unclear how much of the observed range reduction could be actual or perceived. My objectives were to estimate detection probability of bridle shiner, evaluate the importance of habitat on their distribution, and determine patterns of movement among habitat patches. I employed a repeated surveys design …

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All Creatures Great And Small: The Thompson School Now Offers Vet Tech, Unh Communications And Public Affairs Aug 2012

All Creatures Great And Small: The Thompson School Now Offers Vet Tech, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

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Design And Simulation Of A Mechanical Hand, Yateen P. Shembade Aug 2012

Design And Simulation Of A Mechanical Hand, Yateen P. Shembade

Theses

A variety of mechanical hand designs have been developed in the past few decades. The majority of the designs were made with the sole purpose of imitating the human hand and its capabilities; however, none of these designs have been equipped with all the motions and sensory capabilities of the human hand. The primary goal of this thesis project was to design a robotic hand with the required amount of degrees-of-freedom and necessary constraints to achieve all the motions of the human hand. Demonstration of the American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet, using a virtual design and controls platform, was used …

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Configuration Of 3u Cubesat Structures For Gain Improvement Of S-Band Antennas, Vivek Shirvante, Shawn Johnson, Kathryn Cason, Kunal Patankar, Norman Fitz-Coy Aug 2012

Configuration Of 3u Cubesat Structures For Gain Improvement Of S-Band Antennas, Vivek Shirvante, Shawn Johnson, Kathryn Cason, Kunal Patankar, Norman Fitz-Coy

Small Satellite Conference

Nano- and pico-satellites in low earth orbit (LEO), unlike their larger counterparts, have more stringent limitations on antenna design due to power constraints that govern the operational frequency and size that defines the mass and volume constraints. High bandwidth applications use higher frequencies and require higher transmission power. High gain antennas can reduce the transmission power requirements. CubeSat’s with body-mounted solar cells are limited in power generation due to limited surface area. Deployable solar panels offer a solution to the limited power by maximizing the surface area of solar cells exposed to solar radiation. The metallic deployable solar panel support …

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Book Reviews, Criticism Editors Aug 2012

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art (Julia Kristeva) (Reviewed by Eugen Baer, Hobart and William Smith Colleges)

Petrarch's Poetics and Literary History (Marguerite R. Waller) (Reviewed by Andrea di Tommaso, Wayne State University)

Puritanism and Theatre: Thomas Middleton and Opposition Drama under the Early Stuarts (Margot Heinemann) (Reviewed by Philip J. Finkelpearl, University of Massachusetts, Boston)

The Sword and the Spirit: Puritan Responses to the Bible (John R. Knott) (Reviewed by Boyd Berry, Virginia Commonwealth University)

Ghosts of the Gothic: Austen, Eliot, & Lawrence (Judith Wilt) (Reviewed by Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University)

The Living Dead: A …

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Book Reviews, Criticism Editors Aug 2012

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust (Paul de Man) (Reviewed by James S. Hans, Kenyon College)

Satire's Persuasive Voice (Edward A. Bloom) (Reviewed by Aubrey L. Williams, University of Florida)

Acts of Inclusion: Studies Bearing on an Elementary Theory of Romanticism (Michael G. Cooke) (Reviewed by Irving Massey, State University of New York at Buffalo)

Sexuality and Feminism in Shelley (Nathaniel Brown) (Reviewed by Anne K. Mellor, Stanford University)

Victorian Fantasy (Stephen Prickett) (Reviewed by Eric S. Rabkin, University of Michigan)

Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre (Sharon Cameron) (Reviewed by Donald Barlow …

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Book Reviews, Criticism Editors Aug 2012

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Literature Against Itself: Literary ideas in Modern Society (Gerald Graff) (Reviewed by Paul A. Bove, University of Pittsburgh)

Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film (Seymour Chatman) (Reviewed by Suzanne Ferguson, The Ohio State University)

Dionysos Slain (Marcel Detienne) (Reviewed by K. R. Walters, Wayne State University)

Sir Philip Sidney: Rebellion in Arcadia (Richard McCoy) (Reviewed by Arthur F. Marotti, Wayne State University)

The Living Temple: George Herbert and Catechizing (Stanley Fish) (Reviewed by William G. Madsen, Washington University)

William Hazlitt: Critic of Power (John Kinnaird) (Reviewed by Alfred Schwarz, Wayne State University)

George Eliot and the Visual …

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Book Reviews, Criticism Editors Aug 2012

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Tbe Sister Arts: The Tradition of Literary Pictorialism and English Poetry from Dryden to Gray (Jean H. Hagstrum) (Reviewed by Brewster Rogerson, Kansas State College)

Selected Essays (Robert Penn Warren) (Reviewed by Northrop Frye, University of Toronto)

Poetic Discourse (Isabel C. Hungerland) (Reviewed by James R. Kreuzer, Queens College)

An Introduction to the Arts of Japan (Peter Swann) (Reviewed by Hugo Munsterberg, New York State Teachers College, New Paltz, New York)

The Third Voice: Modern British and American Verse Drama (Denis Donoghue) (Reviewed by Kenneth Muir, University of Liverpool)

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Impulsive Choice In Adults: How Consistent Are Individual Differences?, Douglas J. Navarick Aug 2012

Impulsive Choice In Adults: How Consistent Are Individual Differences?, Douglas J. Navarick

The Psychological Record

With animated cartoons as the reinforcer, college students repeatedly made choices between a schedule providing 15 s of viewing followed by 75 s of waiting and a schedule providing 55 s of waiting followed by 25 s of viewing and then 10 s of waiting. Individual differences in choice behavior were extreme: In the second half of the first session, on at least 70% of the trials, 40% of subjects chose the small (15-s) reinforcer (impulsivity) and 40% the large (25-s) reinforcer (self-control). Each of these subjects continued to choose the same schedule consistently throughout the second session 1 - …

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Stimulus Movement And The Intensity Of Attention, David A. Washburn, R. Thompson Putney Aug 2012

Stimulus Movement And The Intensity Of Attention, David A. Washburn, R. Thompson Putney

The Psychological Record

A stimulus movement effect has been reported in which learning by nonhuman animals was significantly better with moving than with stationary stimuli. In the present investigation, this effect was extended to human participants (N = 56) and further explicated. In Experiment 1 the students responded significantly more accurately and rapidly on a battery of computerized tasks with moving versus stationary stimuli. In Experiment 2 performance on a concurrent task was systematically slowed even as performance was enhanced on two different primary tasks by stimulus movement, which supports the interpretation that these effects are mediated by attention. A distinction between procedural …

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Fast Mapping And Exclusion (Emergent Matching) In Developmental Language, Behavior Analysis, And Animal Cognition Research, Krista M. Wilkinson, William V. Dube, William J. Mcilvane Aug 2012

Fast Mapping And Exclusion (Emergent Matching) In Developmental Language, Behavior Analysis, And Animal Cognition Research, Krista M. Wilkinson, William V. Dube, William J. Mcilvane

The Psychological Record

Researchers from behavior analytic, developmental, and comparative perspectives have all investigated the conditions under which new arbitrary (symbolic) stimulus-stimulus relations are acquired. For example, young children, people with severe mental retardation, and several species of nonhuman mammals all exhibit emergent matching (EM) in the context of a well-established matching-to-sample baseline: When presented with an undefined sample stimulus and a comparison array that includes one undefined comparison and one or more baseline comparisons, participants select the undefined comparison. Further, subsequent testing may show a learning outcome: Exposure to EM trials may result in a new defined relation involving the formerly undefined …

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Anterior Hypothalamic Stimulation Decreases Serum Immunoglobulin G Concentrations, Paul L. Lambert, Ernest H. Harrell, Kimberly Kelly Aug 2012

Anterior Hypothalamic Stimulation Decreases Serum Immunoglobulin G Concentrations, Paul L. Lambert, Ernest H. Harrell, Kimberly Kelly

The Psychological Record

Neuroimmunological research has indicated that hypothalamic structures play an important role in the modulation of immunoresponsivity. We report that electrical stimulation of the anterior hypothalamus decreases the concentration of Immunoglobulin G (lgG) in rat serum. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned to either an anterior or dummy electrode group. Following the determination of baseline IgG concentrations animals were placed in an operant chamber where electrical stimulation was delivered to animals in the anterior group. Animals in the dummy electrode group were placed in an operant chamber but received no brain stimulation through the attached cable. IgG concentrations were determined for …

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Superstitious Behavior And Response Stereotypy Prevent The Emergence Of Efficient Rule-Governed Behavior In Humans, Richard Pisacreta Aug 2012

Superstitious Behavior And Response Stereotypy Prevent The Emergence Of Efficient Rule-Governed Behavior In Humans, Richard Pisacreta

The Psychological Record

This study examined whether humans would learn to solve simple problems by applying an efficient rule, that is, concept teaming. Twenty-four college students were shown a series of five letter combinations created from the first three letters of the alphabet (A, B, and C), presented on a computer terminal (e.g., ACAAA). Pressing computer keyboard keys changed the letters of the alphabet. When all five letters were identical (e.g., AAAAA), the computer informed the subject that they were correct. The most efficient solution to each problem (the rule) was to change only letters that did not match the majority of the …

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