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A Consideration Of The Relationship Between Memory As Measured By The Stanford-Binet And Reading Achievement As Measured By The California Reading Achievement Test At The Fifth Grade Level, Alfred Owen Fonkalsrud

Student Work

In the remote past the reading of written and printed symbols had Its origin when man first began to use pictures and other characters to send messages and to record events. It occurred very slowly and took a lot of effort to change from picture writing to the use of letters In representing specific sounds.

The Egyptians as early as twenty-five centuries before Christ had analysed words and syllables into sounds and had developed a series of symbols to represent them. As a result of the ingenuity of the Semites these sounds and symbols were the beginning of the Phoenician …

The Degree Of Localization Of Function For Handedness In The Rat, Jeanne Rivoire

Psychology ETDs

Statement of the problem. Peterson and Fracoral (1938) studied Localization of the handedness area in ambidextrous rate by the technique of the thermocautery destruction. By this process they were able to locate a small area for handedness, situated at approximately 250 microns posterior to the genu of the corpus callosum and lying directly over the caudate nucleus. Destruction of this area produced transfers of handedness in their rats.

However, this method of locating a specific structural area by finding a common area for a group of animals is at best relatively crude because of the variation in individual animals.

The …

An Empirical Study Of Personality Variables Related To Efficiency Of Problem Solving, Sylvia G. Dickerson

Master's Theses

During the last few years there has been an increasing interest in problem solving behavior and closely related area such as concept formation, decision making and creative thinking. This can be seen by the large number of papers published within the last few years. Taylor and McNemar in the 1955 Annual Review state that between 1949 and 1953, in the United States only, 125 relevant doctoral dissertations have been written and about 60 papers presented at the A .P.A . meetings besides the books written on the subject by Bruner, Vinacke, Humphrey, Rapaport. Despite the amount of work which has …

A Validity Study Of The Wonderlic Personnel Test, William Daniel Buckley

Master's Theses

Business and Industry is turning more and more to the use of standardized psychological tests as an aid in the selection and placement of personnel. Many concerns want to have, along with all other pertinent information, a measure of a potential employee's general intelligence. Therefore, some sort of intelligence test is found in their test batteries. Management, in most cases, prefers these various tests to be as simple as possible in their administration and evaluation, thus avoiding unnecessary time am expense. There are a number of short intelligence tests which meet the above requirement One of these, the Wonderlic Personnel …

An Evaluation Of The Accuracy Of Two Meter Calibration Procedures And The Readability Of A Variety Of Voltmeters, Dan A. Peterson

Psychology ETDs

Statement of the problem. The purpose of the study was (1) to determine the comparative accuracy of two electronic meter calibration procedures, and (2) to evaluate the readability of a variety of voltmeters.

These were accomplished by the analysis of distributions of psychophysical errors and psychological mistakes which were produced by the undergraduate engineering students as they made specified voltage settings, read the various meter scales, and computed the resulting correction factors.

Threat Anticipation In Adolescents, C. Eugene Hampton

Student Work

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A Performance Analysis Of The Upper And Lower 20% Of A Senior High School Group Compared On Tests Of Interest, Personality And Achievement, Richard E. Jensen

Student Work

Since early civilization man has been faced with a multitude of situations demanding that he make a decision or choice on which a future course of action or behavior will be based. We might correctly assume that decisions made by people have never been of such simplicity that they created no tension.

Civilization has become progressively more complicated, and thus more alternatives are present from which a person must choose, In the earliest days of man’s existence, decisions were of the simplest and most fundamental nature, Man’s decisions and choices ware, for the most part, governed by a few biological …

A Study Of Aviation Education In The Secondary Schools Of North Dakota, South Dakota, And Minnesota, Edgar M. Byers Jr.

Theses and Dissertations

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Psychological Adjustment Of The Foreign Born Characters In Willa Cather's Fiction, Sister Irene Marie Kerich

Psychology ETDs

It will be the purpose of this study to show by an analysis of inherent qualities and external manifestations how Willa Cather portrayed in her fiction the psychological adjustment which her foreign born characters had to make in America.

The Predictive Value Of The Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale, Patricia Bledsoe

Dissertations

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An Experimental Investigation Of Psychogalvanic Responses In A Threat Situation , Eugene Joseph Albrecht

Dissertations

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The Discriminatory Power Of The Loyola Language Study In Schizophrenia , Anthony James Del Vecchio

Dissertations

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Religious Attitudes And Beliefs In Relation To Adjustment , Gerd Maximilian Cryns

Dissertations

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Speed And Accuracy Of Decision Among Normals And Neurotics , Warren Freiband

Dissertations

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A Study Of Rorschach Characteristics Of Asthmatic Children , Robert Neil Traisman

Dissertations

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A Study Of The Reliability Of The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale With Eighteen And Nineteen Year Olds , Fred Donnel Whelan

Dissertations

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The Multiple Choice Rorschach: A Comparison Of Two Scoring Systems In Estimating Psychiatric Aide Efficiency As Rated By Supervisors, Edward O. Treesh

Master's Theses

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A Study Of Memory Span With The Bernreuter Memory Test , Joseph Michael Angileri

Master's Theses

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An Exploratory Investigation Of Anxiety In Alcoholics , Daniel John Anderson

Master's Theses

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An Experimental Investigation Of The Relationship Between Personality Traits And Social Preference Of Classmates , Mary Brudny

Master's Theses

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A Comparative Study Of Responses Of Good And Poor Readers On The Revised Stanford-Binet, Form L. , Charles J. Joly

Master's Theses

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The Relationship Of Interests And Values To Marital Happiness , James Carroll Mcgreevey

Master's Theses

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Assault By Test And Battery, Sidney J. Fields

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

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Q Technique Applied To Changes In Self-Concepts And Ideal Self-Concepts In A High School Class, Robert Edward Eaton

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The problem in this experiment was to determine whether significant changes in the relationship between self-concepts and ideal self-concepts take place in a twelfth-grade family life class.

Does Smoking Produce An Emotional Relaxation?, Louis Allen Kreiss Jr.

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Need for this investigation: The interest that has been aroused in the general public by the cigarette manufactures with their publicity claims, pro and con, as to the effects of their particular brand of cigarettes upon the emotional reaction of the smoker has offered the stimulus tor this research.

Statement of problem: Physiological or psychological. The research reported here represents an experimental attempt to reveal the relationship between the physiological or psychological responses to smoking.

The Thesis: Does smoking produce emotional relaxation? This report is an outgrowth of experiments of similar nature which have been completed in the past. The …

Attitude Changes Toward Mental Health As Related To A College Course In Abnormal Psychology, E. Philip Trapp

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

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A Relationship Between Eastern Thought And Western Psychotherapy : An Application Of Taoism And Zen To Client-Centered Therapy, Lloyd Saxton

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This paper does not purport to be an examination of Zen or Taoism, but rather a view of certain aspects of Zen and Taoism, but rather a view of certain aspects of Zen and Taoism from the vantage point of contemporary psychology, to see if a metaphysic, a philosophical resting-place, might not be found for the admittedly pragmatic science of clinical psychology.

The questions the paper asks, then, and attempts to answer, are (1) can such a formulation be made, and (2) does psychotherapy conducted from this point of view move satisfactorily.

The Effect Of Special Placement Upon The School Progress Of Mentally Retarded Children , Gwendolyn Ann Smith

Master's Theses

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A Review Of The Transactional Approach To Perception With Implications For Audio-Visual Instruction, Floyd A. Landsaw

Masters Theses

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Application Of The Principles Of Mental Hygiene To The Social Development Of Primary Children, Olive Holsapple

Masters Theses

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