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A Partial Validation Of The Manifest Hostility Scale, Thomas F. Grib

Master's Theses

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College Students As Volunteer Subjects, Robert W.F. Kelly

Master's Theses

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An Investigation Of The Relationship Between Skill In Deductive Reasoning And Adjustment And Between Skill In Problem Solving And Adjustment At Various Levels Of Education, Mary Rosaire Lucassen

Master's Theses

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A Preliminary Study Of Differences In Inductive Reasoning Ability Among Upper Division College Men, Valerio Ortolani

Master's Theses

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A Discriminative Scoring System For The Tat: An Investigation, Thomas Leo Qinn

Master's Theses

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A Study Of Personality Characteristics And Effectiveness Of Job Performance Of Usaf Non-Commissioned Officers Instructing Basic Military Training, John R. Grotzinger

Student Work

Years of service in the Air Force has served to reveal the need for an increased awareness of the high cost of training personnel. While many factors are involved in this problem, one particularly important facet is the type and quality of leadership, instruction and supervision which basic trainees are s u b jected to in their initial period of adjustment to military life. This inchoate period of adjustment in the Armed Services is a particularly sensitive one for the individual.

The Effects On The Quality And Rate Of Cursive Writing Of A Seven Months Delay In Its Introduction In The Waterloo Schools, Mary Elizabeth Fredrikson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

It has been the policy in the Waterloo school system for the past sixteen years to make the transition from manuscript to cursive handwriting during the last six to eight weeks in second grade. The first part of third grade is spent in a review of the formation of the small and capital cursive letters. Cursive writing is taught throughout the remainder of third grade and used as the primary writing tool throughout the grades. The purpose of this study was to investigate how the quality and rate of cursive writing were affected by delaying the starting of instruction in …

A Determiner Of The Centrality Of A Trait In Forming Impressions Of Others, Joseph G. Hill

Psychology ETDs

This paper will present experimental findings in connection with a certain aspect of the perception of others. A survey of the literature, to be presented in this section, will lead up to a formal statement of the problem.

Discrimination As A Function Of Sex And Meaning Of Stimuli, Thomas Joseph Schmitz

Masters Theses

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A Further Investigation Of The Effects Of Achievement Imagery And Differential Instructions On Maze Learning Performance, Ann Hunter

Master's Theses

One of the personality variables that has been the object of considerable interest in recent years is "need achievement." This variable was first defined by Murray as the need for "success in competition with some standard of excellence." McClelland and his associates, measuring need for achievement from written responses to TAT-type pictures, have reported Significant and useful relationships between this variable and several behavioral criteria.

In order to have a more objective method of measuring need achievement, the Iowa Picture Interpretation Test (IPIY) was developed at the State University of Iowa laboratories. The IPIT obtains scores on four variables: achievement …

A Study Of The Relationship Of The Present-Day Patterns Of Family Life With The Emotional Stability Of Children, Margaret Ruth Dresslaer

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Problem: This is a study of the pattern of living in the present-day family and the possible effect that it may have upon the emotional stability of children. Also, the writer seeks to cite to the reader the elements that were common in the lives of "sick personalities" that she had known and the emotionally immature children under study.

Method of Research. The investigation comprised case studies of fifty pupils of the Lamar Elementary School who were grouped according to chronological age. Information for the case studies were obtained from school records, conversations and conferences with parents, and surveys within …

A Pantoscopic View Of Law And Psychology, Robert S. Redmount

Journal of Legal Education

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An Analysis Of Relationships Among Ratings On Entrance Examinations And Academic Achievement In The College Of Engineering, University Of New Mexico, Elizabeth B. Thurston

Psychology ETDs

The purpose of this study is two-fold:

1. To determine relationships between academic success of students in the College of Engineering, University of New Mexico, and their standing in certain entrance examinations; and

2. To recommend cutting scores on the various tests which might be set as standards for admittance to the College of Engineering.

For the purpose of this study, no correlations were drawn between scores on these entrance examinations and grade point averages for university work. The criterion for validity for these tests in this case was not grade point averages, but simply the "succeed-fail" differential. Since a …

A Comparative Study Of Personality Adjustment Of Successful And Unsuccessful Readers, Marvin F. Daley

Psychology ETDs

The reading process may be considered essentially as a "complex but unitary psychological function". As such, it involves ideational, emotional, and motor aspects as well as the adaptations of the reader to the reading experience. Undoubtedly, of all phases of the school curriculum, the varied aspects and constituents of the reading process have been the most extensively investigated. Yet, the area concerning which least is known is the personality adjustment of the reader. This limitation of research was recognized by Gann over a decade ago, and is as true today as it was then.

Series Of Lectures On Personality Development

Historical Documents of Bryant University (1863-present)

These lectures and demonstrations on personality development were given to Bryant freshmen in the School of Secretarial Science by faculty members and off campus specialists in 1958.

The Relationship Between Written Knowledge Of The Alphabet And Spelling Ability At The Fourth Grade Level, Dewey A. Schluter Jr.

Student Work

Profound differences in theory are never invented; they grow out of conflicting elements in a genuine problem. The problem of spelling is not new; it has existed since the first crude attempts at written communication. From the earliest symbol to the complex alphabets used in spelling today, the written word has been the method by which mankind has expressed himself and recorded his discoveries.

An Exercise On The Level Of Aspiration For The Introductory Psychology Laboratory., Susan Williams Strange

Psychology ETDs

It is customary to have a laboratory concurrent with a science course. These laboratories presumably demonstrate the laws and principles of that science. This is done in several ways: by giving the students practical first-hand knowledge of the principles, by having them observe demonstrations or participate in them, by teaching them through “audio-visual aids”, and so on. But it is because certain problems are posed by the very nature of the laboratory. For example, time limits may prevent the completion of experiments or they may be too complicated for the beginning student to undertake.

A Study Of The Motivation Of Leaders Followers And Isolates In A Group Of Delinquent Boys, Robert G. Milligan

Dissertations

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An Investigation Of A New Method Of T.A.T. Analysis By A Prediction Study Of High And Low Academic Achievers , Leo Alex Mccandlish

Dissertations

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The Effect Of Values On Classroom Achievement , Neil John Webb

Master's Theses

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A Comparison Of Psychogalvanic Responses With Certain Categories Of The Mmpi , Stanley J. Cabanski

Master's Theses

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Sex Differences In The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale For Eighteen And Nineteen Year Olds , David Desales Markert

Master's Theses

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An Investigation Of The Influence Of Occupations On The Loyola Language Study , Frank Anthony Dinello

Master's Theses

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The Relationship Between A Time Score And Anxiety Score On The Taylor Anxiety Scale, Donald H. Kausler, E. Philip Trapp

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

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Technical Manual Editor Analysis Profile: Test Construction And Preliminary Standardization For Personnel Selection, Aurelius Anthony Abbatiello

Dissertations

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4. Psychology, Robert L. Bloom, Basil L. Crapster, Harold L. Dunkelberger, Charles H. Glatfelter, Richard T. Mara, Norman E. Richardson, W. Richard Schubart

Section XXI: Meaning in the Social Sciences

Psychology is the scientific study of the behavior of organisms, particularly the processes involved in the complex organization of these organisms as individuals. The processes are studied from the analytic biochemical view (overlapping physiology) to the broad view of the effect of group activities on individual behavior (overlapping sociology). [excerpt]

3. The Science Of Man, Robert L. Bloom, Basil L. Crapster, Harold L. Dunkelberger, Charles H. Glatfelter, Richard T. Mara, Norman E. Richardson, W. Richard Schubart

Section X: The Eighteenth Century Enlightenment

Perhaps the chief achievement of the Enlightenment was the creation of the social sciences and the application of these sciences to the problems of human existence. The selections which follow offer a first-hand glimpse of the type of work that Enlightenment thinkers accomplished in the fields of psychology, economics, political science, and ethics. The selections are but fragments of thorough, systematic analyses of the foregoing subjects. However, our primary interest here is to understand some of the important assumptions and conclusions rather than to acquire a detailed knowledge of each of the sciences. The ideas presented may seem oversimplified and …

1. Introduction, Robert L. Bloom, Basil L. Crapster, Harold L. Dunkelberger, Charles H. Glatfelter, Richard T. Mara, Norman E. Richardson, W. Richard Schubart

Section XXI: Meaning in the Social Sciences

Vastly increased research and a sounder technique in history in the nineteenth century had two influences on the social sciences. When an enthusiasm for the records of history was combined with the evolutionary perspective, it often resulted in the search for and the imposition of patterns of development on history in general or on the history of particular subject matters such as economics, politics, morals, or religion. Social scientists looked to history for explanations, in the hope of finding inevitable laws, stages of development, or the forces that moved human society. As historians worked out a critical method for their …

Fakability Of Interest Tests , James Anthony Becker

Master's Theses

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Olfactory Discrimination In Lobotomized Patients , Joseph R. Caldwell

Master's Theses

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