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Time Variations In Interview Quality - An Analysis Based Upon Interviews In A Block-Quota Sampled Field Survey, Altis Lee Ellis

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

From 1278 interviews and over 3200 interview attempts, data were obtained to assess the effect of interviewer experience and the effect of various designated periods in time of interviewing and solicitations for interviewing upon the quality of the interviews obtained. The data used were from a block-quota sampled survey of Midwest United States semi-urban adult residents. The indexes used in measuring interview quality were divided into two basic categories: (1) the solicitation indexes, which served to indicate the degree to which a representative sample of the survey population had been obtained; and (2) the interaction quality indexes, which served to …

The Effects Of Non-Contingent Stimuli On Rate Of Lever Pressing Using Human Subjects, Dan V. Lebenta

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Youth Attitudes Toward The Police And Law Enforcement: A Contextual Analysis, Donald G. Williams

Dissertations

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The Effects Of Teacher-Aides On Teachers Perceptions: An Exploratory Study Of Definitions Of Status-Role Activities, Major Classroom Problems, And Status-Role Satisfaction, John H. Natzke

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

An Experimental Analysis Of Human Social Behavior In A Competitive Situation With The Opportunity For Aggression, William A. Michael

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Serial Position Of Relevant Cue In The Rehearsal Order And Method Of Encoding On Attention In A Single Cue Concept Identification Task, Barbara M. Bethel

Student Work

Five groups of Ss were forced to encode briefly exposed stimuli in a prescribed order and to classify the stimulus as a negative or a positive instance of the concept. For the first four groups, trials to criterion were found to be a function of the ordinal position of the relevant cue in the encoding order. These groups were forced to encode in an ungrammatical order. The fifth group employed a grammatical order of encoding and the position of the relevant cue was randomly assigned to an S. The fifth group was found to be superior to the other four …

The Pattern Of Religious Institution In The Northwest Urban Fringe Of Omaha, Nebraska, 1968, Grace R. Gardner

Student Work

Most writers attempt, at the outset, to define the subject of their discourse. To be certain of capturing the essence of an idea or concept, they will turn to renowned scholars and practitioners in the field and derive a composite of a wide array of views and approaches to the problem. Such an attempt In the field of religion reveals so many definitions and such variance between them, that it is soon apparent no simple definition will suffice. Is it intellectual acceptance of an idea, ideal, or code of ethics which binds men together philosophically, or is it formal membership …

The Evolution And Character Of The Bedding Plants Industry In Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Robert F. Wiseman

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Logic Of Herbert Marcuse:An Analysis Of His Critical Theory Of Society., Carlos Brazil Ramirez

Political Science ETDs

A radical socialist who advocates revolutionary change on a world-wide basis, Herbert Marcuse is one of the more controversial political theorists of our time. His synthesis of the theories of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud which he calls his critical theory of society is a peculiar class analysis of technically advanced industrial societies. Despite his numerous publications, his indictment of advanced industrial societies, both capitalist and communist, as totalitarian systems, and his appeal to such radical groups as the New Left, Herbert Marcuse’s theory has never been analyzed for its internal consistency. Because of the controversial nature of his political …

Relevancy Of Exteroceptive And Response Produced Cues As A Determinant Of Mixed Delayed Matching To Sample Performance., David Perkins

Psychology ETDs

ABSTRACT

Traditional delayed matching-to-sample paradigms may confound the cue properties associated with external stimuli and those cues produced by Ss delay interval behavior. This possible confounding arises since traditional paradigms explicitly control external stimuli, but include no control of Ss delay interval behavior.

In order to control the response produced cues during the delay interval, the present experiment required three groups of four pigeons each to complete, either a FR8 or FR16 during the delay intervals between the offset of standard hues and the onset of the comparison or matching stimuli. Depending upon the experimental conditions, a particular fixed ratio …

Forced Resettlement And Attitude Change: A Study Of Cognitive Dissonance, Vincent Joel Webb

Student Work

The United States during the 20th century has been characterized by an ever increasing amount of Federal responsibility and intervention in effecting change in the lives of the local citizenery. This Federal intervention and responsibility takes many varied forms; it is the aim of this research to deal with only one of these forms - the Civil Works Program of the United States Army Corps of Engineers as it relates to water resources development.

Middle And Working-Class Fathers' Occupational Expectations And Aspirations For Their Daughters, William H. Bieck

Student Work

Sociological research in the areas of occupational preference and mobility, together with related work in the sociology of education has been concerned almost entirely with males. An all but exclusive preoccupation with the male worker is somewhat surprising considering the fact that census data reveal, an increasing proportion of women in paid employment during the last sixty years.¹ An examination of labor statistics by Bossi,² disclosed that between 1950 and I960, women accounted for 65 per cent of the increase in the labor force. By 1965, according to Davis³, approximately one paid worker in three was …

Stimulus Balance And Preference In The Japanese Quail, Richard Leon Mead

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

An Experimental Study Of The Effects Of Personal Proximity Upon Selected Aspects Of Conversational Content, Ronna S. Loewen

Dissertations and Theses

Proxemics is an area of study devoted to the interrelated theories of man's use of space as a special elaboration of culture. Edward T. Hall, an anthropologist, has begun to draw these theories together in his work dealing with proxemics.

It is the purpose of this study to determine whether certain dimensions of interpersonal conversations vary with the distance between the conversants. Three distances were used as experimental variables. Intimate distance was set at nine inches, personal distance at three feet, nine inches, and social distance at eight feet. A total of fifty-four subjects was used with nine pairs situated …

A Study Of Change In Secondary Teachers' Attitudes Towards School Library Concepts After Instruction In Librarianship, Rulon Kent Wood

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Parental Affection And Juvenile Delinquency In Girls, Mary Gray Riege

Sociology ETDs

This study is basically a replication on female delinquents and nondelinquents of a study originally conducted with male delinquent and nondelinquent subjects by R.G. Andry. The study tested 27 interrelated hypotheses concerning perceptions of the adequacy of parental roles in key areas of the subjects’ life experiences. Specifically, the study concerned itself with whether or not it is possible to differentiate delinquent from nondelinquent girls by differences in perceptions of parental roles. and whether this differentiation ls the same as or different from those distinctions Andry found between delinquent and nondelinquent boys. The present study undertook testing of these hypotheses …

Brighton Rock: Growth In Psychological Insight, Sr. Catherine Madigan

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

A major literary trend in twentieth century Western literature is psychological realism in the novel. Henry James, generally acknowledged as a master in this field of writing, set the pattern for this type. It is difficult to follow a literary form that has been well developed by another author, particularly a writer like James; yet, this is what Graham Greene has attempted to do. In his fictional works, Greene has used some of the insights that he gleaned from reading Henry James, whom he "ranks with the greatest of creative writers"

A Sociological Consideration Of Pretense, John F. Else

Student Work

Few, if any, persons pass through a day without observing and engaging in some form of pretense. Pretense is a basic aspect of interpersonal relations. In an office or factory the supervisor tells the worker to ’’look busy" even when he does not have work to do. The salesman tries to make the customer feel as if the item being presented is the best buy ever placed on the market. Two people meet and exchange “PIeased to meet you!" when neither actually cares at all about the presence of the other; in fact, each may have negative feelings about meeting …

Migration Into San Juan Indian Pueblo, 1726-1968, Shirley Hill Witt

Anthropology ETDs

Ethnographic literature and popular opinion conjoin in the belief that American Pueblo Indians reside in endogamous communities. Since one pueblo community is part of our population under study, it behooves us to assess its genic relation to the wider population of the Chama Valley-San Juan Jurisdiction area. If it is endogamous, then, of course, it is a genetic isolate and, as such, contributes nothing on the biological level to the outside population. If, on the other hand, the pueblo is exogamous, we need to know how and what is transferred both to the outside population and from the outside population …

A Late Pleistocene Geography Of Southwestern Michigan: A Cultural And Historical Study, David R. Williams

Masters Theses

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Effect Of Self-Concept Upon Performance Following Failure Stress, Daniel Stern

Master's Theses

Jahoda (1958) has summarized the thinking, which has been done about a group of behaviors jointly labeled "positive mental health." After reviewing the conceptualizations of both phenomenologically and analytically oriented writers, Jahoda distilled six classes of responses, which have been listed as representative of mental health. These general classes of responses includes (1) positive self-attitudes, (2) self-actualizing behavior, (J) integrative behavior, (4) autonomous behavior, (5) accurate perceptual behavior, (6) behavior by which the subject obtains mastery over his environment. Of the six response classes listed, two were chosen for the present study. Specifically, the relationship between the general categories of …

Religious And Secular Correlates Of The Lds Family Home Evening Program, Gordon E. Mauss

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to describe and explore three phenomenon of the L.D.S. Family Home Evening Program: (1) the nature of religious commitment in an L.D.S. sample, (2) the degree of participation, (3) the relation of certain religious and secular variables.
The data for the study were made available to the researcher by A. L. Mauss, as part of a larger study designed to measure the impact of Urbanism upon Mormonism. The instrument, modeled after the Glock and Stark studies, was adapted to a random sample of 958 members of the L.D.S. Church in Utah.
The nature of …

The Effects Of Morphine On Shock-Induced Aggression In The Squirrel Monkey, Grace S. Emley

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Classical Discrimination Conditioning Of Pain-Elicited Aggression, Delmar A. Ozolins

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Changes In Rates Of Food-Reinforced Bar-Pressing And Collateral Licking During A Signal Preceding Response-Independent Shock, Sander Stern

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Conditioned Helplessness And Human Escape Behavior, Robert E. Gabbard Jr.

All Master's Theses

The present study was undertaken to determine, first, whether or not "helplessness" can be conditioned in human subjects, and, secondly, the amount of behavioral variability that can be accounted for in terms of locus of control as measured by Rotter's Internal-External control scale (I-E scale).

Philosophy Of Human Nature As A Function Of Political Preference, Political Involvement, And Age, Ralph L. Anderson

All Master's Theses

The present study used the Philosophy of Human Nature (PHN) Scale and a 2X2X2 factorial design with party preference, level of political involvement, and age as the three main effects to test twelve specific hypotheses. One hundred twenty subjects were randomly selected from among the Democratic and Republican parties of Kittitas County and students from Central Washington State College, and the PHN Scale was administered to them.

Semantic Differential Relationships As A Determinant Of Clustering, Burr R. Beckwith

All Master's Theses

In the past, clustering research has focused primarily on the effect of pre-experimental associations and/or conceptual relationships on clustering in free recall. The present study marks a departure from this trend in that it was designed to determine under what conditions SD relationships among task-items would mediate clustering.

The Effect Of Pretesting On The Training Of Conservation Behavior, Lynn Mannan

All Master's Theses

The purpose of the present research is to determine if a relationship exists between the traditional Piaget tasks used to identify the preoperational and transitional children and the effects of the training procedures designed to increase conservation behavior.

The Effects Of Varying A T Group Design Upon Self Concept, George Richard Woodruff

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to examine what effects the varying of a T Group design would have upon self-concept and also to determine whether or not individuals who had participated in a T Group would report more positive self-concepts than persons who had not had such an experience.