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An Analysis Of Power And Influence Patterns On The Michigan Supreme Court 1968-1973, Thomas R. Radecki Dec 1974

An Analysis Of Power And Influence Patterns On The Michigan Supreme Court 1968-1973, Thomas R. Radecki

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Value System As A Source Of Political Attitudes, William S. Maddox Dec 1974

The Value System As A Source Of Political Attitudes, William S. Maddox

Masters Theses

The field of political psychology focuses on specific political behavior as it relates to a total measure of the individual. This research effort chose as a possible summation of that totality the value system, defined as any individual's description of his total image of the world and the behavior which he prefers in dealing with that world. Within this perspective, political attitudes are the result of the expression of a broad and abstract value system with reference to a specific attitude object.

The research design utilized Q methodology to gather empirical descriptions of values systems toward a political issue, i.e., …


Modernization In Micronesia: Acculturation, Colonialism And Culture Change, Kirk L. Gray Dec 1974

Modernization In Micronesia: Acculturation, Colonialism And Culture Change, Kirk L. Gray

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Prediction Of Turnover In A St. Louis Bank By Use Of A Weighted Application Blank, Soon Meng Tow Dec 1974

Prediction Of Turnover In A St. Louis Bank By Use Of A Weighted Application Blank, Soon Meng Tow

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


An Approach To A Kalamazoo Metropolitan Data Bank And Information System, Alan Benjamin Le Coff Dec 1974

An Approach To A Kalamazoo Metropolitan Data Bank And Information System, Alan Benjamin Le Coff

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Temporal Patterning In Adjusting Avoidance, Bruce Edward Hamilton Dec 1974

Temporal Patterning In Adjusting Avoidance, Bruce Edward Hamilton

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


A Case Study Of The Consequences Of Displacement Caused By Urban Renewal And Highway Construction On Minority Businesses In The City Of Knoxville, Tennessee, Comer L. Taylor Dec 1974

A Case Study Of The Consequences Of Displacement Caused By Urban Renewal And Highway Construction On Minority Businesses In The City Of Knoxville, Tennessee, Comer L. Taylor

Masters Theses

The purpose of this thesis was to study the consequences of displacement caused by urban renewal and highway construction on minority businesses in the city of Knoxville, Tennessee. Efforts were made to find out: (1) What happens to business establishments when they have been forced to move to another location; (2) To what extent does dis­ location lead to business failures; (3) What minority businessmen perceive to be-their problems and needs; (4) What are the characteristics of owners of those businesses that did not survive the move as compared to those that successfully relocated; (5) What are the major problems …


Feeling Good And Helping: Really?, Gregory A. Blevins Dec 1974

Feeling Good And Helping: Really?, Gregory A. Blevins

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Human Genetic Isolation And Population Structure Of Hancock County, Tennessee, James R. Kirkland Dec 1974

Human Genetic Isolation And Population Structure Of Hancock County, Tennessee, James R. Kirkland

Masters Theses

A study of the population structure of Hancock County, Tennessee, was conducted in order to determine the degree of genetic isolation, and the likelihood of random genetic drift, experienced by the county population. Genealogical information for the study was obtained from a random sample of the population utilizing two series of questionnaires. In all, data were obtained for 275 couples from all areas of Hancock County.

Four main analytical steps were taken with these data to determine: (1) the amount of inbreeding, through a surname isonymy study, (2) the effective population size, (3) the patterns of human movement, primarily marital …


A Metrical Analysis Of The Morphological Relationship Between Prehistoric Dallas And Historic Cherokee Skeletal Populations In East Tennessee, Moira H. M. Wright Dec 1974

A Metrical Analysis Of The Morphological Relationship Between Prehistoric Dallas And Historic Cherokee Skeletal Populations In East Tennessee, Moira H. M. Wright

Masters Theses

The purpose of this investigation was to define and quantify the morphological relationship between prehistoric Dallas and historic Overhill Cherokee skeletal populations in east Tennessee in order to test two theories concerning Cherokee prehistory in the eastern Tennessee Valley. One theory states that the Cherokee did not arrive in the Valley until long after European contact; the other theory suggest that the Cherokee have possibly been occupying this area since as early as the Archaic period.

Methods of metrical analysis currently in use in physical anthropological research were used to test these two theories. The morphological distance between Dallas and …


Influence Of Business Faculty Upon Students’ Attitudes: A Partial Replication Of Edgar Schein’S Study Of Attitude Change During Management Education, Robert Eugene Ashenhurst Dec 1974

Influence Of Business Faculty Upon Students’ Attitudes: A Partial Replication Of Edgar Schein’S Study Of Attitude Change During Management Education, Robert Eugene Ashenhurst

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


An Application Of The Species-Specific Defense Reaction Hypothesis, Michael R. Petersen Dec 1974

An Application Of The Species-Specific Defense Reaction Hypothesis, Michael R. Petersen

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Effect Of Imposed Roles On The Direction And Magnitude Of Group Polarization Of Initially Dominant Responses (Risky Shift) In Small Discussion Groups, Neil W. Blahut Aug 1974

The Effect Of Imposed Roles On The Direction And Magnitude Of Group Polarization Of Initially Dominant Responses (Risky Shift) In Small Discussion Groups, Neil W. Blahut

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Positive Effects Of Study Objectives Generalize To Novel Probes, Joan Warmbold Boggs Aug 1974

The Positive Effects Of Study Objectives Generalize To Novel Probes, Joan Warmbold Boggs

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Alliance Party And The Process Of Political Integration In Malaysia, Etty Zainab Ibrahim Aug 1974

The Alliance Party And The Process Of Political Integration In Malaysia, Etty Zainab Ibrahim

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


United States Foreign Policy In The Middle East With Reference To Zionism, 1945 To Mid-1973, Elizabeth Ann Ishak Aug 1974

United States Foreign Policy In The Middle East With Reference To Zionism, 1945 To Mid-1973, Elizabeth Ann Ishak

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Acquisition Of Number Identification As A Function Of The Type Of Stimulus Presentation, Marco W. Salas Martinez Aug 1974

The Acquisition Of Number Identification As A Function Of The Type Of Stimulus Presentation, Marco W. Salas Martinez

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Availability Of An Aggressive Response During Sidman Avoidance, Michael Albert Minervini Aug 1974

Availability Of An Aggressive Response During Sidman Avoidance, Michael Albert Minervini

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Interaction Between Response-Independent Fixed-Time Tail Shock And Chronic Voluntary Alcohol Consumption In Squirrel Monkeys, J. Leonard Peebles Aug 1974

The Interaction Between Response-Independent Fixed-Time Tail Shock And Chronic Voluntary Alcohol Consumption In Squirrel Monkeys, J. Leonard Peebles

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


A Study Of Seven Library Technology Programs To Determine To What Extent The Programs Parallel The American Library Association Criteria For Library Technology Programs, Evelyn Ruth Schneider Aug 1974

A Study Of Seven Library Technology Programs To Determine To What Extent The Programs Parallel The American Library Association Criteria For Library Technology Programs, Evelyn Ruth Schneider

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Schedule Induced Polydipsia: Effects Of Inter-Food Interval On Access To Water As A Reinforcer, Richard H. Weiss Aug 1974

Schedule Induced Polydipsia: Effects Of Inter-Food Interval On Access To Water As A Reinforcer, Richard H. Weiss

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Characteristics Of Graduate Student Instructors As Related To Students' Judgments Of Their Competence, Edwin Rice Barnett Aug 1974

Characteristics Of Graduate Student Instructors As Related To Students' Judgments Of Their Competence, Edwin Rice Barnett

Masters Theses

The present study seeks primarily to determine if there is a congruence between the perceived similarity of a student to his instructor and the student's judgment of the instructor's competence. To test this hypothesis, an Interpersonal Checklist, consisting of 160 adjectives, was devised and administered to two sets of 50 students during a period of six months. Three instructional sets were utilized with a five-point Likert response system in conjunction with the checklist. One instructional set asked the student to describe his instructor, another asked for a judgment of the extent to which the student thought himself similar to his …


A "Systems Analysis" Of An Applied Behavior Analysis Laboratory Course And An Experimental Analysis Of Attendance And Prompt Assignment Completion, Ansley Bacon Aug 1974

A "Systems Analysis" Of An Applied Behavior Analysis Laboratory Course And An Experimental Analysis Of Attendance And Prompt Assignment Completion, Ansley Bacon

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Effects Of An Absence Policy On Attendance And Grades, Judith A. Adelman Aug 1974

The Effects Of An Absence Policy On Attendance And Grades, Judith A. Adelman

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


A Neuro-Clinical Study Of The Spread Of Experimentally Induced Epileptiform Discharge From The Amygdala, Daniel Rosen Aug 1974

A Neuro-Clinical Study Of The Spread Of Experimentally Induced Epileptiform Discharge From The Amygdala, Daniel Rosen

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Projective Expression Of Need For Achievement In Women, Robert S. Gibson Aug 1974

The Projective Expression Of Need For Achievement In Women, Robert S. Gibson

Masters Theses

Introduction

Psychologists generally assume that the motive to achieve is one of the major determinants to striving to succeed. A theoretically consistent body of data exists which enables one to predict achievement behavior as a function of the strength of the achievement motive, when it applies to men (Atkinson, 1958; Bardwick, 1971; McClelland, Atkinson, Clark, & Lowell, 1953). However, when one attempts to find psychological data to predict achievement behavior in women, there is difficulty.

The few comparable studies of achievement motivation in females that have been made are neither consistent with the findings for males, not even consistent with …


An Investigation Of Variables Affecting Self Modification Techniques, Patricia Ann Hartlep Aug 1974

An Investigation Of Variables Affecting Self Modification Techniques, Patricia Ann Hartlep

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Response Duration In Acquisition, Discriminated Avoidance, And Extinction, Michael Oliver Duncan Aug 1974

Response Duration In Acquisition, Discriminated Avoidance, And Extinction, Michael Oliver Duncan

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Effects Of Three Different Mastery Criterion Levels On Undergraduate Test Performance, David R. Barkmeier Aug 1974

The Effects Of Three Different Mastery Criterion Levels On Undergraduate Test Performance, David R. Barkmeier

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Development Of Generalized Imitation In An Autistic Boy, Andrew L. Reitz Aug 1974

The Development Of Generalized Imitation In An Autistic Boy, Andrew L. Reitz

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.