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Cultural Enhancement Programs And Attitude Change Toward Minority South Asian Children, Fred Gloade Jan 1987

Cultural Enhancement Programs And Attitude Change Toward Minority South Asian Children, Fred Gloade

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Individual attitudes and beliefs have a deep influence on perceptions of others in the environment. This study was concerned with the attitudes of 10 year old Euro-Canadian children toward their South Asian (East Indian) peers and with the alteration of these attitudes in a more positive direction. A within subjects design was utilized to measure participants pre/post test attitude scores toward the South Asian minority children as a function of experimental exposure to selected cultural material. Specifically, three conditions were manipulated in two contrasting settings: active, passive and control, in either high or low ethnic density schools. The three treatment …

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The Creation Of A Multi-Ethnic Housing Cooperative A Social Intervention, Mary Sehl Jan 1987

The Creation Of A Multi-Ethnic Housing Cooperative A Social Intervention, Mary Sehl

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The present study documents the development of the Housing Working Group—a group which investigated strategies to improve the housing situation of new Canadians in Kitchener-Waterloo—and the subsequent formation of the founding board of directors of a multi-ethnic housing cooperative. It emphasizes the importance of new Canadian involvement in the intervention and the need to view their empowerment as a long-term goal, attainable only after a series of small, measurable successes. The research revealed two dilemmas in the practice of community development. First, though the empowerment of powerless people requires their active participation in self-help projects, the interventionist cannot force them …

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The Wall Of Anxiety: Moderating Variables Of Empathy In Romantic Relationships, H. Alan Oathout Jan 1987

The Wall Of Anxiety: Moderating Variables Of Empathy In Romantic Relationships, H. Alan Oathout

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Potential Differences In Self-Concept Among Adult Children Of Problem Drinkers, Thomine Sue Wilson Jan 1987

Potential Differences In Self-Concept Among Adult Children Of Problem Drinkers, Thomine Sue Wilson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Prior research has Indicated that the alcoholic home environment is destructive to a child's emotional well-being* and that the conditions necessary to the development of high self-esteem are not consistently present, A large segment of previous research about children of alcoholics has not been tested with rigorous research techniques and often reflects the product of personal observations* results of extensive interviews* or case studies while working with these children. Moreover* there has been a tendency to focus on clinical populations of the young and adolescent offspring of alcoholics, with few studies being conducted in which adults were used as subjects. …

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The Implications Of Varying Levels Of Task Automation On Workload, Micheline Y. Eyraud Jan 1987

The Implications Of Varying Levels Of Task Automation On Workload, Micheline Y. Eyraud

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

The present study investigated the effects of the addition of automation on task workload. Utilizing a modified secondary task paradigm, the workload which was imposed by three different levels of automation, selected from the continuum of automation on each of two primary tasks, was assessed by comparing performance on a secondary task which remained unaided in all conditions. The levels of automation under investigation in the present study were manual, intermediate, and total aiding. The primary tasks selected for investigation were a sensory-decision making task and compensatory tracking task. A long-term memory task was chosen as the secondary task. It …

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Speedreading, Marcel Just, Patricia Carpenter Dec 1986

Speedreading, Marcel Just, Patricia Carpenter

Marcel Adam Just

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Dyslexia, Marcel Adam Just, Patricia A. Carpenter Dec 1986

Dyslexia, Marcel Adam Just, Patricia A. Carpenter

Marcel Adam Just

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