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Wavelength Matching In The Pigeon, Robert W. Griffin

Masters Theses

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A Comparative Analysis Of Training Methods Used For The Development Of Clerical Checking Skills, Tyrone Daniels

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The Effect Of Daily Quizzes On Hour Examination Performance In A Junior Level Psychology Course, Rose Marie Hesse

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Effects Of Concentric And Eccentric Biting And Biceps Muscle Contraction On Absolute Auditory Threshold, Roland A. Sauer

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A New Method For Studying Variables Controlling Television Viewing, Diana Reda

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Auditory Evoked Potentials: Relationship To Stimulus Intensity And Effects Of Noise Exposure, Judith Lyn Buelke

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Daily Quizzes With Review And Rededial Quizzes And Examination Performance, Mary Collamer Hubbard

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The Prediction Of Job Success In A Plastics Company, Gerald Allen Poole

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A Survey Of Psychological Services Available To Two-Year Community College Students, Alice Hildrebrandt North

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The Acquisition Of A Complex Concept In Pigeons, James W. Siddall

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Galvanic Skin Response As A Function Of Evaluative Message Content, Mode Of Transmission, And Personality Traits, Richard W. Robinson

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Positive Conditioned Supperssion: A Replication And Extension, Julia C. Curtin

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An Analysis Of Polydipsia As Produced By A Multiple Schedule, Joseph J. Vaal

Masters Theses

Polydipsia and contrast effects are two behavioral phenomena produced by manipulations of the reinforcement schedules under which the organisms are behaving. The present study created a complex situation by subjecting rats to a multiple reinforcement schedule. This situation allowed simultaneous examination of both operant and induced drinking behavior. Furthermore, this situation allowed for an examination of possible schedule interactions with respect to the induced and operant drinking behaviors.

It was expected that the results of this study would show that behavioral contrast effects could be obtained in a polydipsic situation. Even though the expected results were not obtained, it is …

Stimulus Control And The Effects Of Stimulus Change On Aggression In Children, Marilyn S. Arnett

Masters Theses

Five children has the opportunity at programmed intervals to shock a rat during daily 10 min sessions. An aggression response was defined as producing rat shock and reinforcement was not made contingent on any response within the experimental chamber. Response increment occurred for all subjects upon introduction of a visual cue which signaled shock period onset. A discrimination between shock and no-shock periods developed for all subjects and response increment occurred for all subjects due to a change in the manipulanda. Two subjects who initially preferred shocking the rat, also produced visual feedback when available, although average shock rate was …

The Development Of Behavioral Contrast In Human Subjects, Joel Steven Ray

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A Comparison Of Three Measures Of Stimulation Seeking, John L. Kasten

Masters Theses

An attempt was made to determine the comparability and construct validity of three instruments: the Sensation Seeking Scale (Zuckermsn, Kolin, Price & Zoob, 1964); the Change Seeker Index (Garlington & Shimota, 1964); and the Similes Preference Inventory (Pearson & Maddi, 1966). These instruments, and a measure of drug use which was constructed by the investigator, were administered to 52 college students and 23 high school students. Product-moment correlations were calculated among these instruments and between each instrument and age, sex, marital status and amount of education. Several sets of partial correlations were, also calculated.

A substantial correlation was found between …

Short Term Retention Of A Positioning Movement Under Three Levels Of Interfering Task Conditions, Mark E. Conklin

Masters Theses

This study is concerned with the short term memory of a simple arm-hand motor response. The response is studied under three task conditions: (1) visual kinesthetic interference (’2 ) kinesthetic interference and (3 ) a rest condition generating no sensory interference. Five movement amplitudes (2, 6 , 12, 18 and 24 cm) and four intervals (0, 20, 40 and 60 seconds) are compared in this study. A total of thirty-six right-handed subjects were used; twelve subjects were tested under each of the three task conditions.

The findings do not support an interference theory of forgetting which has been theorized to …

Strength Of Conditioned Reinforcement In Chain Schedules: The Effect Of Altering Minimum Time To Reinforcement, Robert P. Ludlow

Masters Theses

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The Effects Of Chlorpromazine On Escape And Avoidance Behavior, Susan E. Bohlmann Lapato

Masters Theses

The present study was designed to investigate the effectiveness of a two lever escape avoidance paradigm as a potential drug evaluation procedure. In this procedure responses on one lever postponed the onset of shock for a fixed period of time while responses on the other lever were effective only in terminating shock. This procedure effectively separates the escape and avoidance behaviors of a single organism and should provide a sensitive baseline upon which to measure the specific effects of drugs upon these two behaviors. The specific and differential effects of three dose levels of chlorpromazine upon escape and avoidance behaviors …

Avoidance And Escape Responses In A Free Operant Avoidance Procedure As A Function Of Avoidance-Shock Intervals, Kathleen M. Krumhus

Masters Theses

Rats were trained on an unsignalled shock procedure, using a two lever apparatus. Responses on one lever postponed the onset of electric shock for a specified time period, the Avoidance-Shock interval. A response on the second lever terminated shock and delayed the onset of the next shock eight seconds, the Escape-Shock interval. Shock was continuous until the subject depressed the second lever. Changes in response rate on both levers were recorded as a function of manipulations of the duration of the Avoidance-Shock interval.

If responses on both bars are summed, data obtained are comparable with findings obtained from the manipulation …

Conditioned Punishment Of Self-Injurious Behavior, George Hunt

Masters Theses

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The Effects Of Repetitive Stimulation On The Aggressive Behavior Of The Fighting Cock: A Test For Habituation, Howard E. Farris, Thomas W. Cey

Honors Theses

A fighting cock was repeatedly presented with its own mirror image. The rate of aggressive display and attack behavior elicited by the mirror rapidly decreased to zero. Subsequent exposure of the experimental subject to a live target bird was found to be sufficient to reinstate responding to the mirror. However, upon repeated exposure to the mirror image alone aggressive responding quickly decreased again to zero.

The Effects Of Light Deprivation, Housing Arrangement And Duration Of Treatment In Problem Solving Behavior In The Rat, Juan Carlos Carena

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The Effects Of Token Reinforcement On School Attendance And Study Behavior In A Special School For Delinquent And Pre-Delinquent Juvenile Males, Michael L. Boyle

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The Effects Of Maternal Deprivation And Early Social Isolation On Emotionality And Discriminated Avoidance Learning In The Rat, Edward N. Schneider

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Baseline Response Rate And The Effect Of A Stimulus Which Precedes Response-Independent Reinforcement, William M. Arnold

Masters Theses

The relationship between baseline response rate and the effect of presenting a stimulus followed by response-independent reinforcement on baseline response rate was investigated in this study. Six pigeons were divided into two equal groups, one of which was conditioned to key peck on a VI-DRH schedule of food reinforcement, the other on a VI-DRL schedule of food reinforcement. Once responding had stabilized, a tone was introduced seven times during each session followed by a response-independent food reinforcement. The results indicated no change in the response rate of the VI-DRH group during the tone, and acceleration of responding during the tone …

A Comparative Analysis Of The Language Of Mentally Retarded And Non-Retarded Children, Hartmut Günther

Masters Theses

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Maintaining Responding During Stimulus Generalization Testing In Extinction, Michael F. Glenn

Masters Theses

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Effects Of Extraneous Auditory Stimulation On Visual Choice Reaction Time, William J. Wenger

Masters Theses

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The Effects Of Early Experience On Jumping Responses To Colored Stimuli Of Coturnix Chicks, Edward J. Fliss

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