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The Extinction Of An Instrumental Response As A Function Of The Size Of The Reward And The Number Of Acquisition Trials, Venan E. Thompson

Masters Theses

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Beliefs And Attitudes Of Recent High School Graduates On The Subject Of Beverage Alcohol, Francis E. Chape

Masters Theses

Introduction

During recent years, many investigations concerning the teen-ager and beverage alcohol have been carried out. A survey of the available literature on this subject revealed that most of the studies have been made to determine the attitudes toward drinking and the drinking behavior of this age group. These studies, Maddox¹ states, provide "The basis for generalizations about drinking in high school which are more substantial than impressionistic guesses."

Generalizations, however, have not been limited to drinking behavior alone. Alcohol education programs, required by law in every state in the union,² have received much criticism in recent times. …

Preliminary Investigations In The Effect Of Continually Changing Reinforcement On Learning And Extinction, Michael Dinoff

Masters Theses

A great deal of research has been done in the gener­al area of manipulating reinforcement parameters. However, reinforcement per se has rarely been varied systematically from trial to trial. The research exceptions have been indicated. In these experiments , the nutritive value, the delay, or the units of reinforcement have been systematical­ly varied and the results are not always conclusive as re­gards the experimental variable itself. The present study attempts to control for these factors and yet vary systema­tically properties of the reinforcing agent alone. Pigeons were the experimental subjects and they worked for food while they were at a …

Predicting Mathematics 34 And 35 Grades At Utah State University, Donald N. Jensen

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Incoming freshman students are confronted early in their college career with the problem of selecting a program of study that fits their needs, capacities and interests. Counselors and advisors have found that a large number of students do not give prior deliberation to the selection of a major field of study. For the most part, students use a trial and error method in making their choices. That is, their choice is a result of success in previous class work. Although some effort is being made by educational personnel to resolve this problem, a large amount of objective research remains to …

The Effect Of Manifest Anxiety And Failure Instructions On Delinquents' Performance On The W.I.S.C. Coding Test, Herbert J. Cross

Master's Theses

It is generally accepted by most researchers that motivational factors are important in the prediction of behavior. The nature of the relationship between those factors and behavior is not well understood but appear to depend at least on such variables as effect the difficulty of the behavioral task and the degree of the motivation involved.

The Experimental Study Of The Relation Between The Alpha Rhythm Of The Electroencephalogram And Intelligence, David Gordon Shacter

Student Work

During in the year 1808, Gall was assessing a person's intellectual attributes by means of bumps in their heads. He held the opinion that an intellectual trait, as well as any other trait, would show the degree of its development by exerting a local pressure, pressing outward and finally appearing as a bump.

The Relationship Of Certain Personality Traits To The Underachievement Of Bright Students In Nursing, Muriel Arline Glover

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The problem of underachievement among bright students of nursing at the college of Medical Evangelists School of Nursing revealed a need for a better understanding of these students by instructors and guidance personnel in order that improved selection and guidance of these students might result.

It was the purpose of this study to identify the relationships of certain personality traits to certain levels of achievement among bright students of nursing at the college of Medical Evangelists, in order to obtain information which might guide the faculty in the selection and guidance of these students.

Bright students were defined as those …

The Uptake Of Sodium Ions By The Tongue, Magill Echols

Masters Theses

We have seen a wealth of data demonstrating that salt prefer­ ence thresholds decrease as salt deprivation continues. Careful studies indicate that these fluctuations cannot be accounted for in terms of changes in neural excitatory thresholds. It is reasonable to assume that something on or about the tongue may change with sodium deprivation. The problem approached in this study was the search for evidence of such a change.

The experimental hypothesis was, "that sodium ions actually penetrate the surface of the tongue according to the sodium depriva­ tion experienced by the animal."

This was basically a search for processes associated …

Children's Associations To The Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Designs, Margaret J. Garvey

Masters Theses

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A Comparative And Factor Analytic Study Of The Level Of Aspiration In Industry, James Anthony Becker

Dissertations

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Selective Reinforcers In The Operant Conditioning Of Normal And Exceptional Children, Frank Anthony Dinello

Dissertations

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The Effect Of Learning On Performance In The Test Of Diagnostic Skills, John V. Haley

Master's Theses

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Preliminary Study Of A Test Of Inductive Reasoning In The Upper Grades, Mary Colomana. Buksa

Master's Theses

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Rorschach Movement Responses Of Psychoneurotic Patients: A Normative Study, Margaret Ann Jacobs

Master's Theses

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A Comparison Of The Wisc And Binet In Delinquent Children, William S. Mcgurk

Master's Theses

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A Descriptive Analysis Of Responses To The Religious Apperception Test, Robert A. Meyer

Master's Theses

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Examiner Influence On The Rorschach Test, Marvel L. Meyer

Master's Theses

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Rorschach Movement Responses Of College Students: A Normative Approach, Burton Siegel

Master's Theses

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An Investigation Of General Sense Of Humor: Its Relationship To Personality, Richard Joseph Haberle

Dissertations

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The Allegiance Patterns Of Unionized Professionals, Francis Xavier Paone

Dissertations

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Personality Differences Between Talented High School Achievers And Underachievers, Martin Leroy Mini

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Today, more than ever before, there is present an increasing emphasis on the part of educators to help the academically talented student develop his scholastic ability to its maximum level. Past experience has shown that there is a large number of talented students who are not achieving scholastically in terms of their apparent intellectual potentials. Research on the differences between achieving and underachieving talented students, has left unanswered many important questions concerned with this area of educational psychology.

A Study Of Some Characteristics Of Mental Hospital Attendants, Margaret Monica Mcconvey

Master's Theses

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Thought Processes In Problem Solving, George Louris

Master's Theses

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Determination Of Patterns Of Behavior Through Controlled Early Experience, Betty Lou Penhale

Master's Theses

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A Study Of Differences Between Free And Controlled Association At The Eighth Grade Level, Donald J. Rumann

Master's Theses

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A Thematic Apperception Test Study Of Non-Intellective Factors Related To Academic Success On The College Level, Joseph A. Garvin

Dissertations

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Interethnic Marriages Of Mexicans In Chicago, Peter Wan-Lee Keng

Master's Theses

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An Experimental Study For The Selection Of A Test Battery For Use In The Screening Interview, Richard Manning Hawes

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This study is based on the assumption that there is a need for identifying, selecting, counseling, and developing teacher competencies and the recognition of the need for further studies in defining the good teacher. Such studies should contribute to more efficients methods of selecting and preparing teachers. The problem of selecting persons who are apt to make good teachers, and who have a reasonable high potential is of primary importance. By statistically selecting a brief battery of tests from a larger battery, thi study hopes to present the counselors at the College of the Pacific with a practical and usable …

Diagnostic Limitations Of The Draw-A-Person Test With The Mentally Retarded, B. Theodore Blizzard

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

The historical survey in Goodenough's Measurement of Intelligence by Drawings reviews this area since 1885 and indicates a continued interest of investigators in many parts of the world in the drawings of children. A recurrent theme suggested in most of the published observations was that some characteristics of the drawings were subject to a developmental process and showed significant maturational changes. More recently, this general feeling has grown to include personality factors as a major aspect of drawing behavior to the point where current emphasis has now shifted from the formal aspects of scoring, necessary in the evaluation of intelligence, …

Relationship Of Personality Characteristics To Scholastic Achievement And Underachievement Of Talented College Students, Marjorie Regina Holmquist

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

One of the major problems of the modern educational system is scholastic under-achievement by talented students. Until recently the typical study had been chiefly concerned with the correlation between level of ability and academic success, while many studies referred to the presumed relationship between emotional stability and academic achievement. On the college level such characteristics as failure to adjust to college life, poor study habits, lack of awareness of his real level of ability on the part of the student, and other such Causes have been tacitly assumed as the explanation for under- achievement