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Assertive Training with Retarded Women (open access)

Assertive Training with Retarded Women

Assertive training was investigated to determine its usefulness in teaching mildly retarded women to become more assertive. The 10 subjects (ages 18-35, WAIS VIQ 50-75) were randomly assigned to either the assertive training or the control group. Experimental subjects received 5 weeks of daily assertive training sessions which employed modeling, behavior rehearsal, and focused instructions in a group setting. Specific components of assertive behavior were taught in the following order: (a) assertive refusals, (b) assertive requests, (c) posture, (d) eye contact, and (e) loudness, Results of a behavioral role-playing task administered to both groups before and after treatment revealed that assertaive training subjects made significantly greater improvement than controls in their assertive content, Additionally, these subjects manifested significantly more improvement than control subjects on a global assertiveness measure.
Date: May 1978
Creator: Gentile, Cynthia Anne
System: The UNT Digital Library
EMG Biofeedback Training: Effect on Behavior of Children with Activity-Level Problems (open access)

EMG Biofeedback Training: Effect on Behavior of Children with Activity-Level Problems

The relationships between muscle-tension level, motoric-activity level, and academic performance in the laboratory setting are investigated. Three participants were reinforced for reducing and increasing their tension levels, alternately, while engaged in a simulated academic task, and the effects of each on the rate of activity and academic performance were measured. Measures were also obtained on the rate of activity and occurrence of problem behavior in the subject's homes. Significant treatment differences were found which support a direct relationship between tension and activity level so that a decrease in EMG level was associated with a decrease in motoric activity, and an increase in EMG level was associated with an increase in motoric activity. The efficacy of using EMG biofeedback to train relaxation in children with activity-level problems to control their symptoms is supported, especially where such a technique can be used in a specific task-oriented situation.
Date: May 1977
Creator: Henry, David L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Self-Concept Related to Sex Information, Experience, and Attitudes (open access)

Self-Concept Related to Sex Information, Experience, and Attitudes

This study investigates whether sex information, experience, or attitudes are related to self-concept. The subjects were 120 students enrolled in a university sex-education course, All students completed questionnaires measuring sex information, experience, and attitudes. The Tennessee Self-Concept Scale was given to obtain self-concept scores. Correlation coefficients and correlation ratios were computed between sex information, sexual experience, sex attitudes, self-concept, and course grades. No pattern of relationships emerges between self-concept and the other variables studied. A strong negative correlation (P < .01) was found between sex experience and sexual attitude orthodoxy. Consistent with other research, males report more sex experience (D < .01) and more liberal sex attitudes (P < .01) than females.
Date: May 1977
Creator: Stovall, Joseph H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Attribution Retraining: Effects on Persistence in Special Education Students' Mathematics Behavior (open access)

Attribution Retraining: Effects on Persistence in Special Education Students' Mathematics Behavior

To investigate the effects of attribution retraining under conditions of intermittent success and failure, 14 helpless subjects were given 15 days of treatment in one of two procedures. Except for the attribution of all failures to lack of effort in the attribution retraining condition, the two procedures were identical in all respects. After training, both groups showed significant and equivalent improvement in reactions to failure, suggesting that intermittent success and failure increase the persistence of helpless children, rather than attribution retraining as suggested by Dweck (1975). Recommendations included follow-up studies and exploration of the attributional patterns of children under conditions of intermittent success and failure.
Date: May 1978
Creator: Benson, Patricia Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Environmental Consequences and Data Collection in the Behavior-Contracting Treatment of Obesity (open access)

The Effects of Environmental Consequences and Data Collection in the Behavior-Contracting Treatment of Obesity

This study investigated the effects of environmental consequences and data 'collection in a behavior contracting procedure for obesity. Also, a validity study examined the GSR as a subject-independent-monitoring technique. Sixteen subjects matched on sex and percent overweight were assigned to one of three contract conditions or to a no-treatment condition. The Data Only Contract Group received consequences for data collection. The With Consequences Contract Group received consequences for data collection and behaviors relevant to weight loss. The Without Consequences Contract Group received no consequences for data collection or behaviors relevant to weight loss. The With Consequences Contract Group lost significantly more weight ( p ≤ .05) than the No Treatment Group. Specific effects were not determined. The results of the validity study suggest that the GSR may not be a valid instrument as a subject-independent-monitoring technique. Factors affecting the galvanic skin response's- effectiveness were discussed.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Rumph, Robin R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Felony Offenses Related to Personality Traits (open access)

Felony Offenses Related to Personality Traits

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is whether relationships may exist between personality and type of offense in a felon population. The Eysenck Personality Inventory, which measures extraversion-introversion (E), neuroticism-stability (N), and includes a lie scale (L), was used to determine subject's personality traits. Offenses were divided into crimes against persons, crimes against property, and crimes against the morals of the state. Subjects consisted of 751 adult male felons. The product-moment correlation was computed for each offense-variable EPI pair. A negative association between E and crimes against persons, together with a positive association between L and crimes against persons, were found to be statistically significant at the 0.05 level, although quite low. It was concluded that results obtained should be guardedly interpreted in view of the minimal amount of variability accounted for, though of possible value in suggesting future research.
Date: May 1977
Creator: Ancell, Richard Guy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alcoholism Treatment Follow-up Related to Staff Members' Effectiveness (open access)

Alcoholism Treatment Follow-up Related to Staff Members' Effectiveness

The relationship was investigated between named staff members and four measures of reported alocohol consumption by alcoholics followed up one year after hospitalizstion in state hospitals. The 559 representative subjects were located, interviewed, and matched with 65 staff members named as "most helpful" to determine social, economic, and drinking aspects. Named personnel were administered the A-B Scale by Campbell, Stevens, Uhlenhuth, and Johansson (1968). Subjects naming A-staff members reported significantly lower levels of alcohol consumption on two of four measures as compared to subjects naming A/B- or B-staff members. Additional followup variables tended to support this conclusion.
Date: May 1978
Creator: DuBois, Richard L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lateral Eye Movement as a Function of Cognitive Mode in a Spanish Bilingual Population (open access)

Lateral Eye Movement as a Function of Cognitive Mode in a Spanish Bilingual Population

Reflective eye movementa as a function of cognitive nodes were studied in English speaking and Spanish bilingual populations (N=20). A total of 40 questions were asked with the initial, lateral eye movement recorded. Questions consisted of 20 verbal-mathematical type intended to elicit right-eye movement and 20 spatial questions intended to elicit left-eye movement. A significant difference in responses was found dependent on the type of questions asked (F=114.3421,p<.001). No significant differences were obtained between the two groups.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Endrizzi, Ernest
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unconscious Affective Concern and the Fear of Death: a Comparison of Mortuary and College Students (open access)

Unconscious Affective Concern and the Fear of Death: a Comparison of Mortuary and College Students

This study attempted to ascertain the differences between mortuary and college students in terms of unconscious affective concern with death and the conscious fear of death.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Allie, Stephen M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Investigation of the Religious Intensity of Paranoid-Type Schizophrenics and Sociopaths (open access)

An Investigation of the Religious Intensity of Paranoid-Type Schizophrenics and Sociopaths

The present investigation was concerned with the effectiveness of religion in personality development and the significance of church attendance in ethical and moral control. These concepts were related to specific diagnoses of psychiatric patients to ascertain the effect of religion upon those patients diagnosed as paranoid-type schizophrenics and as sociopaths. In addition, the effect of this variable on other variables related to the patient's past religious experience, such as church attendance, was examined. The religiousness of the patients was measured by a single religious intensity questionnaire.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Clemente, Virginia G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Discriminative Functions of an Incidental Stimulus Adventitiously Associated with Reinforcement (open access)

Some Discriminative Functions of an Incidental Stimulus Adventitiously Associated with Reinforcement

The present study was a systematic replication of a study by Morse and Skinner (1957). An attempt was also made to study some of the parameters involved in the sensory control of operant behavior. Morse and Skinner found that a stimulus present when a response is being reinforced may acquire discriminative control over the response even though its presence at reinforcement is adventitious.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Cuellar, Israel
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Decrement of Stuttering as a Result of the Application of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (open access)

The Decrement of Stuttering as a Result of the Application of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

This investigation is an attempt to apply the principles of the experimental analysis of behavior to the stuttering behavior of two clinical subjects. The experimental manipulations were performed in order to bring about a decrement in the stuttering rate of the two subjects.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Glenn, Sigrid S., 1939-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sex Differences and the Relationship Between the Need for Social Approval and Conservative-Liberal Sexual Attitudes (open access)

Sex Differences and the Relationship Between the Need for Social Approval and Conservative-Liberal Sexual Attitudes

This study investigated sex differences and the relationship between need for approval and liberal-conservative attitudes regarding sex. The test measures used were the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (M-C SDS) and a questionnaire measuring liberal-conservative sexual attitudes taken from a research survey published in Psychology Today.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Vilet, Jacquelyn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dogmatism and Sex Role Differentiation in Adults (open access)

Dogmatism and Sex Role Differentiation in Adults

This study is an investigation of the general questions Is there a relationship or interaction between a subject's dogmatism score (as measured by the Dogmatism Scale) and his self-rating of the perceived stereotypical masculinity-femininity dimension (as measured by the abridged Mf scale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory)?
Date: May 1973
Creator: Westmoreland, Robert W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stimulation of Breast Growth by Hypnosis (open access)

Stimulation of Breast Growth by Hypnosis

The purpose of this study was to determine whether hypnotic suggestions could influence the physiological mechanisms associated with breast growth to produce a significant increase in breast- size in an adult female population.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Williams, James E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modification of Transsexualism: A Behavior Modification Program for Conditioning Masculine Behaviors in an Effeminate Boy (open access)

Modification of Transsexualism: A Behavior Modification Program for Conditioning Masculine Behaviors in an Effeminate Boy

Operant conditioning techniques were used to condition male-typical behaviors in an eight-year-old effeminate boy who had been described as transsexual. A probe of toys and activities was administered, which showed a trend toward his choosing feminine toys and activities. The two phases consisted of positive reinforcement of behavior associated with masculinity.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Ferrell, Clifford Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Comparative Effectiveness of Behavior Rehearsal and Systematic Desensitization in the Treatment of Social Anxiety (open access)

The Comparative Effectiveness of Behavior Rehearsal and Systematic Desensitization in the Treatment of Social Anxiety

The present study was concerned with comparing the relative effectiveness of behavior rehearsal and systematic desensitization in the treatment of social anxiety.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Friedberg, Roger M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Examination of the Relationships between Personality Adjustment, Social Interaction Abilities, and Marital Adjustment (open access)

An Examination of the Relationships between Personality Adjustment, Social Interaction Abilities, and Marital Adjustment

The problem with which this investigation was concerned, was that of determining the relationships between personality adjustment, social interaction abilities and marital adjustment. The following hypotheses were investigated: 1) there will be a significant relationship between individual personality adjustment and marital adjustment, and 2) there will be a significant relationship between marital harmony and social interaction abilities.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Moorman, John W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Bender Gestalt Test and Prediction of Behavioral Problems in Moderately Mentally Retarded Children (open access)

The Bender Gestalt Test and Prediction of Behavioral Problems in Moderately Mentally Retarded Children

The purpose of this study was to determine the usefulness of Koppitz's method of scoring the Bender Gestalt (BG) Test for the prediction of behavioral problems in retarded children. The problem behaviors with which this study was concerned were those most often associated with the hyperactive child.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Baxter, Raymond D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dogmatism in Adults and Correlates of Early Parent-Child Relationships (open access)

Dogmatism in Adults and Correlates of Early Parent-Child Relationships

The results suggest that children's perceptions of parental child-rearing behavior are related to their tendencies to be dogmatic in their beliefs, and apparently perceptions of parents as loving has reinforcing properties for the child that may lead to the uncritical acceptance of the belief system of the parents.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Cole, Troy H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prediction of Success in Computer Programming Courses (open access)

Prediction of Success in Computer Programming Courses

This study dealt with the problem of investigating the validity of two recently developed paper-and-penci1 tests of programmer aptitude , the Aptitude Test for Programmer Personnel (ATPP) and the Computer Programmer Aptitude Battery (CPAB), in predicting success in computer programming.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Dempsey, Betty J .
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retrospective Perception of Parent-Child Relationships as a Function of Achievement Level (open access)

Retrospective Perception of Parent-Child Relationships as a Function of Achievement Level

The purpose of this study was to examine (1) the retrospective perception of parent-child relationships as measured by the Roe-Slegelman Parent-Child Relations Questionnaire (PCR) and (2) the individual's level of academic achievement.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Hughes, Richard E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Sedative and Tonic Music on Sterotyped Behaviors in Institutionalized Mental Defectives (open access)

The Effects of Sedative and Tonic Music on Sterotyped Behaviors in Institutionalized Mental Defectives

Stereotyped behavior in profoundly retarded subjects was observed under sedative and tonic music, with time and movement measures of responding.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Petty, Marshall L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of the Validity and Reliability of Kincannon's and Hugo's MMPI Short Forms in a Clinical Population (open access)

A Comparison of the Validity and Reliability of Kincannon's and Hugo's MMPI Short Forms in a Clinical Population

To meet the need of making clinical evaluations in the most efficient way, many scales and short forms of the MMPI have been developed. A review of the literature indicated that the Mini-Mult devised by Kincannon (1967) and the Short Form by Hugo (1971a) were the best short forms of the MMPI which have been constructed. The purpose of this study was to determine which of these short forms would most accurately predict the standard MMPI in a clinical population.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Holmes, Robert Eugene
System: The UNT Digital Library