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The Relationship of Actual Stature to Height of Human Figure Drawings (open access)

The Relationship of Actual Stature to Height of Human Figure Drawings

One purpose of this study was to determine of the actual physical dimensions of an individual are related to the dimensions of his human figure drawings. The specific physical dimension used in this study is that of stature of height. Another purpose of this study was to determine if college males majoring in Physical Education might be superior to college males majoring in Industrial Arts in terms of their clarity of body image.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Burnett, Donald E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Influence of Vocational Training on the Self-Concept of the Physically Handicapped (open access)

Influence of Vocational Training on the Self-Concept of the Physically Handicapped

This study was conducted in order to investigate the hypothesis that the vocational rehabilitation training situation is itself therapeutic. The training situation is of course attempting to complete the final phase of rehabilitation by actually helping the handicapped individual to go out into the world again as a productive human being.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Diamond, Harriet A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Columbia Mental Maturity Scale and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale For Children : a Comparative Study Utilizing Institutionalized Mentally Retarded Males (open access)

The Columbia Mental Maturity Scale and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale For Children : a Comparative Study Utilizing Institutionalized Mentally Retarded Males

The purpose of the present study is to compare the 1959 revision of the Columbia Mental Maturity Scale (CMMS) with the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) for use as a psychometric instrument for determining the mental ability of mentally retarded male children.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Garnett, Richard E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Direction of Aggression and Group Conformity of Policemen, Narcotic-Addicts, and Seventh Day Adventists as Measured by the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study (open access)

The Direction of Aggression and Group Conformity of Policemen, Narcotic-Addicts, and Seventh Day Adventists as Measured by the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study

The present study was an attempt to measure the direction of aggression among three diverse groups, namely, policemen, narcotic-addicts and Seventh Day Adventists. The second aspect of this investigation was to determine the group conformity tendencies of the three basic groups. The Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study was used as the measuring instrument.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Gerlach, Herman
System: The UNT Digital Library
WAIS Intratest and Intertest Scatter in Diagnosis of Schizophrenia (open access)

WAIS Intratest and Intertest Scatter in Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

The present study deals with the application of various measures of intratest and intertest scatter to the items and subtests of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, or WAIS, in an attempt to improve the WAIS as a psychodiagnostic indicator of schizophrenia.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Towns, James P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interpersonal Preception: the Accuracy of First Impressions and Attitude Change as a Function of Self-Image and Age Similarities (open access)

Interpersonal Preception: the Accuracy of First Impressions and Attitude Change as a Function of Self-Image and Age Similarities

It is the intent of this study to investigate an aspect of the accuracy of first impressions and the stability of attitudes formed on the basis of these impressions. The study of first impressions and their influence on behavior is one aspect of the general topic of person perception.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Townsend, Philip C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Musical Stimuli on the Gross Motor Activity of Profound Mental Retardates (open access)

The Effects of Musical Stimuli on the Gross Motor Activity of Profound Mental Retardates

It was the purpose of this present study to investigate the effects of two types of music, tonic and sedative, on the gross motor activity of profound mental retardates. The primary objective was to determine if therapeutic benefits resulting from the application of music could be extended to profound retardates as has already been demonstrated with other levels of retardation.
Date: May 1969
Creator: Angelloz, Robert E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Interrelationships among Anxiety, Intelligence, and Academic Achievement in College Students (open access)

The Interrelationships among Anxiety, Intelligence, and Academic Achievement in College Students

It was the purpose of this study to investigate the nature of the relationships among anxiety, achievement, and intelligence. It was deduced that anxiety and intelligence work together mainly at the level of average intelligence. At this level, the addition of drive in the form of anxiety increases performance level, while a lack of drive or anxiety decreases that level. The influence of anxiety on academic achievement is insignificant at other levels due to the overriding effects of intelligence.
Date: May 1969
Creator: Combs, Don Carlos
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Generality of Cognitive Complexity (open access)

The Generality of Cognitive Complexity

The purpose of the present investigation was to investigate the relationship of cognitive complexity, as measured by a quantitative index of human movement responses, and the number of different constructs in one psychological system.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Rosen, Eugene E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Effect of Short-Term Group Counseling on the Self Concept of College Students (open access)

A Study of the Effect of Short-Term Group Counseling on the Self Concept of College Students

The purpose of this thesis is to see if a significant change in the self concept of college students can be brought about through short term group counseling.
Date: August 1969
Creator: O'Dell, George William Thomas
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of an Expressed Level of Aspiration in Determining Performance on a Subsequent Task (open access)

The Effect of an Expressed Level of Aspiration in Determining Performance on a Subsequent Task

There have been few investigations employing the level of aspiration as a motivational independent variable. The problem of the present study was to investigate the effect of an expressed level of aspiration on a subsequent level of performance on a cancellation task and to relate this effect to socio-economic classifications.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Hafner, Bruce W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Relationship between the Need to Achieve, Field Independence, and Grade Point Average of College Students (open access)

A Study of the Relationship between the Need to Achieve, Field Independence, and Grade Point Average of College Students

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among the need to achieve, field independence, and grade-point average.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Henderson, Carol D. Clanton
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationships of Selected Demographic Factors to Attitudes toward Trade Unionism among Texas Registered Nurses (open access)

Relationships of Selected Demographic Factors to Attitudes toward Trade Unionism among Texas Registered Nurses

The purpose of the present study was to determine the effects of certain demographic factors upon attitude formation. The attitudes of Texas registered nurses toward trade unionism and their own right to strike were measured in terms of the effects of these selected factors.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Hill, Mary Estelle
System: The UNT Digital Library
Personality and Decision Behavior (open access)

Personality and Decision Behavior

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between personality and certain characteristics of decision-making behavior in a modified two-choice probability learning situation. More specifically, this study addresses itself to the following questions: (1) Can personality correlates of the decision-making process be demonstrated? (2) Are personality factors related to individual differences in maximizing tendency, risk-taking, and decisiveness? (3) If such relationships, exist, who do they fit into the framework of existing decision-making theory?
Date: August 1969
Creator: Scarborough, Jerry Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library