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Relationships between Alienation and Feelings of Transcendence (open access)

Relationships between Alienation and Feelings of Transcendence

An exploratory study was conducted to examine feelings of alienation in high school and college students.
Date: May 1973
Creator: DeLaughter, David Lynn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intralist Stimulus Similarity, Stimulus Meaningfulness, and Transfer of Training in the A-B, A-C Paradigm (open access)

Intralist Stimulus Similarity, Stimulus Meaningfulness, and Transfer of Training in the A-B, A-C Paradigm

The investigation examined the effects of formal and semantic intralist stimulus similarity (ISS) on transfer of stimulus differentiations in the A-B, A-C paradigm.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Dismukes, Newton W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Consequences of Labeling a Person as Mentally Ill in an Urban Black Community (open access)

The Consequences of Labeling a Person as Mentally Ill in an Urban Black Community

This study has a twofold purpose. The first is to determine the consequences related to labeling deviant behaviors, especially as these effects are reflected in the person who labels and defines deviant behavior. The second is to evaluate the medical model of abnormality in relation to the labeling of deviant behavior.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Driggers, John M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Degree of Learning, Stimulus Order, Emphasis, and Meaningfulness on Cue Selection in Paired-associate Learning (open access)

The Effects of Degree of Learning, Stimulus Order, Emphasis, and Meaningfulness on Cue Selection in Paired-associate Learning

The present study sought to investigate the combined influences of degree of first-list learning, stimulus order, emphasis, and meaningfulness on the selection strategies of college subjects.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Fjarlie, Craig E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Ability to Discriminate Several Aspects of Paired-Associate Learning (open access)

The Effectiveness of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Ability to Discriminate Several Aspects of Paired-Associate Learning

This study is an exploratory attempt to evaluate the efficacy of the use of the ITPA in discriminating between the learning performance of "good" and "poor" auditory learners and between "good" and "poor" visual learners on a paired-associate task presented visually or auditorially.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Ritz, Elizabeth
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Change Between Time-Extended Group Counseling and Traditional Group Counseling (open access)

A Comparison of Change Between Time-Extended Group Counseling and Traditional Group Counseling

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a time-extended counseling group with a traditional counseling group on the three variables: self-actualization, intimacy, and members' reactions to the group experience.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Spurgeon, Gene
System: The UNT Digital Library
Peer Assessment of Leadership Style and Its Relation to Productivity (open access)

Peer Assessment of Leadership Style and Its Relation to Productivity

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of determining if peer appraisal of leadership style is related to productivity.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Swanson, Ronald G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shaping Appropriate Verbal Responses in a Social Situation With a Withdrawn Retarded Adolescent (open access)

Shaping Appropriate Verbal Responses in a Social Situation With a Withdrawn Retarded Adolescent

"Shaping" or "method of successive approximation" is a procedure which may be applied to increase the frequency of a response which has a low operant level, or it may also be used to bring about responses which have not been previously emitted. In "shaping," the experimenter initially reinforces a response which is within the behavorial repertoire of the subject. Then, the experimenter reinforces only responses which approximate the behavior which is desired. The final behavior is then directly reinforced.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Thompson, James N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anxiety Relief Conditioning: a Critical Review and Supportive Experiment (open access)

Anxiety Relief Conditioning: a Critical Review and Supportive Experiment

An experiment was conducted to separate the effects of anxiety relief conditioning from other variables which may be operative within that paradigm. A review of the literature revealed that no definitive investigations had been conducted, and critiques of these investigations were offered. Also, the distinction between aversion relief and anxiety relief conditioning procedures was detailed.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Turnage, John R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Behavioral Approach to Modifying Self-Concept in the Classroom (open access)

A Behavioral Approach to Modifying Self-Concept in the Classroom

The problem with which this investigation was concerned was that of assessing the effects of token reinforcement on children's self-concept.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Turnage, Shirley A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Male-female Perceptions of Male and Female High and Low Achievement Using the Semantic Differential (open access)

Male-female Perceptions of Male and Female High and Low Achievement Using the Semantic Differential

The purpose of the present study was to examine 1) the effect of achievement information on evaluations of males and females, 2) male and female expectations of discrepancies between their opposite sex and themselves in evaluating achievement.
Date: August 1973
Creator: Edwards, C. Malinowski
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Influence of Prejudice on Interracial Attitudes and Social Expectations (open access)

The Influence of Prejudice on Interracial Attitudes and Social Expectations

Ninety-six Ss, forty-eight white males and forty-eight white females, from introductory psychology classes at North Texas State University participated in a study of interracial attitudes and social expectations.
Date: August 1973
Creator: Edwards, David Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Variation of Methadone Dispensing Frequencies on Retention in Treatment and Behavioral Adjustment in a Methadone Treatment Program (open access)

Effects of Variation of Methadone Dispensing Frequencies on Retention in Treatment and Behavioral Adjustment in a Methadone Treatment Program

This study was concerned with determining the effects that varying the methadone-dispensing frequencies during mandatory clinic visits had on patients' retention in treatment and behavioral adjustment.
Date: August 1973
Creator: Friedli, John D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Operant Procedures in Marital Treatment (open access)

Operant Procedures in Marital Treatment

The ability of marital partners to directly change a currently unhappy marriage to a happy one may be a function of each individual's conscious awareness of the topography, frequency, and other parameters of his own behaviors, as well as the effects or consequences these behaviors bring to bear on his spouse. This study was an attempt to combine the use of relevant behavioral awareness and a token economy to rehabilitate a marriage in crisis.
Date: August 1973
Creator: Hickok, James E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use of Aerobic Running in the Reduction of Anxiety (open access)

The Use of Aerobic Running in the Reduction of Anxiety

This investigation was concerned with the potential effectiveness of an aerobic running program in the reduction of anxiety. Anxiety was defined in this investigation as a subject's score on the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (TMAS).
Date: May 1973
Creator: Allen, Geoffrey H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Behavior Rehearsal Combined with Anxiety Relief Conditioning : A New Assertion Training Paradigm and Its Relative Efficacy (open access)

Behavior Rehearsal Combined with Anxiety Relief Conditioning : A New Assertion Training Paradigm and Its Relative Efficacy

An experiment was conducted to investigate the relative effectiveness of a combined behavior rehearsal anxiety relief conditioning paradigm with a more conventional behavioral rehearsal program in the treatment of deficient assertive behavior.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Arnold, Bill R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deep Muscle Relaxation Obtained with Analog Electromyographic Information Feedback (open access)

Deep Muscle Relaxation Obtained with Analog Electromyographic Information Feedback

The purpose of the research study was to provide improved relaxation training with the use of an electromyography feedback device based on the design of Green et al. (1969). It was intended that this instrument would allow the training of deep muscle relaxation to the point of neuro-muscular silence, while remaining inexpensive enough to be applied in the clinical setting.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Bates, Charles Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Memory Requirement on Schema Learning (open access)

The Effect of Memory Requirement on Schema Learning

A number of previous investigations have suggested that schema learning would be more readily facilitated by a recognition task than a reproduction task due to the increased memory requirement of the reproduction task. Differential memory requirements of 0, 4, 8, 16 and 32 seconds were imposed on 50 Ss in a recognition task to determine if increased memory requirements improved schema learning in the same mode as the reproduction task. The results indicated no significant improvement in schema learning with increased memory requirement. The data does suggest negative transfer from reproduction to recognition task. Recommendations for design and procedural improvements are included.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Buckner, Rose Laminack
System: The UNT Digital Library
Changes in Peabody Picture Vocabulary Scores as a Function of Differential Familiarity and Social Class Membership (open access)

Changes in Peabody Picture Vocabulary Scores as a Function of Differential Familiarity and Social Class Membership

The present study was designed to investigate the discrepancy in test performance between the upper-middle-class and lower-class kindergarten-age child as a function of differential familiarity with test content.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Crooks, Olivia Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
Self-ideal, Self-discrepancy and Sociometric Choice Status (open access)

Self-ideal, Self-discrepancy and Sociometric Choice Status

This study hypothesized a relationship between self-acceptance and acceptance by others. The hypothesis was that patients chosen frequently by other persons on a friendship criterion would have lower self-ideal, self-discrepancy scores than patients chosen infrequently by other persons on a friendship criterion. The study also hypothesized that depressed patients would have higher discrepancy scores than either the psychopathic or situational stress groups.
Date: August 1973
Creator: Swann, Susan Elizabeth
System: The UNT Digital Library
A New Approach to Measurement of Partial Knowledge (open access)

A New Approach to Measurement of Partial Knowledge

The problem of this study is that of developing a testing procedure for multiple-choice tests which would increase the relationship between test scores and a criterion. The procedure investigated in this research was one in which subjects took a multiple-choice test but were required to continue responding on each item until the correct answer was obtained. The total number of responses was used as the score on the test. The purpose of this research was to investigate the possibility of increasing predictability by changing the procedure of administering the test, rather than changing the test itself.
Date: August 1973
Creator: Wagner, David E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mother-child Relations and Social Expectations of Normal Children and Those with Learning Disabilities (open access)

Mother-child Relations and Social Expectations of Normal Children and Those with Learning Disabilities

The study explored the possibility that the perceived mother-child relationship of children with learning disabilities differs from that of normal children. It was further hypothesized that the manner in which the child perceives his relationship to his mother is related to the perception he has of his society in general.
Date: August 1973
Creator: Wilson, Connie S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of the Social Acceptance of Learning Disability and Normal Children for Three Teaching Models (open access)

A Comparison of the Social Acceptance of Learning Disability and Normal Children for Three Teaching Models

The problem of this study concerned the sociometric status of learning disability (LD) and normal children in the classroom. More specifically, the degree of cross choosing between LD and normal children was compared for three different teaching models.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Polo, Linda
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internal-external Locus of Control and Perception of Authority Figures (open access)

Internal-external Locus of Control and Perception of Authority Figures

The purpose of the present study was to explore Internals' and Externals' characteristic perceptions of authority figures.
Date: August 1973
Creator: Ferguson, John Benson
System: The UNT Digital Library