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The Effects of Music and Operant Conditioning on Gross Motor Activity of Profound Mental Retardates (open access)

The Effects of Music and Operant Conditioning on Gross Motor Activity of Profound Mental Retardates

It has not yet been demonstrated that music can be used therapeutically with profoundly retarded children. One way these children might be helped to respond to music, and therapeutically benefit from it, would be to use operant conditioning in an effort to enhance gross motor activity and then progressively shape responses until more complex behavior patterns are formed. Once these children can respond motorically in the presence of musical stimuli, continuation of responding may be possible by pairing motor activity with musical stimuli. This experiment investigated the effects of operant conditioning and music on the motor activity of profoundly retarded children in an effort to determine the therapeutic usefulness of music with such children.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Addison, Max R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Formation of Learning Sets on Thee Discrimination Problems by Five- to Six-Year-Olds (open access)

The Formation of Learning Sets on Thee Discrimination Problems by Five- to Six-Year-Olds

The problem was to determine the levels of intellectual capacity necessary at various ages for acquiring rapid and efficient nonspatial discrimination learning sets on problems of increasing complexity.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Ahlers, Shirley Mae, 1931-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Structured and Non-Structiured Stimuli for Art Production to Selected Personality Factors (open access)

The Relationship of Structured and Non-Structiured Stimuli for Art Production to Selected Personality Factors

The problem of this study was to determine whether there was any relationship between selected personality variables and art production with structured and non-structured stimuli.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Allumbaugh, James
System: The UNT Digital Library
Changes in Attitudes, Personality, and Effectiveness of Counselor Trainees in Counseling Practicums (open access)

Changes in Attitudes, Personality, and Effectiveness of Counselor Trainees in Counseling Practicums

The purpose of this study was to compare three different approaches to the counselor practicum—-or campus practicum, an off-campus practicum, and a role-playing practicum—-with regard to the changes in attitudes, personality, and effectiveness of counseling behavior of counselor trainees produced by each type of practicum.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Anderson, Sharon Jane
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Texas Supervisor of Secondary Student Teachers (open access)

A Study of the Texas Supervisor of Secondary Student Teachers

The problem of this study was to determine the status and practices of supervisors of secondary student teachers in Texas colleges and universities and to compare these practices with those practices recommended by national authorities in the field of student teaching.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Barnett, John B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Interrelationship of College Press, Student Needs and Academic Aptitudes as Measured by Grade Point Average in a Southern Denominational College (open access)

The Interrelationship of College Press, Student Needs and Academic Aptitudes as Measured by Grade Point Average in a Southern Denominational College

The problem of this study was to determine the relationship between certain non-intellectual variables and academic achievement.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Bennett, James Weldon
System: The UNT Digital Library
Personality Variables Related to Academic Achievement (open access)

Personality Variables Related to Academic Achievement

The purpose of the present study is to investigate personality traits or trait clusters that will identify academic high and low achievers and differentiate the two.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Black, Walter Ginn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationships Among Critical Thinking Ability Personality Attributes, and Attitudes of Students in a Teacher Education Program (open access)

Relationships Among Critical Thinking Ability Personality Attributes, and Attitudes of Students in a Teacher Education Program

The problem of this study was an investigation of the relationships among the attitudes, critical thinking ability,and personality attributes of students in a teacher education program.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Bradberry, Ronald David, 1936-
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Effect of Heterogeneous Grouping as Opposed to Homogeneous Grouping for Language Development of Severely Retarded Students (open access)

A Study of the Effect of Heterogeneous Grouping as Opposed to Homogeneous Grouping for Language Development of Severely Retarded Students

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of heterogeneous grouping and homogeneous grouping in the language development of severely retarded students. A further purpose was to determine how beneficial either of the grouping procedures would be for this level of student.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Burbank, Erwin Russell
System: The UNT Digital Library
Educational Background and Judgment Ability in a Group of 300 Delinquent Boys as Reflected by the Information and Comprehension Subtest of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (open access)

Educational Background and Judgment Ability in a Group of 300 Delinquent Boys as Reflected by the Information and Comprehension Subtest of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children

It was the purpose of this study to attempt to discover if the educational background and judgment ability of juvenile delinquents are markedly impaired, as indicated by the Information and Comprehension subtest scores of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Buresh, Martin C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conflict in Children Related to the Number of Choice Alternatives (open access)

Conflict in Children Related to the Number of Choice Alternatives

The purposes of the present study are to attempt to discover if there is a predictable relationship between conflict and an increase in the number of choice alternatives, to specifically determine if this hypothesized relationship exists in a predictable order in children, to endeavor to show that this hypothesized relationship is such that generalization of application to a natural environment is credible, and to attempt to discover if there are sex differences that may influence this relationship.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Burleson, Billy D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Investigation into Attitudes toward Death and Attempted Suicide (open access)

An Investigation into Attitudes toward Death and Attempted Suicide

It was the purpose of this investigation to add to the scientific knowledge of death and suicide and to present an exploratory investigation into the possibility of developing an attitudinal technique or scale of measuring responsiveness toward death, which has to do with how a person responds to his own death and the "death-instincts."
Date: January 1968
Creator: Cash, Larry M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Draw-A-Person Technique as a Measure of Sexual Conflict (open access)

The Draw-A-Person Technique as a Measure of Sexual Conflict

Since much of the existing research which points to the low validity of the Draw-a-Person technique has used differentiation of diagnostic categories as a criterion, this study will be restricted to a consideration of the Draw-a-Person technique as a means for discriminating between a group of individuals who manifest conflicts in the area of sexual adjustment and a control group which does not show these conflicts in any appreciable amount.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Caspary, Arthur Courtney
System: The UNT Digital Library
Predicting Student Teaching Behavior from Needs Profiles by Comparison with Sociometrically Defined Groups (open access)

Predicting Student Teaching Behavior from Needs Profiles by Comparison with Sociometrically Defined Groups

The problem of this study was the prediction of aggressive, submissive, and normal student teaching behavior by the use of needs profiles from sociometrically defined groups of education students. The criteria profiles were constructed using beginning education students, and prediction was made on a student teaching population.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Clary, Eldon Gandy
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Diphenylhydantoin on Maze Performance (open access)

The Effects of Diphenylhydantoin on Maze Performance

Making the assumption that diphenylhydantoin has a lowering or cancelling effect on excess electricity in the brain, it is the purpose of this study to determine the effect of diphenylhydantoin in a stressful learning situation.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Dudley, Harold Kenneth
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Clothing Interest and Self-Concept in Female Undergraduate College Students (open access)

The Relationship between Clothing Interest and Self-Concept in Female Undergraduate College Students

This study sought to examine the relationship between the variable of clothing interest and the five self-concept variables or scales. These are defensive positiveness, general maladjustment, psychosis, personality disorder, and neurosis similarity in scale score to a neurotic population.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Dulin, Anthony P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Dynamic Exercise on the Development of Physical Fitness (open access)

The Effects of Dynamic Exercise on the Development of Physical Fitness

The problem of this study was to determine the effects of four dynamic exercise programs on physical fitness as measured by selected items from the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Youth Fitness Test.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Duncan, Olen Travis
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use of the Rorschach Test in Evaluating Intellectual Levels of Functioning Between Normals and Mental Retardates (open access)

The Use of the Rorschach Test in Evaluating Intellectual Levels of Functioning Between Normals and Mental Retardates

The purpose of the present study was to determine the differences in certain Rorschach Test variables obtained from normal, mildly retarded, and moderately retarded boys and girls.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Edwards, Liston G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Variables Related to Role Expectations of Secondary School Student Teachers (open access)

Variables Related to Role Expectations of Secondary School Student Teachers

The basic purpose of this study was to present an in-depth investigation of secondary school student teacher role expectations from a variety of perspectives.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Ellis, Donald Eugene
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Chlorpromazine on Avoidance Learning in Rats (open access)

The Effect of Chlorpromazine on Avoidance Learning in Rats

In this experiment it was hypothesized the (a) those organisms trained under the influence of chlorpromazine will perform a learned task (when tested) with more incorrect responses than a comparable group trained under "normal" conditions; (b) those organisms tested under the influence of chlorpromazine will perform a previously learned task with more incorrect responses than a comparable group of organisms tested under "normal" conditions.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Fain, Thomas Carl
System: The UNT Digital Library
Humor Appreciation as a Means of Predicting Creative Individuals (open access)

Humor Appreciation as a Means of Predicting Creative Individuals

The problem of this thesis is the question of whether appreciation of humor is characteristic of adult creatives. Also, can the humor factor be a significant factor in the prediction of creative individuals? As a consequence of the theory and experimental evidence associated with the relationship between humor and creativity, the following hypothesis is formulated for further study: there is a significantly positive relationship between humor appreciation and creative ability.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Fallis, Frank D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Influences of a Course in Business Speaking on Certain Personality Traits of College Students (open access)

Some Influences of a Course in Business Speaking on Certain Personality Traits of College Students

The problem of this study was to investigate the influence of a course in business speaking on certain aspects of self-concept and self-confidence of college students.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Furr, Henry Bedford
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Observational Feedback on Verbal and Nonverbal Classroom Behavior of Student Teachers (open access)

Effects of Observational Feedback on Verbal and Nonverbal Classroom Behavior of Student Teachers

The central problem of this study was to determine the effects of feedback of observations recorded by an elementary college supervisor for the verbal and nonverbal classroom behavior of elementary student teachers.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Furr, Oneta Roberts
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fear of Death as Related to a Positive Future Time Perspective and Self-Esteem (open access)

Fear of Death as Related to a Positive Future Time Perspective and Self-Esteem

The problem with which this investigation was concerned was to determine whether or not fear of death was related to positive future time perspective and self-esteem.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Gerson, Raymond P.
System: The UNT Digital Library