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The Semantic Differential as a Measure of Sexual Differences
The purpose of this research study was to determine whether the semantic differential could measure in the college population the variation in meaning of selected masculine and feminine concepts as a function of sex difference.
Date:
May 1971
Creator:
Lynd, Robert S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Memory Consolidation in Avoidance-Conditioned Goldfish: Changes in Brain Protein-Synthetic Patterns
Three groups of goldfish were prepared; naive, avoidance-conditioned and pseudo-conditioned animals. Five pseudo-conditioned fish were avoidance trained later and found to have no measurable acquisition of the avoidance conditioning paradigm. Several protein fractions were found to have significantly different rates of synthesis when compared across groups. The possible involvement of these proteins in the memory storage process was discussed.
Date:
May 1971
Creator:
Montgomery, David W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Concept of Rebelliosness of Negroes and Whites
The problem investigated in this paper is the concept of rebelliousness, especially as it applies to two racial groups, Negroes and Whites.
Date:
May 1971
Creator:
Sarantopoulos, George A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Response Decrement in the Rat Following Various Sequences of Partial Punishment Training
The present study was designed to test for sequential effects of partial punishment training.
Date:
May 1971
Creator:
Wroten, James D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Speech Self Taught by an Eight-year-old Boy
The purpose of this study centers around the development of speech in a non-verbal eight-year-old boy through the use of behavior modification techniques.
Date:
August 1971
Creator:
Austin, Amy Rider
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Anxiety and Guilt in Young Adults from a Divorced Home Background
Young adults from a divorced home background (N = 125) were compared with a control group matched by sex and age (N = 125) on the scores obtained from the IPAT Anxiety Scale and the Mosher Incomplete Sentences Test.
Date:
August 1971
Creator:
Bagwell, Mary Jane
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Experimental Technique for the Objective Quantification of Body-Image Distortion
The purpose of this study was to develop an experimental technique to objectively measure the deviation between an individual's perception of his body image and his actual image. In addition, this technique was utilized to compare the accuracy of perception of body image between institutionalized and non-institutionalized individuals. Half of each subject category was also compared in terms of performance on an additional perceptual task unrelated to body image.
Date:
July 1971
Creator:
Lemon, James M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Modified Human Need Survey of Human Needs
This study was designed to test the hypothesis that desire is inversely proportional to satisfaction in the motivational category of a given person. The present study represents an attempt to devise an objectively scored test which will objectively and empirically determine the level of motivation of a given subject.
Date:
August 1971
Creator:
Madigan, Michael
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Anxiety to Critical Thinking
Anxiety increase drive level and will at first lead to an increased level of performance and then, as drive level continues to rise, to a decrease in performance. There seems to be an optimal level condition for best performance. On either side of this point, performance is relatively impaired. However, nothing has been done to explore directly its relationship to critical thinking ability. The purpose of this study was to investigate that relationship.
Date:
August 1971
Creator:
Perkins, Fredda M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Desensitization, Rogerian Therapy, and Modeling on Stage-Fright
Since fear of public speaking has been considered a good example of anxiety and an example that is correlated with behavioral and cognitive measures of anxiety levels, a study of Rogerian therapy, desensitization, and modeling techniques in reducing this anxiety seemed appropriate.
Date:
May 1971
Creator:
Alston, Herbert L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of the Meaning of the Concept MYSELF on Selected Personal and Social Concepts
This thesis is concerned with the effects that the meaning of the concept MYSELF had on the meanings of other selected personal and social concepts. Meaning of the concepts was measured by the semantic differential.
Date:
May 1971
Creator:
Brunett, Norma Jean
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Exploratory Investigation of Marital Role Conflict and Its Relationship to Perceived Marital Adjustment
The purpose of this investigation was to explore the relationship between various indices of marital role conflict and measures of marital adjustment.
Date:
August 1971
Creator:
Bawcom, Leon
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interaction as a Means for Attaining Social Acceptance
This investigation is concerned with the formulation of a well defined study for promoting social acceptability. The study will use the highly accepted individuals of a classroom as interaction partners with the socially isolated members in such a manner as to effectively increase the sociability of the isolated members.
Date:
August 1971
Creator:
Brooks, Franklin R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Perceptual Training on School Readiness Skills
This study sought to determine if visual perceptual training could be effectively used to improve the school readiness skills of kindergarten children.
Date:
May 1971
Creator:
Coffman, John E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Perceived Parental Attitudes to Psychological Adjustment, Self-Concept, and Sociometric Status in High School Students
The problem of this study was to determine the degree of relationship among parental attitudes as perceived by the child, and the child's psychological adjustment,self-concept, and sociometric status. In addition, the relationships between each of the experimental variables were examined.
Date:
August 1971
Creator:
Colvin, Hazel S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Beliefs of Internal Versus External Control and Their Relationship to Stage of Moral Judgment
This investigation sought to explore the relationship of Julian Rotter's concept of internal versus external control (I-E) to stages of moral judgment. The I-E dimension is defined as the attribution by the individual of responsibility for behavioral outcomes to either oneself or to outside entities. The internal oriented person believes that the events in which he is involved lie within his control. Conversely, the external oriented person believes that the events that happen to him are controlled by other factors.
Date:
August 1971
Creator:
Coulter, Wylie A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Retrospective Perceptions of Parent-child Relations as a Variable in Personality Traits of Prison Inmates
The purpose of this study was to examine the retrospective perceptions of parent-child relations as measured by the Roe-Siegelman Parent-Child Relations Questionnaire (PCR), personality characteristics as they appear on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and types of crimes of prison inmates, specifically divided into aggressive and non-aggressive crimes.
Date:
August 1971
Creator:
Allston, Rose B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library