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The Control of Violent Behavior of a Chronic Schizophrenic by Aversive Therapy (open access)

The Control of Violent Behavior of a Chronic Schizophrenic by Aversive Therapy

The purpose of this experiment was to investigate the modification of behavior of a thirty-five-year-old, hospitalized, chronic schizophrenic male. The hypothesis was that the patient's aggressive and self-injurious behavior could be modified through the use of aversion therapy.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Reams, Beth D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coacting Group Effects of Learning and Performance across Anxiety Levels (open access)

Coacting Group Effects of Learning and Performance across Anxiety Levels

The problem with which this study is concerned is that of determining the effects of coacting groups and test anxiety on the learning and performing abilities of children. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of small coacting groups and test anxiety on specific "performance" and "learning" tasks. This study also provides a direct test of Zajonc's theory.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Stevens, Jimmy L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Continuous Versus Non-Continuous Noise and Level of Intensity on a Serial Learning Task (open access)

The Effects of Continuous Versus Non-Continuous Noise and Level of Intensity on a Serial Learning Task

The present study was designed to investigate the effects of two noise conditions, continuous and noncontinuous noise, and three intensity levels, upon a serial learning task and the interaction effects of these factors on learning.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Ware, William S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Application of a Non-Speech Response Mode in Teaching Simple Language Functions to Three Autistic Children (open access)

Application of a Non-Speech Response Mode in Teaching Simple Language Functions to Three Autistic Children

A non-speech response mode similar to the one used by Prepack (1971) to teach language to a chimpanzee was utilized to teach two simple language functions to three autistic children. The response mode consisted of picking up a geometric symbol and placing it on a response tray. The geometric symbol was the basic unit in this language system. The symbols were used to represent objects in the environment and relationships between the objects.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Barnes, Patrick R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elimination of Stereotyped Behavior, Employing Contingent Withdrawal and Representation of a Positively Reinforcing Stimulus (open access)

Elimination of Stereotyped Behavior, Employing Contingent Withdrawal and Representation of a Positively Reinforcing Stimulus

An attempt was made in this study to eliminate the body rocking behavior of a twenty-three-year-old totally blind male, individual, presently classified as moderately retarded. Consequences were placed upon, rocking behavior in seven experimental phases, employing time-out from a positively reinforcing stimulus as a punisher. More specifically, apparatus were designed in such a manner that rocking would result in elimination of the auditory and visual portion of a television, and in a later phase, the auditory portion of a transistor radio.
Date: December 1972
Creator: DeFoore, William G.
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
Massed Group Desensitization in the Reduction of Anxiety (open access)

Massed Group Desensitization in the Reduction of Anxiety

The problem with which this investigation was concerned was that of determining the effectiveness of massed group desensitization in the reduction of anxiety. Thirty test-anxious nursing students who scored in the upper quartile on the Test Anxiety Questionnaire (TAQ) served as the subjects. The subjects were assigned by the use of a randomized block procedure to one of the following three groups matched on the basis of their pre-test TAQ scores: (1) desensitization, (2) placebo, and (3) control.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Dawley, Harold H., 1940-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Religious Doubt and Scores on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (open access)

The Relationship between Religious Doubt and Scores on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

A study was made to determine the relationship between religious doubt and personality variables as measured by the MMPI.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Di Giacomo, Michele
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving the Acceptance of Isolated Elementary School Children (open access)

Improving the Acceptance of Isolated Elementary School Children

The purposes of this study were: (1) to develop a program based upon a combination of previously tested techniques, (2) to adapt these techniques for use by school personnel within the classroom situation, (3) to test this program upon an all-black, multi-age kindergarten and a first-grade classroom in an inner-city school, and (4) to evaluate the effectiveness of this program.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Fallis, Patricia J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Context, Cue Selection, and Transfer of Training (open access)

Context, Cue Selection, and Transfer of Training

The investigation examines the effects of three contexts (strong easily discriminable colors, shifting strong to weak colors, and a homogeneous white background) on cue selection in a paired associate study. Stimuli employed were high similarity consonant-consonant-consonant trigrams, and the responses were high imagery value nouns. Each S learned two lists.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Framer, Edward M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Birth Order and Parent-Child Relations (open access)

Birth Order and Parent-Child Relations

The purpose of this study was to investigate the birth order differences in perception of parental child-rearing practices in one-and two-sibling families. The two-sibling families were separated into all the possible sex permutations (male-male, female-female, male-female, female-male) to assess the influence of sex of sibling in viewing the parents' child-rearing practices.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Hale, Allyn Kay
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Meaningfulness, Position, and Overlearning on Selective Stimulus Encoding in Paired-Associate Learning (open access)

The Effect of Meaningfulness, Position, and Overlearning on Selective Stimulus Encoding in Paired-Associate Learning

The present experiment was an attempt to study to joint effects of stimulus component meaningfulness, positional cues, and overlearning upon cue selection in recall and, additionally, to test the stimulus component independence hypothesis advanced by Wichawut and Martin (1970).
Date: August 1972
Creator: Molavi, Hossein
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Preference for Simplicity or Complexity as a Function of Personality (open access)

A Preference for Simplicity or Complexity as a Function of Personality

This study is designed to determine if people have a particular stimulus or perceptual preference which is congruent with their personality. Seventy-six male and female college students completed three personality tests, consisting of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Revised Art Scale of the Welsh Figure Preference Test, and the Gough Adjective Check List. A preference for simplicity or complexity in designs for four different personality dimensions was examined. The personality dimension of introversion and extroversion was looked at in particular.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Norman, Susan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Treatment of Overweight by Avoidance Conditioning (open access)

Treatment of Overweight by Avoidance Conditioning

This study investigated the effectiveness of aversion therapy to help subjects achieve and maintain a weight loss. The aversion therapy made use of an avoidance conditioning procedure. Slides of fattening foods were paired with the possibility of receiving an electric shock in an attempt to induce anxiety. Slides of non-fattening foods were paired with shock avoidance and consequent anxiety relief.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Petty, Gary L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The XYZ Test as a Measure of Attitudinal Change Resulting from a Management Training and Development Program (open access)

The XYZ Test as a Measure of Attitudinal Change Resulting from a Management Training and Development Program

A study was done to test the effectiveness of a managerial training and development program. Seventy-three first-line and middle managers of a medium size oil company were the subjects of this experiment. The two experimental groups took part in three training seminars which were designed to increase their skills in motivation and supervision.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Rainone, Michael D.
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
Group Play Therapy With Adjunctive Parental Counseling (open access)

Group Play Therapy With Adjunctive Parental Counseling

The problem as presented in this study constituted a proposed "preventive program" using a group play therapy approach which could be implemented by an educational system.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Smith, Donnie A., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Relationship Between the Eysenck Personality Inventory, and the Needs of College Students (open access)

A Study of the Relationship Between the Eysenck Personality Inventory, and the Needs of College Students

The problem with which this investigation was concerned was that of determining the extent various subgroups of individuals within certain clinical groups would agree in terms of how to rank order Maslow's basic needs.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Spies, Emma Jean
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Relationship Between Certain Variables and Drug Usage (open access)

A Study of the Relationship Between Certain Variables and Drug Usage

The purpose of this study was to identify some environmental and overt behavioral factors which are characteristic of drug users. This was attempted to enable individuals who work with adolescents to identify potential users.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Stroube, Hugh Aldritch
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship Between Room Size and the Limits for Comfortable Conversation (open access)

The Relationship Between Room Size and the Limits for Comfortable Conversation

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of determining the relationship between room size and the limits for comfortable conversation in dyadic interactions.
Date: May 1972
Creator: West, Geoffrey B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Physiological and Verbal Responses to Erotic Visual Stimuli in a Female Population (open access)

Physiological and Verbal Responses to Erotic Visual Stimuli in a Female Population

In recent years, there has been a growing acceptance of sexual behavior as a legitimate area of research. An impetus for research utilizing erotic visual stimuli was supplied by the Presidential appointment of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography (1963). Research into the effects of erotic visual stimuli has typically employed male subjects (Neiger, 1966). The paucity of adequate research has not been a deterrent to the formulation of strong opinions regarding the nature of female sexuality. The present research has focused on female responses to visual representations of the nude male figure.
Date: December 1972
Creator: Hamrick, Narecia D.
System: The UNT Digital Library