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
Differential Diagnostic Factors of the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test (open access)

Differential Diagnostic Factors of the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test

The primary purpose of the study is to evaluate the ability of the Bender Gestalt to differentiate between two groups of psychiatric patients. A second aspect of the study concerns itself with the ability of the Bender Gestalt to differentiate between psychiatric patients and normals.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Goff, Larry Vernon
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ego Strength, Dogmatism, and Anxiety in College Students (open access)

Ego Strength, Dogmatism, and Anxiety in College Students

It is the intent of this present study to investigate the nature of the relationships which might exist between ego strength, dogmatism, and anxiety.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Griffin, Alan N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Interpersonal Attraction on a Classroom Speaking Situation (open access)

The Effects of Interpersonal Attraction on a Classroom Speaking Situation

It was the purpose of this study to investigate the dynamics that exist in a classroom speaking situation. In particular, the study sought to explore the relationship of the speaker to his audience and how the quality of this relationship would affect the ability of the speaker to communicate.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Guernsey, Dennis B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Self-Concept, Sociometric Status and Inter-Personal Relations (open access)

Self-Concept, Sociometric Status and Inter-Personal Relations

What this study proposes to do is to study the relationship between self-concept and sociometric status.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Hellman, Douglas A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Employer Attitude toward the Mentally Retarded - an Application of a Cognitive Theory of Attitude Structure (open access)

Employer Attitude toward the Mentally Retarded - an Application of a Cognitive Theory of Attitude Structure

It was the purpose of this study to investigate some of the factors related to employers' attitudes toward the hiring of a mentally retarded individual. More specifically, an attempt was made to answer the question, "Why do employers hold favorable or unfavorable attitudes toward the hiring of the retarded?"
Date: August 1966
Creator: Weinberger, Mary Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Level of Aspiration and its Relationship to Other Personality Variables (open access)

A Study of Level of Aspiration and its Relationship to Other Personality Variables

Previous studies on correlations dealing with level of aspiration have been few and inconclusive. The problem of the present study was to examine the degree of relationship between an individual's level of aspiration and other personality variables as measured by standardized tests.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Newell, James Archie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Psychometric Patterns of the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale Subtests as an Indicator of Schizophrenic Syndromes (open access)

Psychometric Patterns of the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale Subtests as an Indicator of Schizophrenic Syndromes

The specific objectives of this investigation are as follows: 1. To determine which half -- verbal half or performance half -- of the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Test contributes most to total intelligence quotient for schizophrenics. 2. To determine whether any significant correlation exists between test scores and patterns of schizophrenics and normals. 3. To determine whether there exists any premature aging process in schizophrenics.
Date: August 1950
Creator: O'Dell, Perry L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Small Group Development (open access)

A Study of Small Group Development

The problem to be studied here is whether subsequent normative and hierarchical relationships will develop between individuals in a collective social situation, assuming basic goals and structure.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Greenstone, James Lynn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Psychopathic Tendencies Found in Some Unwed Mothers (open access)

Psychopathic Tendencies Found in Some Unwed Mothers

The study is an attempt to measure psychopathic tendencies in the girl who becomes pregnant out of wedlock compared with the average non-pregnant college co-ed. This characteristic, when evidenced in a subject's personality, may be reflected in a High T score on the Pd scale of the 1MPI.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Pratt, Howard Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library