The Relationship between Self-concept and Authoritarianism and Certain Academic, Vocational, and Biographical Variables of College Freshmen (open access)

The Relationship between Self-concept and Authoritarianism and Certain Academic, Vocational, and Biographical Variables of College Freshmen

The problem is to study the relationship between two personality measures, self-concept and authoritarianism, as each relates to certain academic, vocational, and biographical variables of male freshmen attending a state-supported university in the Southwest.
Date: August 1969
Creator: LeUnes, Arnold D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Course in Freshman English Composition Based on Theories of Creativity (open access)

A Course in Freshman English Composition Based on Theories of Creativity

Today's colleges and universities are faced with the challenges of reforming their curriculums in an effort to hold a generation of students who are now demanding more than just a degree. Today prominent writers in the field of higher education point to the necessity of assessing and reconstructing college courses so that new direction will be provided. Each student entering college for the first time usually must enroll in an English composition course. Such a course offers great potential to encourage the creative capacity of the incoming student and foster an attitude of personal inquiry. The diversity of subjects and intentions which can be introduced in the beginning composition course offers a healthy reservoir of opportunity for exploring personal meaning. Introducing some of the goals and concepts of creativity may thus inspire the design of a new course given to meeting the challenges of higher education.The problem of this study was to develop a course in freshman English composition based on the theories of creativity and directed towards the development of the student's creative and critical capacity.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Garrett, Patrick Posey
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Male and Female Teachers' Approval and Disapproval Interactions with Children (open access)

A Comparison of Male and Female Teachers' Approval and Disapproval Interactions with Children

This study was designed to determine the relationships between three variables in fifth- and sixth-grade classroom verbal interactions. These variables include sex of teacher, sex of pupil, and approval/disapproval interactions between teacher and pupil.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Gage, Jimmy Allen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contrasts in Selective Variables between Sociometrically High and Sociometrically Low Third Pupils (open access)

Contrasts in Selective Variables between Sociometrically High and Sociometrically Low Third Pupils

This study was designed to contrast the differences between sociometrically high and sociometrically low individuals, in regard to nine selected variables which were considered to differentiate between these individuals.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Anderson, Ronald W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Actual Stature to Height of Human Figure Drawings (open access)

The Relationship of Actual Stature to Height of Human Figure Drawings

One purpose of this study was to determine of the actual physical dimensions of an individual are related to the dimensions of his human figure drawings. The specific physical dimension used in this study is that of stature of height. Another purpose of this study was to determine if college males majoring in Physical Education might be superior to college males majoring in Industrial Arts in terms of their clarity of body image.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Burnett, Donald E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Influence of Vocational Training on the Self-Concept of the Physically Handicapped (open access)

Influence of Vocational Training on the Self-Concept of the Physically Handicapped

This study was conducted in order to investigate the hypothesis that the vocational rehabilitation training situation is itself therapeutic. The training situation is of course attempting to complete the final phase of rehabilitation by actually helping the handicapped individual to go out into the world again as a productive human being.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Diamond, Harriet A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Columbia Mental Maturity Scale and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale For Children : a Comparative Study Utilizing Institutionalized Mentally Retarded Males (open access)

The Columbia Mental Maturity Scale and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale For Children : a Comparative Study Utilizing Institutionalized Mentally Retarded Males

The purpose of the present study is to compare the 1959 revision of the Columbia Mental Maturity Scale (CMMS) with the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) for use as a psychometric instrument for determining the mental ability of mentally retarded male children.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Garnett, Richard E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Direction of Aggression and Group Conformity of Policemen, Narcotic-Addicts, and Seventh Day Adventists as Measured by the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study (open access)

The Direction of Aggression and Group Conformity of Policemen, Narcotic-Addicts, and Seventh Day Adventists as Measured by the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study

The present study was an attempt to measure the direction of aggression among three diverse groups, namely, policemen, narcotic-addicts and Seventh Day Adventists. The second aspect of this investigation was to determine the group conformity tendencies of the three basic groups. The Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study was used as the measuring instrument.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Gerlach, Herman
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Induced Motivation on the I.Q. Scores of Negro Children (open access)

The Effect of Induced Motivation on the I.Q. Scores of Negro Children

The purpose of the present study was to further investigate the effects of motivation on the intellectual attainment of Negro children. In view of previous research and realizing the importance of related study on inventive and achievement, the following hypothesis was proposed: Inducement of motivation between pre-and post-administrations of Form A of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test would result in significantly greater magnitude of change in scores for the experimental group of Negro children than for the control group.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Jeffers, Joe M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Miller Analogies Test Scores with Undergraduate and Graduate Grade-Point Averages of Graduate Students (open access)

A Comparison of Miller Analogies Test Scores with Undergraduate and Graduate Grade-Point Averages of Graduate Students

The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between the Miller Analogies Test scores of graduate school students and their undergraduate grade-point averages, as well as to find the relationship between Miller Analogies Test scores and the grade-point averages in graduate school of these students. A secondary purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between each of the following variables: sex, age, curriculum and the performance levels of the subjects.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Matlosz, Don
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Male and Female Homosexuals and Heterosexuals on the Masculinity/Femininity Scale of the Minnesota Multi-Phasic Personality Inventory (open access)

Comparison of Male and Female Homosexuals and Heterosexuals on the Masculinity/Femininity Scale of the Minnesota Multi-Phasic Personality Inventory

In the present study it was hypothesized that male homosexuals would score significantly higher on the Masculinity/ Femininity scale of the Minnesota Multi-Phasic Personality Inventory than would heterosexual men and that female homosexuals would score significantly higher on the Masculinity/ Femininity scale of the Minnesota Multi-Phasic Personality Inventory than would heterosexual females.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Pugh, Robert E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Doriden on Concentrative Attention Span and Problem Solving Ability in Mice (open access)

The Effects of Doriden on Concentrative Attention Span and Problem Solving Ability in Mice

It is the purpose of this thesis to examine the effect of Doriden on problem solving. Specifically, the present study was designed as an exploratory investigation of the effects of Doriden on the maze learning ability of mice.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Putnam, David G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Goodenough Draw-A-Man Test as a Measure of Interpersonal Adjustment (open access)

The Goodenough Draw-A-Man Test as a Measure of Interpersonal Adjustment

Since the premises and history of the Draw-A-Man (DAM) seem to indicate a relationship between this technique and adjustment/maladjustment, and since Leary defines maladjustment in terms of interpersonal behavior, the problem to be studied is to attempt to quantitatively relate DAM scores with some objective measure of social adjustment or maladjustment in children.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Schloss, Charles D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of White Noise on a Visual Discrimination Task (open access)

The Effect of White Noise on a Visual Discrimination Task

Previous studies have demonstrated that in some instances certain types of auditory stimulation have facilitated a subject's ability at a visual task while in other instances, the subject's ability has been inhibited. The primary objective of this experiment was to investigate the effect of auditory stimulation upon a subject's performance on a visual discrimination task.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Smith, James Larry
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Induced Anxiety and Levels of IPAT Anxiety on a Gestalt Closure Task (open access)

The Effects of Induced Anxiety and Levels of IPAT Anxiety on a Gestalt Closure Task

It was proposed that a study be done to investigate the problem of relating anxiety to the phenomenon of Gestalt closure. This study problem sought to demonstrate a systematic relationship between Gestalt closure, in terms of accuracy and speed, and possible interaction between levels of anxiety and induction of anxiety.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Sterling, F. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Changes in Self Concept Associated with Exposure to Theories of Personality (open access)

Changes in Self Concept Associated with Exposure to Theories of Personality

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of classroom lectures regarding personality theory on the incongruencies of one's self concept. Relying heavily upon the individual's drive toward integration, health, and self-actualization as summarized in the preceding section, as it is contended that, while some information will be rejected because of one's tendency to maintain and preserve established consistencies within himself, the individual's inherent motivation toward personal growth will result in the assimilation of many of these basic psychological beliefs into his own personality structure.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Temple, Janice E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
WAIS Intratest and Intertest Scatter in Diagnosis of Schizophrenia (open access)

WAIS Intratest and Intertest Scatter in Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

The present study deals with the application of various measures of intratest and intertest scatter to the items and subtests of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, or WAIS, in an attempt to improve the WAIS as a psychodiagnostic indicator of schizophrenia.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Towns, James P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interpersonal Preception: the Accuracy of First Impressions and Attitude Change as a Function of Self-Image and Age Similarities (open access)

Interpersonal Preception: the Accuracy of First Impressions and Attitude Change as a Function of Self-Image and Age Similarities

It is the intent of this study to investigate an aspect of the accuracy of first impressions and the stability of attitudes formed on the basis of these impressions. The study of first impressions and their influence on behavior is one aspect of the general topic of person perception.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Townsend, Philip C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Musical Stimuli on the Gross Motor Activity of Profound Mental Retardates (open access)

The Effects of Musical Stimuli on the Gross Motor Activity of Profound Mental Retardates

It was the purpose of this present study to investigate the effects of two types of music, tonic and sedative, on the gross motor activity of profound mental retardates. The primary objective was to determine if therapeutic benefits resulting from the application of music could be extended to profound retardates as has already been demonstrated with other levels of retardation.
Date: May 1969
Creator: Angelloz, Robert E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Personality Adjustment and Achievement of Slow Learning Children (open access)

Personality Adjustment and Achievement of Slow Learning Children

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between certain personality characteristics and achievement of slow learning children.
Date: May 1969
Creator: Burnside, Elisabeth Claire
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Interrelationships among Anxiety, Intelligence, and Academic Achievement in College Students (open access)

The Interrelationships among Anxiety, Intelligence, and Academic Achievement in College Students

It was the purpose of this study to investigate the nature of the relationships among anxiety, achievement, and intelligence. It was deduced that anxiety and intelligence work together mainly at the level of average intelligence. At this level, the addition of drive in the form of anxiety increases performance level, while a lack of drive or anxiety decreases that level. The influence of anxiety on academic achievement is insignificant at other levels due to the overriding effects of intelligence.
Date: May 1969
Creator: Combs, Don Carlos
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Differences in Reactions to Soothing and Exciting Music (open access)

Some Differences in Reactions to Soothing and Exciting Music

This study is concerned with the measurable physiological changes in human beings in the presence of musical stimuli.
Date: June 1969
Creator: House, William John
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of Writing Therapy with a General Psychiatric Population (open access)

The Effectiveness of Writing Therapy with a General Psychiatric Population

The purpose of this study was to assess empirically the effectiveness of writing therapy with patients in a psychiatric hospital.
Date: May 1969
Creator: Mappes, Donald C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Examination of Internal vs. External Control in Relation to Sociometric Status (open access)

An Examination of Internal vs. External Control in Relation to Sociometric Status

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between generalized expectancies of internal versus external control and sociometric status.
Date: May 1969
Creator: Marks, Warren F.
System: The UNT Digital Library