A Study of Motor Activity Level in Response to Musical Stimuli as Found in Mental Retardates (open access)

A Study of Motor Activity Level in Response to Musical Stimuli as Found in Mental Retardates

The purpose of this study is to investigate, empirically, the response of the severely mentally retarded to different types of music, tonic and sedative, as well as responses during "quiet" periods.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Holloway, JoAnn
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Ego Strength, Social Participation and Weight Reduction (open access)

The Relationship between Ego Strength, Social Participation and Weight Reduction

The problem of this research may be stated as a study of the relationship between successful weight reduction on the part of people involved in a group program, and the two variables of ego strength and social participation.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Madison, Carol Rindler
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Performance on the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test and Perceptual Ability and Motor Skill in a Non-Clinical Group (open access)

The Relationship between Performance on the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test and Perceptual Ability and Motor Skill in a Non-Clinical Group

The purposes of the present study are to try to establish whether perception and motor skill are determinant factors of performance on the Bender-Gestalt Test and to investigate the degree of relationship and importance of each factor on the B-G-T.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Moazami, Manoutchehr
System: The UNT Digital Library
Philosophical Ideas in Five Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre (open access)

Philosophical Ideas in Five Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre

The drama of Jean-Paul Sartre is primarily an investigation into the meaning of the human condition. The question of primary concern is: What does it mean to be a human being? Through his drama, Sartre reveals the nature of the existential situation. This thesis looks at five plays of Sartre and discusses the philosophical ideas in each.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Portman, Stephen G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Representations of the Mother-Son Relations in the Major Novels of Samuel Clemens (open access)

Representations of the Mother-Son Relations in the Major Novels of Samuel Clemens

This thesis examines the relationship between Samuel Clemens and his mother, Jane Lampton Clemens. It is apparent that Samuel was strongly influenced by his mother in his personality, appearance, and beliefs; but of greater importance is the influence she exerted on the literary creations of Mark Twain.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Rogers, Janie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reversal and Nonreversal Shifts in Concept Learning in Three Levels of Retardates (open access)

Reversal and Nonreversal Shifts in Concept Learning in Three Levels of Retardates

The primary objective of this experiment is to investigate the transition from single unit to mediation control in retardates and to compare their responses with those made by nursery, kindergarten and grammar school children. By utilizing three MA levels of retarded subjects, this transition point may be more specifically demonstrated.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Scurlock, Cheryl Faye
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Incidental Learning in a Classroom Type Situation (open access)

A Study of Incidental Learning in a Classroom Type Situation

This paper contends that, like children of average intelligence, there is a degree of material that will be learned by the retardate, even if his attention is not directly brought to bear upon that material.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Siegel, Edward M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Practices Used in the Classroom for the Prevention or Correction of Discipline Problems (open access)

A Study of Practices Used in the Classroom for the Prevention or Correction of Discipline Problems

The purpose of the study was to establish relationships pertaining to the use of practices involving the prevention or correction of discipline problems between academic and industrial arts teachers.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Smith, James R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Professional Baseball and the Antitrust Laws (open access)

Professional Baseball and the Antitrust Laws

This study concerns the threatened imposition of the antitrust laws on baseball and the response of the sport, both in court action and in pressures upon Congress.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Strother, Guy Thomas
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Relationships of Motor Creativity, Tap Dance Skill, and Tap Dance Choreography (open access)

A Study of Relationships of Motor Creativity, Tap Dance Skill, and Tap Dance Choreography

This study sought to determine the relationship of motor creativity, tap dance skill, and experience in tap dance choreography to the ability to choreograph tap dances.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Teer, Norma S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Viewing Loopfilm on Tennis Skill and Form (open access)

The Effects of Viewing Loopfilm on Tennis Skill and Form

This study was an attempt to determine the effectiveness of loopfilms as a supplement to the demonstration-explanation method of teaching sports skills.
Date: June 1969
Creator: Camp, Barbara A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Audio-Visual Presentation Designed for Motivation of Certain Elementary Art Students (open access)

An Audio-Visual Presentation Designed for Motivation of Certain Elementary Art Students

In order to create a motivational device to help students become more aware of their surroundings, an audio-visual project was chosen as the most effective means of reaching intermediate grade children in a low socio-ecomonic area. Developing an effective sett of motivational experiences for enriching learning through seeing in the art education program was the task undertaken in this study.
Date: June 1969
Creator: Harris, Jan
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
Primary Abelian Groups and Height (open access)

Primary Abelian Groups and Height

This thesis is a study of primary Abelian groups and height.
Date: June 1969
Creator: Ingram, Lana J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Anxiety on the Short-term Memory Proficiency of College Students (open access)

The Effects of Anxiety on the Short-term Memory Proficiency of College Students

Based on the review of literature, it has been demonstrated that anxiety has some detrimental effects on the short-term memory functions of the college student. In order to improve the experimental methodology, the present study combined Type I and Type II studies of short-term memory as a function of anxiety. The two were combined so that the major criticisms in each study were controlled.
Date: June 1969
Creator: Payne, Terry D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Human Personal Space: A Descriptive Study (open access)

Human Personal Space: A Descriptive Study

This is an inquiry into human personal space at a basic descriptive level. Its purpose is to observe some of the characteristics of personal space configurations as measured by a projective technique and to see how certain conditions may effect them.
Date: June 1969
Creator: Renegar, Larry Allen
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Development of Literature as Social History in the South (open access)

The Development of Literature as Social History in the South

Glasgow, Faulkner, Warren and Caldwell, while probing "the human heart in conflict with itself," portrayed the South in transition. Each of them made substantial contribution to a deeper understanding of the region, its people and problems, and their work was only a part of the vast literary heritage established by their generation.
Date: June 1965
Creator: Bartley, Glenda Hebert
System: The UNT Digital Library
Howard Roark as Hero (open access)

Howard Roark as Hero

This study will be an investigation of character, therefore an investigation of the salient characters which have stirred the interest that has made Ayn Rand such a popular novelist.
Date: June 1965
Creator: Coffman, Sue Evelyn
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Negro and White Responses to the Rorschach Ink Blots (open access)

A Comparison of Negro and White Responses to the Rorschach Ink Blots

The purpose of this study is to compare Negro and white responses to the Rorschach.
Date: June 1965
Creator: Corrin, Denny D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Concerning linear spaces (open access)

Concerning linear spaces

The basis for this thesis is H. S. Wall's book, Creative Mathematics, with particular emphasis on the chapter in that book entitled "More About Linear Spaces."
Date: June 1965
Creator: Gilbreath, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library
Head Size Perception in Normal and Mentally Retarded Children (open access)

Head Size Perception in Normal and Mentally Retarded Children

The present study was designed to obtain evidence as to whether the distorted images drawn by mentally retarded subjects are possibly due to perceptual variables, to the lower level of motor coordination they experience, or to an interaction of both.
Date: June 1965
Creator: Jones, Randel R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Synthesis, Stability, and Reactions of Dichloroketene (open access)

Synthesis, Stability, and Reactions of Dichloroketene

The primary objective of this work was to prepare dichloroketene.
Date: June 1965
Creator: Liddel, Harold Glenn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Specifity of Allergic Responses Following Injection of Simple Chemical Protein Conjugates (open access)

Specifity of Allergic Responses Following Injection of Simple Chemical Protein Conjugates

The purpose of this investigation has been to determine the characteristics of the immune response to 1-fluoro-2,4-dinitrobenzene when this hapten is conjugated with various types of proteins.
Date: June 1965
Creator: Lowke, George Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship of Mental Ability Levels to Reversal of Learning Sets by the Retarded (open access)

Relationship of Mental Ability Levels to Reversal of Learning Sets by the Retarded

Using postulations formulated by Harlow, very few investigators have experimented with discriminative learning in relation to various levels of human mental abilities to the pattern of forming a set. The present study was designed to investigate the effects of different levels of mental abilities on the formation of these sets, using mental retardates, and analyzing the formation of these sets and the abilities of these retardates to shift dimension of cues by reversing the response conditions.
Date: June 1965
Creator: McDaniel, Willard Vearl
System: The UNT Digital Library