A Study of Personality Patterns of Aspirants to the Ministry of the Episcopal Church (open access)

A Study of Personality Patterns of Aspirants to the Ministry of the Episcopal Church

It is the purpose of this study to investigate the personality patterns of a group of applicants who have been under the auspices of the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas and have received a psychiatric and psychological evaluation. The various aspects of their examinations will be investigated to determine what personality types have been more acceptable in this diocese and subsequent success in their vocation.
Date: May 1960
Creator: Clark, David D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Group Discussion on Some Dimensions of Personality (open access)

The Effects of Group Discussion on Some Dimensions of Personality

It is the basic hypothesis of this study that there exists a relationship between personal attitude and value changes and participation in group discussion. The purpose of this study will be an attempt to assess how some personality variables change as a result of group discussion.
Date: May 1961
Creator: Remeny, John Allen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Increasing the Social Interaction in a Fifth-Grade Class: a Sociometric Study (open access)

Increasing the Social Interaction in a Fifth-Grade Class: a Sociometric Study

The purpose of this study is to change the structure of a fifth-grade class in order to increase the social interaction of the group.
Date: May 1961
Creator: Baugh, James Robert
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intra-test Scatter on the Shipley-Hartford Abstraction Scale and Its Relationship to Schizophrenia (open access)

Intra-test Scatter on the Shipley-Hartford Abstraction Scale and Its Relationship to Schizophrenia

The present study will be concerned with the reliability of the Shipley-Hartford Abstraction Scale as an instrument for diagnosis of schizophrenia and personality disorders.
Date: May 1964
Creator: Rogers, Thomas Darwyn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Running Speed in the Long Path of a Single Choice Maze as a Function of Frustration in the Short Path (open access)

Running Speed in the Long Path of a Single Choice Maze as a Function of Frustration in the Short Path

The purpose of the present study was to further investigate the effects of frustration on the reward value of a goal object. Under the assumption that animals will learn to take the shortest path to a goal and that the reward value of an object will increase as effort increases, the following hypothesis was proposed: If rats are frustrated in the short path of a single choice maze (experimental group) then the experimental group's running time for the long path will be less than that of a control group not frustrated in the short path.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Harris, Dickie A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use of a Sentence Completion Survey as a Prognistic Indicator of Response to Marriage Counseling (open access)

The Use of a Sentence Completion Survey as a Prognistic Indicator of Response to Marriage Counseling

The purpose of the present study was to explore the usefulness of an objectively scored self-rating sentence completion test in the development of objective prognostic statements regarding marital counseling.
Date: May 1970
Creator: Huwieler, Robert W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Bender Gestalt Test and Prediction of Behavioral Problems in Moderately Mentally Retarded Children (open access)

The Bender Gestalt Test and Prediction of Behavioral Problems in Moderately Mentally Retarded Children

The purpose of this study was to determine the usefulness of Koppitz's method of scoring the Bender Gestalt (BG) Test for the prediction of behavioral problems in retarded children. The problem behaviors with which this study was concerned were those most often associated with the hyperactive child.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Baxter, Raymond D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Group and Individual Methods of Presenting Baldwin's Social Expectations Scale (open access)

Comparison of Group and Individual Methods of Presenting Baldwin's Social Expectations Scale

Forty Ss from introductory psychology classes participated in a study to determine whether or not the investigator's group Social Expectations Scale (SES) was a useful research instrument and to determine whether or not intelligence was a factor determining the fit of a particular cognitive model, the BSE, to the social expectations of Ss as measured by the SES.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Pitts, Emily C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Concept of Rebelliosness of Negroes and Whites (open access)

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
Dogmatism in Adults and Correlates of Early Parent-Child Relationships (open access)

Dogmatism in Adults and Correlates of Early Parent-Child Relationships

The results suggest that children's perceptions of parental child-rearing behavior are related to their tendencies to be dogmatic in their beliefs, and apparently perceptions of parents as loving has reinforcing properties for the child that may lead to the uncritical acceptance of the belief system of the parents.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Cole, Troy H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Perceptual Training on School Readiness Skills (open access)

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
Effects of Desensitization, Rogerian Therapy, and Modeling on Stage-Fright (open access)

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 Sedative and Tonic Music on Sterotyped Behaviors in Institutionalized Mental Defectives (open access)

The Effects of Sedative and Tonic Music on Sterotyped Behaviors in Institutionalized Mental Defectives

Stereotyped behavior in profoundly retarded subjects was observed under sedative and tonic music, with time and movement measures of responding.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Petty, Marshall L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of the Meaning of the Concept MYSELF on Selected Personal and Social Concepts (open access)

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 Examination of the Relationships between Personality Adjustment, Social Interaction Abilities, and Marital Adjustment (open access)

An Examination of the Relationships between Personality Adjustment, Social Interaction Abilities, and Marital Adjustment

The problem with which this investigation was concerned, was that of determining the relationships between personality adjustment, social interaction abilities and marital adjustment. The following hypotheses were investigated: 1) there will be a significant relationship between individual personality adjustment and marital adjustment, and 2) there will be a significant relationship between marital harmony and social interaction abilities.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Moorman, John W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Memory Consolidation in Avoidance-Conditioned Goldfish: Changes in Brain Protein-Synthetic Patterns (open access)

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
Prediction of Success in Computer Programming Courses (open access)

Prediction of Success in Computer Programming Courses

This study dealt with the problem of investigating the validity of two recently developed paper-and-penci1 tests of programmer aptitude , the Aptitude Test for Programmer Personnel (ATPP) and the Computer Programmer Aptitude Battery (CPAB), in predicting success in computer programming.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Dempsey, Betty J .
System: The UNT Digital Library
Response Decrement in the Rat Following Various Sequences of Partial Punishment Training (open access)

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
The Semantic Differential as a Measure of Sexual Differences (open access)

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
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
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
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 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