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Relationships between Alienation and Feelings of Transcendence (open access)

Relationships between Alienation and Feelings of Transcendence

An exploratory study was conducted to examine feelings of alienation in high school and college students.
Date: May 1973
Creator: DeLaughter, David Lynn
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intralist Stimulus Similarity, Stimulus Meaningfulness, and Transfer of Training in the A-B, A-C Paradigm (open access)

Intralist Stimulus Similarity, Stimulus Meaningfulness, and Transfer of Training in the A-B, A-C Paradigm

The investigation examined the effects of formal and semantic intralist stimulus similarity (ISS) on transfer of stimulus differentiations in the A-B, A-C paradigm.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Dismukes, Newton W.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Consequences of Labeling a Person as Mentally Ill in an Urban Black Community (open access)

The Consequences of Labeling a Person as Mentally Ill in an Urban Black Community

This study has a twofold purpose. The first is to determine the consequences related to labeling deviant behaviors, especially as these effects are reflected in the person who labels and defines deviant behavior. The second is to evaluate the medical model of abnormality in relation to the labeling of deviant behavior.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Driggers, John M.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Influence of Acclimation and Acclimatization to Seasonal Temperatures on Metabolism and Energetics in the Rusty Lizard Sceloporus Olivaceus (open access)

Influence of Acclimation and Acclimatization to Seasonal Temperatures on Metabolism and Energetics in the Rusty Lizard Sceloporus Olivaceus

Rates and energy equivalents of consumption (C), egestion+ excretion (FU) , assimilation (A), respiration (R) and production (P) were measured in two groups of Sceloporus olivaceus: 1) a laboratory group acclimated at four seasonally encountered temperatures (15, 20, 25 and 30°C) ; and 2) four acclimatization groups collected at different seasons when ambient temperatures corresponded to 15, 20, 25 and 30°C.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Dutton, Ronald Hugh
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Goethe and the Classical Ideal (open access)

Goethe and the Classical Ideal

This thesis was written to examine Goethe's efforts to emulate the Greeks and write in their spirit. Works most helpful in the study were Humphry Trevelyan's Goethe and the Greeks, Kenry Hatfield's Aesthetic Paganism in German Literature, Eliza Butler's The Tyranny of Greece over Germany, and the works of Goethe which show his relationship with the Greeks.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Eakin, Charles
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Problems of the Economic Development of Uganda (open access)

The Problems of the Economic Development of Uganda

Given the problems of economic development, the purpose of this thesis is to examine, analyze, and reevaluate the impact of human, social, economic, and political problems on the economic development of Uganda. The strategy adopted in the study of the problems involved in the economic development of Uganda is historical. In short, the study examines past, recent, and present literature on economic development of Uganda.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Ebangit, Zerubbabel Ojimam
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Degree of Learning, Stimulus Order, Emphasis, and Meaningfulness on Cue Selection in Paired-associate Learning (open access)

The Effects of Degree of Learning, Stimulus Order, Emphasis, and Meaningfulness on Cue Selection in Paired-associate Learning

The present study sought to investigate the combined influences of degree of first-list learning, stimulus order, emphasis, and meaningfulness on the selection strategies of college subjects.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Fjarlie, Craig E.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of a Geometry from a Set of Axioms (open access)

Development of a Geometry from a Set of Axioms

The purpose of this paper is to develop a geometry based on fourteen axioms and four undefined terms.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Glasscock, Anita Louise
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Decrement of Stuttering as a Result of the Application of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (open access)

The Decrement of Stuttering as a Result of the Application of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

This investigation is an attempt to apply the principles of the experimental analysis of behavior to the stuttering behavior of two clinical subjects. The experimental manipulations were performed in order to bring about a decrement in the stuttering rate of the two subjects.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Glenn, Sigrid S., 1939-
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Ability to Discriminate Several Aspects of Paired-Associate Learning (open access)

The Effectiveness of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Ability to Discriminate Several Aspects of Paired-Associate Learning

This study is an exploratory attempt to evaluate the efficacy of the use of the ITPA in discriminating between the learning performance of "good" and "poor" auditory learners and between "good" and "poor" visual learners on a paired-associate task presented visually or auditorially.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Ritz, Elizabeth
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Unilateral Exercise Upon the Reaction-Movement Time of the Exercised Arm and the Contralateral Arm (open access)

The Effects of Unilateral Exercise Upon the Reaction-Movement Time of the Exercised Arm and the Contralateral Arm

The purposes of the study were to determine (1) the effect which exercise of the nondominant arm would have upon the reaction-movement time of the dominant and nondominant arms, (2) the degree to which fatigue transfers from one arm to the other arm, and (3) the influence of lateral dominance upon the reaction-movement time of both the dominant, and nondominant arms.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Schmidt, Dianne L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lebesgue-Stieltjes Measure and Integration (open access)

Lebesgue-Stieltjes Measure and Integration

The purpose of the thesis is to investigate an approach to Lebesgue-Stieltjes measure and integration.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Seale, Laura S.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Isolation and Partial Characterization of a Bacterium Which Gives Off Filtrable Cells (open access)

Isolation and Partial Characterization of a Bacterium Which Gives Off Filtrable Cells

The present study was on the isolation of a bacterium capable of producing filtrable forms which passed through the 0.45µ filter membrane and regenerated the parental form; the testing of the true filtrability of the isolate; the relationship between growth of the isolate and appearance of filtrability; partial characterization of the isolate and visualization of the elements that passed through the membrane filter with electron microscopy and shadow casting technique.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Siu, Henry H. W.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship Between the Perception of Parental Loving-Rejecting Behavior and Scholastic Aptitude in College Students (open access)

The Relationship Between the Perception of Parental Loving-Rejecting Behavior and Scholastic Aptitude in College Students

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the perception of parents as Loving-Rejecting(L-R) on the basis of the Roe-Siegleman Parent-Child Relations Questionnaire (PCR), scholastic achievement, as measured by the grade point average (GPA), and scholastic aptitude, as measured by the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).
Date: May 1973
Creator: Smith, Jamie M.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Change Between Time-Extended Group Counseling and Traditional Group Counseling (open access)

A Comparison of Change Between Time-Extended Group Counseling and Traditional Group Counseling

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a time-extended counseling group with a traditional counseling group on the three variables: self-actualization, intimacy, and members' reactions to the group experience.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Spurgeon, Gene
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Peer Assessment of Leadership Style and Its Relation to Productivity (open access)

Peer Assessment of Leadership Style and Its Relation to Productivity

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of determining if peer appraisal of leadership style is related to productivity.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Swanson, Ronald G.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Training for Public Administration in Thailand (open access)

Training for Public Administration in Thailand

The specific problem with which this investigation is concerned is training for public administration in Thailand. Of particular importance are the Western-style training programs developed since 1956, when Indiana University began the Institute of Public Administration in conjunction with the Thai government.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Tantibanchachai, Kasem
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shaping Appropriate Verbal Responses in a Social Situation With a Withdrawn Retarded Adolescent (open access)

Shaping Appropriate Verbal Responses in a Social Situation With a Withdrawn Retarded Adolescent

"Shaping" or "method of successive approximation" is a procedure which may be applied to increase the frequency of a response which has a low operant level, or it may also be used to bring about responses which have not been previously emitted. In "shaping," the experimenter initially reinforces a response which is within the behavorial repertoire of the subject. Then, the experimenter reinforces only responses which approximate the behavior which is desired. The final behavior is then directly reinforced.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Thompson, James N.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anxiety Relief Conditioning: a Critical Review and Supportive Experiment (open access)

Anxiety Relief Conditioning: a Critical Review and Supportive Experiment

An experiment was conducted to separate the effects of anxiety relief conditioning from other variables which may be operative within that paradigm. A review of the literature revealed that no definitive investigations had been conducted, and critiques of these investigations were offered. Also, the distinction between aversion relief and anxiety relief conditioning procedures was detailed.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Turnage, John R.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Behavioral Approach to Modifying Self-Concept in the Classroom (open access)

A Behavioral Approach to Modifying Self-Concept in the Classroom

The problem with which this investigation was concerned was that of assessing the effects of token reinforcement on children's self-concept.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Turnage, Shirley A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sex Differences and the Relationship Between the Need for Social Approval and Conservative-Liberal Sexual Attitudes (open access)

Sex Differences and the Relationship Between the Need for Social Approval and Conservative-Liberal Sexual Attitudes

This study investigated sex differences and the relationship between need for approval and liberal-conservative attitudes regarding sex. The test measures used were the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (M-C SDS) and a questionnaire measuring liberal-conservative sexual attitudes taken from a research survey published in Psychology Today.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Vilet, Jacquelyn
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A*-algebras and Minimal Ideals in Topological Rings (open access)

A*-algebras and Minimal Ideals in Topological Rings

The present thesis mainly concerns B*-algebras, A*-algebras, and minimal ideals in topological rings.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Wei, Jui-Hung
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dogmatism and Sex Role Differentiation in Adults (open access)

Dogmatism and Sex Role Differentiation in Adults

This study is an investigation of the general questions Is there a relationship or interaction between a subject's dogmatism score (as measured by the Dogmatism Scale) and his self-rating of the perceived stereotypical masculinity-femininity dimension (as measured by the abridged Mf scale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory)?
Date: May 1973
Creator: Westmoreland, Robert W.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stimulation of Breast Growth by Hypnosis (open access)

Stimulation of Breast Growth by Hypnosis

The purpose of this study was to determine whether hypnotic suggestions could influence the physiological mechanisms associated with breast growth to produce a significant increase in breast- size in an adult female population.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Williams, James E.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library