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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
A Study of the Relationship Between the Eysenck Personality Inventory, and the Needs of College Students (open access)

A Study of the Relationship Between the Eysenck Personality Inventory, and the Needs of College Students

The problem with which this investigation was concerned was that of determining the extent various subgroups of individuals within certain clinical groups would agree in terms of how to rank order Maslow's basic needs.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Spies, Emma Jean
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Relationship Between Certain Variables and Drug Usage (open access)

A Study of the Relationship Between Certain Variables and Drug Usage

The purpose of this study was to identify some environmental and overt behavioral factors which are characteristic of drug users. This was attempted to enable individuals who work with adolescents to identify potential users.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Stroube, Hugh Aldritch
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
The Use of Aerobic Running in the Reduction of Anxiety (open access)

The Use of Aerobic Running in the Reduction of Anxiety

This investigation was concerned with the potential effectiveness of an aerobic running program in the reduction of anxiety. Anxiety was defined in this investigation as a subject's score on the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (TMAS).
Date: May 1973
Creator: Allen, Geoffrey H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Behavior Rehearsal Combined with Anxiety Relief Conditioning : A New Assertion Training Paradigm and Its Relative Efficacy (open access)

Behavior Rehearsal Combined with Anxiety Relief Conditioning : A New Assertion Training Paradigm and Its Relative Efficacy

An experiment was conducted to investigate the relative effectiveness of a combined behavior rehearsal anxiety relief conditioning paradigm with a more conventional behavioral rehearsal program in the treatment of deficient assertive behavior.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Arnold, Bill R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deep Muscle Relaxation Obtained with Analog Electromyographic Information Feedback (open access)

Deep Muscle Relaxation Obtained with Analog Electromyographic Information Feedback

The purpose of the research study was to provide improved relaxation training with the use of an electromyography feedback device based on the design of Green et al. (1969). It was intended that this instrument would allow the training of deep muscle relaxation to the point of neuro-muscular silence, while remaining inexpensive enough to be applied in the clinical setting.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Bates, Charles Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Memory Requirement on Schema Learning (open access)

The Effect of Memory Requirement on Schema Learning

A number of previous investigations have suggested that schema learning would be more readily facilitated by a recognition task than a reproduction task due to the increased memory requirement of the reproduction task. Differential memory requirements of 0, 4, 8, 16 and 32 seconds were imposed on 50 Ss in a recognition task to determine if increased memory requirements improved schema learning in the same mode as the reproduction task. The results indicated no significant improvement in schema learning with increased memory requirement. The data does suggest negative transfer from reproduction to recognition task. Recommendations for design and procedural improvements are included.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Buckner, Rose Laminack
System: The UNT Digital Library
Changes in Peabody Picture Vocabulary Scores as a Function of Differential Familiarity and Social Class Membership (open access)

Changes in Peabody Picture Vocabulary Scores as a Function of Differential Familiarity and Social Class Membership

The present study was designed to investigate the discrepancy in test performance between the upper-middle-class and lower-class kindergarten-age child as a function of differential familiarity with test content.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Crooks, Olivia Ann
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 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
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
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
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