| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| A Behavioral Approach For The Control Of Inappropriate Behaviors In A Special Education Day Care Setting |
2021 |
135 |
The combined effect of ignoring inappropriate behavior while reinforcing alternative appropriate behavior was assessed using a multiple baseline design over four behaviors in a special education day care center. The behavior of a three year old mildl... |
| An Exploratory Investigation In The Use Of Biographical Data To Predict Success Of Child Psychotherapy In A Private Out-Patient Clinic |
2021 |
215 |
Researchers have attempted many ways to predict success in psychotherapy including: (1) Demographic data, (2) Projective measures, (3) Objective test data, and, more recently, (4) Biographical data of the client and/or his family. This thesis investi... |
| The Effects Of N-Length And Number Of Pre-Shift Trials On Resistance To Extinction: A Human Analogue |
1973 |
139 |
Capaldi's stimulus specificity theory, as applied to extinction phenomena, asserts that two variables, N-length and number of preshift trials, are responsible for response decrement during extinction in animals. This study factorially manipulated the... |
| A Human Analogue Of Incentive Contrast Effects |
1973 |
98 |
This study represents a human analogue to the straight alley incentive contrast literature in which rats served as the primary research subject. Employing a motor task, incentive was bi-directionally manipulated from preshift to postshift training. T... |
| The Effects Of Stress, Creativity And Gender On Anagram Performance |
1981 |
180 |
Stress, gender and creativity were factorially combined to assess their effect on anagram performance. Stress was induced by informing subjects that the experimental task was selected for them due to their poor performance on past intelligence tests.... |
| Perceptual Differences Of The Family By Parents And Their Adolescents In Delinquent And Non-Delinquent Families |
1979 |
181 |
This research was designed to assess the relationship between delinquency of the male adolescent and family members' perception of their family. Research in this area has been marked by two main problems: ambiguous definitions of the delinquent and n... |
| A Sudy Of The Relationship Between Cognitive And Noncognitive Measures Of Creativity And Locus Of Control, SAT, And Gender |
1979 |
75 |
The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between a cognitive and a noncognitive measure of creativity (the RAT and the BWAS, respectively) as a function of locus of control, intelligence, and gender.... |
| The Effect Of Cottage Parent Expectancy On Reinforcement Administered To Oppositional Children |
1974 |
182 |
The effect of manipulating expectation of social behavior on the amount of contingent reinforcement delivered by caretakers to a child was investigated. Forty cottage parents employed at a state institution for the mentally retarded were asked to vie... |
| Risk-Taking Behavior As A Function Of Perceptual Augmentation And Reduction |
1974 |
107 |
The risk-taking performance of reducers and augmenters of kinesthetic perception was examined under both low and high risk conditions. Twenty subjects were grouped as reducers and augmenters according to scores on a kinesthetic perception test and th... |
| The Effects Of Feedback And Strength Of The Nervous System On Cardiac Rate Control |
2021 |
117 |
The influence of two levels of visual feedback (continuous wave-form and no feedback) and three levels of extra-version (high, medium and low) on the ability to decrease heart rate were examined. Forty-eight college students served as subjects with e... |
| The Effects Of Feedback Upon Attending Behavior |
1974 |
140 |
An experiment was conducted to assess the effects of feedback (flashing a red light) upon the classroom attending behavior of an emotionally disturbed child. Whenever the child failed to attend to classwork, the red light was activated, providing fee... |
| Aggressive Behavioral Effects Of Display Water By Dominant And Subordinate Siamese Fighting Fish (Betta Splendens) On Conspecifics |
1978 |
89 |
Recent evidence indicates that several species of fish are sensitive to chemical as well as visual cues in the maintenance of dominance heirarchies. Aggressive displaying in the Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens) was studied as a function of wat... |
| Variables Related To Duration Of Outpatient Treatment In A Community Mental Health Center |
2022 |
168 |
The prediction of duration of outpatient treatment in a community health center was investigated by correlating number of treatment sessions with 22 defined variables.... |
| Memory Span, Task Complexity And Sentence Length In Normal School Age Children |
1979 |
62 |
The relationship between memory span and language production was investigated.... |
| The Effects Of Auditory Stimulation And Movement On Performance For The Attention Deficit Disordered Student |
1985 |
69 |
The present study was designed to investigate the effects of auditory stimulation and movement on the recognition of material presented visually for the Attention Deficit Disordered student.... |
| The Influence Of Gender-Stereotyped Interests On Ratings Of A Perceived Homosexual |
1985 |
71 |
This study was conducted to examine the effects of the label "homosexual" and gender of subjects on personality ratings of a man possessing typically masculine, feminine, or neutral interests.... |
| Parenting Styles, Educational Level Of Parents, And Social Competence In Preschool Aged Children |
1987 |
313 |
Research has indicated that social competence of preschool children is largely a function of parenting style. Studies have shown that authoritative parenting style, when compared to authoritarian and permissive parenting styles, is generally most eff... |
| Interaction Of Anxiety Level, Lecture Atmosphere, And Testing Atmosphere On Test Scores |
1973 |
206 |
Environmental atmospheres of lecture and test for high anxious and low anxious students were factorially manipulated in order to assess the effect on classroom test performance. Results indicated that an unrelaxed lecture atmosphere was more conduciv... |
| Computerized Placement Tests As A Predictor Of Success In College Level Mathematics Courses At Surry Community College |
1997 |
177 |
Admissions personnel at Surry Community College have used students' scores on the mathematics section of the Computerized Placement Test to make placement recommendations since February of 1993. Although the Educational Testing Service has conducted ... |
| The Use Of A Token Economy System In The Treatment Of School Delinquents |
1976 |
125 |
Eighty-seven school delinquents in a traditional junior high school were used in a six-month study involving the application of a "token economy." The students were selected from the general population on the basis of poor grades, high rates of absen... |
| A Comparison Of Selected MMPI Personality Scales Among Assaultive, Sexually Assaultive, And Nonviolent Male Juvenile Offenders |
1983 |
114 |
The MMPI has been used extensively by many professionals to aid in predicting dangerous behavior. For this reason much research has gone into investigating the efficiency of this instrument. The present research was designed to examine the relationsh... |