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Browsing Psychology Senior Integrated Projects by Issue Date
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A Symposium of Neurophysiological and Neurochemical Theories of Schizophrenia, Leading to a Somatic Method for Treatment
(Kalamazoo College, 1964)The purpose of this paper is to present a theory of s schizophrenia which relies on chemical and neuroanatomical evidence in an attempt to define and pinpoint a disease which has, since its naming (dementia praecox) by ... -
Psychological Adjustment to Disability
(1964)Reviews the literature discussing the psychological treatment of patients with physical disabilities. -
Observations Made in a Mental Hospital with Emphasis on Activity Therapies
(1964)This paper consists of observations made at a mental hospital especially Activity Therapies. My first introduction to Logansport State Hospital or to any mental institution was the first part of January of this year. ... -
The Influence of Expectancy as Induced by Suggestion upon the Perception of Beta Movement
(1964)This study was designed to determine the effect of expectancy as induced by suggestion upon the perception of beta movement. The hypothesis of this study was that expectancy as induced by suggestion would influence the ... -
Defense Mechanisms of Clients in a Social Work Setting
(1964)The author observed sessions with 36 Aid to Dependent Children clients in Kalamazoo County and classified the defense mechanisms observed. -
A Review and Critical Evaluation of the Experimental Work on the Freudian Theory of Repression
(1964)The author presents the historical development of Freud's theory of repression, then reviews and evaluates the experimental work on repression. -
Theoretical and Experimental Study of Schizophrenia
(1964)The author presents an overview of schizophrenia discussing the illness and various theories of its development, and then presents an experiment conducted under the direction of Dr. Richard Young at Indiana University ... -
The Theory of Psychological Testing With Emphasis on Aptitude Testing
(1964-03-30)Discusses theoretical and practical aspects of developing and using aptitude tests including interpreting scores, measures of correlation, reliability, validity, item analysis, test score errors, scoring methods, and factor ... -
The Psychological Nature of Creativity and Its Applications in Industry
(1964-04-01)This paper, while dealing with the creative process on all levels and in all fields of endeavor will tend to emphasize the third or inventive level. I am not attempting to introduce any new theories of creativity, but ... -
Immanent Justice in Moralistic Judgments of Stories by Retarded Children
(1964-05)It is the primary function of this study to further test the hypothesis that belief in immanent justice varies inversely with intelligence by comparing responses of mildly retarded children with those of Yamada's ... -
An Experimental Approach to Automobile Styling
(1965)The purpose or this experiment is to apply psychometric scaling to automobile styling by constructing aesthetic scales for the basic components of the automobile, namely, roof line, grill shape, side view, front and ... -
The Effects of Syntactic Structure on Serial Position in Free Recall
(1965)Ss learned English and nonsense lists structured syntactically at various levels to test the hypothesis that pr1macy effects in free reoa11 are facilitated in relation to the degree of structuring present. The presence ... -
A Direct Test of Sheffield's Notion of "Stimulus Aftereffects of Eating" in Explaining the Partial Reinforcement Effect
(1965)2 direct tests of Sheffield's notion of "aftereffects of reinforcement" were to involve discriminating the stimulus consequences of eating from not eating, and stopping and starting from not stopping. Ss' task was ... -
The Concept of Creativity and its Proposed Explanation According to Some of the Contemporary Literature
(1965)Some of the contemporary literature on creativity was surveyed and summarized under four major divisions: (1) the literature pertinent to defining creativity, (2) the literature which examines the traits of individual ... -
Mathematical Learning Theory: The Theories of W.K. Estes and of R.R. Bush and F. Mosteller
(1965)The origins of the use of mathematics in psychology are reviewed briefly as an introduction to the development of a mathematical learning theory. The role of the model, especia1ly the mathematical model, in theory ... -
A Descriptive Analysis of the Halstead Battery of Neuropsychological Tests, the Theory of Biological Intelligence, and the Life of a Brain-Damaged Youth
(1965)The purpose of this paper is to provide a composite presentation of the work done by Dr. Ward C. Halstead. It emphasizes the scope of his accomplishments rather than the depth of his research. In the first part of the paper ... -
Achievement Motivation and Its Relationship to Anxiety, Grades, and Future Plans : A Comparative Study of Freshman and Senior Women
(1965)Twenty-four Freshman and 24 Senior women were measured on achievement motivation, manifest anxiety, grade point average, and future plans for the purpose of testing correlations and group differences. There was little ... -
A Comparison of Retention Between Groups Using Programed and Conventional Instructional Methods
(1965)Eighty-four students in an introductory psychology course at Kalamazoo College participated in a study to investigate whether Learning by a Linear programmed textbook or by a conventional lecture method produces better ...
