This collection includes theses, dissertations, and professional papers from the University of Montana Department of Psychology. Theses, dissertations, and professional papers from all University of Montana departments and programs may be searched here.
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Examination of the phenomenon of trance logic using objective measurement and limiting the hypnotist/subject relationship, Karen H. Eiblmayr
Therapy preferences and the rated credibility of treatment rationales, Steven G. Fox
The role of individual differences in weight loss and maintenance, Kathy J. Harowski
Investigation of the stability of personality traits using time-series analysis, Jeffrey F. Heider
THE EFFECTS OF GENDER SEX-ROLE AND LEVEL OF DEPRESSION ON SELF-REPORT ROLE-PLAY AND UNOBTRUSIVE MEASURES OF ASSERTION, Elizabeth Parker Hess
Treatment expectations and preferences and perceptions of insight-oriented and behavior therapies, C. Sue Hickey
THE ROLE OF INTERNAL-EXTERNAL LOCUS OF CONTROL IN THE USE OF IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT BY SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN, David Alan Johnson
TRAINING IN CHILD MANAGEMENT AS TREATMENT FOR ABUSIVE PARENTS, Nancy Kaser-Boyd
THE EFFECTS OF SCHEDULING OF THERAPEUTIC CONTACT UPON WEIGHT LOSS AND MAINTENANCE IN A BEHAVIORAL WEIGHT REDUCTION PROGRAM, Maxwell Robert Knauss
Relationship between will self-esteem and depression, Stephen M. Langer
THE ORIGINS OF MISBEHAVIOR IN THE RAT, Stephen Lynn Mills
THE EFFECTS OF SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION OF SYMBIOTIC FANTASIES ON THE BEHAVIOR THERAPY TREATMENT OF SMOKING, Jay Richard Palmatier
Dental fear | a naturalistic application of reattribution principles, Nancy K. Steblay
INCREASING ELDERLY CITIZENS' USAGE OF A NUTRITION PROGRAM: EFFECTS OF THREE PEER-DELIVERED PROMPTS-INCENTIVE PROCEDURES, Teresa M. Sweeney
A STUDY OF GUILT SUCCESS AND FAILURE AND THE MANNER IN WHICH THEY AFFECT HELPING BEHAVIOR, Donna Mary Veraldi
A COMPARISON OF COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE AND LIFE EXPERIENCE CORRELATES OF DEPRESSION IN YOUNG ADULTS AND THE AGED, Jill Winegardner
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Cognitive/behavior treatment program for use with American Indian alcohol abusers, Paul Jay Bach
Effects of a specific instructional set on some state and trait measures of assertiveness, David S. Brown
THE EFFECTS OF CHILD FEEDBACK PARENT FEEDBACK AND PARENT FEEDBACK PLUS TRAINING UPON INCREASING SHARING AMONG PRESCHOOL CHILDREN, Christine Kniivila Faulstich
Pretherapy training and its effects on attitudes toward psychotherapy, J. Scott Hickey
Effects of type of information and method of dissemination on the reporting of a shoplifter, Bonnel A. Klentz
Collection of theoretical and experimental research projects in clinical and social psychology, Miles E. McFall
INTERACTIONAL PERSONALITY THEORY: A MULTIVARIATE SYNTHESIS OF PERSON SITUATION AND BEHAVIOR VARIABLES, Daniel Michael Mungas
REACTIVITY OF SELF-MONITORING IN MARITAL INTERACTIONS: EFFECTS OF GOAL SETTING AND INSTRUCTIONS ON VERBAL BEHAVIORS OF MARRIED DYADS, Randal Paul Quevillon
THE REACTIVITY OF SELF-MONITORING AND SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL TRAINING IN THE MODIFICATION OF SPEECH DISFLUENCIES IN SPEECH ANXIOUS COLLEGE STUDENTS, Robert G. Rychtarik
Performance of maternally zinc deficient rhesus monkeys on oddity tasks, Cheryl L. Spitzer
Life stress problem-solving ability and psychological distress, Julia Meta Stroud
The Effects of two variables victim provocation and defendant intoxication on simulated jurors' perceptions of guilt in a case of wife-battering, Teresa M. Sweeney
COGNITIVE VARIABLES IN PSYCHOPATHY, Terrel Lee Templeman
STIMULUS CONTROL IN A SIMPLE INSTRUMENTAL TASK: THE INTERACTION OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL STIMULI, John Edward Walkenbach
Effect of modeling and play therapy techniques on children's adjustment to brief hospitalization and surgery, Rochelle Lynn Winnett
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Discrimination of assertive responses in groups varying on level of assertiveness, Mark C. Bordewick
Reactions to conspecifics as novel stimuli in protein malnourished and socially isolated rhesus monkeys, Ted E. Dobson
RELATIONSHIP OF SPONTANEOUS AMNESIA EGO STATES AND HIDDEN OBSERVERS TO POST-HYPNOTICALLY DISSOCIATED TASK INTERFERENCE, Victoria Lynne Douglass
Test of the sequential hypothesis of instrumental learning in a free operant paradigm, Peter S. Goeddel
THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL SUPPORT AND PARAPROFESSIONAL TRAINING ON THE OUTCOME OF A MULTICOMPONENT SMOKING ABSTINENCE PROGRAM, Scott Brown Hamilton
Perceived sex-role attitudes in self and other as a determinant of differential assertiveness in college males, Elizabeth Parker Hess
Comparison of two methods of listening skills training for paraprofessional residence halls assistants: Carkhuff's model versis [sic] Interpersonal Process Recall, M. Joan Hess-Homeier
UNILATERAL HYPNOTIC DEAFNESS, Linda Kirby Holombo
Effects of low-nutritional pro-nutritional and non-food commercials on the eating behavior of children, Nancy Kaser-Boyd
Contributions of selected therapist and client nonverbal behavior to ratings of empathy, Maxwell Robert Knauss
ALCOHOLISM DEPRESSION AND LEARNED HELPLESSNESS, Keith Jerry Krueger
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIRECTION OF LATERAL EYE MOVEMENT REPRESSION-SENSITIZATION AND PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO STRESS, Barbara Keely Loeb
OPERANT CHOICE BEHAVIOR, Edward Otto Marks
OBJECTIVE SELF-AWARENESS THEORY: APPLICATIONS TO ASSERTION TRAINING PROCEDURES, Rodney Keith Miller
Investigation of the relationship between self-actualization meaning in life and personal mortality, Jay Richard Palmatier
Prenatal zinc nutrition and behavioral development in rhesus monkeys, Alvin T. Reuter
AN EXAMINATION OF SUBJECTS' ATTRIBUTIONS CONCERNING THE CAUSES OF EXPECTED AND UNEXPECTED OUTCOMES, Daniel L. Schultz
EFFECTS OF EXPECTANCY ON THE REACTIVITY AND ACCURACY OF SELF-MONITORING, Allan Howard Solomon
DEPRESSION: SEX DIFFERENCES IN EXPRESSION AND RELATIONSHIP TO SEX ROLES, Marianne Thomas Spitzform
Role of sequential variables in successive contrast effects, John Edward Walkenbach
Prediction of vocational outcome using the Personality Research Form, Jill Winegardner
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PROBLEM-SOLVING PROCESSES IN THE CONCRETE TRANSITIONAL AND FORMAL OPERATOR, Kathryn Lee Wise
REACTIVITY AND ACCURACY OF SELF-MONITORING WITH MENTALLY RETARDED ADULTS: EFFECTS UPON WORK PRODUCTIVITY WORK QUALITY AND ON-TASK BEHAVIOR, Clarence Joseph Zohn
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
The use of cognitive strategies to attenuate test anxiety: Attribution of normality self-instructions and distraction, Irene D. Bugge
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF RATIONAL-EMOTIVE SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL ASSERTION TRAINING, Timothy P. Carmody
A FACTORIAL STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF LABELING APPEARANCE AND BEHAVIOR ON ADOLESCENTS' PERCEPTION OF THE MENTALLY RETARDED, J. William Cook
HYPNOSIS AND COVERT MODELING IN THE TREATMENT OF OBESITY, David A. Devine
Causal attributions by children and adolescents concerning superior and inferior performance in masculine feminine and neutral school subjects, Christine M. Kniivila
Pretesting and therapist-client sex matching effects in social skills training, Daniel Michael Mungas
CONCURRENT POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT, Stuart Edward Putnam
TREATMENT OF SLEEP ONSET INSOMNIA BY PARADOXICAL INSTRUCTION, Helmut Relinger
Application and evaluation of an interpersonal skill training program with mentally retarded adults, Robert G. Rychtarik
Predictive validity of the Smile Early Screening Test, Allan Howard Solomon
ACQUISITION AND MAINTENANCE OF AUTOSHAPED KEY PECKING IN PIGEONS, Gene D. Steinhauer
Pitch level and pitch range as a function of client-therapist interaction in psychotherapy, Terrel Lee Templeman
SCALING PERCEPTIONS AND PREFERENCES OF FOREST SCENES FROM THE CORAM EXPERIMENTAL FOREST: AN APPLICATION OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING, Roy Frederick Touzeau
THE ASSESSMENT OF TRANSFER EFFECTS OF A PERCEPTUAL-MOTOR SKILL WITH THE USE OF AN ALTERNATING DESIGN, James Lee Wahlberg
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
COVERT MODELING TREATMENT OF CHILDREN'S DENTAL FEARS, Sanford Lee Chertock
AN APPLICATION OF SIGNAL DETECTION THEORY TO UTILITY SCALING OF INTRACRANIAL REINFORCEMENT, Warren Robert Coleman
THE ROLE OF PRELIMINARY MAGAZINE TRAINING IN ACQUISITION OF THE AUTO-SHAPED KEYPECK, George Howard Davol
Telemediated self-confrontation: Effects of separation of channels social approval seeking and fear of negative evaluation on self-perception, Victoria Lynne Douglass
Increasing the accuracy of self-report data through the use of reliability enhancement and self-monitoring training procedures, Scott Brown Hamilton
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE FAKING SCALES OF THE MMPI AND THEIR USE IN DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS, Jay Wilson Harper
Social behaviors in protein deficient and environmentally deprived rhesus monkey, Linda Kirby Holombo
SOME EFFECTS OF ALTERNATIVE RESPONSE INDEPENDENT SCHEDULES OF REINFORCEMENT ON RESPONDING AND NON-RESPONDING, Frederick Ralph Keller
A comparison of brief relaxation therapies: Self-report and physiological indices, Rodney Keith Miller
Effect of reminder stimuli on weak memories, Stephen Lynn Mills
THE ACQUISITION OF EMPATHIC COMMUNICATION SKILLS THROUGH THE ACTIVE LISTENING TRAINING IN THOMAS GORDON'S PARENT EFFECTIVENESS TRAINING, Edmund Daniel Moritz
A QUANTITATIVE GENETIC ANALYSIS OF AUTOSHAPING IN THE MOUSE (MUS MUSCULUS), Michael Francis O'Connell
PSYCHOLOGICAL ANDROGYNY: CONSTRUCT VALIDATION AND RELATIONSHIP TO MENTAL HEALTH AND SEX STEREOTYPES, John Peyton Pettus
Mediational treatment of self-control in grade-school children: Comparing training methods and content, Randal Paul Quevillon
Expectations of success in chance and skill tasks as affected by social class, Daniel L. Schultz
THE EFFECTS OF ATTRIBUTION OF NORMALITY ON AROUSAL, Soren K. Svanum
The effects of temporary states on helping behavior, Donna Mary Veraldi
THE EFFECTS OF AGGRESSIVE TOYS ON AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR IN CHILDREN, Christine Marian Wolff
Convergent and discriminant validity of the Experiential world inventory, Clarence Joseph Zohn
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Protein preference in protein malnourished monkeys avidity or conditioning?, Leland James Dayley
SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE FORMATION AND RETENTION OF EMBEDDED SENTENCES, Ralph Dennis Greene
Instructional set and Machiavellianism, Sharon Ann Hoefler
Development of accuracy in self-perception, Brenda K. Holland
Effects of poetry on mood states| A test of the "Isoprinciple", Keith Jerry Krueger
Effects of instructional variables on the parameter values of verbal discrimination learning models, Edward Otto Marks
ALPHA EEG FEEDBACK TRAINING INSTRUCTIONAL SET AND HYPNOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY, Ray Turner Moore
DIRECT INSTRUCTION VERSUS INDIRECT SUGGESTION WITH NEUROTIC ANXIOUS AND AGGRESSIVE PSYCHOPATHIC INMATES AT THE MONTANA STATE PRISON: AN ANALOGUE INVESTIGATION, Peter Lawrence Peregoy
THE EFFECTS OF LOCUS OF CONTROL DEFENSIVENESS AND SEX OF AGGRESSOR UPON INSTRUMENTAL AND HOSTILE VERBAL AGGRESSION, Barry Lee Quinn