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 1971
DISCRIMINATION GRADIENTS IN EYELID CONDITIONING AS A FUNCTION OF PERCENTAGE REINFORCEMENT AND INTERSTIMULUS INTERVAL, Allen Ray Branum
THE MODELING OF HYPNOTIC BEHAVIOR, Michael Gairns DeStefano
Comparison of some measures of fixed-interval responding during mixed fixed-interval fixed-interval schedules, Thomas Daniel Dukich
THE EFFECTS OF COVERT SENSITIZATION WITH RELAXATION INDUCTION COVERT SENSITIZATION WITHOUT RELAXATION INDUCTION AND ATTENTION-PLACEBO ON THE REDUCTION OF CIGARETTE SMOKING, Richard Edward Fuhrer
Effective causal agent: A preliminary investigation and validation of a personality construct, Joyce M. Gale
VERBAL ATTENTION-SEEKING MECHANISMS AS RELATED TO NEED FOR SOCIAL RECOGNITION SOCIAL CONFIDENCE AND INTERVIEWER WARMTH, Jesse C. Hill
THE EFFECTS OF MODELING AS AN APPROACH TO CHANGING THE BEHAVIOR OF DEPRESSED SUBJECTS, Frank William Isele
Olfactory oddity learning in rats, Ronald A. Langworthy
Exposure time as a variable of the two-stimulus transposition problem in pre-school children, Byron Arthur McBride
Performance expectancy as a determinant of actual performance: An investigation of differential recall and individual need for achievement, Mark Herbert Mozer
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF JUDICIAL DECISION BEHAVIOR, Michael Murray Nash
Attitudes of inmates of the Montana State Prison toward legal and helping professions, Terry Anne Preston
Behavioral control of overeating, James Merritt Shulman
Hunger-motivated training as a function of the number of prior escape or avoidance trials, Gerald Ray Stoffer
Deer mice preferences for different combinations of food nest material and light, Stephen Ted Tibbitts
Covert sensitization as a function of punishment and reinforcement, Signe Harold Weedman
Self-concept and interpersonal perception change in basketball teams, Richard Alan Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Effect of task complexity on awareness and performance in attitude conditioning, Michael Lee Brown
Effect of alerting stimuli on learning and responding under induced muscle tension (IMT), Jim Fillmore Farnes
Standardization and comparison of self-concept within a student prison and rural church population, Helmuth Fichtler
Effects of trait anxiety and of stress on speech predictability, Richard Edward Fuhrer
ATTITUDE ACQUISITION AS A FUNCTION OF INSTRUMENTAL EFFECT, Richard Lee Greene
Effects of atropine on food versus water reinforced responding, Garth Hines
A MEASUREMENT OF AFFECT DISCRIMINATION: A VALIDATIONAL STUDY, Howard Mark Israel
Problem solving performance under variations in magnitude of differential reinforcement, Charles Henry Koski
Test and extension of the stimulus-effect hypothesis in perceptual defence, Edmund Daniel Moritz
Stimulus preference in rats, Richard Standish O'Grady
Effects of instructions and interstimulus interval in human GSR conditioning, Richard Patrick Swenson
RESPONSE CHAIN LEARNING AND RETENTION IN MENTALLY RETARDED UNDER FOUR CONDITIONS OF REINFORCEMENT, Larry Wilson Talkington
THE EFFECT OF DIETARY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ON PERFORMANCE OF RATSIN THE HEBB-WILLIAMS MAZE, Anne J. Wells
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
AN INTERACTION BETWEEN TRAINING PROCEDURE AND TASK DIFFICULTY FOR BRIGHTNESS AND POSITION DISCRIMINATIONS USING RATS IN SINGLE-UNIT MAZES, James Parkhurst Allison
Proactive and retroactive interference in rats: A test of the spontaneous recovery hypothesis with correction and noncorrection discrimination training procedures, Bela Alexander Balogh
EFFECTS OF MAGNITUDE AND DELAY OF REWARD ON PERCEPTUAL RECOGNITION RESPONSES, Bert Cunin
Effects of practice group size and stimulus variables on the use of unfamiliar problem-solving strategies, Bertha Hoffman Cunin
UNLEARNING OF FIRST-LIST ASSOCIATIONS AND RESPONSES AS A FUNCTION OF THE INTERPOLATED LEARNING METHOD, Lambert Hermann Deckers
Effect of knowledge of results on the acquisition of prose material: Various levels of knowledge of results implemented, Mason Wesley Dikeman
Thirst and shock-escape drive interaction, Jay Wilson Harper
Drive intensity change and response suppression, Harry Lee Hom
Influence of affectivity on the serial learning of CVC syllables, John Dwaine Kennis
Double-puff eyelid conditioning technique to examine CS-UCS intensity relationships, Frank Lynn Meeker
AN EXAMINATION OF EXTREME RESPONSE STYLE, Matthew Roy Merrens
THE INFLUENCE OF STATE AND RELATIONSHIP ON THE HYPNOTIC RECALL OF PREVIOUSLY PRESENTED MATERIAL: A TEST OF HYPNOTIC HYPERMNESIA, Nancy Hanks Shubat
Knowledge of classroom friendship patterns as a mediator in learning, Robert Walter Thurman
Condition exploration in domestic rats, Thomas O. Towle
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
Effects of glutamic acid and aminooxyacetic acid on discrimination learning and activity in the rat, Allen Ray Branum
VARIABLES AFFECTING THE SUPPRESSION EFFECT IN TRANSFERRING FROM AVERSIVE TO APPETITIVE MOTIVATION IN THE RUNWAY SITUATION, Marvin G. Bulgatz
Differential proportions of reinforcement of an irrelevant cue after training with the cue relevant, Judith Johnson Cole
The lntertriallnterval and Proactive Inhibition in Short-Term Memory, Lambert Herman Deckers
Apparatuses for assessing maze learning in the Isopod Sp, Richard Lee Greene
Personality and the perceptual defense phenomenon, Victor Clark Joe
Further test of the Yerkes-Dodson law, Donald Arthur Maguire
A COMPARISON OF FOUR CONCEPT IDENTIFICATION MARKOV MODELS OF SHORT-TERM MEMORY (STM), LeRoy John Matthews
REINSTATEMENT: FURTHER RESEARCH PARAMETERS WITHIN THE FEAR PARADIGM, Edward Everett Shubat
Self-esteem and perceived similarity of most-liked and least-liked persons, Anne J. Wells
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
Compilation of research projects under the supervision of the late Dr. William J. Griffiths Jr., Emery Elmer Benson
AN INVESTIGATION OF MEDIATED FACILITATION AND OTHER TRANSFER EFFECTS IN PAIRED-ASSOCIATES VERBAL LEARNING, Mark Cunningham
Nurturance and succorance as influenced by birth order and status: A test of Stotland's social schema theory, Jenean Sue Evans
Indicators of manifest anxiety on the draw-a-person test, Ralph Dennis Greene
Conformity among LSD users, R. Thomas Johnson
Test of Miller's approach-avoidance hypothesis in an open field, Charles Keith McCarty
DAP: A study in acceptance, Richard H. Ruth
Judging need for social approval from vocal cues as a function of the strengths of the speakers' and judges' needs, Jeffrey Middleton Snow
Effects of stimulus similarity and locus of response on simultaneous and successive discrimination learning in children, Elizabeth Smith Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
Analysis of methods for indicating strategy during the solving of anagram problems, Daniel B. Corts
THE EFFECTS OF CENTRAL INCREASE OF 5-HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE ON LEARNING, Shirley Anne Fifer
Perspective reversal as affected by durations of pre-rest practice and of interpolated rest periods, Penny Marie Huntsberger
Study of the relationship between item ambiguity susceptibility to social influence and the double agreement phenomenon, Loren Kent McBride
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
Role of stimulus familiarization in nonverbal selective learning, James Parkhurst Allison
Effects of rearing in isolation on conditioned emotional response (CER) activity and heart rate in beagles, Richard Henry Bauer
Test of an assumption: Personality diagnosis on the basis of photographs, Berton B. Kaplan
Examiner variables in human figure drawings, Mary Ellen Sheire
Effects of motivation on rotary pursuit performance, Betty Louise Waddell
Theses/Dissertations from 1964
Shock and approach learning, Charles J. Cunning
Effect of movement environment and sex on adaptation to a visually-inverted environment, Eleanor E. Kemp
Effects of convulsions on grid shock sensitivity of the mouse, Frank H. Sjursen
Effect of birth order upon affiliation with fraternities and sororities, David Whitman Van Nuys
Theses/Dissertations from 1963
Effects of time factors in paired-associate verbal learning, Blaine Lynnwood Baker
Exploratory behavior in the hooded and albino rats as a function of apparatus complexity and food deprivation, Joanne Ries Baseheart
Influence of successive habit reversals on human learning and transfer, Nancy Trask Paul
Factors in misconception, W. J. Paul
Development of a tactual-kinesthetic visual-motor test for the detection of brain damage, Charles Lee Preuninger
Effects of a mnemonic technique applied to serial verbal learning, Richard K. Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 1962
Empirical avoidance gradient, Dale Franklin Nielsen
Theses/Dissertations from 1961
Serial verbal learning as a joint function of amount of practice and individual difference, Gordon Floyd Gerrish
Awareness of texture in responses to tactile stimuli and in the Rorschach texture response, Ellen Anne Strommen
Theses/Dissertations from 1960
Influence of experimentally-produced meaningfulness (m) upon paired-associate learning, George V. Parker
Study of cartoon sorting performance, Henry Pennypacker
Theses/Dissertations from 1959
Effects of various asymptotic restrictions on human trial-and-error learning, Ridgely White Chambers
Acquisition of drive-eliciting power by originally neutral cues, Odin C. Vick
Effects of repression on the expression of hostility, Herman Albert Walters
Theses/Dissertations from 1958
Verbal response to self image as related to level of adjustment, Sheilia Jean Lowney
Diagnosis of brain damage through the use of three visual tests: retinal rivalry spiral after-imaage and stereoscopic figure tracings, Robert James Ripke
Theses/Dissertations from 1957
Study to determine the effects of frustration upon the selection of thematic apperception test cards, James Kern Dick
Manifest structure analysis of student information files, Derek Michael Hasse
Study of the effects of verbal and motor responses upon affective valation of stimulus words, Jack Gunnar Peterson
Womb regression symbolism in hypnotically induced dreams, Henry White Pierce
Theses/Dissertations from 1956
Validation study of the autonomy and deference subscales of the Edwards personal preference schedule, Darrell Ivan Gisvold
Investigation of the galvanic skin response in a perceptual defense situation, Robert Ware
Theses/Dissertations from 1955
Effects of age on Wechsler-Bellevue test performance in mental defectives, Alice Bastow