The Psychology Department Dissertations and Theses Series is comprised of dissertations and theses authored by Marquette University's Psychology Department doctoral and master's students.
Submissions from 1977
MEASURES OF SELF-DISCLOSURE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS, LILLIAN JONES
Learned inactivity as a factor in the learned helplessness effect, John P. Lombardo
Achievement motivation, locus of control and attitudes toward women, Susan C. Minikel
Estimating the intelligence of mentally retarded adults with the Columbia Mental Maturity Scale, Paul J. Neerhof
A comparison of scores obtained on the Stanford-Binet-Intelligence Scale, Form L-M, and the McCarthy Scales of children's abilities, Jeffrey S. Smigielski
A cross-cultural comparison of person perception as a function of general reasoning ability, Birute Penkiunas Tautvydas
Effects of favorability, sex of the diagnostician, and sex of the subject on acceptance of generalized personality interpretations, Linda M. Vierling
Attribution of interpersonal causality in alcoholics, William J., Warzak
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Attitudes toward women and achievement motivation as rated by female employees and their supervisors, Kathleen M. Coogan
IDENTIFICATION, SELF-CONCEPT, AND ATTITUDE TOWARD DISABLED PERSONS IN SELECTED GROUPS OF NORMAL HEARING AND HEARING-IMPAIRED ADULTS, PETER GLENN GREY
Personality characteristics of the female alcoholic ; an attempt to validate the PRI-100, Mary Alice Herzog
The assessment of alpha biofeedback training in alcoholics, Louis A. LaRocca
PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE, COMPLEMENTARITY, AND HEMISPHERIC SPECIALIZATION: HEURISTIC ESSAYS IN QUANTUM PSYCHOLOGY, ARNOLD LOUIS LETTIERI
The relationship of the Stroop Color and Word Test to a measure of self-actualization, Dennis J. Lichter
The relationship between an androgynous attitude and life satisfaction in the elderly, Dolores J. Lore
The use of an open-ended questionnaire as a means for effecting a positive attitude change toward mental illness and the mentally ill, Michael Nichols
Effect of tetraethyl lead and reduced food intake on activity in the rat, James C. Schmidt
The Scholastic aptitude test, James M. Stone
SCHOOL PHOBIA IN ELEVEN TO SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLDS: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF SCHOOL PHOBIC TYPES AND PERSONALITY IN A PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENT GROUP, JACK A WEIDNER
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Influence of sex ratios on the prestige of traditionally male and female professions, Sandra K. Marlow
The role of social comparison in risky shifts, John J. McEnery
Correlations of the MABRI factor scores with the MMPI clinical and research scale scores, J. Frank Popplewell
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
The perception of evil by children differing in ethnic background, sex, and area of residence in the city., Susan k. Curran
A comparison of logical and empirical estimates of item difficulty on a test of general intelligence, Thomas Leon Fisher
Constriction : a mode of response to projective techniques, Chaim Halberstam
A comparison of certain aspects of psychological and social needs of institutionalized and non-institutionalized aged, Charles M. Lodl
A content analysis of the two different editions of some introductory psychology textbooks, Michael Allen Zulli
Submissions from 1973
OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING FOLLOWING OPERANTLY CONDITIONED IMITATION IN SEVERELY AND PROFOUNDLY RETARDED CHILDREN, Jean Marshall Baldwin
Liking for a task as a function of choice, justification and sex., Robert C. Fontana
The effect of a reinforcement machine in the training of language behavior with a psychotic child., Samuel B. Green
The relationship of temporal orientation and self-ideal discrepancy in adolescents., Barbara Hebert
Effect of group cohesiveness on the recall of interrupted group tasks., Richard J. Koch
The effects of pointer alignment and dial placement on the speed and accuracy of check reading responses in instrument panel designs, Frank T. Masur
YOUTHFUL SUICIDE: A STUDY IN SEARCH OF CUES FOR THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION, PATRICIA J O'REILLY
An evaluation of the MMPI as a measure of motivation of cardiac patients to secure employment, Sharon L. Taylor
Development of an inventory with likert-type behavioral and attitudinal items, to measure esthetic interest in college students, Mary Ann Waterstreet
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Long-term resistance to temptation as a function of threat severity and experimenter status., James W. Augustin
The Effect of Time-Out from an Aversive Condition on the Rate of Pecking Escape in Pigeons, Nicholas J. Certo
The accuracy of psychiatric staff members' judgments concerning the relative acceptability of inpatients of various ages to adolescent inpatients., James J. Crisco
Internalization as a function of sex differences., Eithne Keenan
Inconsistent instructions, severity of threat and their long term effects on behavior, Harold W. Maphet
Stimulus transcendence, personality revelation and emotional tone as functions of card selection on the thematic apperception test, Bruce Edwin Pieper
Predicting success with electromyographic biofeedback as a function of health locus of control, Sandra L. Pishny
Peer acceptance as a factor on the development of racial self-concept of young children, Angelia Prijic
A study of the development of social competence in mongoloid children, James A. Rivet
The efficacy of social reinforcement as a function of level of satiation and class of reinforcing stimulus, Eric R. Sampson
A comparison of the comprehension and picture arrangement subtests of the WAIS with various social scales of the MMPI, Loren G. Scherkenbach
Hostile attitudes and behavior in relation to affiliation need, Marilyn Ruth. Smits
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
The development of the self-concept in black and white children, Jeanne F. Beglis
Extinction of ocular avoidance of noxious stimuli through correlated auditory reinforcement., David E. Blankenheim
Prohibition, transgression, and the internalization of control., Catherine Luise Choy
The effect of testing the limits and social interaction tendencies on WISC verbal scale responses., Elaine M. Costanzo
The effectiveness of social reinforcement following isolation or satiation : general arousal hypothesis versus social drive hypothesis, Daniel J. Giannini
MMPI profile configurations of female criminal groups, Victoria A. Hersolf
Electrodermal response characteristics of chronic schizophrenics to auditory stress., Thomas J. Kleist
Time orientation in different racial groups, Michael Twerski
Students' personality characteristics, academic performance, and teacher ratings, Frederic W. Widlak
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Alcoholism as predicted by the Rorschach : a critical review, Marc J. Ackerman
Changes in self-understanding as a function of group therapy, Judith Bahr
Comparison of age and alcohol consumption effects on driving skills., Thomas R. Bozewicz
Personality characteristics of diocesan priests in middle- adulthood: a preliminary study., Kevin G. Culligan
The relationship between performance on the Revised Beta Examination and the Halstead Category Test for hospitalized alcoholics., Dennis M. Dalpes
The birth-month factor and personality as measured by the MMFI., Mary Esther Gamin
Social interest, self-acceptance, and the perception of human qualities by children., Daniel J. Kealey
Aggression as exhibited in burned children., Kathleen S. Kowalski
Measurement of emotional and physiological arousal in suicidal female psychiatric inpatients, John Norbert Lemerond
Religious thinking among children and adolescents in Catholic schools and Confraternity of Christian Doctrine classes, Agnes Pertzborn
The relationship between parental scores on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and cognitive distortion in boys, Elaine N. Peterson
Reinforcement as a function of attractiveness of reinforcing agent and task complexity, Edward M. Rubin
The Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City during the twenties, Barbara J. Rush
Immunization of a controverted belief through group discussion, Lloyd A. Strauss
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Personality characteristics of drug users which differentiate them from a non-drug using population., Terrill L. Bruett
The effects of feedback and training on psychological reports and predictions generated from those reports., Paul M. Griswold
The behavioral effects of alcohol and the influence of age., Warren A. Kass
Differences Between Negro Male Alcoholics and Their White Counterparts on the MMPI, Richard E. Kindel
Examiner effects on word associations of schizophrenic patients., Rita Kluczny
A comparison of the WAIS, WISC and WB-II, Jeffrey Mark Miller
A validation of the Peebles' content scoring system of the Rorschach, Richard F. Murphy
Fantasy expression in adolescent boys who act-out, Michael R. Sheenan
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
The evaluation of several non-discriminative avoidance schedules on water consumption by naive water deprived rats, Dale O. Beining
Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory characteristics of cardiac patients, Maija Berzins
Affiliative behavior as a function of self-perceived affiliation need strength., Robert Hilarius Heying
The relationship of certain groups of defense mechanisms to a continuum of repression-sensitization., Clifford L. Hirsch
Varieties of anxiety and academic achievement, Michael David Lever
Identification of subject by sex in a blind analysis of TAT protocols, Patricia J. O'Reilly
A comparison of the WB-II, WAIS, and WAIS-R, Michael John Ostrowski
Empathic avoidance of a victimized model's condition as a function of perceived similarity and locus of cause, Karen J. Schouten
THE USE OF SELF-DESCRIPTION IN IDENTIFYING AND PREDICTING STUDENTS WHO SEEK HELP WITH THEIR EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS, PAUL WALTER THORESEN
Mental test performance as a function of item order and scoring cutoffs, William R. Veeser
Psychological variables distinguishing between car-owning and noncar-owning high school boys, Alice F. Ventura
A Comparison of the WPPSI with the Stanford-Binet, Michael K. Wagner
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
Perceptual field dependence and its relationship to personality factors in alcoholics, Mary Michael Cavanaugh
A comparison of reification frequency in the thematic apperception stories of nursing and liberal arts students, Ann F. Muhlenkamp
Early childhood memories and occupational choice, Rosalie A. Price
The effect of feeding schedule and supplementary activity on the spontaneous consumption of 15% ethanol in the albino rat, Catherine M. Roubie
The effects of principle and cue information when irrelevant cues are implicit or explicit, Patricia M. Skalski
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
A study of three subscales denoting alcoholism on the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory as diagnostic tools., Michael Keith Hawkins
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
An exploratory study of the role of peripheral autonomic responses in the acquisition of discriminatory motor acts in the dog, Donald A. Czech