Women on the missions in Kansas during 1824-1870 were daring and courageous. Many of them had to travel thousands of miles to arrive at the Kansas mission where they were unsure of how the Indians would receive them and what their new life might...
The purpose of this study was to measure the effectiveness of individualized reading with a group or nine- and ten-year-old pupils. The study was carried out in the Fort Hays Kansas state College Summer Laboratory School. Subjects participating in...
PURPOSE: It was the purpose of this study to perform an item analysis on a women's physical education test concerning speed-a-way. The analysis will determine the difficulty and discrimination of each individual item in the test. From this analysis...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of agricultural noise on farm workers' auditory thresholds before and after a work day's exposure during the harvest season. Twenty volunteer subjects from a small farming community in North...
A review of the literature concerning the Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (MARS) revealed that the MARS is currently being employed as a measure of therapy progress despite a lack of conclusive research to justify this procedure. Many scales of a...
The researcher investigated the effectiveness of a grant funded at-risk prekindergarten program for 3-, 4-, and 5- year-olds, who through pre screening were determined to be deficient in two or more skill areas . A total of 57 subjects, 26 girls...
Six male homing pigeons were tested to examine the hypothesis that increased sample duration would facilitate acquisition of delayed matching to sample tasks. Three groups, with sample durations of 2.5 sec., 5 sec., and 15 sec. respectively, were...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the effects of a reading aloud program. Group membership according to type of reading activity, group membership according to gender, and group membership according to Chapter I reading were the...
The purpose of the field study was to determine the relationship of visual and aural musical experiences with playing the recorder. A more specific purpose of the study was to help the writer investigate visual and aural experiences in music...
Invasion by nonnative plants is particularly prevalent in wetlands. While the ecological patterns in wetland plants are well known, it is less well known how flooding-related soil conditions influence the physiological success of introduced species...
This thesis proposes to study color responses of school children from grades one to six inclusive. It endeavors to show the development of color discrimination in the school child.
I assessed the utility of cranial measurements to discriminate between the western harvest mouse (Reithrodonlomys megalolis) and plains harvest mouse (R. montanus) where they occur sympatrically in Kansas. I analyzed five different combinations of...
The present study explored the development of schematic concept formation (SCF) in children and adults. Ss were 164 children enrolled in grades 1 -4 and 30 adults enrolled in college psychology courses. The task using two classes of complex visual...
Four male homing pigeons, one and a half years old at the start of testing, were trained to a criterion of 90% correct on any block of 30 trials on a simple oddity discrimination problem to examine the effects of moving versus stationary stimulus...
A deed of trust in which the legal title of the property of the Golconda Gold Mining Company was transferred to a trustee, Adair Wilson, by the owner Thomas Bowen.
A novel response differentiation discrimination was established for possible application in psychophysical scaling in animals. Three Long Evans hooded rats at 85% normal body weight were trained to differentially respond to two audio stimulus...
It has been reported that some persons can discriminate non-visually among stimulus objects usually requiring visual cues. The majority of investigations seek merely to support or negate such reported aptitudes. Little interest has been directed...
The purpose of this experiment was to test an interpretation of Gibson's hypothesis relating to stimulus differentiation. Verbal learning was utilized, with an attempt to control intralist stimulus differentiation through the manipulation of the...
The purpose of this study was to obtain reliability and validity data for the Larson Consonant Sound Discrimination Test (LCSDT). Subjects were 55 third through sixth grade students who received an otoscopic exam, tympanometry screening, and had...
To test the validity of Sutherland’s (1964) model and accompanying rules that relate to discrimination learning and the partial reinforcement effect (PRE), the present study examined acquisition and extinction rates of humans of their performance...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of counting tactics in teaching children to hear and to discriminate the correct and incorrect production of a phoneme as they articulate and to compare the teaching of auditory discrimination by...
Prejudice is an unreasonable attitude revealed in emotional, verbal, and physical manifestations. Generally, it is caused by fear, hate, and desire for both economic and psychological advantages. Stereotypes of the Negro held by the Whites and over...
Today’s society has become increasingly concerned with what is politically correct by trying to dispel any biases that may offend someone. One of the biases the American culture has made acceptable is bias against the overweight. Overweight...
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