This study was an attempt to replicate and extend the findings of an experiment by Auble, Franks and Soroci (1979) dealing with the "aha" experience. The "aha" experience is defined as a state of non comprehension followed by comprehension....
Increasingly, educators instruct students with special needs in general instead of special education classrooms even though little evidence exists suggesting that students with disabilities exhibit relatively increased academic responding and...
Despite the growing number of students with disabilities receiving an increasing share of their education in inclusive classrooms, there is little evidence that inclusion increases academic responding or social interactions. The current...
The purpose of the present study was to compare self reported and actual self-presentational behavior. One hundred two students from several undergraduate courses were asked to take part in two separate sessions. In session one, subjects were...
The purpose of the researcher was to compare the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Extraversion-Introversion scale and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) 0 Scale (Social Introversion). The subjects were students enrolled in 6...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the characteristics of effective university professors as determined by student ratings. The following independent variables we r e investigated: gender, classification, GPA, major, and student...
The research investigated how various forms of organizational structures and institutional characteristics affect the efficiency of administering Federal aid programs. Four hypotheses and 12 pos t hoc hypotheses were tested. The measures of...
The purpose of this research was to investigate the communication styles of radiologic technologists in Kansas. The total sample size was 240 registered radiologic technologists of Kansas. A questionnaire was mailed to these 240 registered...
The purpose of this study was to compare the relative importance that teachers and administrators place on selected statements relating to teaching. An inventory was developed containing forty-one statements relating to selected abstracts of...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the cumulative grade point averages of student-athletes. The independent variables investigated were gender, academic classification, type of sport participation, and transfer status. The dependent...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate adolescents’ feelings of belongingness. The following independent variables were investigated: family structure, quality of family life, gender, classification, and length of residency. The...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate C. Gilligan's postulates that men progress from a fear of intimacy (affiliation) to recognition of its importance, while women accept affiliation initially and remain constant in valuing it across...
Ageism is a term that has evolved in recent years to describe prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behaviors that occur toward members of the human population as a result of the members' chronological or perceived age. Recent studies suggest...
I describe a partial skeleton of a theropod from the Later Jurassic Morrison
Formation of Converse County, Wyoming. Collected material included 17 vertebrae,
three ribs, two associated left metatarsals and an incomplete ilium of an Allosaurus in...
Most people would agree that building good character is essential to the development of American’s youth. However, building character has become a difficult task to perform because children today are growing up in a world where they must...
The purpose of this study was to systematically examine the role of peer reinforcement made contingent on one pupil's behavior. One disruptive pupil was selected from a primary level Learning Disability class and another from a parochial first...
Inclusion is a term used to describe the placement of students with special needs in general education. A primary goal of full inclusion stresses the socialization between students with disabilities and their general education peers instead of...
In the last several decades the field of education has moved from educating special education students in separate or self-contained classrooms to more inclusive settings. For students with mild disabilities inclusion settings have shown to be...
Pyridine- 2- aldoxime, 6-methyl -pyridine-2-aldoxime and quinoline-2-aldoxime were investigated as complexing reagents. It was found that they complex with metals in approximately the same manner. Acid dissociation constants of the compounds were...
The primary purpose of this study was to identify one of the many nonspecific factors that has not been controlled for when assessment of the problem behavior of smoking takes place. Anxiety, situationally defined, was that factor. The concept of...
The focus of the current study was to examine the academic responding and the social interactions of students with learning disabilities LD in three educational settings: resource room, inclusive classroom, and general education. Two third grade...
The effect of approach length on personal space (PS) was studied and then compared with the influence of environmental setting on PS. PS is defined as an area with invisible boundaries immediately surrounding the individual. The dimensions of this...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the attitudes of undergraduate university students toward the disabled. Four independent variables were investigated; 1) gender, 2) classification, 3) GPA, and 4) exposure to the disabled. The...
The present study investigated teachers' ratings of acceptability as a function of student gender, socio-economic status, and intervention type. Using the Intervention Rating Profile (IRP) and case studies to manipulate the variables of interest,...
One hundred sixty elementary school students and one hundred sixty undergraduate college students took a ten-item anagrams test. The subjects’ expectancies of success were manipulated by having them attempt to solve either easy or insolvable...
Very little is known about the perceptions and expectations of students as they progress through a postgraduate program (Phillips, 1980). Using a longitudinal methodology, this study investigated the process of transition and the trajectories of...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate attitudes toward physical activity and self-esteem of elementary school children. The independent variables investigated were gender, grade placement, and physical fitness. The dependent variables...
A study investigating the relationship of assertiveness, anxiety, and psychopathology with classroom seating position was performed using a freshman level class in introductory psychology. The classroom was divided into left-middle-right and...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the satisfaction of community college students with academics, admissions and registration procedures, non-academic college atmosphere, and facilities. The sample consisted of 142 sophomore community...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the sexual attitudes of college students at a western Kansas university. The sample consisted of 201 females, 183 males; 122 freshmen, 72 sophomores, 77 juniors, and 113 seniors, a total of 384...
Strong (1968) predicted that the social influence theory, derived from experiments by social psychologists, would be an essential component in counseling and psychotherapy. The theory states that there are three important characteristics that one...
This study examined whether differences existed between the perceptions of clients and nurses, in the reasons given for secluding clients. The study was designed to compare reasons given by the group of clients, the group of nurses, and the...
This study made comparisons of the methods of programed-text instruction, tutoring and lecturing in the classroom. A three by three factorial arrangement of treatments was used as an experimental design. One factor was the three methods of...
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 study was to gain information about the effects of divorce on school-aged children. Subjects in the study consisted of thirty-seven children from intact homes and thirty-seven children from divorced homes for a total of...
Distance education has grown rapidly in the United States, reflected by more students and increased numbers of institutions offering distance learning. Studies on distance education primarily focus on domestic distance education in the United...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the knowledge and the attitudes of superintendents, teachers, and school board members, regarding the funding of education in Kansas. The independent variables investigated in this study were title,...
Student discipline has been a concern for school districts for many years. Many district and school level administrators have made the decision to strictly enforce local and district level discipline policies. The initial logic was intended to...
Although there have been a considerable number of empirical findings providing evidence for the beneficial effects of social support on psychological and physical well being, the research has been limited in that it has often failed to determine...
The present study was an attempt to assess the effects of a systematic mental health program in an elementary school. Three variables were considered: the child's emotional adjustment; group interaction; and the teacher's rating of each student's...
This study is an investigation of the relationship between depression and memory retrieval processes. Previous research, focusing on direct-access retrieval, is inconclusive and fails to relate the results in terms of clinical depression and its...
This experiment examined the effects of sex and degree of hurry on helping behavior. Three levels of hurry and all possible helper-victim sex pairs were included. Six volunteers served as confederates for each of the experimental sessions. Six...
The purpose of this thesis was to determine if male subjects would raise the fundamental frequency of their voice when given a vocal model by a female clinician. The 42 subjects were divided into four groups and each subject participated in two...
Studies on social embodiment or embodied cognition have identified various body positions that temporarily affect mood. Another group of studies on attraction have identified nonverbal positions that people in relationships subconsciously take...
Social interaction between 18 experimental subjects, who had been dichotomized as either high assertive or low assertive from scores received on the College Self Expression Scale, and 36 non-target subjects, was unobtrusively videotaped. Sixteen...
A group of 35 adult medical-surgical patients were administered the Hospital Experienced Control Scale (HECS), a 12 item questionnaire modeled on the Experienced Control (EC) Scale. The HECS was presented to the Ss twice, while they were patients...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate factors associated with self- esteem in sixth through ninth graders. The independent variables were locus of control, family structure, sex role, gender, grade level, and parental alcohol usage....
A new paradigm of philosophies is occurring with the emergence of distance education. Students are taking advantage of courses being taught by distance education faculty via a variety of technologies. However, the researcher felt it important to...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate family support and academic achievement with respect to ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status. The independent variables were family support, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, family...
The purpose of the researcher was to study fear of success in high school students. The sample consisted of 127 of which 64 were female and 63 were male. The total sample consisted of 43 freshmen, 28 sophomores, 37 juniors, and 19 seniors. The...
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...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference in the frequency of teacher-initiated interactions with male and female students in a rural elementary classroom before and after training on gender equity issues. Additionally,...
Dovidio and Morris (1975) conducted a study that examined the effects of stress and commonality of fate on males ' helping behavior. These authors found that high stress facilitated helping behavior when individuals shared a common fate, but...
The purpose of the re searcher was to replicate James Hoffman's study (1989) to investigate high school seniors' perceptions of the high school counselor. Independent variables were gender, size of high school, number of counselor visits, grade...
Ainsworth and Bell’s (1970) study of one-year-olds in a situation involving interaction with a stranger was revised and extended. Two age groups were added, as was a familiarized adult to whom it could be assumed the subjects were not attached. ...
A study was made to determine the effects of two soil moisture levels, field capacity and the permanent wilting percentage, on the total sugar content of the foliage of blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis), western wheatgrass (Agropyron smithii), and...
14 Ss were paired according to pre-treatment smoking rate, then randomly assigned, 7 each, to either a systematic desensitization-covert sensitization (SD -CS) or relaxation-discussion (R-D) group. Ss were seen in groups of 3 or 4 each for 4...
In preparing for a trip to Mexico in 1983 and writing a paper about Pre-Columbian art, I discovered an art that was mysterious, spiritual, yet possessed an honesty I admired. The Pre-Columbian approach to art can best be felt in these lines from an...
ABSTRACT: The Fullerton Gravel Pit, Morton County, Kansas is one of many sites in western Kansas at which the Ogallala Group crops out. The Ogallala Group was deposited primarily by streams flowing from the Rocky Mountains. Evidence of water...
Since its genesis, health care has been developing and evolving to meet the needs of the population it serves. Hospital length of stay after childbirth has progressively decreased over the past 29 years initially in response to public pressure to...
Nursing job satisfaction is an important component in today's healthcare environment. Job satisfaction, nurse recruitment, and retention are related throughout current nursing literature (LaSala, 2000; Muus et at, 1993; Stratton et al., 1991;...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate occupational sex-role stereotyping in elementary school children. The five independent variables were gender, family structure, socioeconomic status of parents, formal education of parents, and...
The purpose of the researcher was to obtain the opinions of teachers and administrators regarding the shortage of Saudi male public intermediate and secondary school teachers in Saudi Arabia. Specifically, it focused on the problem of a teacher...
The way patients view the care they receive has far reaching implications for the healthcare environment. Nurses need to know what constitutes caring behaviors for their patients. Because of nurses’ constant interaction with patients and...
This study investigated the effect of instructional variation and test anxiety level, as measured by the Test Anxiety Scale, on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Block Design and Picture Arrangement performance. Ss were 28 male and 20 female...
The present study utilized the TAPE analysis (Pervin, 1967) to determine the person/environment interaction with measures of college satisfaction and performance in college freshmen (N=104). Among other hypotheses the study tested the basic...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the personal and educational needs of adult students. The independent variables were age, gender, marital status, number of hours enrolled, income, race, and number of children in the home. The...
The purpose of this study was to compare "person" variables of addicted people from central and western Kansas to other addicted people in the United States. The sample consisted of 100 patients (50 males and 50 females) from Larned State...
The relationship of physical attractiveness and locus of control in 126 elementary school children, grades three through six, was investigated. The study was an attempt to replicate, with children, the results found by Anderson (1978) for college...
Integrins are αβ heterodirneric transmembrane proteins. Integrins mediate cytoskelcetal interactions at the inner face of the membrane and attach to extracellular matrix (ECM) at sites of cell substratum or cell-cell interaction to mediate...
The present study examined the drinking behavior of both sexes and three age groups in middle class public drinking establishments. Observations were made of type and volume of drink, time to consume and number of sips. Additionally, information...
Cohen, Sherrod, and Clark (1986) suggested that social support has no real effect on its own, and that it is nothing more than a proxy for social skill. The main aim of the present thesis was to use multidimensional measures to clarify the nature...
Plant samples were taken from July 6, 1966 to March 3, 1967. The caloric content was determined for three morphological parts of Andropogon gerardi, Andropogon scoparius and Bouteloua curtipendula in a peroxide bomb calorimeter. Highly significant...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate selected aspects of Chickering's Theory of Psychosocial Student Development. The following independent variables were investigated: gender, ethnicity, age, and college classification. Intimacy and...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate factors associated with the self-esteem of fourth and seventh graders. The sample consisted of 460 students. The independent variables were gender, grade level, race, socioeconomic status, and...
72 subjects read aloud two lists of words, constructed to assess the effects on elapsed reading time of contextual vs. random arrangement, intact vs. visually degraded stimuli, and including three conditions designed to elucidate the effects of...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate sex-role, gender, age, family structure, and self-esteem. Four independent variables were utilized: sex-role, gender, age, and family structure. The dependent variables were self-esteem scores from...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate sexual attitudes of college students. The independent variables employed were gender, family structure, family sex communication, age and classification. The dependent variables were the following...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate shame. The independent variables were: ager, gender, cultural background, religious preference, academic performance, alcohol status, loneliness, and self-esteem. The dependent variable was scores...
The Brown-Peterson task (Brown. 1958: Peterson& Peterson. 1959) is a widely used procedure to test short term memory decay. The Brown-Peterson task presents participants with items to be recalled with short periods of distraction between the...
This study was designed to determine some of the relationships between types of tests (objective and essay), types of learning (facts and principles) and retention and transfer of information. The subjects were 60 students from Fort Hays Kansas...
The purpose of this paper is to study the cobalt complex with 2,4,6-tripyridyl-s-triazine, a new reagent. The investigation was carried out spectrophotometrically at room temperature. It was found that an orange- brown complex was formed by the...
The chemistry of aluminum chloride and aluminum bromide in various aromatic hydrocarbons has been widely reported, but the interactions between aluminum iodide and these same aromatic hydrocarbons have drawn little attention.
The first objective...
Based on the concept of demand characteristics, it was demonstrated that subject to subject interaction can be a source of bias in group research. Two confederates of the experimenter posed as subjects experienced in psychological research, in the...
Effects of historic and continuing disturbance on the flora and mammalian fauna at Barr Lake State Park, Adams County, Colorado, were assessed. Construction of an impoundment and conversion of adjacent rangeland to cropland altered the composition,...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate equitable interactions with low achievers in the classroom. The independent variable investigated was participation in the program Teacher Expectations and Student Achievement (TESA). Two levels were...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate test anxiety of undergraduate college students. The independent variables investigated were gender, classification, major, grade point average, need for achievement, and teacher preparation. The...
The present study utilized school teachers to investigate the perceived acceptability of types of interventions while controlling for types of behavior problems across grade levels. Information obtained during the initial phase of the study allowed...
The purpose of t his study was to determine the effects of a twelve week fitness program on interaction between health-related physical fitness and body-esteem. Two instruments were utilized, the Fort Hays Fitness Test (Giese, 1984) and Body Esteem...
The purpose of this experiment was to better define the relationship of personality variables to conditionability (responsiveness to verbal operant conditioning) and to find a measure that can differentiate between individuals that are easily...
The present experiment was designed to determine the effects of arousal, inhibition, and level of sexual drive on the appreciation of sexual humor, as determined by scores on four factors (1, 4, 6, and 12) from Cattell and Tollefson’s IPAT Humor...
The present study examined the effects of athletes' interpretation of perceived precompetitive arousal on patterns of anticipatory anxiety, self -confidence, and the quality of performance. Recent research and theory suggests that a positive...
The effects of auditory distraction on intelligence test performance was examined for 19 children over a 21-day test-retest interval. A 2 (First/Second Administration) x 2 (Distraction/No Distraction) randomized design was used. Each subject was...
The present study was an attempt to determine whether creative potential, as measured by certain divergent-thinking tests, has any effect on school grades. The study also attempted to determine whether boys and girls of differing creative levels,...
This study was conducted to examine the mood-enhancing benefits of Judy Young’s Laughter Therapy and the facilitative effects of high levels of creativity on changes in mood. This program aims to teach participants purposeful laughter so that...
