About this Collection
The works in this student research collection have been approved by the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master's and Doctorate degrees in Psychology from the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.
Additional graduate student theses and dissertations are available at:
- All Electronic Theses and Dissertations (1964-present)
- Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Subject Area (1964-present)
- Legacy Theses and Dissertations (1964-2006)
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Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Relationship between Psychological Adjustment and Binge Eating, Dietary Restraint, and Weight in College Students, Frederica Erson Edwards
Reinforced Alternative Behavior During Extinction as a Function of Response Topography and Duration, Linda Lee Harkness
The Assessment of Bulimia in a High School Population, Sandra Joann Maceyko
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Internal-External Locus of Control and Differential Resistance to Influence Stimuli, Edmund Bibisi Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Effect of Informed Consent and Debriefing on Acceptance of Deception in Psychological Research, Carol Conlan
Reactions to Approach Distance in Overweight and Normal Weight College Females, Ruth Ann Neill Rogers
Individual Differences in Same-Different Comparison Tasks, Walter Clay Simmons
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
An Evaluation of the Ease of Understanding Directions on Non-Prescription Drugs, JoAnn H. Bahelka
Short-Term Memory as a Function of Age, Sex, and Stimulus Organization, Yancey Greer
Differential Hemispheric Processing of Stroop Stimuli, Dennis G. Mize
Personality Differences between Attractive and Unattractive High School Females, Andrea Rene Re
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Change in Attitudes toward Mental Illness as a Function of Mental Hospital Experience, Joseph Charles Bullington Jr.
Interpersonal Consequences of Persons Seeking Mental Health Treatment as a Function of the Treatment Setting Employed, Eugene Burton May Jr.
Androgyny and Attribution: Effects of Sex Role Adoption, Sex-Linkage of Task, and Outcome on Causal Attributions for Success and Failure, Vally M. Sharpe
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
The Effects of Relaxation Practice on Digit Span Performance, Ronald Henry Chapman
Coronary Prone Behavior Patterns: Relationship to Alpha Activity, Anxiety, Locus of Control, Self Concept, and Time Awareness, Thomas M. Coleman
Alpha Activity, Time Perception, Locus of Control, Androgyny, Self Concept, and Anxiety in Type A and Type B Females, David William Comer
Helping Behavior as a Function of Sex of Person Asking for Help and Sex of Person Being Asked for Help, Christopher George Cooper
Effects of Intermittent Reinforcement in the Kingsnake Lampropeltis getulus floridana, Julie Anderson Currie
Psychophysical Scaling of the Offensiveness of Slang Words, Jane Daniels
The Relationship of Incidence Rates of Behavior Disorders to Selected Demographic and Organismic Variables at an Urban Mental Health Center, Steven L. Darby
A Comparison of the Effects of Scopolamine and Chloral Hydrate on Retention of Punished Responding in Rats, Laura Catherine Pollock Phillips
Sex Typing of Subjects and Sex of Experimenter Effects in Anagram Solution, Zelda B. Tenenbaum
Descriptive Praise and General Praise with Mentally Retarded Children, Nora Atkinson Younger
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Effects of Operant Conditioning of Cooperative Play on Non-Reinforced Behaviors in Severely and Profoundly Retarded Adults, Martha Wade Aenchbacher
The Effect of Megadoses of Pyridoxine Hydrochloride on the Volitional Consumption of Ethanol in Acclimated Rats, Sandra Gail Hoover
Differential Reinforcement of Key Responses in the King Snake (Lampropeltus getulus getulus), Joe Olin Seamens
Response Generalization in Leisure Time Activity Training, Sandra VanWormer
The Effects of Noise and Color of Surroundings on Time Estimation, Talk Performance, and Self-Report Arousal Ratings, Lorraine R. Waslenchuk
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Eye Color and Reaction Time to Movement, David A. Bush
Ease of Comprehension of Standard and Readable Automobile Insurance Policies as a Function of Reading Ability, Louis George Gamble
The Effects of Auditory and Visual Interpolated Activities on Short Term Retention of Words and Pictures, Laurence B. Goulding
A Comparison of the Effects of Muscular Relaxation, Mental Relaxation, and Music on the Attenuation of Slide-Induced Physiological Arousal, Janice Sharon Martin
The Effects of Eye Color and Stimulus Hue on Critical Flicker Frequency, Roderick L. Powell
The Effect of Stimulus Wave Form on the Perception of Brightness, John S. Tootle
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Autonomic Responding as a Function of Anxiety Hierarchy Stimulus Position within Systematic Desensitization, William Birt Dowling
Effects of Reward on Intrinsic Motivation, Mary King Flowers
The Relation between Measured Intelligence and Acquisition of Stabilometer Performance in Retarded and Normal Children, James A. Jordan Jr.
The Effects of Two Time-Out Procedures on Bar Pressing Behavior Maintained by a Random Interval Schedule of Reinforcement, William Zachary Mercer
The Effect of Stimulus Complexity on Form Recognition in Binocular Rivalry, Stephen W. Rogers
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Stimulus Control in the King Snake (Lampropeltis getulus getulus), Hugh Robert Fannin
Operant Conditioning in the King Snake (Lampropeltis getulus getulus), Grover Dwight Lindsey
Relationships between Autonomic Activity and Stuttering Therapy, Ralph Steve McCallum
Inter-Analyst Reliability and Time Measures for the Automated and Manual Flesch Counts, William Charles McDaniel
Prey-Scented Water Reinforcement in the King Snake (Lampropeltis getulus floridana), Thomas Van Morgan
A Comparison of Black First Graders' Listening Comprehension of a Peer-Prepared Story Told in Black English or Standard English, Arthur J. Weaver Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Two Objective Techniques for Measuring Characteristics of an Instructor's Grading Practices, Roger Allan Bell
Recall as a Function of Interpolated Task Difficulty, Robert Frederick Carlson
Test-Retest and Inter-Analyst Reliability of the Automated Readability Index (ARI), Flesch Shading Ease Score, and the Fog Count, Robert Derald Hartley
Modification of the Behavior of an Autistic Child, Thomas Harold Hodgson
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Validation of Automated Readability Index for Use with Peer-Prepared Adult Reading Materials, Patricia Tanner Anderson
Vision versus Touch in a Study of Size Discrimination, Using Magnification and Sex as Variables, Joseph Thomas Greene Jr.
The Perception of Depth as a Function of Four Conditions of Outline and Four Conditions of Texture, Edwin L. Haire
Release from Proactive Inhibition as a Function of SAT Verbal Level, Gerald Howard
Reinforcer Effects in Multiple Fixed Interval Behavior, Gerald A. Mayes
Response Rate Controlled by Two Liquid Reinforcers in a Multiple Schedule, Randall Lee Morton
Dogmatism and Sensory Discrimination: An Empirical Investigation, Keith Pase Jr.
Group Shaping of a Coloring Response in Retardates, Cynthia Corr Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
A Comparison of Auto-Shaping with Operant Shaping in the Acquisition of a Bar Press Response, Charles Buren Altman
Release from Proactive Inhibition as a Function of Pleasantness and Unpleasantness of Encoded Verbal Materials, Fulton Cooper
Validation of the Automated Readability Index for Use with Technical Materials, Leroy John Delionbach
A Comparison of a Programmed and a Non-Programmed Text on Evolution for the Fifth Grade, Robert Purdy Fishburne Jr.
The Effects of Constant versus Variable Delay of Reinforcement on Running Speed during Non-Reinforced Trials, Alynn Jay Plaisted
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Auto-Shaping in the Albino Rat, Stephen Wooten Hollomon
Verticality as the Cue for "Bigger" in Haptic and Visual Tasks, Shirley Wood Osgood
The Effect of Social Reinforcement on a Material Reward in Culturally-Deprived Kindergarten Children, Michelle Theriault
The Effects of Early Handling on Behavior in the Albino Rat, William Reed Tucker
