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Theses from 1973
A Classification and Review of Group Contingency Procedures Used in Educational Settings, Lois M. De Mersseman
Separation of the Membrane Associated L-Malate and Reduced Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide Dehydrogenases of Micrococcus Lysodeikticus, Steven S. Dills
The Replicability of Behavioral Definitions: Implicit vs Explicit Definitions, Robert W. Dobes
Family Value-Patterns and Student Demands for Student Power, Paul Alan Dorsey
A Single Session Design to Assess Schedule Interactions, Thomas J. Edwards
The Effect of Audible Sound on the Germination and Root Elongation of Oats and Wheat, Ferne George Ellis
The Kinetics of the Metal Exchange Reaction between Biseminodiacetatonickelate (II) and Copper (II), Stephen H. Erickson
A Study of Current and Planned High School Business and Vocational Office Education Programs in Southwestern Michigan, John A. Fabrizio
A Study of Shore Erosion at Seventeen Sites along Eastern Lake Michigan, Walter George Fingleton
The Questionable Moral Value of Major Characters in the Later Works of Henry James, Joseph R. Fiore
Contrast Modulated Schedule-Induced Polydipsia, Thomas L. Fisher
Dimensionality and Internal Composition of the Twenty-Two Item Mental Health Inventory, John William Fox
The Use of Token Punishers and Delayed Timeout with Emotionally Disturbed Children, Joel C. Frost
The Effects of Instructions with and without Contingencies on Parent’s Attending Behavior, Betty Lou Fry
Peer Recording and Its Effects on Observer Behavior, Ronald J. Gumm
Schedule Induced Polydipsia, A Study of the Contrast Effect on a Multiple Fixed Time Schedule of Food Delivery, Arlyne J. Gutmann
A Direct Measurement of the Ratio of the Reaction Cross Sections for Two-Photon and Three-Photon Positron Annihilation in Aluminum and Silver, Robert Maurice Heavenrich
Latent Conflict in the Classroom, Joel H. Henderson
An Examination of Countervailing Forces in Canadian Foreign Policy, James F. Hettinger
A Measure of the Differential Effects of Two Language Training Sequences: Expressive-Receptive and Receptive-Expressive, Melbourne Frank Hovell
An Evaluation of Tin Can Recycling in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Rose Ann Husted
An Exploration of Numerous Customer Characteristics Associated with Impulse Purchasing Behavior, Ira J. Jager
Conditioned Suppression in Humans as a Function of Task Complexity, Henry H. James
Petrogenetic and Trend Surface Analysis of Hell Canyon Pluton, Montana, William M. Johanns
Seating Patterns in the College Classroom: The Relationship Between Spatial Location and Selected Role, Personality, and Status Variables, Dolores Burchell Jones
Conflicting Perspectives and Policies: An Analysis of the Failure of the United Nations Capital Development Fund, Marjon Vashti Kamara
A Comparative Analysis of a Patient Trainer versus a Student Trainer as Therapeutic Agents in Occupational Therapy Setting, Elahe Karimi
Behavioral Contrast After Errorless Discrimination Learning as a Function of Non-Contingent Shock, James H. Kaye
Implications of Photogeologic Linears in the South Long Lake Area, Alpena and Presque Isle Counties, Michigan, Richard E. Kimmel
A Floral Survey of the Lake Michigan College- Ross Property, Van Buren County, Michigan, William Monroe Knott
Successive Discrimination Reversal Learning in the Rat Offspring as a Function of Maternal Stress during Gestation, Miles A. Kowall
Effects of Reinforcement on the Rate and Generalization of Play Behavior in Four Severely Retarded Children, Elizabeth Anne Labanowski
An Analytic Study of a System of Nonlinear Ordinary Differential Equations at an Irregular Type Singularity, James M. Lamb
The Mental Patient as Machiavellian: An Exploratory Study, Louise B. Leader
Further Investigation of the Midi-Mult, Wilbur B. Leer
Physical Survey of the Lake Michigan College-Ross Property, Van Buren County, Michigan as an Environmental Resource, Raymond C. Levesque
An Analysis of Behavioral Contrast in a Concurrent Schedule Using Qualitatively Different Reinforcers, Richard J. Lodge
Report of an Internship Experience with the Calhoun Intermediate School District, Robert G. Lowman
The Calhoun Area Vocational Center: An Internship and Project, Gerald D. Lutz
Geology of Atwater Well Field Kalamazoo County, Michigan, John E. Malanchak
A Training Sequence Designed to Teach Vocal Imitation to a Retarded Child Exhibiting a Stereotyped Vocal Response Pattern, Patricia Ann Martin
A Study to Determine the Effectiveness of an Interest Grouping Classification for Primary Grade Children, Dianne T. McAfee Williams
Fried's Theory of Political Evolution: An Empirical Test, Diana Battjes McKenna
A Study of the Acquisition of Learning-Set Behavior in Pigeons, E. Jill Moir
A Comprehensive Survey, Index, and Listing of Community Agency Resources Currently Providing Services to the Residents of Charlevoix and Emmet Counties, Ronald L. Moore
Field Radiation of Spin I Massless Particle, Ralph Alvin Mudgett
The Effect of the Degree of Cationic Charge on the Binding Strength of a Cationic Starch-Kaolin Clay Coating, Hugh K. Myers
An Experience with College Administrators at Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Christopher E. Nord
Introduction to Behavior Therapy Terminology, Alexandre Pacheo e Silva Nucci
Jean-Philippe Rameau's Demonstration du Principe de L'Harmonie (1750) and Pierre Esteve's Nouvelle Decouverte du Principe de L'Harmonie (1752): A Translation, Arsen Ralph Papakhian
The Use of Histological Techniques in the Determination of Cultural and/or Environmental Processes in Archaeological Skeletal Populations, Randy L. Parshall
Work, Self, Family, and Life Opinions of Injured Workers Rehabilitated by Two Different Strategies, Paul A. Pearson
Concept Acquisition as a Function of Two Verbal Training Sequences: Nonvocal-Vocal and Vocal-Nonvocal, Kim Thomas Pisor
A Report of an Internship in Western Michigan University Para-School Learning Center Kalamazoo, Michigan, Providentia Pollard
The Effects of Changes in Response-Independent Pay upon Human Masseter EMG, Tullio J. Proni
Citizen Participation in the Genesee County Model Cities Program: A Narrative History and a Test of Four Hypotheses, Gloria Jean Quinney
An Internship to Develop a Screening Process to Determine Probable Pilot Training Success, Ronald Dean Quisling
Celibacy and the Gregorian Reform, Raymond M. Rademacher
A Systems Approach to Complex Social Behavior: The Formulation of a Methodology and Its Application to the Peasant Village of Tzintzuntzan, William Earl Reynolds
Depositional History and Tool Industries at the Winter Site: A Lake Forest Middle Woodland Cultural Manifestation, Jeffrey J. Richner
A Study of Visual Pollution from Overhead Wires and Associated Structures, Robert J. Schodorf
The Shaping of Verbal Imitation and Multiple Effects of Aversive Schedules for Controlling Inattention in an Infant, Leta Hunt Secker
Binding of Aminoacyl-tRNA to Bacterial Ribosomes, Somesh Datt Sharma
A Survey of Graduate Students in Two Library Schools to Determine the Factors Considered of Primary Importance in the Selection of a Library School, Katherine V. Shaw
Parent Training: A Critical Review and Analysis, Mara Sapon Shevin
Political Verbal Behavior, Paul Richard Shukovsky
The Use of Multiple Auditory Cues in a Visual Search Task, Howard C. Silver
Loss Probabilities in Queueing Processes, R. P. Singh
An Analysis of the Relationship between the Instructional Emphasis of Two Filing Textbooks Commonly Used in Secondary Schools and Their Relation to the Filing Procedures in the Business Office, Patricia Ann Skinner
An Internship with the Western Michigan University Para-School Learning Center June 18, 1973-July 21, 1973, Diane S. Smith
The Synthesis and Reactions of Some α, β-Unsaturated Diazoketones, Virendra K. Sood
Teaching Higher-Order Concepts in Philosophy Using Siegfried Engelmann's Concept Analysis, Jonathan E. Spiegel
The Reduction of Long Latency Verbal Responding in a Multiplihandicapped Adolescent Utilizing an Avoidance-Positive Reinforcement Procedure, Steven H. Spiro
Campground Usage and User Attitudes in the Allegan State Game Area, Allegan County, Michigan, Gregg R. Squire
The Efficacy of Junior High School Beginning Typewriting Instruction as It Relates to Advanced Levels of Typewriting Success, David P. Stahle
The Effects of Negative Reinforcement on the Aggressive Response of the Squirrel Monkey, Darwin Dwain Stier
Relationships between Radiophosphorus Accumulation by Bacteria, Algae, and Tubificid Worms in Laboratory Food Chains, Warren L. Stromberg
Assimilation of Chinese Families in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Lily Shu-Hong Sun
Behavioral Comparison of Septal Lesioned and Anosmic Rats, Sharon Kay Suppes
A Systematic Analysis of Between and Within Grader Variability as Affected by Answer Key Condition, Grader Experience, and Test Set Assigned, Leonard Eugene Swistak
A Q-Sort Historical Analysis or the Learning Theories of Clark L. Hull and B. F. Skinner, Keith V. Syrja
An Acquisition of New Administrative Skills with Vocational Rehabilitation Services, Jerry B. Van Leeuwen
The Effects of Types of Music on Worker Productivity in a Sheltered Workshop, Wayne D. Veneklasen
The Religious Factor as an Influence Affecting the Attitudes of Teachers toward Sex Education, Richard Vander Voet
The Christian Commonwealth of Otto III, James E. Walker
The Effects of Dental Hygiene Information and Consequation on Plaque Control, Janel R. Walker
My Internship Experience at the Western Michigan University Counseling Center, Bruce Vern Weller
Toward the Third Metntal Health Revolution: A Program to Prepare High School Students for Parenthood, Linda Wienir
An Analysis of the Effects of Time and Competing Responses on Data Reliability, Paul B. Williams
The Combined and Differential Effects of Two Types of Preparatory Quizzes on College Student Behaviors, Randy Lee Williams
Pyramidal Instruction: The Use of Elementary Students as Instructors of Infants, Walter C. Williams
A Comparison between Self-Paced and Instructor-Paced Instructional Systems, Laura Lee Winter
The Effect of Temporal Separation on Performance of a Discrimination Task, Stanley Dale Winter
A Study of Pertinent Contract Information for Van Buren County Teacher-Negotiators, Howard W. Wood
Characterization of Streptozotocin Induced Small Colony Phenotypes in Bacteria, David M. Zimmer
Theses from 1972
The Order of Information Processing in the Perception of Short Sentences, Maryam Abusaidi