Most master’s theses completed through the Graduate College of Western Michigan University have been entered into ScholarWorks. Some may be embargoed or restricted by the authors and may be only available from on-campus computers. Print copies of theses not available here and from before 2012 are available through interlibrary loan. If you have any questions, please contact wmu-scholarworks@wmich.edu.
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
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 Measure of the Differential Effects of Two Language Training Sequences: Expressive-Receptive and Receptive-Expressive, Melbourne Frank Hovell
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
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
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
Further Investigation of the Midi-Mult, Wilbur B. Leer
An Analysis of Behavioral Contrast in a Concurrent Schedule Using Qualitatively Different Reinforcers, Richard J. Lodge
A Training Sequence Designed to Teach Vocal Imitation to a Retarded Child Exhibiting a Stereotyped Vocal Response Pattern, Patricia Ann Martin
A Study of the Acquisition of Learning-Set Behavior in Pigeons, E. Jill Moir
Introduction to Behavior Therapy Terminology, Alexandre Pacheo e Silva Nucci
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
The Effects of Changes in Response-Independent Pay upon Human Masseter EMG, Tullio J. Proni
The Shaping of Verbal Imitation and Multiple Effects of Aversive Schedules for Controlling Inattention in an Infant, Leta Hunt Secker
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
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
The Effects of Negative Reinforcement on the Aggressive Response of the Squirrel Monkey, Darwin Dwain Stier
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
The Effects of Types of Music on Worker Productivity in a Sheltered Workshop, Wayne D. Veneklasen
The Effects of Dental Hygiene Information and Consequation on Plaque Control, Janel R. Walker
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
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
The Order of Information Processing in the Perception of Short Sentences, Maryam Abusaidi
Effects of Manipulating Enforced Attention and Reinforcement for Correctness on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test Performances of Kindergarten Children, Galen James Alessi
A Critical Examination of Korman's Self-Esteem Motivation Theory, Dierdra E. Bowditch
Development of a Fake Scale for Edwards Personal Preference Schedule - A, James Harvey Brammer
Two-Component Chained Schedules of Reinforcement and Fixed Interreinforcement Time, Philip D. Bruce
The Effects of Symbolic Modelling and Coaching on Social Anxiety, Richard L. Burtt
The Effect of Scale Location on the Speed and Accuracy of Reading Angularly-Viewed Circular Dials, George A. Casapulla
The Comparison of Omission, Extinction, and Extinction-2 Procedures in a Multiple Schedule, Dan O. Coldeway
The Effects of Hippocampal Lesions on Short Term Memory in the Rat, Alfred Collins
The Application of the Species Specific Defense Reaction Hypothesis to Free Operant Avoidance, Deborah Ann Cory
Human Visual Observation as a Function of Stimulus Change, Richard L. Crandall
An Evaluation of a Portable Automated Desensitization Device Using a Standardized Hierarchy, Robert John Eizenga