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 1970
Maintaining Responding during Stimulus Generalization Testing in Extinction, Michael F. Glenn
An Analysis of Climatic Influences on Aggression, Alan M. Gonick
A Comparison of Choice and Forced Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol Dehydrogenase Activity, David Bertsch Gray
A Comparative Analysis of the Language of Mentally Retarded and Non-Retarded Children, Hartmut Günther
An Analysis of Instruction Duration as a Consequence for Correct and Incorrect Answers, J. Eric Hayes
Conditional Discrimination: Generalization Outside the Range of Training Stimuli, Martha D. Itkin
Some Relationships among Intelligence, Empathy and Leadership Attributes, Franklyn W. Jackson
The Effect of Daily Quizzes on Hour Exam Performance, Katherine Janczarek
Behavioral Changes in a Student in a Regular, Public-School Classroom through Token Reinforcement, Bonnie Hardy Kays
Investigation of Sequencing of Motor Behaviors to be Imitated in Severely Retarded Children, Janet Marian Loeffler
Student Attendance and Attrition of the Entering Class of 1966 at Western Michigan University, Michael W. Moran
The Effect of Inequitable Payment upon Selected Task-Related Cognitions, Robert Dennis Moulton
The Effects of Maternal Deprivation and Early Social Isolation on Emotionality and Discriminated Avoidance Learning in the Rat, Edward N. Schneider
A Comparison of Hospitalized and Non-Hospitalized Male Alcoholics on the Basis of Anxiety and Depression, Linda J. Townsend
Exploratory Behavior as a Function of Two Different Feeding Conditions in the Gerbil, Dennis A. VanderWeele
Personality Factors in Mothers as Related to Problem Behavior in Children, Josephine H. Veldman
Effects of Extraneous Auditory Stimulation on Visual Choice Reaction Time, William J. Wenger
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Reinforcement of Sitting Behavior in Retardates in an Institutional Setting, Robert James Bonner
The Influence of Experimental Stress upon Selected Rorschach Variables, William P. Brady
An Attempt to Manipulate the Results of a Psychomotor Learning Task, Robert D. Cable
Some Relationships Associated with Academic Success in Graduate Work at a Midwestern University, Stelios Georgiou Chimonides
An Exploration of the "Fear of Hawk" Hypothesis Using Stationary Silhouetted Stimuli with Naive Japanese Quail, John Stuart Clement
The Availability and Adequacy of Some Spanish Translated Tests, Nelson Diaz-Mora
Effects of X-Radiation on Saccharine Consumption as a Function of Dosage and Interstimulus Interval, Michael Drillings
A Program for Teaching Beginning Language Skills to Mentally Retarded Children, Thomas James Elzinga
The Effects of Morphine on Shock-Induced Aggression in the Squirrel Monkey, Grace S. Emley
An Analysis of the Comparative Effectiveness of Day Center Treatment and Out-Patient Treatment for a Psychiatric Population, John T. Gallagher
The Influence of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Decision Factors on Company Selection among College Seniors, Lawrence J. Hahn
Randomness as an Element of Stimulus Complexity, Norman M. Kiracofe
The Effects of Non-Contingent Stimuli on Rate of Lever Pressing Using Human Subjects, Dan V. Lebenta
Generalization of a Matching Discrimination, Klaus E. Liebold
Stimulus Balance and Preference in the Japanese Quail, Richard Leon Mead
An Experimental Analysis of Human Social Behavior in a Competitive Situation with the Opportunity for Aggression, William A. Michael
The Generalization Effects of Initially Improved Reading Skills Upon Social and Other Academic Behavior, C. Wesley Middlebush
The Effects of Continuous Shock Punishment on FR Reinforced Behavior, John Carter Moore
Reduction of Inappropriate Behavior of Two Public Grade School Students by Operant -Conditioning, Ronald Nederhoed
A Program for Teaching Self-Care Techniques to Severely Retarded Residents of an Institution for the Retarded, Timothy S. Nelson
Classical Discrimination Conditioning of Pain-Elicited Aggression, Delmar A. Ozolins
Attention: Its Meaning and Its Control in the Classroom, Robert G. Packard
Response Contingent Shock and Its Effect upon Self-Injurious Behavior, William N. Schlee
Comparison of an Oral Form of the MMPI with a Booklet Form, Ronald Andrew Simia
Parental Consequation of Classroom Behavior, David J. Sluyter
Immediate Feedback and Parental Consequation of Academic Behavior, Carroll Dean Smith
A Differentiation between Suicidal and Non-Suicidal Schizophrenic Patients, Gerald H. Smith
A Comparison of Differential Response Rates with Children under Two Schedules of Reinforcement and Extinction Using Programmed Mathematics Instruction, David L. Sorenson
Staff Perceptions of Psychiatric Patients in Relation to Disruptive Behavior, Thaddeus I. Stachowiak
Changes in Rates of Food-Reinforced Bar-Pressing and Collateral Licking during a Signal Preceding Response-Independent Shock, Sander Stern
Use of an Avoidance Paradigm in the Treatment of Torticollis, Sharon L. Surratt
Avoidance of Time-Out from, and Withdrawal of, Positive Reinforcement in Humans: Reduction in Actual and Potential Reinforcement as a Stimulus for Aggression, Brigitte Symannek