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 1968
The Effects of Required and Voluntary Counseling with Students of Exceptional Financial Need, Charles T. Dykstra
An Analysis of Aggressive Display in the Game Cock: Response Decrement and Reinstatement, William Herbert Fullmer
Personality Differences among Three Religious Denominations, Richard Gay
An Evaluation of a Rehabilitation Program for Adolescent Psychiatric Patients, Kenneth Richard Gibson
Classical Conditioning of Aggression: A Developmental Study, Bruce E. Gideon
Biochemically Instigated Avoidance of Alcohol in Hats, James Hugh Gold
The School Diagnostician Service, Everett A. Grambort
Synesthesia: Color-Pitch Associations and Mood Word-Pitch Associations, Walter Lawrence Hall
The Effect of Discrimination Training on Responses to a New Stimulus, Kathleen Ann Hammer
Escape from Conditioned Suppression in the Pigeon, Robert Douglas Hienz
The Effects of a Controlled Eating and Drinking History on the Development of Schedule-Induced Polydipsia, Norman Hymowitz
Effects of Early Experience upon Open-Field Behavior and the Conditioning and Extinction of Conditioned Suppression, Larry D. Irey
The Effect of Color Training on the Perception of the Color of Geometric Forms, Larry John Ivey
The Modification and Generalization of Voice Loudness in an Emotionally Disturbed, Aphonic Girl as a Function of Reinforcement Contingencies in a Laboratory Setting, Donald Alan Jackson
Verbal Behavior Modification of Psychotic Adults in a Group Setting, Richard J. Kale
Generalization of a Nonmatching Discrimination, Frederick W. Kladder
Human Extinction Responding Following VI and VI-CRF Schedules of Reinforcement, Vaughn Thomas Mawhinney
An Attempt to Develop a Model as a Secondary Reinforcer and Elicitor by Observational Learning, John William Pangburn
The Effects of Reinforcement and Classroom Activity on Vocal Behavior, Eugene Ramp
Application of Reinforcement Principles to the Modification of Isolate Behavior in a Withdrawn Child, Patricia C. Rinaldi
Discrimination Decrement in an Auditory Task as a Function of Time during a Prolonged Vigil, Wain Saeger
Application of Delayed Conditioning Procedures to the Behavior Problems of an Elementary School Child, Michael L. Schwarz
The Validation of Tests Used to Select Secretarial and Clerical Employees at Western Michigan University, James Benjamin Stephens
Suggested Methods of Evaluating and Modifying Visual Perceptual Deficiencies as Related to Reading Disorders in Early Elementary Grades, Kenneth Elmer Sturm
An Elementary Student as a Behavioral Engineer, Paul R. Surratt
Generalization of a Relational Discrimination, John G. Svinicki
Stimulus Generalization along the Light Intensity Dimension as a Function of Discrimination Training, Marilla D. Svinicki
An Investigation of the Relationship between Attitudes toward Beverage Alcohol and Dogmatism, Ronald Dean Teed
The Establishment and Maintenance of Mechanical Skills with Severely and Profoundly Retarded Males, Stephen C. Thornson
Two Indices of Aggression: Aggressive Fantasy and Change in Pupil Size, Filipinas S. Tinio
Cue Conflict and Apparent Visual Movement, Michael Gerard Walraven
An Investigation of the Effect of Response-Contingent Shock on Stuttering Behavior, Kenneth Welt
The Rate of Processing Visual Information within the Human Organism, Thomas E. Wilkins
The Effects of Non-Contingent Positive and Negative Reinforcers upon Escape Behavior, Gerald A. Young
The Effects of Information and Training on the Discrimination of Size in Different Planes of Space, Peter W. Zinkus
The Effects of Librium, Meprobamate and Phenobarbital on Shock Elicited Aggression and General Activity, Thomas R. Ziske
A Comparison of the Effects of Generalized Conditioned Reinforcement and Discrete Conditioned Reinforcement on Human Lever Press Responding Under Different Deprivation Conditions, Steven I. Zlutnick
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
The Effect of Indicator Velocity on Observer Response Time, Brian F. Briggs
Achievement Motivation and Leadership Opinion, John Maxwell Clark
The Effect of Ribonucleic Acid on Learning in the White Rat, L. Duane Dove
Pain Elicited Aggression as a Function of Withdrawal from Etonitazene Dependency, John Florea
A Study of the Accuracy of Prediction Motion in Depth, Neal I. Gelfand
The Sensation Seeking Scale as a Predictor of Need for Sensory Stimulation, John C. Hocking
The Effect of Past Experience on the Perception of Visual Apparent Movement, Robert J. Lyngen
The Application of Behavioral Principles to the Modification of an Acting Out Child's Classroom Behavior in a Regular Classroom, Marjorie M. McArthur
The Effects of Magnesium Pemoline on Delayed Interval Responding, Richard Dykes Millar
The Effects of Differential Instructions and the Level of Task Complexity on Decision Time, Dean Robert Mogelgaard
Some Variables in Conditioned Suppression with Humans, David Wayne Mulder
Some Effects of Discrimination Training on a Line Length Dimension, John Pokrzywinski
The Effect of Morphine on Conditioned Suppression and Response Topography of the Hooded Rat, Douglas Charles Reberg