Showing papers by "Georgia State University published in 1969"
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TL;DR: It was concluded that the septal deficit on DRL schedules results from a failure to utilize response-produced, proprioceptive stimuli as cues for bar-pressing.
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TL;DR: The existence of an indigenous bacteria flora of the normal outer eye, composed mainly of micrococci and diptheroids, has been established by repetitive cultures by nu merous investigators, but theence and persistence of fungi in the envi rons of thenormal outer eye has not been established.
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TL;DR: The tendency toward midpoint responding was measured by obtaining for each S the proportion of responses in the three middle categories which were midpoint responses as discussed by the authors, which were then rransformed by means of an arcsin transformation.
Abstract: Hamilton (1968) reviewed the literature dealing with the extreme response style (ERS) as a personality measure. Of the several techniques of scoring ERS mentioned by Hamilton, the "deviation from the midpoint" technique seems most widely used when deriving ERS scores from Semantic Differential ratings (Mogar, 1960; Peak, Muney, & Clay, 1960; Neuringer, 1961). The common proced~ue is to assign a score of 0, 1, 2, or 3 to each response depending on the distance of the response from the midpoint. The purpose of this note is to take issue with the assumption that a midpoint response is least indicative of ERS. A case can be made that, on the contrary, midpoint responses are extreme responses and should be so scored. It may seem logically inconsistent to consider a midpoint (neutral) response as an extreme response but it is psychologically consistent to do just that. The psychological importance of an exueme response as it relates to personality is that it is one which is concrete, well-anchored, and low in ambiguity. A midpoint response, which is indicative of total neutrality, can be viewed as in this category. The question of whether midpoint responding is indicative of ERS can be answered empirically by determining whether the tendency to use the midpoint category is positively or negatively related to the tendency to use categories at either end of [he scale. Semantic Differential ratings which had been previously obtained for other purposes were reanalyzed in order to answer this question. Ratings were made by 74 college students (36 males and 38 females) of 18 concepts (animals, objects, parts of clothing, and parts of the body) on six Semantic Differential scales with high loadings on the potency factor. The tendency toward midpoint responding was measured by obtaining for each S the proportion of responses in the three middle categories which were midpoint responses. The proportion of all responses in the outer four categories that were in the two end categories was also computed. These two proportions were rransformed by means of an arcsin transformation. The product-moment correlation of the obtained values was .50 (n = 78; p < .01). This indicates
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TL;DR: Es wird eine Methode beschrieben, nach der authentischer 2, 2-bis(p-chlorphenyl)acetaldehyd erhalten wird, dass die in der Literatur bisher erschienen Angaben unrichtig sind.
Abstract: Es wird eine Methode beschrieben, nach der authentischer 2, 2-bis(p-chlorphenyl)acetaldehyd erhalten wird. Die Charakterisierung dieses Aldehyds hat gezeigt, dass die in der Literatur bisher erschienen Angaben unrichtig sind. Der Aldehyd geht unter milden oxydativen Bedingungen unter Deformylierung in 4, 4-Dichlorbenzophenon Uber. Mogliche biologische Bedeutung dieser Reaktionen werden diskutiert.
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TL;DR: It is suggested that in the absence of extereoceptive cues, septal rats fail to use response-produced, proprioceptive stimuli as discriminative cues for alternation of turns in the maze.
Abstract: Septally lesioned, neo-cortical, and sham-operated rats were trained in a Dashiell maze with food reward for 37 days. No differences were found between groups in number of errors, number of errorless paths chosen, or number of different errorless paths chosen, even when the positions of the start and goal boxes were changed. However, qualitative differences were apparent in the kinds of paths chosen; septals took peripheral paths more frequently while controls took central paths more often. The findings suggest that in the absence of extereoceptive cues, septal rats fail to use response-produced, proprioceptive stimuli as discriminative cues for alternation of turns in the maze.
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TL;DR: This article found which contributors in child psychology have been cited more often during approximately the last 20 years, references in 12 textbooks and 2 jourals of child development were tallied, and authors were ranked according to their frequency of citation, and their relative positions discussed in terms of discrepancies between journal and textbook citations.
Abstract: To find which contributors in child psychology have been cited more often during approximately the last 20 years, references in 12 textbooks and 2 jourals of child development were tallied. Self-references were excluded. Authors were ranked according to their frequency of citation, and their relative positions discussed in terms of discrepancies between journal and textbook citations. Weaknesses of the criterion-frequency of citation-were discussed in relation to theoretical and empirical contributions.
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TL;DR: To test the hypothesis that identification with the “aggressor” would be more easily accomplished than would Identification with the victim (“aggressed”) or his parent, heights of “self,’ “murderer,” “victim,“ and “Victim's parent” drawings by 40 male and 40 female college students were compared.
Abstract: To test the hypothesis that identification with the “aggressor” would be more easily accomplished than would identification with the victim (“aggressed”) or his parent, heights of “self,” “murderer,” “victim,” and “victim's parent” drawings by 40 male and 40 female college students were compared. The resulting lack of difference between self and murderer drawings, and the significantly smaller (when compared to the self) victim and parent drawings, partially supported the hypothesis. In view of only males showing a predominance of same sex drawings of the murderer, caution was suggested in interpreting the results as conclusive evidence of support of the hypothesis.
TL;DR: In the years after 1928, the Center showed an increasing disinclination to work in coalition with the Social Democratic Party and finally, under the leadership of Dr. Ludwig Kaas, the last chairman of the Center Party, broke completely with the socialists.
Abstract: In descriptions of the political structure of the Weimar Republic, the German Center Party is usually grouped as a party of the “middle,” together with the German Democratic Party and German People's Party, between the left-wing Social Democrats and the right-wing German Nationalists. In the years after 1928, the Center showed an increasing disinclination to work in coalition with the Social Democratic Party and finally, under the leadership of Dr. Ludwig Kaas, the last chairman of the Center Party, broke completely with the Socialists. During the same years Heinrich Bruning, Chancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932, made persistent, though futile, attempts to find an acceptable coalition partner for the Center on the Right, hoping, among other possibilities, to encourage a secession movement from the Nationalist Party in 1930. Because of the rapid dwindling of electoral support for the other parties of the middle, very little attention has been paid to the Center's relationship with them. It is the purpose of this article to show that the mutual antipathies between these parties and the Center were as great or greater than its antipathy toward Social Democracy on certain matters which were vital to the Center's existence. By 1928, in fact, coalition with the parties of the middle had become as unsatisfactory to the leaders of the Center as coalition with the party of the Left. The turning-point in this development was the breakup of the Marx-Keudell right-wing cabinet of 1927. The failure of that government to attain the party's goals in the realm of Kulturpolitik , i.e., religion and education, confirmed the Center's disillusionment with the workings of the parliamentary system itself.
TL;DR: To match psychological test results and reports with neurological status, two studies involving different patient samples were conducted and significant relationships between neurological status and Psychological test results are discussed.
Abstract: To match psychological test results and reports with neurological status, two studies involving different patient samples were conducted. Intellectual functioning, visual reproduction, speed, and ability to abstract were compared for two groups of neurological and control patients from a city hospital. In this sample, a “blind” global matching of psychological test results and neurological status was correct 65% of the time. With similar information for patients from a private psychiatric hospital, the same matching was 66% correct. Significant relationships between neurological status and psychological test results are discussed.
TL;DR: An inexpensive method has been devised to automate a directional correlation system that can be constructed from parts readily available in most labs and that both the coincidence spectra and the singles from the movable detector are stored in the multichannel analyzer obviating the need for expensive printing scalers.
TL;DR: S' responses to tachistoscopic exposures of self-photographs have been suggested as one approach to self-images without awareness and differences were found to be related to sex and adjustment measured with the Rotter.
Abstract: Summary Ss' responses to tachistoscopic exposures of self-photographs have been suggested as one approach to self-images without awareness. Sixty-three Ss completed a Q sort for themselves and after tachistoscopic exposure of their own and control photographs, for the persons in the photographs. Ss also completed the Structured-Objective Rorschach Test and Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank. The self was sorted most favorably, the control tachistoscopic exposure significantly less favorably, and the self tachistoscopic exposure significantly less favorably than the control. These differences were found to be related to sex and adjustment measured with the Rotter. The SORT correlated insignificantly with Q sort and Rotter.
TL;DR: In this article, reports of autokinetic movement were obtained from 10 male and 10 female Ss when the Ugh t was remembered as appearing in a large (15 in.square) window or in a small (5 in. square) window.
Abstract: Reports of autokinetic movement were obtained from 10 male and 10 female Ss when the Ugh t was remembered as appearing in a large (15 in. square) window or in a small (5 in. square) window. The effect of exposure duration (10 sec vs 20 sec), trial blocks, and sex of S were also varied in the 2 by 2 by 2 by Ss design. More movement was reported for the large window (pK.025), the 20-sec duration (p <.001), and the first trial block (p < 025). No other effects were significant The results were discussed in terms of a cognitive organization imposed upon the inherently ambiguous perceptual situation.