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A comparison of hypnosis, frontalis EMG biofeedback, and the two combined for training relaxation
(1981)
The purpose of the study was to compare the effectiveness of frontalis (forehead) electromyographic (EMG) biofeedback, hypnosis, and the two combined for training relaxation. Seventy-two students were randomly assigned to ...
Psychological concomitants of fasting in conditions of normal weight, obesity, health, illness, and prior drug use
(1981)
This study had two major objectives. The first was to determine whether relationships existed between selected demographic and attitudinal variables and selected personality variables among individuals in a total fasting ...
Level of perceptual development in normal achieving Mexican-American children as measured by responses on the Holtzman Inkblot Technique : a normative study
(1982)
The primary purpose of this proposed research was to provide preliminary normative data on the HIT for normal achieving Mexican-American children from grades one through six. Major questions of the study concerned differences ...
The influence of transactional analysis training on communication skills
(1982)
The primary purpose of this study was to discover whether or not administrators participating in a transactional analysis training group would improve communication skills more than subjects who did not receive such training. ...
The effects of primary representational system congruence on relaxation in a Neuro-Linguistic Programming model
(1982)
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a relatively new meta-model of human behavioral organization and change. The NLP meta-model states that both verbal and non-verbal communications represent underlying sensory experience. ...
Learning disabled and normal achieving 7-8 and 11-12 year old boys' attributions for success and failure on an academic task
(1984)
The purpose of this study was to investigate causal attributions of learning disabled and normal achieving 7-8 and 11-12 year old boys for their success and failure performance on an academic task in a classroom setting. ...
The keyword approach in teaching concrete constructs to learning disabled and nonlearning disabled children
(1984)
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the keyword mnemonic technique with special populations. To accomplish this purpose, eight states and capitals were randomly selected to teach 65 ...
A meta-analysis of the effects of divorce on children's adjustment
(1984)
The two purposes of the present investigation were to: (a) clarify the large body of confusing and contradictory research results concerning the effects of divorce on children, and (b) provide an empirically verifiable ...
Identity status as a predictor of traditional or nontraditional career choice for women
(1984)
The purpose of this study was to investigate some determinants of women's choice of traditional or nontraditional occupations. Of particular interest as a predictor was identity status on the Dellas Identity Status ...
The effects of visual imagery training on retrieval techniques in face recognition and alteration of memory traces
(1984)
Important decisions often rest on people's ability to recognize and/or recall an historical event, especially person identification through eyewitness testimony. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of ...