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De Csipkes, Robert A.; Rowe, Wayne – 1977
This study investigates whether variations in method of presentation of anxiety items (experimenter's voice, experimenter's taped voice, subject's taped voice) will result in differences in autonomic arousal (as measured by self-report, galvanic skin response, cardiac rate, blood pressure). Ss were 24 Naval Academy midshipmen. The procedure…
Descriptors: Adaptation Level Theory, Anxiety, Arousal Patterns, Behavior Change
PDF pending restorationChandler, Theodore A.; Dinero, Thomas E. – 1977
Rotter's social learning theory was used as a basis for studying the effects of locus of control on the frequency of the responses of undesirable behaviors. Subjects, 12 fifth graders who had operant levels higher than desirable were monitored by either themselves, a peer, or by no agent for a period of eight weeks. Classes of behaviors…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Children, Individual Psychology, Locus of Control
