CWU's graduate programs in Psychology include the following:
- Applied Behavior Analysis: This degree program trains students to apply behavioral science in real-world settings such as clinics or schools. Students use a systematic approach to the assessment and evaluation of behavior, and the application of interventions that alter behavior.
- Experimental Psychology: This degree is research oriented. Graduates will often work in colleges, universities, research centers, government, and private businesses. Many will continue on for doctoral programs.
- Mental Health Counseling: The MHC program is not being offered at this time.
- School Psychology: This degree is assessment oriented. Candidates interview and test students to identify placement issues and optimize learning. Graduates work as school psychologists within the public school system.
This collection features theses from students in the Department of Psychology Graduate Programs at Central Washington University.
Theses from 1973
The Relationship Between Self Concept Reports and Academic Achievement of Secondary Students, Eugene A. Dudley
The Effects of Contingent and Non-Contingent Reinforcers on Intelligence Quotients, Donald T. Edwards
Direction of Lateral Eye Movement and Achievement Differences Among Left Handed College Students, Wayne Ferrell
Remediation of Deficit Automatic Level Functions as Related to Second Grade Reading Achievement, Jack R. Hall
The Fear Conditioning Cues Necessary for the Reinstatement of Memory After Retrograde Amnesia Induced by ECS ina One Trial Fear Conditioning Paradigm, Thomas Martin Hopfer
Developing and Testing an Interventionist Role for Elementary Counseling, Thomas M. Hyde
The Effect of Teacher Attention and Peer Approval Facilitated by Material Rewards upon the Disruptive Classroom Behavior of a Male Kindergarten Child, Brynne Flanagan Lane
Effects of Reinforcement Schedules on the Eating Behavior of Hooded Rats, Wayne T. Pratt
Food Choice Preferences and Delay of Reward in Obese and Normal Weight Children, Mitzi M. Rochester
Transfer of Active Avoidance Response Tendency by Brain Extract, Marlene Sanders
Theses from 1972
The Effect of a Learning Skills Course including Group Counseling on Low Achievers in the Community College, Paul E. Borg
Intradimensional Variability with Numbers and Alphabetical Letters in Conceptual Rules, Thomas Henry Clayton
The Effect of an Increase of a Mother's Complimentary Behavior on her Child's Crying Rate and in-task School Behavior, Mark Connot
Operantly Conditioning a College Student's Study Behaviors, Norman L. Culbertson
The Effects of Truth Table Pretraining and Intradimensional Variability on Rule Learning and Attribute Identification Tasks, Eric S. Gebelein
Experimenter Bias Effect at Varying Levels of Motivation, Leslie Marie Slade Gray
False Physiological Feedback and Acceptance of a High Fear Message, Michael T. Gray
A Comparison of Verbal and Geometric Stimuli in Concept Learning, Robert William Greenway
Teaching Staff Involvement in Planning Open-Concept Elementary Schools, John William Hackney
Reinforcement Program for Junior High EMR Physical Education, Earl L. Hill
Solution Shift Performance of Low Functioning Children, Kathleen L. Levell
Interest, Achievement and Personality Differences and the Direction of Lateral Eye Movement, Frances Irene Lewis
ANXIETY AND EMPATHY IN COUNSELOR-TRAINEES, Russel E. Lewis
The Role of Stimulus and Label Familiarity in Concept Learning, David W. Philips
Time-Lapse Photography: It's Usefulness in Assessing Children's Classroom Behavior, David Glenn Rucker
Interanimal transfer of a Learned Response Tendency with Control for Autonomic Arousal, Landgrave Thomas Smith
An Experimental Study in the Use of the Differential Aptitude Test to Assign Sehome High School Students to Various English Tracks, Elizabeth Mae Strand
Failure to Find a Memory Gradient in a State Dependency Paradigm, James Harold Thomson
Theses from 1971
The Use of Selected Films and Film Discussions in Modifying Social Distance in Elementary School Children, Stanton C. Baker
The Cathartic Effects of Aggressive Responses directed toward an Inanimate Object, Timothy William Creston
Sub-aversive Response Contingent Foot Shock as a Positive Reinforcer, Robert Lea Fulwiler
The Effects of CS Habituation and Duration of the Directional Modification of the Cardiac Response in the Guinea Pig (Cavia procellus), Ray Charles Larson
Duration of State-Dependent Learning induced by NCFS-ECS, Larry Wayne Morris
The Relationship of Dogmatism and Internal-External Control to Psychological Reactance, Edward J. Schau
Effects of Volition and Justification on the Arousal of Dissonance during Performance of a Dull Task, George Roger Schoenhals
State-Dependent Learning as a Function of the Temporal Relationship between Noncontingent Footshock and Electroconvulsive Shock, T. Scott Shutt
Time Sampling Technique Applied to Counseling Practicum, William David Thomas
Theses from 1970
Effect of Alcohol on Timing Behavior in the Pigeon, Robert J. Boyd
Television-Mediated Aggression and Its Effects on Children’s Level of Aggressiveness, Thomas M. Ferguson
Acceptance of Negroes by White College Students as a Function of College-Class Standing, Religious Conviction, and Race of Experimenter, Harry James Hawks
A Comparison of ECS and Drug Induced State-Dependent Learning, Mayse F. John
The Effects of Motivation Level and Task Difficulty on Performance on a Vigilance Task, Donald C. Johnston
The Effects of Free and Forced Choice with a Time Gradient and Monetary Incentive in a Serial Learning Task, Ernest joseph Lucier Jr.
Effects of Nurturance on Incidental Imitative Behavior, Ronald Raymond Monti
Use of the PALS Test to differentiate between High Achieving and Low Achieving Fifth GradeStudents: A Validity Study, Mickey H. Parson
General Functions and Specific Activities of the Elementary School Couselor as perceived by Principals, Teachers, and Counselors in the Highline Public Schools, Seattle, Washington, Gary Winfield Sherman
Duty Performance of Vocational Guidance Counselors, Richard K. Swanson
Theses from 1969
Philosophy of Human Nature as a Function of Political Preference, Political Involvement, and Age, Ralph L. Anderson
Conditioned Helplessness and Human Escape Behavior, Robert E. Gabbard Jr.
The Effect of Pretesting on the Training of Conservation Behavior, Lynn Mannan
The Effects of Varying a T Group Design upon Self Concept, George Richard Woodruff
Theses from 1968
The Effectiveness of Perceptual Training as a Corrective Measure for Reading Disability, Brenda Bonin Batali
Concept Identification as a Function of three Semantic Dimensions, Richard Eugene Edwards
Verbal Conditioning with Vicarious Reinforcement as Related to Peer Attitudes in Grade-School Children, Margaret McCutcheon Lauterbach
The Effect of Dominance Level When Using Mediated Generalization to Facilitate Concept Formation, Delbert Smith McHenry
An Experimental Analysis of Superstitious Behavior in College Males, Nancy Alice Metzler
The Relationship Between Beards and the Self Concept, Walter H. Nelson
Theses from 1967
The Effectiveness of the Presentation and Removal of Money as Reward and Punishment in a Paired-Associate-Constant Order Learning Task, John B. Baughman
The Effect of Shifts in Reward Magnitude and Changes of Schedule of Reinforcement on Resistance to Extinction, Richard James Boylan
Suggestibility and its Relationship to Instructional Set in Serial Learning, Richard Walter Giroux
The Effect of Continuous – and Partial Reinforcement on the Choice Behavior of Rats, Philip S. Hall
Meaningfulness and Similarity as Determinants of Verbal Retention, Walter S. Heins
Bayes’ Theorem: A Model for Human Probability Estimate Revision, William H. Hickok
The Effect of Electroconvulsive Shock Following One-Trial Avoidance Learning in the Rat, Richard H. Lovely
The Effect of Overlearning and the Associative Value of the Stimuli Upon Reversal Learning, Ralph Daniel Marken
Operantly Conditioning a Boy’s Classroom Behavior, Daniel Lee McIvor
The Relative Efficiency of Auditory (Social) Reinforcement vs. Food Reinforcement with the Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri Sciureus) in an Operant Situation, David R. McMurray
Conservatism in a Bayesian Probability Situation as a Function of the Sex of the Subject, Paul Frederick Miller
Delayed Auditory Feedback and Retention Testing Time, Wayne K. Miller
The Relative Effect of Time of Reinforcement and Pre-Reinforcement Activity on the Learning of Meaningful Verbal Material, Daisuke Bill Nakashima
Theses from 1966
A Comparison of Estimates of Relative Frequency vs. Subjective Probability, Duncan Muir McQuarrie
Revision of Subjective Probabilities Under a Bayesian Model, Gary A. Sterner