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 1970
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