MASTERS THESES
Department of Psychology
University of New Mexico
A listing of the degrees awarded from the psyhology department follows.
Each entry contains the student's name, the date the degree was
received, the faculty supervisor (in parentheses), and the title of the
thesis or dissertation. Copies of the thesis and dissertations are
available in the Quad-L library. This list needs to be updated.
ABBOTT, Susan L. MA '72 (Johnson)
Learning on a preferred dimension irrelevant concept
task as a function of stimulus display and presence or
absence of cue cards.
ARMSTRONG, Elizabeth L. J. MA '84 (Ritchey)
Elaboration and distinctiveness on delayed pictorial recall
AUBREY, Lauren L. MS '92 (Yeo)
Hemispheric asymmetry of subjective time estimation
AUGUSTSON, Erik M. MS '91 (Dougher)
The transfer of conditioned emotional response eliciting
functions via stimulus equivalence classes
AUGUSTSON, Karen G. MS '91 (Dougher)
The development of stimulus equivalence in young children:
Some methodological successes and failures
BABBITT, Brian MA '76 (Ellis)
Stimulus-sampling and encoding variability: Test of Bower's theory
BARBERA, Thomas J. MS '93 (Waldron)
Resistance as a process measure in family therapy with
juvenile delinquents
BARDAL, Jane M. MS '92 (Agostinelli)
Need for cognition as a moderator of overoptimism for life events
BARELA, Peter B. MS '91 (Feeney)
Beam-walking deficits and the volume of primary cortical necrosis
following sensorimotor cortex ablation in the rat
BEAUCHAMP, Alan J. MS '86 (Gluck)
Sensory preconditioning in differentially reared rhesus monkeys
BENEKE, William M. MA '71 (Ferraro)
Reward and punishment on the acquisition of cooperative behavior
BENNETT, Thoms L. Jr MA '66 (Ellis)
Reinforcement and feedback in perceptual learning
BIEN, Thomas H. MS '89 (Dougher)
The correlation of smoking and drinking during a smoking intervention
BONGO, Rosalind M. MS '64 (Smith)
Factors underlying knowledge of human behavior and the
ability to apply such knowledge
BOGO, Victor MA '68 (Logan)
Practice and transfer on a varied choice refractory phase
BOROUGHS, Joseph M. MA '81 (Harris)
Magnitude of total outcome as a factor in equity
BOYD, Thomas M. MA '77 (Miller)
Alcohol consumption as a function of applied labels
and conception of alcoholism
BOYESON, Michael G. MA '80 (Hodge)
The effects of ventral mesencephalic tegmental and midbrain
raphe lesions on behavior in rats
BRODY, Janet L. MS '90 (Hayes)
Conceptual knowledge in 18-35 month old children:
An examination of four salient information categories
BURKE, Harold L. MS '89 (Yeo)
CT scan cerebral hemispheric asymmetries:
Predictors of recovery from aphasia
BUTT, Allen E. MS '90 (Hodge)
Learning and memory deficits in rats given nucleus basalis
magnocellularis lesions and scopolamine treatment:
An animal model of ALzheimer's disease
CALDERWOOD, Roberta MA '84 (Johnson)
Reader differences in letter-match performance:
A variable criterion theory analysis
CANHAM, Lyn S. MA '82 (Grice)
Processing dynamics in the item recognition task:
A variable criterion theory analysis
CAVE, Susan E. MA '77 (Koenig)
State dependent learning under phenothiazines:
Memory functions of schizophrenics
CHARLTON, Samuel G. MA '79 (Ferraro)
Response specific constraints on conditioning
CHIASSON, Charmenne A. MS '92 (Dougher)
Contextual control of transfer of function through
stimulus equivalence classes
CHIULLI, Stephen J. MS '86 (Ellis)
Automatic and effortful processing in a clinically
depressed population
CLADERWOOD, Roberta MA '84 (Johnson)
Reader differences in letter-match performance:
A variable crterior theory analysis
CLAUSEN, Gerald A. MA '78 (Delaney)
Effects of constant and varied input orders on
transfer of recall and output consistency
COSDEN, Merith Anne MA '77 (Feeney)
Effects of individual differences in cognitive flexibility and
motor variability on learning processes
CRAWFORD, Vernis Lloyd MA '78 (Katz)
A validity study of the creative imagination scale and
comparison of induction techniques under plateau conditions
DANIEL, Terry C. MA '68 (Ellis)
Effects of stimulus codability and duration of stimulus
exposure on recognition memory for random shapes
DAVIS, Lee T. MA '78 (Johnson)
The differential effect of cognitive style on memory
DEL CASTILLO, David M. MA '67 (Ellis)
Interaction of external and mediating cues as a function of type
of stimulus pretraining and intralist stimulus similarity
DIDDAMS, Alexandra P. MS '87 (Gluck)
The effect of expectancy on recovery from surgery
DITULLIO, Paul N. MS '89 (Goldsmith)
Stimulus type and the elicitation of dimensional responses
ECKHARDT, Beverly B. MS '88 (Jacobwitz)
The role of prior knowledge and verbal ability in adults'
comprehension of television
EDWARDS, Charlene D. MA '76 (Gluck)
The effects of vicarious response contingencies and a retarded
versus a nonretarded model on the imitative learning of retarded
and nonretarded children
ELLIS, Luann R. MA '82 (Gluck)
Cognitive responses to a stressful film
FENSON, Larry MA '65 (Rosenblum)
The role of stimulus similarity in children's preferences for novelty
FEUGE, Robert L. MA '67 (Ellis)
Associative factors on stimulus generalization in shape recognition
FOOTE, William E. MA '74 (Ferraro)
Transfer of a discrimination along a drug stimulus continuum
FOUTY, H. EDward Jr. MS '90 (Yeo)
Unilateral projection of visuospatial stimuli via
zero-power, partially occluded, soft contact lenses
FRANCIS, Evelyn W. MA '71 (Ferraro)
The effects of novel stimuli in discrimination learning of children
FRANK, Robert G. MA '77 (Gluck)
Assessment of long term deficits produced by
early total social isolation
GASKILL, Mark N. MS '85 (Diaz)
The effect of private speech on cognitive performance
GAUGHAN, Sarah K. MA '75 (Koenig)
Sex as an extralegal factor in judicial decision-making
GIOMI, Thelma A. MA '72 (Ferraro)
An operational analysis of the value of the nonoutcome trial
in chldren's discrimination learning
GLAZER, Michael A. MA '75 (Roll)
Fingertip skin temperature as an indicator of affect arousal
GOLDSTEIN, David B. MA '82 (Ellis)
Changes in early memory content and verbal productivity
after a depressed mood induction
GONZALES, Ricardo R. MA '79 (Roll)
The relationship of cognitive style to performance on a nonverbal
intelligence test and an achievement test among anglos and
differentially acculturated Mexican-Americans
GOODKIND, Robert MA '74 (Roll)
Complexity, incongruity, and content on cartoon humor appreciation
GOVERNSKI, David A. MA '73 (Logan)
Cue relevance as a continuum
GRABER, Rick A. MA '82 (Delaney)
Sex differences in information processing on a block design task
GRAH, Charles R. MA '76 (Ellis)
The persistence of negative intra-list cueing effects
GREENWAY, David E. MS '89 (Dougher)
Transfer of reinforcement and punishment functions via
stimulus equivalence
GRILLY, David M. MA '69 (Ferraro)
Transfer of response differentiation: A quantitative analysis
GRISHAM, Michael G. MA '71 (Ferraro)
Post-discrimination gradients: The averaging hypothesis
HAHN-SMITH, Anne M. MS '93 (Smith)
"Fitting in" America's value system: The relationship between
acculturation and body dissatisfaction among Hispanic females
HALL, Thomas L. MA '78 (Hodge)
Multiple electroconvulsive shocks on rotational activity in rats
HANEY, Stephen MS '85 (Gluck)
Personality and demographic variables related to adaptation to dialysis
HARLOW, John MS '92 (Roll)
College students' idolatry of favorite musicians related to
hope-faith measured as an ego strength
HARRINGTON, Deborah MA '80 (Ellis)
The role of phonological encoding in semantic retrieval
HAWLEY, Mark E. MS '87 (Ferraro)
Minimal-contact treatment of tension headache
HAYWARD, Stephen V. MA '77 (Logan)
Intermodal transfer of training in the rat
HEARD, David F. MS '92 (Feeney)
The cough suppressant, destromethorphan, evoke seizures in rats
HERTEL, Paula T. MA '77 (Ellis)
Constructive memory for bizarre verbal material
HODDE-VARGAS, Janet E. MS '87 (Roll)
The relationship between hostility and the ability to benefit
from behavioral treatment for nailbiting
HOMAN, Larry MS '66 (Ellis)
Stimulus coding ability and stimulus predifferentiation
JACOBSON, John R. MA '75 (Roll)
Cognitive manipulation of test anxiety through false
emotional feedback and modeling
JAHNS, Dieter MS '68 (Ellis)
Role of observing responces in perceptual learning
JOHNSON, Mary M. MA '82 (Harris, Goetz)
Sex roles and learned helplessness
KERN-JONES, Sheryl MS '92 (Waldron)
Maternal influences on early childhood competence
KINNUCAN, Mark T. MS '79 (Frider)
The extent of form integration
KLINE, Ben J. MA '84 (Ferraro)
The perceived symptom effects scale:
Construction, reliability, and initial validity
KODITUWAKKU, P. W. MS '84 (Rhodes)
Time perception as a functon of arousal and personality
KOSIBA, Bob MA '74 (Logan)
Temporal compounds and attention theory
KREJCI, Jonathan A. MS '90 (Smith)
The effect of positive mood induction on disinhibition among
restrained eaters
KRUGER, Edelmira MS '89 (Roll)
The relationship between the death of a parent during childhood
and adult anaclitic depression
KUSHNER, Bruce MA '73 (Grice)
Differential conditioning and stimulus intensity
LALIRE, Vega MA '77 (Koenig)
Inference task performance in psychiatric patients: Schizophrenics,
nonschizophrenic psychotics, and nonpsychotics
LANE, J. Walter MS '86 (Ellis)
The effects of a depressed mood on the generation effect
LARKIN, Adrienne G. MA '844 (Roll)
Anaclitic and introjective depression: A construct validation
LECCESE, Monica MS '91 (Waldron)
The label of intoxication: The effect of gender and context
on the perception of ambiguous flirtatious behavior
LEE, Dean R. MA '68 (Norman)
Differences between expressed and measured interests as
related to personality and intelligence
LEE, Nancy B. MA '75 (Johnson)
Leveling as a developmental phenomenon in visual memory
LEIGHT, Kenneth A. MA '80 (Ellis)
Effects of mood states on learning and memory
LEIGLAND, Sam M. MA '77 (Ferraro)
Deviations from matching as a measure of preference and
alternatives in pigeons
LERMAN, Barbara B. MA '71 (Logan)
The facilitative role of response contingent exteroceptive feedback
in a discriminated wheel turn avoidance task
LEWIS, Abby MS '85 (Ellis)
Information-processing capacity allocated during a mental imagery task
LINN, Richard T. MA '80 (Hodge)
Electromyographic biofeedback and hyperkinesis
LINNEMAN, Harry C. MA '71 (Koenig)
Experimentally induced "awareness" and cahnge on
personality measures following verbal conditioning
MAGILL, Barbara K. MA '78 (Harris)
Anticipated evaluation on individual brainstorming performance
MAKOWSKI, Teresa Y. MA '76 (Roll)
Differential effects of instructions to role-play mental illness on
performance of Chicanos and Anglos on two subtests of the WAIS
MALLOY, Thomas E. MA '67 (Ellis)
A test of acquired distinctiveness of equivalence of cues
MARKHAM, Michael R. MS '91 (Dougher)
Compound stimuli in equivalence relations:
Demonstration of associative stimulus relations
MARIANO, Anthony J. MS '83 (Ferraro)
Achievement striving, self-imposed demands, and
the coronary-prone (Type A) behavior pattern
MARIANO, Mary Jean MA '83 (Ferraro)
Congruency of coping style and cognitive strategy:
Effects on reactions to a painful stressor
MARRIOTT, Richard G. MA '75 (Ferraro)
Matching with compound sample stimuli in the pigeon
MARTINEZ, Ricardo MA '77 (Norman)
Social class and ethnicity effects on clinical judgments
McCALLUM, Marvin C. MA '78 (Ellis)
Effects of labels on recognition memory for ambiguous visual forms
McDERMOTT, Martha J. MS '89 (Gluck)
The development of self-control and self-regulation in
children of alcoholic fathers
McNAMARA, Cecelia L. MS '92 (Smith)
Late luteal phase dysphoric disorder: A chronic pain link?
MEECE, R. Sherilyn MA '64 (Rosenblum)
Performance of sixth grade girls on the Vigotskyi block test
MELKA, Beth E. MS '91 (Yeo)
Lateralization of a mental rotation task in a free field
MENDENHALL, Susan MA '69 (Koenig)
Imitation of tolerance for delay in children:
The effects of model-subject similiarity
MOULTON, John B. MS '88 (Friden)
Viewing pictures: The effects of magnification, texture,
and frame size on estimates of slant
MOYERS, Theresa B. MS '88 (Gluck)
The effect of exposure to companion animals on mitigating
depression in a college population
MUEHLENWEG, Christine A. MA '79 (Norman)
Masculinity-femininity as related to the WAIS M-F index
MULLER, Douglas C. MS '68 (Ellis)
Mediational set in trasnfer of stimulus predifferentiation
NEAL, Cynthia J. MS '88 (Diaz)
From other-regulated to self-regulated: Mothers' as scaffolders
NELSON, Jill K. MS '89 (Miller)
The effects of acute alcohol intoxication on planning
and goal oriented behavior
NELSON, Nancy H. MS '93 (Gordon)
Extinction of a within-compount association within and
outside the learning context
NETTLETON, Craig S. MS '85 (Ferraro)
The relationship of locus of control and instructions to biofeedback
NERVIG, Stefani MA '77 (Roll)
Emotion and cognitive perceptions in response to
cinematographic and non-cinematographic media
NULLMEYER, Robert T. MA '76 (Grice)
Stimulus intensity and probability of stimulus change as
determinants of simple reaction time
O'MALLEY, Flynn MA '74 (Koenig)
Various dimensions of sexual stimuli in the paired-associates
learning of college students and sex offenders
PAUL, Robert C. MA '75 (Logan)
Social influences on individual performance
PAYNE, Tanya L. MS '91 (Goldsmith)
The effects of advanced organizers on knowledge structures
PERKINS, David MA '68 (Perkins)
Conditioned response sub-class variability
POGGE, David L. MS '83 (Dougher)
Changes in self-efficacy as a function of locus of control,
interpersonal trust, attribution, success in natural setting
POPE, Robin C. MS '87 (Diaz)
Private sign language
PORTER, Benjamin J. MS '87 (Roll)
Personality and perception: Rorschach and Luescher correlates of
Jungian types as measured by the Myers-Briggs type indicator
PRUITT, Sheri D. MS '88 (Ferraro)
Multimodal assessment of experimentally manipulated affect:
An investigation of mood induction with critical controls
RAPOPORT, Elliot J. MA '75 (Johnson)
Objective strategy assessment in reception paradigm concept identification
RIEDLE, Joan E. A. MA '79 (Goetz)
Teachers' attributions for children's performance:
Sex of performer and sex typing of the task, and grade
RODRIGUEZ, Michael R. MA '78 (Miller)
Effects of alcohol and expectancy on fantasy and aggression
in male social drinkers
ROGERS, C. Jean MA '71 (Johnson)
Uni- and bi-dimensional concept learning as a function of age
SCHNIZLEIN, John M. MA '78 (Grice)
Foreperiod effects in simple reaction time:
A variable criterion theory analysis
SCHRADLE, Susan B. MS '84 (Dougher)
Social support as a mediator of stress
SCHROEDER, James E. MA '71 (Logan)
Stimulus properties of a change in magnitude of reinforcement
SEIBERT, Pennie S. MS '88 (Ellis)
Measurement and effects of irrelevant processing during
emotional mood states
SHORE, Howard G. MA '75 (Rosenblum)
Senquencing processes in observational learning
SILLEROY, Rene S. MA '72 (Johnson)
The effects of perceptual pretraining on concept identification
SMITH, Ruth A. MS '89 (Harris)
The effects of waiting when presenting issue oriented material
using a jury analogue
SPIERING, Kathryn A. MA '75 (Johnson)
The effect of verbal mediation training on subsequent mediating
behavior in retardates
SPIKER, V. Alan MA '76 (Ferraro)
Mixed CS1-CS2 interval effects on sensory preconditioning with rats
TATUM, Boyd C. MA '72 (Ellis)
The role of imagery in association formation and stimulus recognition
TINKCOM, Martha MS '86 (Gluck)
Graduate students' achievement goals: A predictive study
TOPPINO, Thomas C. MA '72 (Johnson)
The relative usefulness of exemplars and non-exemplars for
solving attribute identification concept tasks
VANDELL, Reid R. MA '75 (Ferraro)
Control of response duration by correlated probablity of reinforcement
VARNER, Lawrence J. MS. '92 (Ellis)
Emotion-as-schema: A mediating mechanism of moodİcongruent
encoding and retieval
VOYLES, Joy B. MS '86 (Ferraro)
Chronic illness in childhood: An examination of perceived
vulnerability and locus of control in children with long-term illness
VRANES, Lynn F. MS '86 (Feeney)
An investigation of the effects of an experimental drug,
L-644,969-01CO1 on unilateral sensorimotor cortex injured rats
WALDORF, V. Ann MS '93 (Smith)
What's the fear? Using implosive theory in assessing
underlying issues in bodily-injury phobia
WALSH, Russell A. MS '89 (Smith)
The effect of nutritiouis labels on dietary restraint
WEISEND, Michael P. MS '92 (Feeney)
Traumatic brain injury induces changes in brain temperature
that are related to behavioral and anatomical outcome
WEISGERBER, Scott A. MS '85 (Johnson)
The effects of encoding difficulty and resource allocation
upon the attentional demands of letter encoding
WILLMAN, David A. MS '92 (Goldsmith)
Similarity as a predictor of classification behavior over a
graph-theoretical stimulus domain
WOOD, Mary R. MS '88 (Jacobwitz)
The influence of children's prior knowledge on comprehension
of television
WOOTTON, Philip B. MA '68 (Logan)
The value of mixed fixed-interval schedules with and
without informative stimuli