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Title

  • Main Title The Effect of Thought Detection on Anxiety Responses

Creator

  • Author: Komechak, Marilyn Gilbert
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Chair: Beamer, George C.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Major Professor
  • Committee Member: Wilborn, Bobbie L.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Committee Member: Whaley, Donald Lee
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Committee Member: Brookshire, William K.
    Contributor Type: Personal

Publisher

  • Name: North Texas State University
    Place of Publication: Denton, Texas
    Additional Info: www.unt.edu

Date

  • Creation: 1975-05

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: The problem of this study was to analyze the effects of contingent reinforcement on the presence of thoughts defined as anxiety responses. The two types of data, observed and introceptive, were used to determine the effects of reinforcement. The observed data from the peripheral physiological pre- and post-measures included heart rate, blood pressure, and the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale data. The introceptive data supplied by subjects were the daily percentages of anxious thought detections subsequent to a baseline period. The daily percentages were formed by the subject's monitoring his own thoughts, with the monitoring prompted by an automatic tone device which emitted a tone approximately every four minutes. The daily percentage of anxious thoughts was formed by dividing the number of tones the subject heard into the number of anxious thoughts occurring at the time of the tone.The problem of this study was to analyze the effects of contingent reinforcement on the presence of thoughts defined as anxiety responses. The two types of data, observed and introceptive, were used to determine the effects of reinforcement. The observed data from the peripheral physiological pre- and post-measures included heart rate, blood pressure, and the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale data. The introceptive data supplied by subjects were the daily percentages of anxious thought detections subsequent to a baseline period. The daily percentages were formed by the subject's monitoring his own thoughts, with the monitoring prompted by an automatic tone device which emitted a tone approximately every four minutes. The daily percentage of anxious thoughts was formed by dividing the number of tones the subject heard into the number of anxious thoughts occurring at the time of the tone. The main findings in this study were 1. Although not statistically significant, the experimental subjects were found to demonstrate consistently lower mean heart rate and blood pressure following the experimental period. The control subjects' scores were nonsignificantly greater for heart rate and blood pressure at the conclusion of the study. 2. The results further suggested that contingent reinforcement alone did not produce the significant shifts found in the thought frequency of individual subjects. It is likely that both reinforcement and thought monitoring had
  • Physical Description: vi, 128 leaves : ill.

Subject

  • Keyword: contingent reinforcement
  • Keyword: anxiety responses
  • Keyword: anxious thoughts
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Psychophysiology.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Anxiety.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Operant conditioning.

Collection

  • Name: UNT Theses and Dissertations
    Code: UNTETD

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries
    Code: UNT

Rights

  • Rights Access: public
  • Rights Holder: Komechak, Marilyn Gilbert
  • Rights License: copyright
  • Rights Statement: Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Resource Type

  • Thesis or Dissertation

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: 1002784385-Komechak
  • Call Number: 379 N81d no.927
  • UNT Catalog No.: b1077434
  • OCLC: 1861240
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc500953

Degree

  • Academic Department: College of Education
  • Degree Discipline: Counselor Education
  • Degree Grantor: North Texas State University
  • Degree Level: Doctoral
  • Degree Name: Doctor of Philosophy
  • Degree Publication Type: disse
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