Ralph Mason Dreger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3885554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralph Mason Dreger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralph Mason |
| FAMILY NAME | Dreger |
| SIGNATURE | DREGER R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Psychology of the Scientist
This obituary of R. B. Cattell (1905-1998) describes briefly some of the evidence underlying the judgment that Cattell was one of the half dozen greatest psychologists of the twentieth century and also portrays the gentle thoughtful man he was as a family member, friend, and colleague
Psychology of the Scientist
This obituary of R. B. Cattell (1905–1998) describes briefly some of the evidence underlying the judgment that Cattell was one of the half dozen greatest psychologists of the twentieth century and also portrays the gentle thoughtful man he was as a family member, friend, and colleague
Factor Structure of the Preschool Personality Questionnaire in Iran
This study is of Triandis's pseudoetic variety, not a cross-cultural study per se. The Preschool Personality Questionnaire which was standardized in the SA and partially standardized in Colombia was administered to 600 preschool children in Iran. Data from the entire sample were analyzed by both principal components, maximum likelihood, and alpha factor analyses. 14 factors were derived. Odd and even records were likewise factored. Six of the fir…
Background for and Development of a Brief Adult Behavioral Classification Project Inventory
An abridgement of the Adult Behavioral Classification Project Inventory (AdBCP) was accomplished. The creation and development of the full-scale Inventory is described in Phase I. In Phase II, the participant pool was divided into half, and each half of the data set was subjected to both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses with a factor control of 11 of the strongest factors in the original data set. Items identifying these factors had t…
Longitudinal Study of a 'Student's Evaluation of Course' Including the Effects of a Professor's Life Experiences on Students' Evaluations (Monograph Supplement 1-V81)
A Further Validation of the Children's Behavioral Classification Project Inventory
To add evidence of the validity of the Children's Behavioral Classification Inventory, the response of parents and teachers were compared on a set of 110 items of the inventory which describe behaviors equally observable to both groups. The two sets of data were subjected in Phase I to principal components analysis to extract two factors in each case which were compared by means of the Ahmavaara transformation and found to be highly comparable. I…
Longitudinal Study of a “Student's Evaluation of Course” Including the Effects of a Professor's Life Experiences on Students' Evaluations
Issues of import to students' evaluations include accountability, improvement of teaching, anonymity, meaning and motivation of such evaluations, and validity and reliability. The very brief Student's Evaluation of Course, an entirely anonymous rating scale, is presented here for use only by the instructor, not for administrative purposes. Validity has been described previously. In this study, students' ratings of the six course-relevant items ac…
A Further Validation of the Children's Behavioral Classification Project Inventory
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Shedding light on mentalism
Shedding light on mentalism
"Animals have minds"
"Animals have minds"
Background for and Development of a Brief Children's Behavioral Classification Project Inventory
A brief form of the Children's Behavioral Classification Project Inventory was developed. A Proto-CBCP Inventory consisting of 229 behavioral items and 11 demographic variables was administered to 351 parents of children with clinical problems and 80 normal control parents. The analyses of these data were thoroughly criticised by experts in psychology and related fields. From this critique and trial runs which included 22 demographic variables, a…
Sorting Data Sets and Computing Medians for Skewed Distributions
Clusters derived from data sets require meaningful interpretation, for which standard statistical packages, major spreadsheets, numerical computation texts, as well as the specialized Journal of Classification provide little help. Interpretation can be made from a profile of summary scores, means, or medians, representing distributions of scores. For such a profile, medians are preferable to means where the distributions are highly skewed. To aut…
Prediction of Recreational Therapy Behavior of Hospitalized Adolescents from a Behavior Classification Instrument
The purpose of this study was to estimate the validity of an instrument of the Adolescent Behavioral Classification Project in predicting behavior patterns of emotionally disturbed adolescents in an inpatient setting. Subjects ( n = 126) were adolescents admitted to a state residential treatment unit across a period of 35 months. Predictor variables were scores on 17 or 25 factors of the instrument from both adolescents' own responses and their m…
The Latent Structure of the Salvation Opinionnaire, a Measure of Religious Attitudes in the American Christian Tradition
Data gathered on the Salvation Opinionnaire, a 25-item religious attitude questionnaire, from 778 individuals representing a broad spectrum of religious attitudes was analyzed by the structural equations program, LISREL 7, to determine the instrument's latent structure. By exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses a predicted four-factor structure was demonstrated. The data were divided into odd and even cases of 389 apiece and confirmatory an…
The Mooney Problem Check List—A Standardization of the College Form
The Mooney Problem Check List, College Form, was administered to 2261 students from six Louisiana universities for standardization purposes. Usable protocols were obtained from 1929 subjects. Comparisons among schools, school classes, sex, race, and marital status were made for the 11 Mooney categories. Norm tables were developed for all groups with sufficient ns for the several categories. A component analysis was also done, with 13 components r…
The Mooney Problem Check List-a Standardization of the College Form
The Mooney Problem Check List, College Form, was administered to 2261 students from six Louisiana universities for standardization purposes. Usable protocols were obtained from 1929 subjects. Comparisons among schools, school classes, sex, race, and marital status were made for the 11 Mooney categories. Norm tables were developed for all groups with sufficient ns for the several categories. A component analysis was also done, with 13 components r…
A Restandardization of a Brief Scale of Religious Orthodoxy, Religious Humanism, and Religious Radicalism
The Salvation Opinionnaire (SO) was initially standardized in the late 1940s and early 1950s by the first author and his colleagues. A proto-SO consist- ing of 45 items was administered to 763 subjects and subjected to Thurstone- type scaling. From the scaling procedure and a chi-square analysis, 25 items became the SO, which was then administered to a standardizing sample of 351 subjects. For the present restandardization, 96 judges made a Thurs…
A Basic Program for Converting Chronological Ages into Decimal for Averaging a Series of C As
A program for obtaining conversion of year-month-day format to decimal is described for use when birth and test administration dates are known. Errors of entry are correctable. After an average has been calculated, a reconversion routine from decimal to the usual format is available
A Basic Program for the Shell-Metzner Sort Algorithm
The Shell-Metzner sort algorithm is a very fast sorting routine which surpasses other more well-known routines. The BASIC program written here allows for sorting data from a disk or diskette or from DATA statements
Clustering Seven Data Sets by Means of Some or All of Seven Clustering Methods
Seven data sets, one artificially contrived, the others real data from different areas of psychology and sociology but mainly concerned with children, were subjected to clustering by seven different algorithms. These methods are for the most part rather well known: Holzinger and Harman's (1941) B-coefficient, Overall and Klett's (1972) Linear Typal Analysis, McQuitty and Koch's (1974a, b) elementary linkage analysis, Rohlf and his colleagues' (Ro…
Microcomputer Programs for the Rand Index of Cluster Similarity
This paper describes a set of four BASIC computer programs for computing the Rand (1971) index of cluster similarity. The routines calculate the unadjusted Rand index; the separate routines are designed to handle problems of different sizes and alternate methods of data storage
Does anyone really believe that alcoholism is a disease
Does anyone really believe that alcoholism is a disease
Expressed Attitudes and Needs of Religious Persons Compared with Those Determined by Projective Techniques
The Relation Between Rorschach M and Tat Content Categories as Measures of Creative Productivity in a Representative High-Level Intelligence Populations
Comparative psychological studies of Negroes and whites in the United States
Perception in the Context of Social and Personality Theory
(1961). Perception in the Context of Social and Personality Theory. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 3-30
Comparative psychological studies of Negroes and whites in the United States
A funny thing happened
Aristotle, Linnaeus, and Lewin, or the Place of Classification in the Evaluative-Therapeutic Process
(1968). Aristotle, Linnaeus, and Lewin, or the Place of Classification in the Evaluative-Therapeutic Process. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 78, No. 1, pp. 41-59
Comparative psychological studies of Negroes and Whites in the United States
Reactions of High School Students to School Desegregation in a Southern Metropolitan Area
In a preliminary study of attitudes and emotional reactions of Negro high school students who desegregated formerly all-white schools in a Deep South city, it was determined that there were many forebodings, unpleasant experiences, and emotional upsets, but that on the whole no deep emotional disturbances resulted. In the main study, an objective approach to attitudes and emotional reactions did not confirm hypotheses that length of desegregated …
Comparative Studies of Blacks and Whites in the United States
Use of Absolute Values in Estimating Reliability From the Inter-Item Correlations
Estudio comparativo de blancos y negros en los Estados Unidos
A Microcomputer Program for Matrix Multiplication Using a Tape Unit
A microcomputer program is described for multiplying two matrices as large as 41 × 42 apiece. The major advantages of using a tape drive are single entry rather than multiple entry of data elements of matrices A and B and increase of memory capabilities. The major limitation is slowness of tape search. Verbal description of logic facilitates use of the program on different brands of computers
A Microcomputer Program for Anova Using a Tape Unit
A microcomputer program for two-way analysis of variance is described. Both the program and cell entries are stored on tape. Output consists of both intermediate and final products. Advantages of using a tape unit with a microcomputer are convenience, capacity, and flexibility. Limitations are found in not having data on cards and in the inability of the program to handle nested or mixed designs
"Big Jiffy"
A program is described that answers the intermediate need for a computer procedure that can provide a reasonably sophisticated factor analysis for as many as 500 variables—a program to cover the vast majority of factor analytic requirements with nearly the same degree of ease as that afforded by use of the "little jiffy" programs
A Chi-Square Program for a Microcomputer Using a Tape Unit
A program utilizing a microcomputer and tape drive is described which requires only the entering of the number of rows and number of columns, plus one-time entry of cell frequencies. Despite some limitations, the usefulness of the program for problems difficult to handle on a calculator and not fully suitable for a large-scale computer has been demonstrated
Sets of Basic Programs for Factor Matrix Comparisons
BASIC programs for three different factor matrix comparison methods are described. Each method has several forms: Ahmavaara's procedure has one program for data entered as DATA, another for small matrices with data already stored on disk (or tape), another for large matrices with data already stored, and another for data already stored but with intermediate matrices not printed. The congruence coefficient programs include one for data entered as …
On Gerard on "School desegregation."
On Gerard on "School desegregation."
Microcomputer Programs for the Rand Index of Cluster Similarity
This paper describes a set of four BASIC computer programs for computing the Rand (1971) index of cluster similarity. The routines calculate the unadjusted Rand index; the separate routines are designed to handle problems of different sizes and alternate methods of data storage
Does anyone really believe that alcoholism is a disease
Does anyone really believe that alcoholism is a disease
Prediction of Marital Roles from Normal and Pathological Dimensions of Personality
By means of stepwise multiple regression, 12 factors of the Marriage Role Questionnaire were regressed on factors of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire and 25 scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. The regressions were run with the predictor instruments separately and combined. Individually, the MMPI proved superior to the 16 PF in predicting to the factors of the Marriage Role Questionnaire. However, in six cases ou…
Clustering Seven Data Sets by Means of Some or All of Seven Clustering Methods
Seven data sets, one artificially contrived, the others real data from different areas of psychology and sociology but mainly concerned with children, were subjected to clustering by seven different algorithms. These methods are for the most part rather well known: Holzinger and Harman's (1941) B-coefficient, Overall and Klett's (1972) Linear Typal Analysis, McQuitty and Koch's (1974a, b) elementary linkage analysis, Rohlf and his colleagues' (Ro…
A Basic Program for the Shell-Metzner Sort Algorithm
The Shell-Metzner sort algorithm is a very fast sorting routine which surpasses other more well-known routines. The BASIC program written here allows for sorting data from a disk or diskette or from DATA statements
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