Stephen F Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 4488355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen F Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen F |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS S F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emporia State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dissection of Psyche and the Psycho social Stressors
This paper entitled “Dissection of Psyche and the Psycho social Stressors: A Psycho realistic Study on Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns” studies the Psyche of the characters which stands for the mind functioning as the centre of thought, emotion and behaviour and consciously or unconsciously adjusting or mediating the body’s responses to the social and physical environment. It delves on the internal lives of the characters using the the…
Psychology
Psychologist as Detective
Restaurant Servers Influence Tipping Behavior
12 waiters and waitresses from a small Midwestern town and 16 waiters and waitresses from a large urban area participated in an experiment to assess whether larger tips were given when they stood erect or squatted when taking orders. Using an A-B-A-B research design, waiters and waitresses alternately stood and squatted for a 4-wk. period while taking orders at lunch and dinner. The research was conducted in moderately priced, family-style restau…
Perceptions of Career, Family, and Sex in Relationships
Analysis of responses of 495 college students to a 28-item questionnaire showed sexual activity decreased with marriage and having children but was not associated with career plans
Topics and Comments
An easily implemented, student-feedback technique, which indexes the influence of a lesson by evaluating students' recall of key topics and relevant comments made during class, is assessed by analyzing feedback collected after two types of lessons. Seven instructors requested feedback from 259 students in ten sections of introduction to psychology. Data indicate that this student-feedback process is sensitive to instructional approaches. Specific…
Academic Dishonesty
Data from more than 6,000 students regarding the prevalence, causes, techniques, faculty and institutional responsibility, deterrent measures, and punishment dimensions of academic dishonesty are presented.
Historians' and chairpersons' judgments of eminence among psychologists
Historians' and chairpersons' judgments of eminence among psychologists
Noncontingent Reward-Induced Learned Helplessness in Humans
Noncontingent verbal and concrete rewards were incorporated into a learned-helplessness paradigm in an attempt to provide increased generalizability of the reward-induced helplessness phenomenon. The treatment phase required subjects to reproduce a series of block-designs, for which they received either verbal or concrete reward according to one of three schedules: response contingent, 100% noncontingent, or 50% random noncontingent. A control gr…
Utilization of Odor Cues as a Function of Reward-Magnitude Contrast and Delay of Reinforcement
An experiment manipulating both reward-magnitude contrast and delay of reinforcement is reported. The results indicated that odor cues are produced under conditions of delayed large-reward versus nonreward contrast but not under large- versus small-reward contrast. Additional magnitude and delay manipulations that resulted in the elimination of odor-based double-alternation patterning in the straight runway are presented
Taste Preference of the Adult Rat as a Function of Prenatal Exposure to Ethanol
Two groups of pregnant rats (n = 10) received exposure to either 10% ethanol or water. All male offspring (n = 43) received a six-day preference test (ethanol vs water) at 90 days of age. Fluid consumption scores indicated a significant preference for water by all Ss. However, those animals receiving prenatal ethanol exposure consumed significantly more ethanol during preference testing than did the animals receiving prenatal water exposure
Shock-Elicited Aggression as a Function of Early Ethanol Exposure
Upon reaching maturity the offspring (N = 88) of animals exposed during pregnancy to ethanol and plain water, respectively, served as Ss in a shock-elicited aggression test. Significantly higher levels of aggression were shown by those animals that had received prenatal ethanol exposure. Several ethanol-related birth effects were also noted
Shock-Elicited Aggression as a Function of Acute and Chronic Ethanol Challenges
In a test of competing hypotheses regarding the effects of alcohol on shock-elicited aggression, animals maintained on a food restricted regimen were administered either chronic or acute ethanol challenges. Chronic Ss showed a significantly higher rate of target-directed aggression and spent significantly more time in aggressive activity than did acute or saline control animals. Results support the proposed interactive effect of food restriction …
Learned Helplessness in Goldfish under Conditions of Low Shock Intensity
Goldfish which received inescapable shock presentations during a first experimental phase made significantly fewer responses and had significantly longer response latencies during a subsequent avoidance-learning phase than did Ss which had not received the inescapable shocks
Defensive Burying
Two groups of rats received a defensive-burying test under conditions of single- vs multiple-flash presentations. The results indicated that multiple-flash animals displayed significantly higher levels of responding than did single-flash animals
The Interrelationships of Ego Strength, Self-Esteem, Death Anxiety, and Gender in Undergraduate College Students
The interrelationships of ego strength (Barron Ego Strength Scale), death anxiety (Death Anxiety Scale), and self-esteem (Texas Social Behavior Inventory) were studied in undergraduate university males (n = 20) and females (n = 59). Significant negative relationships between death anxiety and self-esteem and ego strength, and a significant positive relationship between self-esteem and ego strength were shown by both males and females. Moreover, m…
Interaction of Number of Training Trials and Specific Response Measure in Determining Effects of Magnitude of Reward
Two experiments examined the relationship between number of training trials in a runway, various segments of the instrumental response, and effects of magnitude of reward. In each, separate groups of rats received 120 training trials with large and small rewards, respectively. Results of both experiments indicated that significant effects of magnitude were established and persisted in the start and run measures. Transitory effects of magnitude we…
Conditioning and Retention of Defensive Burying as a Function of the Injection of a Central Cholinergic Stimulant
Two groups of rats received defensive-burying testing under the effects of saline or physostigmine injection. Saline-injected animals buried more during the first (drug-state) session than did the physostigmine-injected animals. Twenty-four hours later all Ss received a retention test under the nondrug condition. Ss originally tested under the physostigmine state buried more than the saline-injected animals did
Defensive Burying as a Function of Single-and Paired-Animal Testing Conditions
Studied the relationship between single- and paired-animal testing in the defensive-burying situation. Twenty male Holtzman rats received defensive burying testing both individually and in pairs. Testing took place in a rectangular enclosure having a bedding-material floor. The discharge of a flashbulb served as the aversive stimulus. Individual testing resulted in significantly (p < .01) longer burying durations and greater accumulation of beddi…
Conditioned Defensive Burying as a Function of Stimulus Modality and Stimulus Accessibility
Studied the effects of a single shock presentation upon defensive burying of a second, externally located aversive stimulus (a flashbulb). Twenty-one, male Holtzman rats received defensive-burying testing in a rectangular enclosure having a bedding-material floor. S s initially exposed to the shock defensively buried an externally located flashbulb when it was discharged. Previously shocked rats did not display such behavior to an unactivated fla…
If You Were a Stickleback Fish it Would Be Important to You
Erroneous description of the mating behavior of the stickleback fish appeared recurrently in a widely used text. Since students rely heavily on secondary sources, it becomes important to correct these inaccuracies
Locus of Control and Death Anxiety
The relationship between locus of control and death anxiety was reexamined in an attempt to reconcile inconsistencies in the literature. The Reid-Ware Three Factor Locus of Control Scale and the Templer Death Anxiety Scale were administered to 164 males and 211 female college students who ranged from seventeen to forty-nine years of age. Separate regression analyses indicated that death anxiety loaded significantly on the Fatalism dimension for m…
Relationship of Fear of Death and Level of Self-Esteem in College Students
Self-esteem and death anxiety instruments were administered to a total of 383 undergraduates; black and white, males and females were included in the sample. Consistent with previous data, higher scores on death anxiety were shown by female subjects. Black males displayed significantly higher self-esteem scores. An analysis of subgroups low and high in self-esteem produced support for a negative relationship between level of self-esteem and death…
Locus of Control among Students of Traditional and Nontraditional College Age
The Interrelationships of Ego Strength, Self-Esteem, Death Anxiety, and Gender in Undergraduate College Students
The interrelationships of ego strength (Barron Ego Strength Scale), death anxiety (Death Anxiety Scale), and self-esteem (Texas Social Behavior Inventory) were studied in undergraduate university males (n = 20) and females (n = 59). Significant negative relationships between death anxiety and self-esteem and ego strength, and a significant positive relationship between self-esteem and ego strength were shown by both males and females. Moreover, m…
Defensive Burying as a Function of Single-and Paired-Animal Testing Conditions
Studied the relationship between single- and paired-animal testing in the defensive-burying situation. Twenty male Holtzman rats received defensive burying testing both individually and in pairs. Testing took place in a rectangular enclosure having a bedding-material floor. The discharge of a flashbulb served as the aversive stimulus. Individual testing resulted in significantly (p < .01) longer burying durations and greater accumulation of beddi…
Conditioned Defensive Burying as a Function of Stimulus Modality and Stimulus Accessibility
Studied the effects of a single shock presentation upon defensive burying of a second, externally located aversive stimulus (a flashbulb). Twenty-one, male Holtzman rats received defensive-burying testing in a rectangular enclosure having a bedding-material floor. S s initially exposed to the shock defensively buried an externally located flashbulb when it was discharged. Previously shocked rats did not display such behavior to an unactivated fla…
The Mechanism Of Simple Redistribution In The Primitive Communist Mode Of Production As Presented By Hindess And Hirst
Double-Alternation Runway Performance as a Function of Inter- and Intra-Reinforcement Odor Cues
Two groups of 12 rats served as Ss in a three-phase investigation into the production and utilization of odor cues in the runway. Both groups were trained under double-alternation patterns of reward-nonreward with one group serving as start-box donor-odorants, while the second group actually traversed the runway. During the first two phases the run- Ss were water-reinforced, and the donor-odorants were food-reinforced. The reinforcement schedules…
Runway Performance as a Function of Positively and Negatively Correlated Olfactory Cues
Double-alternation runway performance of rats is shown to be influenced by 2 sources of odor, donor-odorant Ss and previous Ss that have traversed the runway. Performance in initial segments of the apparatus depended upon odors produced by start-box confined donor Ss, while performance in the terminal segment was predominantly influenced by odors produced by previous running Ss ( ns = 14)
RN Transitions
Three groups of rats were trained and extinguished (Phase I) in an alley, and retrained and extinguished (Phases II and III) under RN, NR, and RR reward schedules. An exhaust system was operative in the alley in Phases I and III but inoperative in Phase II. The results show that with the simple schedules employed, odors do not appear to mediate the running responses. Ss which received the RN schedule were generally less resistant to extinction th…
Level of Self-Esteem and Size of Human Figure Drawing as a Function of Group vs Individual Administration
Since the publication of Karen Machover's book ( 3 ) , considerable data relating level of self-esteem and size of human figure drawings has been amassed. Machover proposed that large figures were related high self-esteem, whereas small figures were indicative of low self-esteem. This relationship has been studied in a variety of settings using various subjects (4, 5 ) . Even a cursory glimpse of this literature indicates inconsistency. One inter…
Fear of Death in Military Officers and Their Wives
Templer's Death Anxiety Scale was administered to 72 military officers and their wives. Comparison of mean scores indicated that death anxiety was significantly higher for the wives. However, comparison with previously published data indicated that both officers and wives had lower fear of death than a number of other groups studied
Relationship of Fear of Death and Level of Self-Esteem in College Students
Self-esteem and death anxiety instruments were administered to a total of 383 undergraduates; black and white, males and females were included in the sample. Consistent with previous data, higher scores on death anxiety were shown by female subjects. Black males displayed significantly higher self-esteem scores. An analysis of subgroups low and high in self-esteem produced support for a negative relationship between level of self-esteem and death…
Locus of Control among Students of Traditional and Nontraditional College Age
The Mechanism Of Simple Redistribution In The Primitive Communist Mode Of Production As Presented By Hindess And Hirst
Locus of Control and Death Anxiety
The relationship between locus of control and death anxiety was reexamined in an attempt to reconcile inconsistencies in the literature. The Reid-Ware Three Factor Locus of Control Scale and the Templer Death Anxiety Scale were administered to 164 males and 211 female college students who ranged from seventeen to forty-nine years of age. Separate regression analyses indicated that death anxiety loaded significantly on the Fatalism dimension for m…
If You Were a Stickleback Fish it Would Be Important to You
Erroneous description of the mating behavior of the stickleback fish appeared recurrently in a widely used text. Since students rely heavily on secondary sources, it becomes important to correct these inaccuracies
Interaction of Number of Training Trials and Specific Response Measure in Determining Effects of Magnitude of Reward
Two experiments examined the relationship between number of training trials in a runway, various segments of the instrumental response, and effects of magnitude of reward. In each, separate groups of rats received 120 training trials with large and small rewards, respectively. Results of both experiments indicated that significant effects of magnitude were established and persisted in the start and run measures. Transitory effects of magnitude we…
Conditioning and Retention of Defensive Burying as a Function of the Injection of a Central Cholinergic Stimulant
Two groups of rats received defensive-burying testing under the effects of saline or physostigmine injection. Saline-injected animals buried more during the first (drug-state) session than did the physostigmine-injected animals. Twenty-four hours later all Ss received a retention test under the nondrug condition. Ss originally tested under the physostigmine state buried more than the saline-injected animals did
Defensive Burying as a Function of Single-and Paired-Animal Testing Conditions
Studied the relationship between single- and paired-animal testing in the defensive-burying situation. Twenty male Holtzman rats received defensive burying testing both individually and in pairs. Testing took place in a rectangular enclosure having a bedding-material floor. The discharge of a flashbulb served as the aversive stimulus. Individual testing resulted in significantly (p < .01) longer burying durations and greater accumulation of beddi…
Conditioned Defensive Burying as a Function of Stimulus Modality and Stimulus Accessibility
Studied the effects of a single shock presentation upon defensive burying of a second, externally located aversive stimulus (a flashbulb). Twenty-one, male Holtzman rats received defensive-burying testing in a rectangular enclosure having a bedding-material floor. S s initially exposed to the shock defensively buried an externally located flashbulb when it was discharged. Previously shocked rats did not display such behavior to an unactivated fla…
Shock-Elicited Aggression as a Function of Acute and Chronic Ethanol Challenges
In a test of competing hypotheses regarding the effects of alcohol on shock-elicited aggression, animals maintained on a food restricted regimen were administered either chronic or acute ethanol challenges. Chronic Ss showed a significantly higher rate of target-directed aggression and spent significantly more time in aggressive activity than did acute or saline control animals. Results support the proposed interactive effect of food restriction …
Learned Helplessness in Goldfish under Conditions of Low Shock Intensity
Goldfish which received inescapable shock presentations during a first experimental phase made significantly fewer responses and had significantly longer response latencies during a subsequent avoidance-learning phase than did Ss which had not received the inescapable shocks
Defensive Burying
Two groups of rats received a defensive-burying test under conditions of single- vs multiple-flash presentations. The results indicated that multiple-flash animals displayed significantly higher levels of responding than did single-flash animals
The Interrelationships of Ego Strength, Self-Esteem, Death Anxiety, and Gender in Undergraduate College Students
The interrelationships of ego strength (Barron Ego Strength Scale), death anxiety (Death Anxiety Scale), and self-esteem (Texas Social Behavior Inventory) were studied in undergraduate university males (n = 20) and females (n = 59). Significant negative relationships between death anxiety and self-esteem and ego strength, and a significant positive relationship between self-esteem and ego strength were shown by both males and females. Moreover, m…
Taste Preference of the Adult Rat as a Function of Prenatal Exposure to Ethanol
Two groups of pregnant rats (n = 10) received exposure to either 10% ethanol or water. All male offspring (n = 43) received a six-day preference test (ethanol vs water) at 90 days of age. Fluid consumption scores indicated a significant preference for water by all Ss. However, those animals receiving prenatal ethanol exposure consumed significantly more ethanol during preference testing than did the animals receiving prenatal water exposure
Shock-Elicited Aggression as a Function of Early Ethanol Exposure
Upon reaching maturity the offspring (N = 88) of animals exposed during pregnancy to ethanol and plain water, respectively, served as Ss in a shock-elicited aggression test. Significantly higher levels of aggression were shown by those animals that had received prenatal ethanol exposure. Several ethanol-related birth effects were also noted
Utilization of Odor Cues as a Function of Reward-Magnitude Contrast and Delay of Reinforcement
An experiment manipulating both reward-magnitude contrast and delay of reinforcement is reported. The results indicated that odor cues are produced under conditions of delayed large-reward versus nonreward contrast but not under large- versus small-reward contrast. Additional magnitude and delay manipulations that resulted in the elimination of odor-based double-alternation patterning in the straight runway are presented
Noncontingent Reward-Induced Learned Helplessness in Humans
Noncontingent verbal and concrete rewards were incorporated into a learned-helplessness paradigm in an attempt to provide increased generalizability of the reward-induced helplessness phenomenon. The treatment phase required subjects to reproduce a series of block-designs, for which they received either verbal or concrete reward according to one of three schedules: response contingent, 100% noncontingent, or 50% random noncontingent. A control gr…
Historians' and chairpersons' judgments of eminence among psychologists
Historians' and chairpersons' judgments of eminence among psychologists
Academic Dishonesty
Data from more than 6,000 students regarding the prevalence, causes, techniques, faculty and institutional responsibility, deterrent measures, and punishment dimensions of academic dishonesty are presented.
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