Applied Behavioral Science Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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ANALYZING THE EFFECTS OF COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS TO PREVENT CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IN MINNESOTA
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-20)This study analyzes the effects of a community and state level effort to prevent CSA. Stop It Now! Minnesota, a CSA prevention initiative, received a grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to implement ... -
A Comparison of Classical Counterconditioning and Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior on Aggressive Behavior in Dogs
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-10)Dogs that display aggressive behavior are a threat to society, their owners, and themselves. Classical counterconditioning and differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA) are commonly used in practice to reduce ... -
Experimentally Examining the Effects of a Neighborhood Intervention to Reduce Theft in Multiple City Neighborhoods
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-21)Property crime and theft are a priority concern in many communities, and costs in the United States are more than 17 billion dollars annually. Research has shown that multiple environmental change strategies implemented ... -
The Effects of Class-Wide Function-related Intervention Teams (CW-FIT) on Students' Prosocial Classroom Behaviors
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-26)Students with challenging, disruptive behavior have difficulty learning in school and their behavior adversely impacts the learning of other students and the classroom teacher. Class-Wide Function-related Intervention Teams ... -
Demonstration of the Effects of an Increased Praise Ratio on Student On-Task Behavior
(University of Kansas, 2010-03-23)Many authors recommend various praise to reprimand ratios for teachers to use to manage their classrooms (e.g., Flora, 2000; Nafpaktitis, Mayer, & Butterworth, 1985; Wheldall, 2005); however, these recommendations are based ... -
A Test of the Aversive Transition Account: Extended Pausing Following Signaled Rich-Lean Transitions on Multiple Fixed-Ratio Schedules in Fischer 344 and Lewis Rats
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-16)On multiple schedules ending in two different magnitudes of reinforcement, a signaled transition from a preceding large (rich) to an upcoming small (lean) reinforcer occasions long post-reinforcer pauses compared to ... -
An Evaluation of Resident Physician Training and Implementation of a Pediatric Literacy Intervention
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-07)Reach Out and Read (ROR), a pediatric literacy intervention, is widely disseminated, yet there has been a paucity of research on training of intervention agents and no published research on the fidelity of intervention ... -
A Preliminary Evaluation of a Human Service Delivery Simulation
(University of Kansas, 2009-11-12)The present study consists of two experiments designed to assess whether a human service delivery simulation would reproduce common staff management findings. The simulation involved a laboratory preparation with college ... -
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AS A MEDIATOR OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF-EFFICACY AND BODY MASS INDEX IN A NON-CLINICAL SAMPLE OF CHILDREN
(University of Kansas, 2009-11-09)The present study examined the associations among key pediatric overweight prevention and intervention variables: body mass index (BMI), physical activity self-efficacy (PASE), physical activity, and sedentary behavior. ... -
Effects of acute pramipexole on preference for gambling-like schedules in male Wistar rats
(University of Kansas, 2009-10-05)In recent years, pramipexole and other direct-acting dopamine agonist medications have been implicated in the development of impulsive behaviors such as pathological gambling in patients with Parkinson's disease. Despite ... -
Teaching Typically Developing Children to Promote Social Play With Their Siblings with Autism
(University of Kansas, 2009-08-20)Siblings are generally the most important "peer" in children's lives. Unfortunately, children with autism often do not play or interact a great deal with their typically developing siblings, largely because the children ... -
Family factors and risk behavior in adolescent dating relationships: Heterosocial competence as a mediator between interparental conflict and dating violence
(University of Kansas, 2009-07-28)A growing body of literature has suggested that associations between interparental conflict and adolescent dating violence emerge in part due to social learning. Nevertheless, the mechanisms underlying links between ... -
DEVELOPING AND EVALUATING A SOCIAL SKILLS TRAINING PROGRAM TO ADDRESS AGGRESSION IN YOUNG MEN WITH INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
(University of Kansas, 2009-06-12)A social skills training program to address aggression in young men with intellectual developmental disabilities was developed and evaluated for this study. Participants in the research study were three young men with a ... -
THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTIVENESS AND SUSTAINABILITY OF A CHINESE TUTORING PACKAGE
(University of Kansas, 2009-06-10)This experiment investigated two effects of training four native Chinese speakers to use a Chinese Tutoring Package to teach American students pronunciation and translation of Mandarin Chinese vocabulary. Tutors were trained ... -
EXAMINING THE CONTEXT-SPECIFICITY AND MULTIDIMENSIONALITY OF SOCIAL SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN EXPERIENCING INTERPERSONAL STRESS
(University of Kansas, 2008-05-19)Although ample empirical evidence supports the unspoken popular and scholarly assumption that social support is beneficial for psychosocial functioning, the research findings are not consistent. The conflicting findings ... -
Adolescent Peer-Related Social Stress and Vulnerabilities for Underage Drinking
(University of Kansas, 2009-05-31)Comprehensive models synthesizing contributors to alcohol use among mainstream adolescents are lacking in comparison to models more equipped to explain alcohol use among antisocial and delinquent adolescents. The present ... -
THE RELATION BETWEEN CHILDREN'S EARLY EXPOSURE TO COMMUNICATION-PROMOTING STRATEGIES AND LATER BEHAVIORAL ADJUSTMENT AND ADAPTIVE SKILLS
(University of Kansas, 2008-10-28)Children's ability to develop and utilize language to better understand themselves and the environment around them facilitates their capacity to learn, interact, and adapt effectively in a variety of situations. Parents ... -
The Associations Between Social Support, Economic Strain, and Parenting Stress Among At-Risk Families
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-28)This study tested the hypothesis that social support mediates the relation between economic strain and parenting stress using a sample of parents and caregivers (N = 151) of adolescents (ages 11-14) attending a six-week ... -
ASSURING HEALTH FOR ALL: AN EMPIRICAL CASE STUDY OF THE KANSAS CITY-CHRONIC DISEASE COALITION'S EFFORTS TO REDUCE RISK FOR HEALTH DISPARITIES AMONG RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-24)Health disparities have had a deep impact on the health status of minority populations over the last century. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of the comprehensive community initiative implemented by the ... -
What Happens in Therapy? Adolescents' Expectations and Perceptions of Psychotherapy
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)An empirically based measure of adolescent pre-treatment expectations and perceptions of psychotherapy is provided with supporting literature from service-use models, common factors research, evidence-based practice ...