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- Creator:
- Radclyffe, Renee C.
- Description:
- Purpose of the Study: This study is an attempt to validate the importance of integrating women's issues into traditional psychology classes at a college level. Psychology, for the most part, had ignored, trivialized, and/or negated women's life experiences. All too often women are viewed as mentally unhealthy or incapable of maturing fully because of the standards set by society and by those in the psychological profession. Because of such stereotypical sex-role attitudes, it is most important to examine why such attitudes exist and to examine their origins. Procedure: I have researched two areas of female psychology: first, Freudian and feminist psychology, and second, looking at women psychologists whose contributions to the development of modern psychology have been deleted from current psychology textbooks. In part one, using literature primarily from feminist books, I chose to explore several of Sigmund Freud's concepts on female sexuality: penis envy, masochism, vaginal versus clitorial orgasm because such concepts appear to be, in part, correlated with the oppression of women. I have also commented on other Freudian theorists, and others who "broke away" from Freud's circle. In part two, I have reviewed psychology textbooks to confirm the absence of women and their contributions and have researched other feminist books to find the history of women psychologists. Findings and Conclusions: With the development of modern psychology, an attitude surfaced that still exists today, and that is that mentally healthy women are those who adhere to sex-role expectations in our society. Freud, for example, once described feminists as women who had a desire to be men. I have often heard men comment that feminists are trying to be like men or that they are dykes or castrating bitches. Because of feminist therapy, many women are challenging such attitudes by learning to understand social conditioning rather than by internalizing such conditioning that has made women feel inferior and mentally unhealthy. As students of psychology, men and women have been taught that women have not been influential in the development of modern psychology. Current textbooks in the history of psychology ignore or trivialize women's contributions. Through extensive and exhausting research, I was able to find information about many women psychologists who have now been deleted from textbooks. The integration of such information is vital to the education of today's students. While women's studies classes have attempted to fill this void, many male students and instructors believe such classes are not pertinent. this research project argues that, until textbooks are revised to include the female half of psychology, it is essential that instructors take the time to find material on women psychologists and on more positive images of female psychology and incorporate it into their lectures and reading materials.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sonoma
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Constantino, Michael
- Description:
- Purpose of the Study: This thesis explores human evolution from a holistic, transpersonal, and psychospiritual perspective in attempt to answer a central question: What is necessary to restoring humanity’s relationship to nature amid our current ecological crisis? Humanity’s loss of interdependence with nature is examined within a context of trauma and an indigenous equivalent of soul loss at the individual, collective, planetary, and cosmic levels. Methods: This study utilizes peer-reviewed literature and triangulation from Jungian, indigenous, and transpersonal psychologies, which, as theoretical disciplines, offer insights that illustrate the importance of engagement with the sacred via the soul. An interdisciplinary approach is also used – drawing from the integral philosophy of Jean Gebser (1966/1986); the historical and cultural critique of Morris Berman (1981/1989); the mystery tradition of alchemy; somatic-based trauma literature; and contrasting views of traditional and contemporary science. Research methods of triangulation, reflexivity, phenomenology, and radical empiricism are used as means of measuring validity. Findings: Humanity’s lack of response to the ecological crisis may be the result of unrecognized individual and collective trauma, signified by a deepening separation from nature, loss of feeling, and symptoms of dissociation. These can be defined as traumatic conditions. When examined from an integral and psychospiritual perspective their interdependence and unconscious and transpersonal nature can be uncovered. Conclusions: This study sheds light on three areas: (1) the importance of psychospiritual and holistic considerations in human evolution, (2) a reexamination into the causes and remedies of our current ecological crisis, and (3) a reevaluation of the relevance of the psychospiritual interface, the interplay between psychological and spiritual phenomena and their involvement in the evolutionary process. The transpersonal and psychospiritual fields are often marginalized as unscientific but may be more relevant to true scientific inquiry than previously thought.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sonoma
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Rutchick, Abraham
- Description:
- Professor Abe Rutchick discusses his experiences with reproducibility in the field of Psychology and his inspiring research work with the Center for Open Science (COS).
- Resource Type:
- Presentation
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Harper, Myrna Kay
- Description:
- As researchers, we can understand people through observing their behavior or listening to their experiences. Observation has been relied upon almost exclusively in the field of research, since inner subjectivity is considered too difficult to measure. However, just because it seems to be a difficult task to measure internal experiences is not reason enough to disregard that experience. One purpose of experimental psychology is to be able to reliably predict future behavior. Although some experimenters have successfully predicted some types of behavior, there is evidence indication that predictions cannot always be based on prior observations. The more urgent purpose of experimental psychology is to find pragmatic solutions to social, psychological and philosophical quests. More specifically, in psychology to find variables that may successfully facilitate personal growth, minimize emotional pain, arrest mental stress and increase the effectiveness of interpersonal relationships… (See more in text)
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Educational Psychology and Counseling
- Creator:
- Molina, Ludwin Edgardo, Garcia-Va�zquez, Enedina, Vestal-Dowdy, Elise, Iwamasa, Gayle Y., Grant, Sheila K., Vasquez, Melba J.T., Lott, Bernice, and Ragsdale, Brian L.
- Description:
- In this article, six faculty and students of color who participated in a panel discussion at a symposium during the National Multicultural Conference and Summit of 2003 talk about the barriers they encountered and continue to encounter in their graduate training and places of employment. They also discuss strategies they found to be effective, enhancing, and positive and suggest other possibilities. The contributors describe their relationships with dominant-group and minority peers and talk about how issues of social class, disability, and sexual orientation as well as color have been part of their experience.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 1935-990X, 0003-066X
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Colangelo, Annette, Buchanan, Lori, Orden, Guy C.Van, and Holden, John G.
- Description:
- This article contrasts aphasic patients' performance of word naming and lexical decision with that of intact college-aged readers. We discuss this contrast within a framework of self-organization; word recognition by aphasic patients is destabilized relative to intact performance. Less stable performance shows itself as an increase in the dispersion of patients' response times compared to college students'. Dispersion is also more pronounced for low-frequency words than for high frequency words. We speculate, that increased dispersion originates in a reduction of constraints that support naming and lexical decision performances. A sufficient reduction of constraints yields qualitative changes in performance such as the production of semantic errors in deep dyslexia. These hypotheses are offered as alternatives to postulating distinct modules.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 0093-934X
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Fahmie, Tara A., Harper, Jill M., Iwata, Brian A., and Querim, Angie C.
- Description:
- Abstract Most functional analyses of problem behavior include a common condition (play or noncontingent reinforcement) as a control for both positive and negative reinforcement. However, test?specific conditions that control for each potential source of reinforcement may be beneficial occasionally. We compared responding during alone, ignore, play, and differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO) control conditions for individuals whose problem behavior was maintained by positive or negative reinforcement. Results showed that all of the conditions were effective controls for problem behavior maintained by positive reinforcement; however, the DRO condition was consistently ineffective as a control for problem behavior maintained by negative reinforcement. Implications for the design of functional analyses and future research are discussed.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 0021-8855
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Freeman, Daniel
- Description:
- ABSTRACT Freshman Student-Athletes Manual for Santa Monica College By Daniel Freeman Master of Science in Kinesiology The first year of college is one of the most difficult transitions that a student encounters (Giddan, 1988). The Santa Monica College Student-Athlete Transition Assistance Handbook is a guide for Freshman Student-Athletes during their transition into Santa Monica College. The manual provides athletes insights into coping strategies and resources that can be used to manage negative stress. The information collected on stress and coping strategies was based on literature found during the research process. The specifics on coping resources offered at Santa Monica College were collected during the Fall Semester by visiting the various student service centers on campus. The creation of the complete compilation of resources in this handbook was accomplished through obtaining informational packets and conversing with staff at each center. The handbook itself outlines the various stress and coping strategies and resources, and then provides four example scenarios of student-athletes encountering stressors in various areas of their lives. Each example highlights certain stressors, and provides concrete ways that the student-athlete can apply strategies and resources so that they can manage their negative stress. There are many sources of negative stress, and more coping strategies than are listed in the handbook. Future projects can expand upon this handbook and provide programs that athletics can use to improve various components of transition, like leadership and new teammate on-boarding programs.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Kinesiology
- Creator:
- Wimms, Harriette E., Grant, Sheila K., Vasquez, Melba J.T., Maton, Kenneth I., and Rogers, Margaret R.
- Description:
- A national, web-based survey of 1,222 African-American, Latina/o, Asian-American and European-American psychology graduate students revealed both similarities and differences in experiences and perspectives. Mentoring was found to be the strongest predictor of satisfaction across groups. Academic supports and barriers, along with perceptions of diversity were also important predictors of satisfaction. Students of color differed from European-American students in perceptions of fairness of representation of their ethnic group within psychology, and in aspects of the graduate school experience perceived as linked to ethnicity. Limitations of the study and implications for future research and action are discussed.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 1099-9809
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Rosenkjar, Serina Babigian
- Description:
- The following is a review of the literature regarding the dynamic process of feedback in relation to three distinct schools of therapy. Due to the limitations set by a master's thesis and the complexity of the subject matter, it was necessary to limit this thesis to the following areas of concern: (a) a definition of feedback; (b) a description of the therapeutic feedback process and its associated elements (the initial interview, goal determination, subsequent interviews, and progress determination in relation to the uses of positive and negative therapeutic feedback); (c) a description of the dynamics of nonverbal feedback in therapy with a primary focus on Kinesic Behavior of the client, and verbal feedback in therapy with a primary focus in two areas-listening responses (reflection and clarification) and action responses (confrontation and interpretation) from the standpoint of therapist's feedback of the client's verbal responses. The final section of this thesis will analyze three major schools of therapy-Gestalt, Adlerian, and Person-Centered-in order to determine how these schools utilize the verbal and nonverbal feedback gained from the client during the initial interview and how they utilize positive and negative feedback. The reason for choosing these three schools is because they encompass three of the major theories in psychology. The Behaviorist school was omitted, even though the concept of feedback is implicit and explicit to the behaviorist model, because it is my contention that the therapeutic process of feedback transcends all psychological theories. In order to prove this, I will analyze three schools that do not explicitly utilize feedback.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Educational Psychology and Counseling