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  • Cued forgetting of tones : intentional forgetting of non-verbal items

    Creator:
    Jones, R. Alan (Richard Alan)
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    This experiment used a choice recognition time task. The subjects task was to decide whether a probe tone was or was not among a presented set of one to four tones. One of three cue conditions occured on each trial: the cue (a light) was presented immediately following the tone...
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    -verbal Items AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Richard Alan Jones for the Master of Arts (Name of student

  • Racism and Bad Faith

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    Jones, Gregory Alan
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    Human beings are condemned to freedom, according to Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. Every individual creates his or her own identity according to choice. Because we choose ourselves, each individual is also completely responsible for his or her actions. This responsibility causes anguish that leads human beings to avoid their...
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    Alan Jones for the degree ofMaster ofArts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Philosophy, Philosophy and

  • Evaluating the quality of teaching in art : a social judgment analysis

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    Browne, Beverly Ann
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    This study, based on Brunswik's (1952, 1956) lens model, examined the judgment policies employed by 67 art students and faculty when they evaluate instruction. Four groups of subjects, non-art majors, undergraduate art majors, graduate and bachelor of fine arts students, and faculty members, judged a series of 35 hypothetical teacher...
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    express my thanks to my committee: to Alan Munro as committee chairman, to Dr. John Gillis for the

  • Disputant storytelling in divorce mediation

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    Hansen, Alan R.
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    This paper investigates the nature of disputants' stories within the context of divorce mediation. Tapes and transcripts of actual mediation sessions from three different sources are scrutinized, utilizing a modified form of conversation analysis known as ethnography of speaking. Several themes emerge from this analysis of disputants' stories: the functions...
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    THE THESIS OF Alan Hansen for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in

  • Buddhist Theories of Karma and the Effect of Prosocial Behavior on Perceptions of Others

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    Allen, Pamela M.
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    Psychological theory of social cognition and Buddhist philosophy of cognition suggest that people's actions should determine their impressions of future events. In psychology, several studies have shown that behavior can activate constructs and thereby influence one's perception. However, they do not address prosocial behavior, a specific concern of Buddhist philosophy...
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    the Effect of Prosocial Behavior on Perceptions of Others Abstract approved: Alan C

  • Origin of the Tucannon phase in Lower Snake River prehistory

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    Lucas, Steven W.
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    Approximately 5,500 years ago a discreet period of wetter and cooler environmental conditions prevailed across the southern Columbia Plateau. This period was marked by the first prominent episodes of erosion to occur along the lower Snake River following the height of the Altithermal and eruption of Mt. Mazama during the...
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    Interdisciplinary Studies in Anthropology, Anthropology, and Geography presented on September 29, 1994. Title

  • An Interdisciplinary-Botanical Perspective for Cultural Resource Management: A Definition and the Application of Culturally Significant Plants in Identification, Interpretation, and Evaluation for the National Register of Historic Places

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    Burk, Rene F.
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    Cultivated plants are often living artifacts that can aid in evaluation of historic or cultural landscapes. However, a working definition for “culturally significant plant” is currently lacking in the guidance literature for the cultural resource management practitioners. Based on a review of the literature on cultivated plants as indicators of...
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    Interdisciplinary Studies Program Jeffrey Stone, Major Professor in Botany and Plant Pathology Julia Jones

  • Oregon's early peoples and their relation to the environment : an interpretive approach

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    Possiel, William John
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    The dramatic upsurge of contract-supported archaeological activity, generated by legislative action, has precipitated an increase in information about Oregon's prehistoric peoples. This information, however, has not been presented in a format which can be easily understood by the general public. This study presents an account of early peoples in Oregon,...
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    Approach Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy David R. Brauner The dramatic upsurge of contract

  • The effects of the Mazama tephra-falls : a geoarchaeological approach

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    Matz, Stephan E.
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    About 7,000 years ago two major tephra-falls blanketed the Pacific Northwest in volcanic ash. These two tephra-falls, identified as the Llao and climatic tephra-falls, were a part of the eruptive events that led up to the collapse of Mount Mazama to form Crater Lake in the southern Oregon Cascades. The...
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    program. Dr. R. Lee Lyman provided me with financial support, valuable experience, and his always keen

  • Ku on the Columbia : Hawaiian laborers in the Pacific Northwest Fur Industry

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    Rogers, Donnell J.
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    Archaeological investigations can reveal persistent traditions of ethnic groups. Hawaiians were employed in the fur trade of the Columbia River from 1810 through 1850. The Hudson's Bay Company employed them at Ft. Vancouver, Washington from 1825 through the end of this period. Data from the excavations of the servant's village...
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    approved_Redacted for Privacy David R. Brauner Archaeological investigations can reveal persistent traditions of