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Development and Analysis of a Cognitive Preference Test in the Social Sciences
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Preferred Symbols by Gay Men Utilizing the Arrington Visual Preference Test: A Jungian Based Construct
… symbols of gay men based on the Arrington Visual Preference Test (AVPT) a Jungian construct. Thirty-one gay men from the San Francisco Bay Area participated in the study. The results of the study indicated that the most preferred Jungian archetype was transformation and the least preferred Jungian …
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An Examination of Affective Blunting in Rodents
… fluoxetine (0.16g/L) administration on pre-test and post-test performance of a light aversion task and a sucrose preference test. The light aversion task presents subjects with a bright aversive light which can be terminated by a head-entry into an apparatus, and are measured as escape …
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Feeding preferences of Tripneustes gratilla Linnaeus Echinodermata Echinodea and the prospect for sea urchin aquaculture in South Africa
… for the industry in South Africa. Feeding preferences of the sea urchin Tripneustes gratilla were tested by two different methods; a touch-preference test and a 48-hour consumption test. A touchpreference is established when the sea urchins' lantern teeth touched an algal species. The …
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Effects of Deprivation and Testing Procedures on Preference for Stimuli Correlated with Food Reinforcement Under Higher Deprivation Conditions in Mice
… relation between food deprivation level and preference regardless of procedural details. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the generality of the relation between food deprivation magnitude and preference by using mice as subjects and employing three different deprivation …
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Using the AVPT With German University Students to Establish a Norminative Base for Visual Construct Preferences
… research study explored the visual construct preferences of young male and female German adults, using the Arrington Visual Preference Test (AVPT). The AVPT is a pre-existing Jungian based test, developed to identify the visual construct preferences of individuals or groups. Eighteen female …
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Using The AVPT to Establish Viusual Concepts Norms of Taiwanese College Students
… Taiwanese College students. The Arrington Visual Preference Test (AVPT), a pre-existing test developed to identify recurrent symbolic choices in different populations, was modified to use with a group of Taiwanese students. Forty- eight female and nineteen male Taiwanese College students were …
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A Jungian Based Study for Diagnosing Acculturative Stress Within the Hispainc Immigrant and Refugee Population
… information was necessary. The Arrington Visual Preference Test (AVPT) was designed to identify selected visual constructs based on the Jungian categories of female, male, self, and transformation archetypes. The questionnaire identifying acculturative stress issues was designed to aid in …
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Original and Digital AVPT: An Art-Based Assessment Comparison Study
… focusing on comparing the Arrington Visual Preference Test (AVPT) created by Arrington (1986), and the newly developed digital AVPT, created by this researcher.</p> <p>This study hypothesized that practicing mental health clinicians would find a digital art- based assessment to be useful, …
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Impact of Training Method on Behavioral, Physiological, and Relationship Measures in Horses
… time spent by the trainer in motionless human tests (pre- and post-training), and horses' preference for the two liverpools using concurrent choice. Across both experiments, I found no significant difference in the proportions of criteria reached between training types; horses engaged in …
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The effect of instrumental timbre preference and instrumental timbre on the pitch error detection skills of university conducting students
… to determine the effect of instrumental timbre preference and instrumental timbre on the error detection skills of undergraduate conducting students. The study sought to answer two specific questions: Is timbre preference, as determined by Gordon's (1984) <u>Instrumental Timbre Preference …
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Investigating prefrontal cortex neuronal signatures of opioid-induced risk-taking behavior
… conflict task using a modified conditioned place preference procedure to study neural signals of risky opioid seeking in the prefrontal cortex, a region implicated in executive decision-making. Following morphine conditioned place preference, rats underwent a conflict test in which fear-inducing …
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Effects of cocaine on sexual behavior and sexual inhibition in the male rat
… prior to sexual behavior and was followed by tests during withdrawal and drug challenge. The subsequent studies attempted to use the models of sexual inhibition described above to determine whether acute administration of cocaine could disrupt first-order and second-order conditioned …
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Validating Teamology in Domestic and International Setting
… 6-3). Wilde released his 20-item psychological preference test together with his Teamology teaming strategy in 2008, with the assumption that its resulting reliability would be approximately 80% over time due to their similarity to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) questions (Kirby et al, …
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Marmoset emotional regulation during adolescence and adulthood, with a particular focus on risk-taking and the role of the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex in motivation and affective biases
… bias between the stimuli is assessed with a preference test at the end of the week. Both behavioural and cardiovascular data were analysed. There is a subtle behavioural effect of sgACC overactivation to reduce positive bias toward the highly rewarded stimulus, and overactivation also seems …
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Music preferences, music and non-music media use, and leisure involvement of Hong Kong adolescents.
… study sought to determine the relationships of preference responses to grade, gender, familiarity, musical training, peers'/parents' listening habits, music media use, and listening contexts. Grade six through nine Hong Kong students (N = 310) completed the audio preference test followed by …
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The Neuroinflammatory Effects of Chronic Unpredictable Stress on Zebrafish, Danio rerio
… an anxiety-like behavior assay, the Light-Dark Preference Test, and attempted to validate our findings using immunohistochemistry and microscopy to observe brain changes in regions of interest involving aversion. Though experimental zebrafish did respond to stressful stimuli, exhibiting typical …
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Preferred Symbol, Archetypal Stages, and Life Satisfaction of the Spritiual Woman at Midlife
… the Mandala Assessment Research Institute Card Test (Kellogg, 1980); the Arrington Visual Preference Test (Arrington 1986, 1991), and the Life Satisfaction Index-Z (Neugarten, Havighurst, & Tobin, (1961). In addition, participants created personal mandalas.</p> <p>The participants were of a …
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The Effect of Us-Preexposure On Meth-Induced Cta In Periadolescent and Young Adult Rats
… animals were administered a 2-bottle saccharin preference test. And for 7 days following the 2-bottle test, 1-bottle saccharin extinction trials occurred. It was hypothesized that, overall, periadolescent animals would exhibit a greater unconditional stimulus preexposure effect (USPEE) than …
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Prenatal Intravenous Nicotine Exposure: Increased Motivation For Methamphetamine Self-Administration, Altered Methamphetamine-Induced Locomotor Activity and Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Protein Levels In Adult Rats
… animals were administered a 2-bottle saccharin preference test. And for 7 days following the 2-bottle test, 1-bottle saccharin extinction trials occurred. It was hypothesized that, overall, periadolescent animals would exhibit a greater unconditional stimulus preexposure effect (USPEE) than …
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