Browsing Undergraduate Honors Program - Psychological Sciences by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04)The Emotional Blink of Attention paradigm reveals a significant relationship between emotion and attention. In the current study, we tested the effects of a forward and backward Emotional Blink of Attention (EBA) on ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018-05)Current literature shows that orientation preference becomes consistent by the age of 30 months, despite the fact that the ability to process inverted images is already consistent by the age of 18 months (DeLoache, Uttal, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04-24)Representational media are everywhere in children’s daily lives: the photos on the wall, the videos shown on TV, and the picture books children read. In order to foster better learning and develop more age-appropriate ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-18)Objective: To explore adults’ association between food perception and frequency of food consumption. Subjects: Thirty-nine male and 157 female undergraduate students (aged 18-22) of predominantly Caucasian ethnicity from ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-05-02)The mechanisms of stress responses “fight or flight” and “tend and befriend” were used to define the stress response to parental depression. In a sample of 180 families of parents with a history of major depressive disorder, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-21)Alpha oscillations, or brain waves with a frequency between 8-12 Hz, are a neural correlate of attentional selection. Correlational studies show increases and decreases in alpha-band activity are associated with the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-02-06)Working memory accounts for various types of cognitive processing, including object and spatial processing. Distraction has been demonstrated to be domain-specific with the strongest interference coming from a distractor ...
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Changes in Child Engagement as Parent-Child Dyads Participate in Parent Mediated Music Intervention (Vanderbilt University, 2024-04-25)Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions (NDBIs) are a promising intervention to support social behaviors in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) (Schreibman et al., 2015). NDBIs can be administered as ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-01)This study explored the roles that vision and proprioception play in learning while throw a ball repeatedly to a fixed location. In two experiments, participants threw a baseball to a target 12 meters away while wearing ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04-24)When attempting to solicit donations, fundraisers must consider how their campaign is portrayed. The goal gradient effect suggests that people tend to accelerate towards a goal the closer they get to achieving that goal. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-12)Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a rare, genetic neurodevelopmental disability characterized by hyperphagia, mood swings and intellectual disability. Families with a child with PWS often experience increased family tensions ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-23)The present study focuses on how gender, age, and stress reactivity are associated with the ways that children cope with cancer. The sample consisted of 336 families; parents and children completed questionnaires near the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014)Objective. Children diagnosed with cancer face numerous sources of stress and are at risk for emotional problems such as anxiety and depression. Parenting behavior and children’s coping are two important factors that may ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)Word learning may be best characterized by the ability to recruit information from social others. One question, then, is how children decide to learn words from one person versus another. The present study investigates the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-15)Young children are influenced by both relevant and irrelevant traits when they infer people’s knowledge and decide whether those people are to be trusted. The current study examines age-related differences in children’s ...
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Children’s Judgments of Moral and Conventional Violations Committed by Individuals with Disabilities (Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-14)Young children are sensitive to actions that violate moral or conventional norms, and often conceptualize people who commit such violations as unkind and deserving of punishment. However, there are many circumstances in ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)In the U.S. approximately 16% of people are affected by depression in their lifetime and it is estimated that depression will become the leading cause of disability worldwide by 2020 (Monroe & Reid, 2009). In order to ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04)The aim of this study was to examine children’s affective, cognitive, and behavioral responses to maternal feedback that varied with regard to content and tone. Participants were 62 children ages four to five years old (M ...