Browsing Undergraduate Honors Program - Psychological Sciences by Title
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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 ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-05-08)College of Arts & Science
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Cladogram Curriculum: A First Look Into A Teaching Prototype For The Fundamentals Of Phylogenetics (Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)Past research has examined students’ comprehension of and reasoning with evolutionary relationships depicted by cladograms (i.e., tree thinking). Cladograms serve as a fundamental resource when studying macroevolution and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-11)The current literature on eBooks contains conflicting results for enhanced eBooks containing games and hot spots as effective reading tools for children. This study investigated different types of interactivity within ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019)Cognitive Reactivity (CR), an established diathesis for depression, has been defined as the strength of association between displeasure and dysfunctional attitudes within person. However, displeasure could encompass a ...
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Comparing the Performance Characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder Screening Measures in Toddlers (Vanderbilt University, 2014-05-15)The current study represents a preliminary investigation of a new screening measure, the Vanderbilt Scales for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This measure’s psychometric performance in toddlers referred for developmental ...
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(2007-05-08)The classical Thatcher effect (TE) is experienced when global inversion of a face makes it difficult to notice the local inversion of its parts (Thompson, 1980). The TE can be quantified by comparing the ease with which ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-04-12)Objectives. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) refer to childhood traumatic events and are significant predictors of psychopathology. ACEs include abuse (physical, emotional, sexual) and neglect (physical, emotional). ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-18)Depression is a recurrent and debilitating disorder affecting nearly 340 million people worldwide. The present study examined what differentiates individuals with a history of one or more major depressive episodes (MDEs) ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-03)The purpose of the study was to examine crises that occur in Treatment as Usual. A children's mental health group was examined in order to explore the correlates of a crisis session. N=7267 sessions, N=629 clients, and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-08)This study examined the role of coping style in predicting positive and negative affect observed in interactions between children and parents with a history of depression. The anxious and depressive symptoms of the children ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04)Children frequently learn about absent objects from verbal descriptions in everyday life. 3- and 4-year-olds were read verbal descriptions of novel creatures with novel labels and were then asked to choose the described ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-18)Rapid and accurate judgments of social traits from faces are indispensable to successful interpersonal interactions. Anomalous trait judgment has been observed in the schizophrenia spectrum and may lead to delusion formation ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-01)How a problem is presented can influence students’ problem-solving performance. For example, including diagrams can alter students’ understanding, choice of strategy and accuracy on word problems. In this study, we examined ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)Monolingual children resist learning second labels for familiar objects (e.g., a boat can be called a skiff), because they adhere to mutual exclusivity, the principle that an object has one name. It is less clear whether ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-24)There has been limited research regarding the differences in motivational urges, action tendencies and enacted behaviors on a cross-cultural basis. To study this, we administered an online questionnaire, composed of two ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-27)Children of depressed parents are at an increased risk for depression and other forms of internalizing and externalizing psychopathology, but certain factors may interrupt or moderate this transmission. Specifically, both ...