Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Psychology"
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(2009-07-23)Department: PsychologyMath-science outcomes are examined among mathematically talented 13-year-olds over 25 years as a function of the number of advanced/enriched pre-collegiate educational opportunities they experienced beyond the norm. STEM ...
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(2017-11-28)Department: PsychologyIn this dissertation, we investigated the ways in which the acquisition and development of spatial knowledge are affected by 1) the type of spatial relations predominately experienced during learning (routes vs. straight-line ...
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(2021-06-02)Department: PsychologyThe effects parents have on child development has been thoroughly documented in cross-sectional and longitudinal studies with diverse methodologies. However, there has been less focus on disentangling the effects of parents ...
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(2020-01-02)Department: PsychologyAdolescence is a developmental period characterized by increased exposure to stress in several life domains and a concomitant increase in risk for several types of internalizing and externalizing problems. Of particular ...
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(2017-05-16)Department: PsychologyAffect labeling, the act of putting one’s feelings into words, is a form of emotion regulation that can be applied in multiple therapeutic contexts. However, it is unclear if affect labeling provides a general down-regulating ...
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(2020-07-27)Department: PsychologyAltered Peripersonal Space Boundaries in Schizophrenia: A Virtual Reality Study Hyeon-Seung Lee Peripersonal space (PPS) refers to a space encompassing a person’s physical body boundary and adjacent space, which is vital ...
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(2018-09-24)Department: PsychologyThe univariate bootstrap is a relatively recently developed version of the bootstrap (Lee & Rodgers, 1998). Currently, research on the univariate bootstrap has largely focused on individual, bivariate correlations. ...
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(2009-08-26)Department: PsychologyStudies of cortical architecture have been used to subdivide cortex into areas of presumed functional significance and reveal features of areal differentiations across species. In the present studies, cortical architectures ...
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(2020-03-31)Department: PsychologyPropensity score analysis is one of many options for controlling for confounding variables in observational studies. A properly specified propensity score can be used to create a balanced sample of treated and control ...
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(2005-12-14)Department: PsychologyTheories of social identity suggest that a psychological attachment to a social group will lead individuals to engage in in-group favoritism, intergroup differentiation, and increased involvement with other group members. ...
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(2011-12-15)Department: PsychologyThe current study examined risk factors for the development of depression during childhood and adolescence in boys and girls, including personality, social, and cognitive variables. One hundred and fifty-seven male and ...
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(2023-07-17)Department: PsychologyProcess data can provide researchers with valuable insights into students’ behaviors during reading and while completing assessments. However, the complex and messy nature of process data makes the extraction of useful ...
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(2014-12-08)Department: PsychologyGlutamatergic projections in the mammalian brain can be segregated into two major types based on their anatomy, connectivity, and physiological response properties. These two types are named drivers, which directly modify ...
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(2004-07-13)Department: PsychologyAffective startle eyeblink modulation by unipolar depressed and nondepressed participants was assessed during the anticipation and viewing of emotional pictures. Anticipatory startle probes were presented at 2000 ms and ...
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(2022-07-18)Department: PsychologyUnderstanding the mechanisms underlying the strong association between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) early in development and psychopathology during adolescence is critically important for public health; clarifying ...
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(2005-12-19)Department: PsychologyFreestanding birth centers (FBCs) offer prenatal and childbirth services outside hospital settings where nurse-midwives are the primary providers for women with low risk pregnancies. Although previous research provides ...
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(2006-04-14)Department: PsychologyComplications of obesity resulting from hyperphagia remain the leading cause of death in Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). This study introduces the Hyperphagia Questionnaire (HQ), a new 13-item, informant-based measure that ...
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(2022-08-14)Department: PsychologyPrior research has documented the association between parental depression and negative outcomes in offspring, such that parental depression is linked with emotional and behavior problems in their children. Depression is ...
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(2019-03-27)Department: PsychologyRecent work suggests the high comorbidity across psychiatric disorders can be modeled using continuous transdiagnostic dimensions, including a general psychopathology factor that reflects non-specific vulnerability to all ...
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(2013-03-26)Department: PsychologyObjective. This study tested the Attachment-Diathesis Model of Chronic Pain (Meredith, Ownsworth, & Strong; 2008) in a group of adolescents and young adults with a history of pediatric functional abdominal pain (FAP). We ...