Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Psychology"
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(2022-11-14)Department: PsychologyJust as the perception of simple events such as clapping hands requires a linkage of sound with the movements that produce the sound, the integration of more complex events such as describing how to give an injection often ...
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(2004-06-15)Department: PsychologyStudies show that children with autism demonstrate impairments in their emotion-expression abilities. In the current study, one aspect of emotion-related expression was examined in these children: the production of laughter. ...
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(2019-10-15)Department: PsychologyCorrelations and correlation matrices are common in quantitative research. As researchers move away from p-values to reporting effect sizes and confidence intervals, appropriate confidence interval techniques for multiple, ...
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(2015-04-02)Department: PsychologyEmotion differentiation is emerging as a focus in emotion research due to its potential for enhancing regulation strategies, social functioning, and other valuable life outcomes. These studies aim to explore whether the ...
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(2008-07-24)Department: PsychologyA model in which self-perceived competence mediates the relations of parenting and negative life events to depressive symptoms was tested in a sample of 755 elementary and middle school students. Developmental trends in ...
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(2006-04-17)Department: PsychologyThe Tower of Hanoi (TOH) is a classic problem solving task. Over the past twenty years, it has found new applications in domains of cognition such as executive function, in special populations such as patients with frontal ...
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(2014-07-26)Department: PsychologyPrevious attempts to influence food intake have fallen short as rates of obesity continue to increase. Contributing to the increase are the myriad of factors that influence food intake including physiology, emotion, and ...
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(2018-08-27)Department: PsychologyMediation analysis is an increasingly popular statistical method in the social sciences. However, currently available effect size measures for mediation have substantial limitations. In particular, complex mediation models ...
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(2014-07-30)Department: PsychologyThis dissertation proposes a graphical analysis and presentation system for fitting, evaluating, and reporting longitudinal models in social sciences. The graphical innovations demonstrated here address practical issues ...
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(2023-05-03)Department: PsychologySchizophrenia is a severe mental illness that was first characterized by disruption in one’s sense of core self, including disrupted embodiment. A sense that the self is embodied (i.e., contained within the physical ...
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(2022-08-01)Department: PsychologyThe current study explored individual and gendered differences in Black students’ motivation for learning mathematics using three key Situated Expectancy-Value Theory (SEVT) constructs (expectancies of success, utility ...
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(2003-12-17)Department: PsychologyCognitive impairment represents a core feature of schizophrenia and a major impediment to social and vocational rehabilitation. First generation antipsychotic (FGA) medications do not elicit robust cognitive changes, but ...
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(2007-07-31)Department: PsychologyThis thesis describes a study on counterfactual thinking, which refers to the ability to imagine scenarios that are contrary to fact. I investigated the neural correlates of realistic and unrealistic past counterfactual ...
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(2005-08-12)Department: PsychologyWorking memory deficit has been suggested to be a cardinal feature of schizophrenia, but the causes of this deficit have not been determined. This dissertation intended to augment our understanding of the etiology of working ...
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(2022-03-09)Department: PsychologyParent-child interaction plays a critical role in the outcomes that emerge from a given shared activity. However, there are clear context effects on the kinds of behaviors that determine a high-quality interaction between ...
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(2015-05-26)Department: PsychologyMediation analysis has become one of the most popular statistical methods in the social sciences. However, currently available effect size measures for mediation have limitations that restrict their usage to special cases. ...
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(2006-07-28)Department: PsychologyThis longitudinal study investigated the cognitive diathesis-stress model of depression in a high-risk sample across three years (i.e., 6th, 7th, and 8th grade), using traditional, additive, weakest link, and keystone ...
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(2013-06-04)Department: PsychologyWilliams syndrome (WS) is a genetic, neurodevelopmental disorder that has been of interest to music cognition researchers because of its characteristic auditory sensitivities and emotional responsiveness to music. However, ...
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(2013-12-31)Department: PsychologyThis study evaluated the association between well-being at midlife in the top 1% in mathematical ability and 1) skipping one or more grades in high school (study 1), and 2) advanced and enriching pre-collegiate STEM learning ...
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(2012-03-25)Department: PsychologyGraduate students in top science and engineering programs have potential for remarkable accomplishment in science and engineering. Yet few studies have examined how their careers develop after graduate school and what can ...