Undergraduate Honors Program - Psychological Sciences: Recent submissions
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03)During infancy, consistent exposure to frequent, responsive speech is fundamental for optimal language development to occur, but there is a great amount of variability in the language that infants hear across the first ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03)Individuals’ values and religious beliefs can impact their behavior and mental state, and in turn, their health. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the effects of personal ideology on physical and mental health. This ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023)The increasing use of new digital media, such as digital applications (apps), presents new opportunities for parent-child co-play. Active parent engagement during co-play can promote parent-child emotion talk, which benefits ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-22)The positive valence system (PVS) is a domain associated with attention to, and engagement with, rewarding activities. Individual differences in neurological responses associated with the PVS, such as the amplitude of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-20)There are studies (Smith, Haynes, Lazarus, & Pope, 1993) suggesting that appraisals of blame mediate between causal attributions and anger. Thus, causal attributions appear to be systematic antecedents to appraisals of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-20)The current study examines the distinct and common mechanisms underlying individual differences in reading skill and anxiety symptoms in children ages 7- to 12-years-old. A standardized oral word reading assessment is used ...
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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, 2023-03-20)Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) co-occur at rates much higher than chance. Because of overlapping risk factors and higher rates of comorbidity than other anxiety disorders, researchers ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023)Recognition-induced forgetting refers to a visual memory phenomenon in which the initial recognition of certain objects within a category causes the subsequent forgetting of other objects within the same category. Memory ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-05)Intrusive parenting behavior is associated with a variety of poor child outcomes. Given this, it is important to understand predictors of negative parenting behavior so that we might identify parents who are at risk of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022)When preschoolers encounter a new word and word meaning, they can quickly link the two items to learn a new word. When not provided with the necessary items to learn a word, preschoolers will drive their own word learning. ...
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Investigating Factors Associated With Offspring’s Coping with Huntington’s Disease-related stress. (Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-25)Abstract: Objective: In this study, I investigated (1) how age is related to reported levels of coping with Huntington’s Disease-related stress in offspring; (2) how measures of disease progression in parents are directly ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03)Anxiety and depressive symptoms can be dissociated into anxious-misery and fear components; however, little is known about how these two symptom dimensions differ in terms of brain network properties. Thus, the purpose ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022)Parental depression is associated with a range of difficulties in parenting behaviors such as low levels of warmth and low positive involvement and high levels of criticism and control. The literature has shown, however, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-28)Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) predispose adolescents to a variety of physical and mental health problems and place them at an increased risk of experiencing additional major stressors later in life (Anda et al., ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-29)Parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities who have complex communication needs experience unique stressors, particularly due to the COVID-19 pandemic with changes to children’s educational and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-28)Felt presence (FP) is the perception that somebody (or something) is nearby without corresponding sensory stimuli. This phenomenon is relatively common within the general population. However, it is under-researched and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-28)Previous research has demonstrated that basic forms of visual context such as object identification and gaze support language comprehension. However, complex forms of narrative context may structure visual supports for ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-28)The Mindfulness-Based Music & Songwriting (MBMS) intervention is a novel 7-week telehealth program aimed at reducing stress in caregivers of children with developmental and intellectual disabilities. The intervention ...