Undergraduate Honors Program - Psychological Sciences
Includes Baccalaureate theses from Department of Psychology in the College Arts and Science, the Department of Psychology and Human Development in Peabody College, and allied disciplines across the university.
Department Location: |
301 David K. Wilson Hall |
Mailing Address: | Department of Psychology Vanderbilt University PMB 407817 2301 Vanderbilt Place Nashville, TN 37240-7817 |
Phone: | 615-322-2874 |
Fax: | 615-343-8449 |
Email: | Trisha.James@vanderbilt.edu |
Website: | Department of Honors Psychological Sciences |
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-04)Infant exploratory behavior is critical for stimulating proper development and has implications on numerous developmental domains. The sticky mittens paradigm has been shown to enhance object exploration skills in infants, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-21)Children learn new words through a variety of methods, consciously and unconsciously making connections between novel words and new objects to expand their vocabulary. One such method may be making predictions about the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03)While the existence of bipolar disorder in early adolescence is becoming more widely accepted, the degree of manifestation in childhood is still unclear. This thesis summarizes findings on neurostructural correlates of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03)The valence of parental descriptions of their child’s personality may be an indicator of child difficulties as well as the nature of caregiving behavior within that parent–child relationship. The present project examined ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-04-10)Traditional approaches in studying decision making typically use artificial or well-defined lab stimuli to investigate changes in the perception of choices. However, the processes of how people generate, evaluate, and ...
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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 ...