Browsing Undergraduate Honors Program - Psychological Sciences by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-18)Through a 30 question survey, I aim to examine flow experiences as a positive emotion-inducing activity and how individuals respond to these events. The survey targets the relationship between momentary happiness and life ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04)Peabody College of Education & Human Development
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-06)Each year, 500,000 adults take the General Education Development (GED) exam, the gateway to a high school equivalency diploma. Nearly 40 percent fail. Little research exists on the relation between preparation experiences ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-10)This study examines gender differences in attribution and person perception. We are interested in seeing whether men and women differ in how they perceive other people. Participants were asked to imagine themselves in a ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04)The current study examines a sample of children ranging from 9 - 16 years in age with at least one parent that has been diagnosed with depression. The study's primary focus is to assess whether there are gender differences ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-12)There is currently a significant amount of research being conducted to pinpoint differences between men and women and they way they think, emote, and experience life. While the current literature has uncovered significant ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-23)Although the negative social effects of video games have been carefully studied, there is less work on the positive social effects of video games. Because video games are so ubiquitous in modern-day society, research is ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04)Children's understanding of death is likely to mediate how effectively they cope with the experience of the death of loved ones, or in the case of severely ill children, their own impending deaths. In order to develop the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-03)Persons who are blind participate in a wide number of sports, ranging from the various competitions in track and field, to goal ball and baseball. How is it, we asked, that persons know how to throw a ball? Learning ...
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The impact of children's gender and victimization history on self-cognition and perceived meanness (Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-04)This study examined gender differences in self-cognitions and perceived meanness following exposure to audio recordings of peer victimization. A second goal of the study was to examine the interaction between victimization ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03-29)Few studies have examined the effects of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) in children or its effects beyond sensory-motor domains. Evidence from adult populations suggests that CIMT is linked with cortical ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-05-01)The proposed research focuses on extrinsic factors and aims to investigate how parenting practices, postural positions, and infants’ varied prior experiences in sitting, supine, and reclining postures influence 3-month-old ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)This study examined the effect of social stress on chronic abdominal pain patients. Chronic abdominal pain (CAP) is a type of chronic pain common in children, experienced by 10-15 % of young children. Stress has been noted ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-04)The present study investigated the differences in Negative Affectivity and Effortful Control in the presence and absence of stuttering. A Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) measured the stuttering-like disfluencies (SLDs) ...
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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, 2017-04-26)How do toddlers’ executive function skills relate to abilities to use familiar tools in unfamiliar ways? What method might encourage infants to employ executive function skills to override their prepotent, or automatic, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-15)Infants must learn how to use many tools in order to engage in a variety of daily tasks. An unpublished pilot study in our lab suggests that 6.5 to 8.5-month-old infants fixated more on the handle of a familiar tool than ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)In this study, we were interested in what 9-month-olds understood about the physical properties of an object after seeing an intentional gesture made toward the object. Specifically, we asked whether infants could make ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012)The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is a relationship between IEP goals and prior reading instruction for children with Down Syndrome, and whether both of those variables had an impact on the children’s ...