Browsing Undergraduate Honors Program - Psychological Sciences by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-03)Substance abuse often occurs as a way to cope with negative affect and life stressors in an unsupportive social context. As a result, affective regulation and social support play a key role in relapse prevention and recovery. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)The stop-signal task has been used extensively in order to test abilities of inhibition as well as cognitive functioning. In previous experiments, a relatively large number of participants had to be excluded from analysis ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-16)Children of depressed mothers are at a higher risk of developing depression in their lifetime compared to children of nondepressed mothers. Based on the tripartite model of depression and anxiety, low positive affect is ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-07)Extending beyond the Undoing Hypothesis and the Broaden-and-Build theory, this experimental design tested whether participants induced with a positive emotion would respond less, using self-report measures, to a mild ...
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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, 2015-12)Current literature on the effects of sleep on cognition has shown conflicting results regarding the effects of long and short sleep duration. Using previously collected data from the Vanderbilt Memory & Aging Project, this ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-09)Infants received a prehension enrichment experience (active training), which allowed pre-reaching infants to gain experience with prehension before they would normally begin such behaviors. During the prehension enrichment ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)The present study investigates 4-year-old children’s ability to use speakers’ pragmatic competence as an indicator of whom to learn from. In this study, pragmatic competence is measured as the speaker’s ability to adhere ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-21)Adolescent depression is a prevalent and recurrent problem associated with significant impairment. Although some treatments have been found to be effective in reducing depression in youth, early intervention and prevention ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04)The purpose of the present study was to examine the efficacy of a cognitive-behavioral intervention for preventing depressive symptoms in adolescents in comparison to a nonspecific, attention control group and a no ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04)Appraisal theory claims that emotions are elicited as a result of a meaning analysis in which a person evaluates the implications of his or her circumstances for his or her personal well-being. This study tests the process ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-05)An individual engages in coping when he or she uses cognitive and behavioral efforts to deal with the internal or external demands of a stressful situation to make it more congruent with his or her goals (Smith & Lazarus, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)Deficits in neurocognitive functioning are the most commonly reported adverse late effect in children diagnosed with brain tumors. However, few studies have examined this decline in functioning prospectively. The aim of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)The present study examined the psychological predictors of success as they relate to performance levels. To this end, study 1 was conducted investigating the foremost psychological constructs athletes employ while in a ...
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Psychopathology and Treatment Seeking of Parents of Children in Treatment for Psychiatric Problems (Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-03)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-28)The purpose of this study is to understand differences in rapid decision-making processes between anesthesiologists with excellent, medium, and poor critical event management skills. A panel of expert clinicians and educators ...
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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, 2012-04-05)The following study addresses creating a new, more efficient measure for evaluating appraisal styles, specifically emotion-focused, or accommodative-focused, coping potential and problem-focused coping potential. The ...