Browsing Undergraduate Honors Program - Psychological Sciences by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-05-08)College of Arts & Science
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-11)The current literature on eBooks contains conflicting results for enhanced eBooks containing games and hot spots as effective reading tools for children. This study investigated different types of interactivity within ...
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Comparing the Performance Characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder Screening Measures in Toddlers (Vanderbilt University, 2014-05-15)The current study represents a preliminary investigation of a new screening measure, the Vanderbilt Scales for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This measure’s psychometric performance in toddlers referred for developmental ...
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(2007-05-08)The classical Thatcher effect (TE) is experienced when global inversion of a face makes it difficult to notice the local inversion of its parts (Thompson, 1980). The TE can be quantified by comparing the ease with which ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-18)Depression is a recurrent and debilitating disorder affecting nearly 340 million people worldwide. The present study examined what differentiates individuals with a history of one or more major depressive episodes (MDEs) ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-18)Rapid and accurate judgments of social traits from faces are indispensable to successful interpersonal interactions. Anomalous trait judgment has been observed in the schizophrenia spectrum and may lead to delusion formation ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-01)How a problem is presented can influence students’ problem-solving performance. For example, including diagrams can alter students’ understanding, choice of strategy and accuracy on word problems. In this study, we examined ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)Monolingual children resist learning second labels for familiar objects (e.g., a boat can be called a skiff), because they adhere to mutual exclusivity, the principle that an object has one name. It is less clear whether ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)This study examined the congruency of adolescent and parent perceptions of adolescent diabetes self-management and problem solving. Survey responses were collected from 115 adolescent- parent dyads. Parents' and adolescents' ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-11-19)Current research shows a relationship between age and eating disorder diagnoses but does not fully understand how symptoms manifest at different stages of Life Span Development (LSD). To identify the difference of eating ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-15)Many studies have shown that how we are feeling effects what we remember. However, few have addressed how specific, discrete emotions (happiness, fear, disgust, etc.) effect memory. This project examined the effect of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04)The past literature indicates that performance is disrupted for defensive pessimists by encouragement. The goals of this research were to replicate this phenomenon, and then examine the mechanisms underlying it. Specifically, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016)Research on embodied emotions suggests that our ability to simulate bodily emotions enables us to better understand others’ emotions. Music has been shown to influence emotion processing, and music therapy is effective in ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016)This project investigated the differences in reaction times between recognition of objects by feelings of familiarity and recognition of objects through direct recollection. Participants were shown images in a study phase, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-26)Historically, optimism has been studied as a dichotomous variable. However, research has found that there are two types of optimists: cautious/realistic and unrealistic/cockeyed. A cautious/realistic optimist is defined ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-03-27)Health anxiety is a chronic issue associated with poor functioning that is especially important to study in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cognitive-behavioral models of health anxiety posit that safety behaviors ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-15)A reliable and valid neurophysiological index of error-monitoring ability is an eventrelated potential (ERP) known as “error-related negativity” (ERN), which is evoked following an error response. Individuals with schizophrenia ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-02-06)Many victimized children suffer negative psychological outcomes as a result of being bullied. One prominent consequence is that of depression. In a cross-sectional study about childhood victimization and depression among ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-04)Although the emotion of fear has been central to traditional conceptualizations of the development and treatment of anxiety disorders, recent research suggests that the emotion of disgust may also play an important role ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-03-30)While new treatments have increased the survival rate of pediatric patients with brain tumors, they have also left this population with many adverse cognitive, emotional, and behavioral outcomes. Prior research provides ...