Browsing Undergraduate Honors Program - Psychological Sciences by Issue Date
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-21)While encouraging parents who are not native English speakers to support their children's learning can be challenging for schools, there are strategies schools can implement to increase involvement for all parent groups. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-21)The idea that "justice is blind" has been called into question by some reports that attractiveness affects judgments of punishment and guilt. However, such studies are handicapped by a number of limitations, which this ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-28)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)Psychopathy has been shown to be associated with deficits in recognizing and processing emotion. We used a face recognition task in which 86 participants screened in the Vanderbilt emergency room viewed faces of men and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-01-31)This study examines the relation between adolescent depression, shame/characterological self-blame, and body image. It addresses the question: Do adolescents’ attributions and feelings about their body image make them more ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-02-06)Working memory accounts for various types of cognitive processing, including object and spatial processing. Distraction has been demonstrated to be domain-specific with the strongest interference coming from a distractor ...
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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, 2011-02-07)Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder characterized by social, communication and behavioral challenges. This research follows up on reports that children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) learn important skills ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)Obesity is a serious disease that affects approximately 24 percent of the population in the United States. With obesity trends continually on the rise, it is important to identify and address the potential factors causing ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)Previous research indicates that children with pediatric cancer may be at risk for both short-term and long-term emotional difficulties including anxiety and depression. Parent communication may guide a child in successfully ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)Many different factors play a role in the development of an infant’s ability to use tools. A previous version of the current study examined active versus observational learning on an infant’s ability to be trained to use ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)Although an attentional bias for threat-relevant information has been connected to the etiology of contamination-based obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), the treatment implications of such a bias remains unclear. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-05)When deciding between safe and risky prospects, human decision-makers exhibit a number of framing effects. One of the most prominent of these effects, the reflection effect, is the tendency for decision makers to evaluate ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)
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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, 2011-04-06)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)In the U.S. approximately 16% of people are affected by depression in their lifetime and it is estimated that depression will become the leading cause of disability worldwide by 2020 (Monroe & Reid, 2009). In order to ...
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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 ...