Browsing Undergraduate Honors Research by Title
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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, 2015)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-24)There has been limited research regarding the differences in motivational urges, action tendencies and enacted behaviors on a cross-cultural basis. To study this, we administered an online questionnaire, composed of two ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-27)Children of depressed parents are at an increased risk for depression and other forms of internalizing and externalizing psychopathology, but certain factors may interrupt or moderate this transmission. Specifically, both ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016)
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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, 2013-04-03)Perfectionistic tendencies and coping strategies have been implicated as important factors in both the onset and maintenance of eating disorders but have not been widely researched in conjunction with each other. Given the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-15)Gestalt principles of grouping have been widely studied in diagrammatic reasoning because diagrams that follow these principles are easier to understand than those that are not (Lemon et al 2007, Stieff 2007, Novick and ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2010-04)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-29)The present study investigates if 4-year-old children use people’s pragmatic competence as a standard for learning from them. In this study we define a person’s pragmatic competence by their ability to adhere to the Gricean ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-20)Stress can impair one’s ability to effectively problem solve and think critically. This study tested the extent to which trait mindfulness moderated the relation between stress and executive control (EC). Participants ...
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Dueling Stereotypes: Perceptions of Southerners and Their Music in Early Twentieth-Century America (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2011-04)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04)Previous research has shown that the “sticky mittens” reaching intervention has a positive effect on reaching and object exploration skills. Further, early reaching and object exploration abilities have been shown to have ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-24)Given the gravity of recent increasing eating disorder diagnoses, the amount of research dedicated to eating disorders and ethnicity/acculturation is insufficient. This study explores the differences in eating disorder ...
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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 ...