Browsing Undergraduate Honors Research by Title
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(2022-04)Background Preventive healthcare screenings and tests aid the process of diagnosing and improving one’s overall health by identifying a disease before symptoms are felt or seen by an individual. Within preventive ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2006-04-14)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-05-02)The mechanisms of stress responses “fight or flight” and “tend and befriend” were used to define the stress response to parental depression. In a sample of 180 families of parents with a history of major depressive disorder, ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2007-04-25)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-21)Alpha oscillations, or brain waves with a frequency between 8-12 Hz, are a neural correlate of attentional selection. Correlational studies show increases and decreases in alpha-band activity are associated with the ...
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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, 2013)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015)
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(2021-04)Background: The rate of new cervical cancer cases and cervical cancer deaths in the United States has declined in the last fifty years due to the widespread use of cervical cancer screenings known as Papanicolaou (Pap) ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-01)This study explored the roles that vision and proprioception play in learning while throw a ball repeatedly to a fixed location. In two experiments, participants threw a baseball to a target 12 meters away while wearing ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2011-05)
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(2021-04)The current study explores the vocal interactions of parents and children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) through a novel measure of hierarchical acoustic clustering in order to better understand the specific ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04-24)When attempting to solicit donations, fundraisers must consider how their campaign is portrayed. The goal gradient effect suggests that people tend to accelerate towards a goal the closer they get to achieving that goal. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-12)Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a rare, genetic neurodevelopmental disability characterized by hyperphagia, mood swings and intellectual disability. Families with a child with PWS often experience increased family tensions ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-23)The present study focuses on how gender, age, and stress reactivity are associated with the ways that children cope with cancer. The sample consisted of 336 families; parents and children completed questionnaires near the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014)Objective. Children diagnosed with cancer face numerous sources of stress and are at risk for emotional problems such as anxiety and depression. Parenting behavior and children’s coping are two important factors that may ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)Word learning may be best characterized by the ability to recruit information from social others. One question, then, is how children decide to learn words from one person versus another. The present study investigates the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-15)Young children are influenced by both relevant and irrelevant traits when they infer people’s knowledge and decide whether those people are to be trusted. The current study examines age-related differences in children’s ...
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Children’s Judgments of Moral and Conventional Violations Committed by Individuals with Disabilities (Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-14)Young children are sensitive to actions that violate moral or conventional norms, and often conceptualize people who commit such violations as unkind and deserving of punishment. However, there are many circumstances in ...