Browsing Undergraduate Honors Research by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-18)In my thesis, I analyze the literary theories of Joseph Campbell, Northrop Frye, and Rene Girard for their ability to address political concerns in literature. In the movement from Campbell -- who treated politics with ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04-24)Representational media are everywhere in children’s daily lives: the photos on the wall, the videos shown on TV, and the picture books children read. In order to foster better learning and develop more age-appropriate ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-18)Objective: To explore adults’ association between food perception and frequency of food consumption. Subjects: Thirty-nine male and 157 female undergraduate students (aged 18-22) of predominantly Caucasian ethnicity from ...
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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 ...