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(2006-04-18)Department: PsychologyCHILDREN'S AND ADULTS’ KNOWLEDGE OF SPECIES-GENERAL AND SPECIES-SPECIFIC CHANGES DURING PHYSICAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT GAYATHRI NARASIMHAM Dissertation under the direction of Professor John J. Rieser An integral part ...
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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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(2007-06-21)Department: PsychologyThe role of children’s attributional style as a partial mediator of the relation between parenting behaviors and children’s depressive symptoms was examined in children and adolescents (grades 2-8). We also examined moderated ...
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(2018-03-13)Department: PsychologyThere are conflicting accounts of how context variability affects children's word learning. In some instances, children show learning independent of context variability (e.g., Akhtar, 2005). There may also be cases where ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2009-04)As students begin their school careers, teachers in the early grades (kindergarten and first grade, especially) can use children's literature as a tool to facilitate a feeling of community among the students. Topics such ...
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Children's Literature in Science Instruction: The Use of Children's Literature in 6th Grade Science (Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-08-11)This project will begin by presenting research about the effectiveness of using children's literature in science instruction. This research will be used to develop a unit plan for 6th grade earth and space science which ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-06-15)This essay will explore the professional literature that provides the rationale for using children’s literature in an inquiry-based, primary science curriculum (preschool to grade three). My belief, based on the findings ...
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(2014-08-01)Department: PsychologyThe study examined whether children’s level of metacognitive ability predicted their learning of the skills taught in cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), over and above age. Participants were 225 children 9 -16 years old (M ...
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(2012-07-10)Department: PsychologyHostile attribution bias (HAB) has been shown to predict aggressive behavior, especially towards peers. The current study examined whether a) this relationship is supported within an hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) ...
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(Respiratory Reserarch, 2019-06-10)BackgroundSingle birth cohort studies have been the basis for many discoveries about early life risk factors for childhood asthma but are limited in scope by sample size and characteristics of the local environment and ...
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(2010-04-20)Department: PsychologyTwo aspects of children’s understanding of Gricean maxims were investigated. First, children’s awareness of adherence to the maxims of quality and relation was tested in two separate conditions. Second, children’s use of ...
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(2016-08-25)Department: PsychologyThe present study (1) examined the extent of parent-child congruence in their reports about parenting behaviors, and identified correlates of this congruence, (2) explored the prospective relation between congruence and ...
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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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(2021-08-16)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesPurpose: Center-embedded, object-gapped relative clause sentence comprehension is challenging for children as well as adults. Mismatching lexical and grammatical features of subject noun phrases (NP) across the main clause ...
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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 ...
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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, 2008-04)The aim of this study was to examine children’s affective, cognitive, and behavioral responses to maternal feedback that varied with regard to content and tone. Participants were 62 children ages four to five years old (M ...