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GED Student Achievement Trajectories and Predictors: Using the Latent Class Growth Model to Understand Heterogeneous Learning Patterns
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-06)
Each year, 500,000 adults take the General Education Development (GED) exam, the
gateway to a high school equivalency diploma. Nearly 40 percent fail. Little research exists on
the relation between preparation experiences ...
A Closer Look at Enhanced Ebooks: Compatible Versus Distracting Games
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-11)
The current literature on eBooks contains conflicting results for enhanced eBooks containing games and hot spots as effective reading tools for children. This study investigated different types of interactivity within ...
Tracking the Trajectories of Peer Victimization and Negative Self-Cognitions in Children: A Longitudinal Approach to Approximating Causality
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)
This study investigates the effect of targeted peer victimization (TPV) on negative self-cognitions as a function of victimization type through a three-wave longitudinal study. Measures of TPV and cognitions were collected ...
Comparing the Performance Characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder Screening Measures in Toddlers
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-05-15)
The current study represents a preliminary investigation of a new screening measure, the
Vanderbilt Scales for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This measure’s psychometric
performance in toddlers referred for developmental ...
Differences in How Monolingual and Bilingual Children Learn Second Labels for Familiar Objects
(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 ...
The impact of children's gender and victimization history on self-cognition and perceived meanness
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-04)
This study examined gender differences in self-cognitions and perceived meanness following exposure to audio recordings of peer victimization. A second goal of the study was to examine the interaction between victimization ...
The Temporal Features of Emotional Capture of Attention: Determining the Time Course of the Emotional Attentional Blink
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)
Within a variety of stimuli, we selectively attend to the most emotionally relevant, often at a cost to the processing of the other stimuli. The emotional attentional blink (EAB) is an effect in which emotional distractor ...
Multisensory Processing and Anomalous Self Experiences in Schizophrenia
(Vanderbilt University, 2014)
Abnormal multisensory integration is thought to play an important role in anomalous dissociative experiences of the body and self, including out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and feelings-of-presence. Aspects of OBEs including ...
Children Coping with Cancer: Cross-Sectional and Prospective Relations between Parenting Behaviors and Children’s Coping
(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 ...
The Role of Trait Emotional Intelligence in Buffering
(Vanderbilt University, 2014)
Narrowing in on coping and stress management aspects of trait emotional intelligence,
this study aims to explore how emotional intelligence may be related to buffering, which
is one’s ability to subjectively shield off ...