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The Refinement of a Multidimensional Computer Based Implicit Association Test as a Measurement of Attitudes Toward Persons with Disabilities
(2009-07-01)
Currently, persons with disabilities (PWDs) account for approximately one-fifth of the adult US population (Steinmetz, 2006). Legislation has been passed to help protect PWDs (e.g., the Americans with Disabilities Act). ...
The Differential Outcome Effect with Typical Adult Humans
(2009-07-02)
A mechanism that affects nonhuman animal learning is expectation, as explored with experiments that produce the differential outcome effect (DOE). To obtain the DOE, animals are trained using a differential outcomes procedure ...
Risk Style, Regulatory Focus, and the Situation in Risky Choice Decision Making
(2009-12-15)
The present study investigated how two individual differences (risk style and regulatory focus) and three situational manipulations (order of problem context, order of frame, and order of chance) influenced participant ...
Orientation Feature Binding in Pigeons
(2009-11-18)
Manipulating conditions under which humans search for a target is a standard approach
for studying perceptual errors. An important early finding was that visual search for
a combination of features (e.g., color, orientation, ...
Mechanisms and Performance Measures in Mastery-Based Incremental Repeated Acquisition: Behavioral and Pharmacological Analyses
(2009-09-10)
Pharmacological and behavioral determinants of learning were examined using a mastery-based incremental repeated acquisition procedure. A 60-minute session began with a one link chain (single lever-press) that incremented ...
Initially Held Hypothesis Does Not Affect Encoding of Event Frequencies in Contingency Based Causal Judgment
(2009-11-19)
It has long been known that the event types of the standard 2 x 2 contingency table are used differentially in making contingency judgments. The present experiment sought to investigate the possible role of initially held ...
Performance on the Flicker Task and Conners' CPT in Children with ADHD
(2009-08-11)
Flicker task performance has not been examined in children, and the Conners’ Continuous Performance Test (CCPT) has received little empirical scrutiny related to ADHD compared to CPTs at large. Thus, the present study ...
An Investigation of the Stability of Assessment Center Performance Consistency and Ratings of Job Performance
(2009-08-05)
The consistent lack of evidence for the construct validity of assessment center (AC) performance dimensions has led some researchers to propose alternative approaches to investigating candidate performance in ACs (Lance, ...
Temporally Specific Extinction of Pavlovian Conditioned Inhibition
(2009-08-04)
In Pavlovian conditioned inhibition, conditioned stimulus A (CS A) is trained to predict the occurrence of an unconditioned stimulus (US), but when CS A is presented in compound with CS C, the US is omitted. Thus, CS C ...
Using Parent-Child Interaction Therapy to Develop a Pre-Parent Education Module
(2009-07-17)
Ineffective parenting skills, poor knowledge of child development, rigidity, and harsh physical punishment have been identified as risk factors for abuse and child disruptive behavior. Due to the long-term negative ...