Browsing by Author "Lazarte, Alejandro"

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Examining Trainee Treatment Session Fidelity: Impact on the Implementation of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)

Travis, Jamie (2012-05-03)

Research supports the impact of empirically-based treatments (EBTs), such as Parent-child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), on producing positive treatment outcomes for clients. However, achieving outcomes in community settings ...

Gaze behavior during predictive and diagnostic reasoning

Duncan, Amegbletor (2019-08-16)

Many current theories of causal learning and reasoning offer causal structure as the answer to a long-standing question: what allows people to distinguish causal relationships from non-causal relationships? One component ...

The Impact of Flexible Work Arrangements on Employee Engagement

Brown, Victoria (2016-01-06)

A flexible work arrangement pilot program was implemented in the corporate office of a mid-size organization. To assess the impact of flexible work arrangements on employee engagement, surveys were administered prior to ...

Influences of Drug and Toxicant Exposure on the Microstructure of Responding

Johnson, Joshua (2011-05-03)

A recent quantitative model has been used to examine the microstructure of behavior, and has described a bout of responding by three separate measures: within-bout response rate, bout initiation rate, and bout length. These ...

Information-processing biases toward interoceptive stimuli in claustrophobia

Smitherman, Todd (2006-12-15)

The present study endeavored to ascertain whether claustrophobic individuals manifest information-processing biases toward interoceptive stimuli, consistent with recent conceptualizations of this disorder. Nine hundred one ...

Measuring change blindness in specific phobia: A replication

Wilamowska, Zofia (2006-12-15)

People often fail to notice changes in visual scenes, a phenomenon know as --Y΄change blindness.‘ At least some change blindness results because relevant changes in scenes occur during eye movements. The flicker paradigm ...

Measuring Visual Change Detection in Specific Phobia

McEnerney, Kelly (2010-05-18)

The utility afforded from cognitive tasks in research concerning attentional bias and anxiety is well documented; however, whether it extends to research concerning specific phobia is uncertain. Often, the connection between ...

Meta worry and generalized anxiety disorder

Hammel, Jacinda (2006-12-15)

Worry is predominantly a language-based activity that involves thoughts about anticipating and preventing negative outcomes. In generalized anxiety disorder, worry is conceptualized as pathological due to its chronic use ...

The opportunity for alternative reinforcement shortens bout length in BALB/c C57BL/6 mice

Johnson, Joshua (2008-08-15)

A recent mathematical model has been suggested to partition response rate into two independent components that are estimated through a log survivor analysis of inter-response times. One component is thought to tap motivational ...

Predicting Motivation to Change

Diulio, Andrea (2012-01-10)

Motivation to decrease alcohol consumption has been a focus of past research with college students. However studies on the predictors of motivation among college students have produced mixed results. There is some theoretical ...

Protective Effects of Positive Emotions

Busler, Jessica (2016-07-27)

This dissertation investigates the protective effects of positive emotions in cognitive and physiological realms. Previous research indicates that positive emotions lead to broader thinking compared to negative emotions ...

Psychopathy and Choice of Victims: Implications for the Sub-Categorization and Treatment of Juvenile Sexual Offenders

Sikorski, Jason (2005-12-15)

Adolescent sexual offenders are responsible for a considerable portion of the sexual abuse victimization that takes place in American society today. Convicted sexual offenders report that they most often began their sexual ...

The Role of Dopamine Receptor Subtypes in Reinforced Variability

Pesek, Erin (2008-08-15)

Variability in behavior can be measured and reinforced. However, the underlying neurological mechanisms of such variability are unknown. Dopamine is associated with reinforcement but its role in reinforced variability is ...

The Testing effect and the Components of Recognition Memory: What Effects do Test Type and Performance at Intervening Test Have on Final Recognition Tests

Smith, Dale (2008-08-15)

The testing effect has been shown to be a robust phenomenon in recall. However, there have been inconsistencies demonstrating the testing effect in recognition final tests. This has led some to suggest that recollection, ...

Time pressure, personality, and information availability in escalation of commitment: An application of the Funder Personality Triad

Horn, Marianna (2015-07-28)

The current work focused on the exploration of specific individual differences and task aspects on escalation of commitment. Further, it sought to expand the literature in decision-making by utilizing a specific personality ...