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Acquisition and Performance Accounts of the Overexpectation Effect 

Kimble, Whitney (2010-12-13)
Overexpectation occurs when a stimulus individually conditioned to become an excitor (conditioned stimulus, CS) elicits attenuated responding due to subsequent reinforcement in compound with another excitatory stimulus ...

Addressing the Limitations of Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Application of Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling 

Petri, Jessica (2021-07-16)  ETD File Embargoed
To date, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) has been the predominant method for empirically evaluating the latent factor structure of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A voluminous CFA literature provided a strong ...

Analysis of the Hierarchical Nature of Clinicians’ Organization of Mental Disorders 

Keeley, Jared (2005-08-15)
The organization of mental disorders by clinicians can be viewed as a type of folk taxonomy. If this is true, the organizations of clinicians should exhibit certain properties; specifically, they should be hierarchical. ...

Are All Substance Users Created Equal? Factors that Influence Stigma toward Individuals with Substance Use Disorders 

Raley, Kristin (2011-08-09)
Social stigma has been defined as a collection of negative attitudes, beliefs, thoughts or behaviors that influence an individual or group to fear, avoid, or discriminate against people with particular characteristics. ...

Assessing Capacity and Control of Visual Working Memory 

Magnotti, John, IV (2012-04-27)
This paper develops 3 experiments to answer fundamental questions about the independence of storage and control processes in visual working memory (VWM). Results from Experiment 1 showed that executive control processes ...

Assessing Psychology Majors' Knowledge of Psychology Using the Auburn Psychology Term Test (APTT) 

Brandt, Julie (2006-12-15)
Student assessment is a pressing issue for educators. This research addresses the proposition that students who perform better in psychology classes do so because they learn psychological terms and concepts with greater ...

Association between fear and visual memory for central and peripheral details 

Anderson, Christopher (2006-12-15)
The present study sought to determine if phobic individuals have improved memory for stimuli that are related to their phobic fear relative to non-anxiety provoking stimuli. Four hundred fifty-eight participants were ...

The Attentional Blink Effect in Spider Phobia 

Farshid, Arash (2011-08-08)
Extant research suggests that individuals with spider phobia relative to non-anxious controls display a shorter attentional blink (AB) in response to spider-related target words. Common methodological limitations of such ...

A Brief Abstinence Test for College Student Smokers: Testing the Utility of a Novel Choice Task 

Irons, Jessica (2007-08-15)
Cigarette smoking among college students is prevalent and correlated with other unhealthy behaviors. Reinforced abstinence (e.g., contingency management) has been demonstrated to be an effective method for reducing substance ...

Characterizing Brain Entropy During a Face-Name Paired Association Task 

Leavitt, Mackenzie (2022-07-26)
Brain entropy analysis – a measure of the unpredictability of a physiological time series - has gained attention as a measure of the complexity of brain activity in functional neuroimaging research. Investigations of ...

Characterizing Sustained Attention Task Performance by Dogs 

Cox, Emma (2023-11-27)
A common finding in studies of sustained attention is that performance on these types of tasks is subject to fluctuations across the duration of the task. Several task-related factors have been consistently demonstrated ...

Choice in C57BL/6n Mice: Behavioral and Pharmacological Mechanisms of Concurrent Schedule Performance 

Cummings, Craig (2016-07-25)
Evidence from clinical and laboratory studies converge on the same neurochemical and neuroanatomical substrates underlying choice behavior. The findings suggest that behavioral adjustments in choice procedures are the ...

Cognitive development of detection dogs 

Lazarowski, Lucia (2018-07-24)
The question of the extent to which cognitive capabilities predict future outcomes has been long pursued across several species. Also of interest are the evolutionary implications of the comparative study of cognitive ...

Connecting in a digital world: How information and communication technologies shape the leader-subordinate experience 

Smith, Adam (2019-07-23)
The present study investigated how the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) impacts leader-member exchange (LMX) quality and its resulting organizational outcomes. The primary hypothesis of interest was ...

Differences in Flicker Paradigm Response Times: Change Blindness in Snake Phobics 

Mulfinger, Amanda (2005-08-15)
This study is a replication of Wheeler (2003), expanding upon his exploration of the connection between snake phobia and change blindness, a phenomenon in which individuals do not recognize changes in their immediate ...

The Differential Outcome Effect with Typical Adult Humans 

Schmidtke, Kelly (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 ...

Early Olfactory Stimulation in Purpose-Bred Detection Dogs 

Smith, Jordan (2022-05-06)
Experiences during critical periods of early development have been shown to significantly impact cognitive development in dogs. However, the effect of early odor experiences on the ontogenetic development of cognition in ...

The Effects of Static Magnetic Fields on Directionality in Humans 

Platt, Tyson (2007-05-15)
Earth produces a dipole static magnetic field that is sufficiently stable to allow derivation of directional cues in a variety of species. This ability, known as magnetoreception, has been studied primarily in birds and ...

Essentialist Beliefs About Homosexuality: Structure and Implications for Prejudice - A Replication of Haslam and Levy, 2006 

Raley, Kristin (2008-08-15)
Past studies have indicated that essentialist beliefs are associated with prejudicial attitudes. In this study, 300 Auburn University undergraduates responded to measures assessing the degree to which participants ascribed ...

Evaluating Olfactory Decline in Aging Dogs 

Montgomery, Lane (2024-09-24)  ETD File Embargoed
Aging is an important aspect of the dog life, impacting how dogs function in their roles as both companions and workers. However, the impact of dog aging upon key sensory modalities, such as olfaction, is not well understood. ...