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Examining Rater Agreement After Changing the Response Format of the BRIEF
(2011-01-05)
Deficits in Executive Function (EF) have been demonstrated in various types of childhood psychopathology. Current clinical practice encourages evaluating deficits in EF across multiple perspectives. The BRIEF is a parent- ...
Effect of Implicit Leadership Theories on Performance Appraisal
(2010-12-10)
This thesis tests two predictions about the use of implicit leadership theories (ILT) in performance evaluations: 1) that performance evaluations are systematically distorted in accordance with ILT expectations, and 2) ...
Acquisition and Performance Accounts of the Overexpectation Effect
(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 ...
Differentiating between Children with and without ADHD Using the Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System and Conners' Continuous Performance Test-II
(2010-08-12)
The Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS) is a relatively new measure of executive functioning (EF) that has not been fully evaluated for its potential of differentiating between children with and without ADHD. ...
Volunteer-Child Interaction Training: Exploring the Effects of a Modified Child-Directed Interaction with Volunteers
(2010-12-06)
Community service and the involvement of volunteers are prevalent in a variety of contexts. Community service programs requiring interactions with youth typically do not emphasize particular therapeutic skills related to ...
Reevaluating Sexual Satisfaction through an Expectancy Lens: Validation of the Sexual Activity Frequency and Expectation Scale
(2010-12-03)
The method by which sexual satisfaction is conceptualized and measured varies widely across settings (e.g., research settings vs. clinical settings). However, consistent across settings is the use of inherently subjective ...
Developing More Ways for Children to Share Their Perceptions of Parenting Behaviors
(2010-08-16)
The primary purpose of this study was to modify an existing parent report measure on perceptions of parenting behaviors for use with children, as well as examine the relationships among child perceptions of parenting ...
Comprehensive Recidivism Data from Juvenile Delinquents and Juvenile Sex Offenders
(2010-10-15)
Each year in the United States, juveniles commit a significant percentage of the total number of sex offenses. Moreover, available recidivism data examining sexual re-offense rates with juvenile sex offenders vary considerably ...
Moral Disengagement from an Organizational Justice Perspective: An Exploratory Study
(2010-08-02)
The current study contributes to a growing understanding of the construct of moral disengagement, in particular the role of organizational justice and individual differences as antecedents. In a study of 272 undergraduate ...
Same/Different Reversal Learning in Pigeons (Columba livia)
(2011-08-03)
Reversal learning is a common procedure for studying discrimination learning, but has yet to be studied in a same/different abstract-concept learning task. In the present study, the ability to learn a same/different task ...