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Browsing by Subject "Psychology"
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51 properties of 125 words: A unit analysis of verbal behavior
(Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980-01-01)Values for 125 words were obtained for 51 scales including measures of orthography, pronunciation, imagery, categorizability, association, number of attributes, age-of-acquisition, word frequency, goodness, emotionality, ... -
A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building.
(Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, 2017-07)The ideal of scientific progress is that we accumulate measurements and integrate these into theory, but recent discussion of replicability issues has cast doubt on whether psychological research conforms to this model. ... -
A Controlled Breathing Intervention for Women Undergoing MRI-Guided Breast Biopsy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
(2020)Controlled breathing techniques are widely used to help people manage pain, and there is growing interest in using these approaches during painful outpatient medical procedures. The outpatient MRI-guided breast biopsy is ... -
A Friend in Need: The Influence of Friendship on the Psychosocial Adjustment of Youth with Chronic Health Conditions
(2015)Friendship has consistently been found to act as a buffer against psychological maladjustment for healthy youth and youth experiencing difficulties including parental divorce and natural disasters. Less known is the role ... -
A Longitudinal Examination of Regulatory Focus Theory's Application to Adolescent Psychopathology
(2011)Higgins' regulatory focus theory (1997) postulates two cognitive/motivational systems for pursuing desired end states: the promotion and prevention systems. The theory predicts that failure in each system is discriminantly ... -
A mixed-methods study to validate a measure of and explore influences on child mental health in Eldoret, Kenya
(2017)Background: In Kenya, approximately 14.5% of children and youth meet criteria for a mental disorder. Despite this high burden, research is very limited related to mental health problems this population. Research is needed ... -
A Nationally Representative Survey of Depression Symptoms among Jordanian Adolescents: Associations with Depression Stigma, Depression Etiological Beliefs, and Likelihood to Seek Help for Depression
(2017)Problem and Purpose: Arab adolescents are considered a particularly vulnerable population to depression. The substantial lack of mental health services and the stigma associated with mental illness on the one hand; and poverty, ... -
A Naturalistic Philosophy of Play
(2015)This is a philosophical work on the subject of play. Organized around a handful of questions, the thesis approaches inquiry by first integrating empirical lines of research and then applying the methods of philosophy. The ... -
A Qualitative Study of Contextual Factors’ Impact on the Adaptation of a Caregiver-mediated Early Autism Intervention in South Africa
(2016)Background: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a major global health challenge as the majority of individuals with ASD live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and receive little to no services or support from health ... -
A Window Into Autonomic Nervous System Functioning in Autism: Pupillometry in Adults on the Autism Spectrum
(2021)The autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulates physiological processes throughout the body and disruption or imbalance of that system has been associated with negative physical and psychological outcomes. Pupil responsivity ... -
Adaptation and Evaluation of a Picture-Based Measure of Parent Discipline Preferences
(2021)Background: Harsh parenting behaviors are some of the most commonly used discipline practices parents use in the United States but are often difficult to measure. Self-report instruments are the most used method of assessing ... -
Adaptation-level theory and the free recall of mixed-frequency lists
(Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1982-01-01)Subjects learned a list containing both high-frequency (common) and low-frequency (rare) words after learning five lists of either high-or low-frequency words. As predicted by adaptation-level theory, preexposure to lists ... -
Adherence and Quality of Life in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease: A Pilot Mobile Health Intervention
(2017)Children and adolescents with sickle cell disease (SCD) are at high risk for medical complications, neuropsychological sequelae, and lower overall quality of life. One target of intervention that can positively impact these ... -
Affective Modulation of Executive Control
(2013)Emotions are pervasive in daily life, and a rich literature has documented how emotional stimuli and events disrupt ongoing processing and place heightened demands on control. Yet the executive control mechanisms ... -
Age Differences in Suggestibility Following Semantic Illusions: The Role of Prior Knowledge
(2014)In the face of declines in memory related to specific events, people maintain intact general knowledge into very old age. Older adults often use this knowledge to support their remembering. Semantic illusions involve situations ... -
Age-related Differences in the Neural Mechanisms of Episodic Memory: Representational and Network Analyses
(2023)Advanced age is associated with substantial changes in the brain. These changes can be attributed to many difference sources, such as detrimental effects of aging, brain’s compensatory responses to such negative effects, ... -
Aging and distraction by highly familiar stimuli during visual search
(Developmental Psychology, 1983-07-01)P. Rabbitt's (1965, 1968) theory regarding age-related changes in cognition proposes that aging is accompanied by a decreased ability to ignore irrelevant information (perceptual noise). The present experiment examined age ... -
Aging and the development of automaticity in visual search
(Developmental Psychology, 1980-09-01)The rate of short-term memory search has previously been reported to be slower for older individuals than for college-age Ss (F. I. Craik, 1977). Current research has suggested that after extensive practice with the same ... -
Altered Stakes: identifying gaps in the psychedelic-assisted therapy research informed consent process
(2022)Nearly 60% of the US population experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder have not received a meaningful clinical response from traditional interventions (Akiki & Abdallah, 2018). Early research using psychedelics in tandem ...
