Adam Bevan and Dr. Scott Steffensen, Psychology Alcoholism is a problem that affects almost the whole world. The purpose of our proposed study was to record neuronal activity of the ventral tegmental area (VTA) of male Wistar rats during self-administration of sucrose, which is a natural reward for rats. Although sucrose administration seems far from […]
Attractive Advertising
Michael Westover Introduction The world is inundated with images of highly attractive and underweight models (e.g. Joseph 1982). These models are commonly seen in many types of advertising, endorsing every product imaginable. Thin models create a standard of beauty that many females strive to emulate (e.g. Hebl & Heatherton, 1998). Although the practice of using […]
HUNGARIAN HEALTH CARE: WHAT IS THE CURE?
Charlotte L. Rosen, Professor Walter Whipple, Psychology “Hungarians, rise, your country calls you! Meet this hour, whatever befalls you! Shall we freemen be, or slaves? Choose the lot your spirit craves!”1 This was proclaimed by the famous Hungarian poet, Petrofi Sandor, during the Hungarian Revolution of 1948. This battle cry is a taste of the […]
Tokenism in Non-Native English Speakers: A Pilot Study
David A. Shwalb and Dr. Niwako Yamawaki, Psychology Over the past decade the number of international students enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States has increased dramatically (Bollag, 2004). Currently, over 572,509 international students are attending American colleges and universities (Bollag, 2004), with approximately 2,000 at Brigham Young University (Light, 2004). Researchers acknowledge […]
Cross-Cultural Irregularities of the OQ-45 When Administered to Students at the University of Guadalajara in Guadalajara, Mexico Or How I Spent My Summer Vacation in Mexico
Ryan Nelson and Dr. Michael Lambert, Psychology I met Dr. Espinito Romero at a clinical psychology conference held at Zion National Park in Southern Utah in March, 2004. He had traveled from Guadalajara, Mexico to this conference to present his poster on bowel irregularities in the lower intestine and their effects on mental health. I […]
Heart Rate Response under Induced Stress: A Comparison of Individuals with High and Low Ruminative Tendencies
Douglas Marchant and Dr. Claudia Clayton, Psychology Rumination can be defined as persistent, recyclic thinking (Rippere, 1977). There are characteristic differences between normal rumination, which is simply recyclic thinking, and depressive rumination, which is characterized by recyclic thoughts focused on one’s depressive symptoms and the ramifications of those symptoms (Nolen-Hoeksema, 1991). Therefore, depressive rumination is […]
Correlation between Electrically-coupled GABA Neurons and Arousal-related Electocortical Activity
Marc Jones and Dr. Scott Steffensen, Psychology In order to evaluate potential correlations between VTA GABA neurons and electrocortical activity, we studied electroencephalographic (EEG) activity in freely-behaving rats during different stages of their sleep-wake cycle. The cycles of sleep were determined by visual observation of the rat (supine posture, eyes closed, breathing slow), and by […]
STUDY OF DIFFERENTIAL EVOKED POTENTIALS IN THE OCCIPITAL LOBE OF THE HUMAN CORTEX TO VARIED SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS
Michael A. Malstrom and Dr. Donovan Fleming, Psychology Projecting from the retina of the human eye are two information tracts that are separate but very closely tied together. They are named for the size of the cell which they follow from the retina to the brain. The tract with larger cells is called the Magnocellular […]
Sex Differences
Cheryll Garn Abstract This study investigates whether males and females use distinct brain systems while performing a picture naming task. Previous neuroimaging studies have shown that in some cognitive processing domains, such as spoken language comprehension, males and females differ in terms of brain hemisphere activation, with a tendency for stronger left hemisphere lateralization in […]
Depressive Rumination: A Psychometic Analysis
Robert R. Bradbury and Dr. Claudia Clayton, Psychology Steven Calder, Doug Marchant, and I have been studying depressive rumination for over a year and a half. Our first study was similar in content to the current study; however, because of our two ORCA grants, the current study is much more sophisticated. Depressive rumination is the […]
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