Whitney Maxwell and Dr. Dee Higley, Psychology Under stressful conditions the activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis increases in both humans and animals leading to an increase in production of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). Maternal separation in nonhuman primates during infancy elicits behaviors characteristic of anxiety, such as withdrawal and nervous behavior and a substantial increase […]
Twelve-month-olds’ Discrimination of Monkey Faces: Evidence for Perceptual Narrowing?
Ross Magnum and Dr. Ross Flom, Department of Psychology Experience plays a critical role in the development of infants’ perceptual abilities. Studies have shown that during the early stages of development, about six months of age, infants are capable of discriminating between a large number of faces, including faces from different species or races (Pascalis, […]
Evaluating Demographic Influence on Parenting Style in Taiwan
Kevin Handley and Dr. Niwako Yamawaki, Department of Psychology Of all the research studying the influence of stressors on parents, only a few studies have actually addressed demographic factors as stressors. Even then, there has yet to be a study that specifically seeks to delineate exactly which demographic factor predicts which type of parenting style. […]
Ambivalent Sexism and the Law: The Myth of Gender Equality
Jennifer Edgley and Dr. Niwako Yamawaki, Department of Psychology The women’s liberation movement of the sixties and seventies has ushered in several important social and political changes in the United States. Gender inequality, however, remains an enduring problem in various institutions (Lips, 2007). The theory of Ambivalent Sexism conceptualizes and may be the key to […]
BODY IMAGE DURING PREGNANCY: ABSTRACT
T. Anna Halistrom Pregnancy is a time of tremendous physical change for a woman. In light of recent research concerning how women’s opinions of their bodies affect behavior and emotional well-being, it is reasonable to ask how women feel about these physical changes during pregnancy and what factors are associated with more positive or negative […]
THE EFFECT OF SELF-MONITORING AND MANIPULATED STATES OF SELF-AWARENESS ON ATTITUDE CHANGE IN A DISSONANCE PARADIGM
Rachel E. Crook and Dr. Robert D. Ridge, Psychology Personality and situational forces can affect the self-awareness necessary for cognitive dissonance to occur. Festinger’s cognitive dissonance theory assumes that people are motivated to maintain a consistency between their thoughts and their actions1. For example, if a person is not in favor of a tuition increase […]
Effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in a Rat-Model of Human Depression
Brian J. Higginbotham and Dr. Erin Bigler, Psychology Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a relatively new technology that extends the ability to noninvasively stimulate cortical brain structures (Walsh and Rushworth, 1999). TMS involves placing an electromagnet on the scalp and turning it rapidly on and off through the discharge of capacitors, thereby producing a time-varying […]
A Correlation Study of Y-OQ and OS Performance in a Youth Outpatient Setting
Jacob Z. Hess, Shelby L. Ferrin and Dr. Michael J. Lambert, Clinical Psychology Psychological outcome measures are designed to measure the effectiveness of psychotherapy. The continued conversion of our health care system to managed care increases the need for such outcome instruments as insurance companies require therapists to have evidence that counseling is really helping […]
The Test Re-test Reliability and Criterion Validity for the YOQ Self-Report Version
Stephen Thomas Ewing and Dr. Gawain Wells, Psychology The Youth Outcome Questionnaire Self Report (YOQ S-R) is a new psychological measure for adolescents. It is designed to track how an adolescent feels that he or she may be changing in mental health treatment. In order to do that, we took a sample of adolescents from […]
Combining the Tripartite and Cognitive-Specificity Models of Anxiety and Depression
Scott A. Baldwin and Dr. Diane L. Spangler, Psychology Depression and anxiety are often comorbid and several theories have been proposed to account for their co-occurrence. The tripartite model accounts for the comorbidity between anxiety and depression in terms of the underlying symptoms that are associated with the two disorders. According to the tripartite model, […]
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