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Browsing Human Development (HD) Theses by Title
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Attention and Distractibility in Infancy and Toddlerhood
(2008-06-06)This cross-sectional study investigated the development of attention in infants, and the relationship between attention state and distraction latency at 12 and 24 months of age. Seven 12-month olds and seven 24-month olds ... -
The Buffering Effects of Cumulative Resource Availability on Socioemotional Outcomes among Low-income Adolescents
(2008-06-11)Rural poverty is a highly prevalent, but less frequently studied area of child and adolescent development. Additionally, while cumulative risk is commonly studied, little work exists on cumulative resources. This study ... -
Changing caregiving quality for neurodevelopmentally at-risk infants: Executive function and behavior outcomes
(2011-05)Neurodevelopmental impairment in infancy is an established risk factor for poor cognitive and behavior outcomes later in life. However, environmental factors such as high quality caregiving could be protective against these ... -
Chaotic Environment, Learned Helplessness, and Academic Achievement in Early Adolescence
(2008-05-16)This study demonstrated that exposure to chaotic home environments predicted academic achievement in thirteen year old, rural adolescents (N = 145) living in Upstate New York. It was hypothesized learned helplessness may ... -
Children's Perceptions of Mechanical Knowledge as a Function of Gender
(2011-05)This study examined children's perceptions of the mechanical knowledge of others as a function of gender. Children ages 3-8 watched videos of male and female informants fixing toys in one of two conditions: either the boy ... -
Cognitive and Personality Differences Leading to Differential Induction of False Memories
(2007-12-11)The purpose of this study was to examine how individual differences in cognitive and personality factors contribute to commissions of false memory. Seventy-eight Cornell University students were tested using the ... -
The Cost of Exclusion and the Benefit of Overinclusion: Individual Differences Moderate Sensitivity to Inclusionary Status
(2011-05)The current study examined the impact of varying degrees of exclusion and overinclusion on mood and the needs for belonging and control. Participants played an online ball tossing game with two computerized confederates ... -
The Cost of Living in Poverty: Long-Term Effects of Allostatic Load on Working Memory
(2008-05-16)Compared to their middle-income peers, adolescents reared in poverty perform less accurately on neurocognitive tasks. Previous research has not delineated an underlying mechanism that would account for these deficits in ... -
The Desirability of Sexually Experienced Friends
(2011-05)This study investigated the influence of one's sexual history on his or her desirability as a same-sex friend. Participants (N = 790) completed an online survey, in which they evaluated one of 6 hypothetical targets. ... -
Development of Coping in Low- and Mid-Income Youth
(2007-05-23)The environment of poverty has been implicated as a major risk factor for later childhood adjustment and achievement. The present study examined the effect of exposure to poverty at age 8 on coping at age 13 using measures ... -
Development of the Asian American Racial Uplifts Scale
(2010-06-02)The development of the Asian American Racial Uplifts Scale is discussed. The range of positive race-related experiences was explored through an analysis of semi-structured interview data from 20 self-identifying Asian and ... -
Developmental Changes in Infants' Knowledge of the Instrumental Value of Babbling
(2007-05-23)The present study sought to discover the age at which infants realize that their vocalizations may be used to elicit social responses from others, and to examine whether infants? knowledge of the consequences of their ... -
Differential Behavior Regulation in Infant Social Referencing and Implications for the Development of Sympathy
(2010-05-26)From an early age, infants pay attention to how people emotionally respond to ambiguous stimuli and use this as information to guide their behavior. Recent research has also shown that infants are able to use indirect ... -
The Dynamics of Infant Attention
(2011-05)Attention allocation and visual foraging are adaptively important behaviors in providing information about the world for effective goal-directed behavior and survival. Timely re-direction of gaze facilitates integration ... -
Early Memories: An Investigation of Early Childhood Memories and Socioeconomic Status
(2010-05-21)Although much research has examined the link between earliest childhood memory and both culture and gender, there is currently no research on the relationship between earliest childhood memory and socioeconomic status. ... -
The Effect of Choice on Older Adult Preferences
(2010-04-25)Previous research on preferences has indicated that young adults may construct their preferences as a result of their choices. In the present study, the author investigated the effects of aging on preference construction. ... -
The Effect of Parents? Gender Stereotypes on Their Teaching of Novel Object Labels
(2009-05-31)Extensive research exists on the influence of gender on parental speech and on parental teaching behaviors, but interactions between the two have not been explored. I investigated the impact of gender on parental teaching ... -
The Effect of Valenced Healthcare Advertisements on the Decision Processes of Older and Younger Adults
(2008-06-13)This study explored how healthcare advertisements presented in a positive or negative manner could affect memory, preferences, and persuasiveness for older and younger adults. Based on previous research showing older ... -
Effects of Economic Status on Self-Regulation in Infants
(2010-06-13)It has been well documented that, on average, children from low-income families have lower academic achievement than their more well-off peers (Buckner et al. 2009 Duncan, Brooks-Gunn, Yeung, & Smith, 1998; Burney, & Beilke, ...
