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Browsing Human Development (HD) Theses by Title
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The Relation of Narrative Skill to Memory Recall in Chinese and European American Children
(2011-05)Studies have shown that narrative development enables young children to remember past events. However, most research has focused on preschool-aged children, and few studies have explored the relationship between narrative ... -
The Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Acculturation: How Identity Reconstruction gets Represented in the Memories of Immigrants.
(2008-06-24)This study looked at the relationship between acculturation and the quality of autobiographical memories of 50 young immigrants. By using a free recall method of autobiographical memories of the first 5 years following ... -
Remediation of Deficits in Recognition of Facial Emotions in Autistic Children
(2008-05-07)This study evaluated the efficacy of the Mind Reading interactive computer software to remediate emotion recognition deficits in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Six unmedicated children with ASD and 11 ... -
Remembering Emotional Pictures
(2010-05-15)This study seeks to investigate the effects of emotion on memory performance. 41 undergraduate Cornell University students participated in the study. Subjects were given an emotion induction task that induced either ... -
The Role of Sign Language on Word Learning in 19 to 23 Month Old Infants
(2009-05-28)Claims that signing with infants benefits language development are examined. Fourteen infants aged 19 to 23 months were tested on their comprehension and production of novel labels in a word learning task. Infants participated ... -
The Role of the Endocannabinoid System in Learning-Induced Neurogenesis
(2011-05)Though it was previously thought that the birth of new neurons stopped after development, we now know that neurogenesis continues throughout life in some areas of the brain (i.e. the olfactory bulb and the dentate gyrus ... -
Romantic Attachment and Consumer Behavior: You Never Really Shop Alone
(2011-01-15)Associations between romantic attachment and consumer behavior were tested in a study of undergraduate students using an online survey and laboratory virtual shopping experiment. The present study (N = 78) investigated ... -
Science About What Scientists Do: Distinguishing Between Explanations for Causal Events
(2007-06-10)The causal reasoning literature suggests that hypothesis testing will only include tests that support a particular hypothesis (confirmation bias), rather than distinguish between possible hypotheses (Wason, 1960; Mynatt, ... -
The Self-Reference Effect and Same-Age Bias in Item and Source Memory
(2009-05-20)The present study examines age-related differences in the self-reference effect and how self-referencing influences memory for details and source memory. We also examine a potential same-age bias in memory. Fifty young ... -
Thinking Like a Scientist in Elementary School
(2009-05-28)This study evaluated how the critical thinking skills of young elementary school children can be enhanced through the Thinking Like a Scientist curriculum. Critical thinking skills were defined as the ability to utilize ... -
When the Pieces Do Not Quite Fit: The Role of Anomalous Information in Evaluating Explanations
(2010-05-22)No explanation is perfect. There are usually data that are anomalous to an explanation. We investigated two variables, resolving an anomaly and supporting an explanation, that make strong vs. weak anomalies more or less ... -
Young Children's Learning of Novel Semantic Spatial Categories
(2008-11-02)According to linguistic relativity theory, language exerts a strong influence on the development of our minds, particularly during childhood (Whorf, 1956). One area in which this influence can be observed is that of spatial ...
