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Language development in preschool children with autism spectrum disorders: investigating fast-mapping abilities and utilization of word learning constraints

Williams, Amie M. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Children with typical development utilize social-cognitive skills (e.g., joint attention, imitation) and word learning constraints to quickly learn new words (i.e., fast-map). However, few studies have investigated ...
The Last Decade: Longevity Expectations, Death Attitudes, and Health Care Use

Moran, Caitlin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

Death becomes exponentially more probable with each year of aging. Acknowledging this when making health care decisions has important consequences for quality of life, as the benefits of care may not outweigh the costs if ...
Lay perceptions of psychopathy and their effect on legal decision-making

Kopkin, Megan R. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

Although prior studies have assessed lay perceptions of psychopathy, few studies have examined the effect of these perceptions on individuals’ legal judgments and decisions. The purpose of the present study was to assess ...
LGBTQ diversity training in clinical training programs: implications for the safe zone program

Murry, Kaleb (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

Due to increasing pressures to meet the health care needs of the LGBTQ community, further inquiry is needed to understand how the helping professions (i.e. psychology, social work, nursing) may be preparing future clinicians ...
Linear and Non-linear Relationships between Cognitive Subdomains of Ability Discrepancy and Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers

McDonough, Ian; Popp, Taylor E.

Objective: Substantial research indicates that fluid and crystallized abilities are highly correlated throughout the adult lifespan. However, recent proposals suggest that a large discrepancy between these two abilities, ...
Links between elements of the HEXACO personality test and creativity in word choice for story generation tasks

Kennedy, Evan Scott (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

This study used the new HEXACO personality inventory to explore personality differences in creative generation, particularly in connection with the new Honesty-Humility (HH) dimension, which has shown some promising ...
Litigation overdone, overblown, and overwrought: a mixed methods study of civil litigants

Coffey, Christopher Adam (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

Hyperlitigious individuals, referred to by legal professionals as “vexatious” and mental health professionals as “querulous,” are individuals who make excessive and egregious use of the legal system for a primarily non-legal ...
Longitudinal changes in self-reported expectations for nursing home use in the health and retirement study

Haley, Philip Parker (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

The Behavioral Model of Health Services Use (Andersen, 1968; Andersen & Newman, 1973) is a frequently used framework for examining the factors that bear upon the decision to pursue and utilize health services (Andersen & ...
Longitudinal social support and quality of life among participants of psychosocial chronic pain management groups

Van Dyke, Benjamin Prime (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Objective: The primary goal of the current study was to characterize perceived social support (PSS) and isolation longitudinally among people with chronic pain (CP) who were and were not receiving group psychosocial ...
Making the choice: style, path, or goal? : imitation in autism spectrum disorders

Mussey, Joanna (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

Previous research has demonstrated mixed results with regard to the nature of imitation impairments in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). While imitation of actions on objects has generally been thought to be ...
Malingering: the impact and influence in Atkins cases

Delacy, Rachel L. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

Intellectual disability (ID) is a condition characterized by deficits in intelligence and adaptive behavior with onset during the developmental period. As a result of its recognition that individuals with ID are vulnerable ...
Means-to-goals affective transference

Adams, John Milton (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

This manuscript proposes a novel theoretical mechanism for how and why people adopt goals. In Study 1, participants exhibited increased adoption of a target goal (self-reported importance of close relationship maintenance) ...
Media effects on implicit and explicit attitudes: an investigation of the linguistic intergroup bias

Ewell, Patrick Jay (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

The present research investigated the impact of abstraction in language on racial attitudes, a process otherwise known as Linguistic Intergroup Bias (LIB). LIB is a term which describes how the specificity of language used ...
Medication state at the time of the offense: medication noncompliance and criminal responsibility

Titcomb, Caroline Richards (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

Ethical and due process concerns arise when insanity standards lack a nuanced picture of how society views mental illness and its effects on the volitional nature of a defendant's actions. This project examined whether ...
Mental health policy outcomes: an examination of older adults' mental health service use, 2002-2012

Ford, Katy Lauren (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

The underutilization of mental health services (MHS) by older adults – and especially by racial/ethnic minority elders – is a well-recognized problem. Though several national-level mental health policies have been enacted ...
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for the treatment of chronic headache pain

Day, Melissa Anne (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

This study reports the findings of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) investigating the feasibility, tolerability, acceptability and initial estimates of efficacy of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) compared to ...
Miranda abilities in individuals with intellectual disability

Erickson, Sydnee (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

In 1966, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) recognized a possibility that the process of arrest, as well as subsequent custodial interrogation, rendered individuals at risk for a violation of their 5th Amendment ...
Model fit and convergent and discriminant validity of the psychopathic personality inventory-short form: a comparison of competing models

Adams, Elizabeth Walton (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

The present study examined the construct validity of the PPI-SF, testing both its factor structure and the convergent and discriminant validity. Using an undergraduate sample of 1,257 community members (869 females, 378 ...
Modeling the relationships among sustained attention, short-term memory, and language in Down syndrome

Faught, Gayle Graham (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

Introduction: Language is poorer than expected given developmental level in youth with Down syndrome (DS). This study sought to determine if predictors of language difficulty in DS include sustained attention (SA) and ...
Moderation of neural alcohol-cue craving by core personality systems

Mechin, Nicole Claudette (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

Alcohol cues are prevalent in our everyday lives (on commercials and billboards, in grocery ads, etc.). Past work has demonstrated that exposure to alcohol cues evokes alcohol craving as evidenced by cortical activation. ...

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