Browsing Department of Psychology by Subject "Experimental psychology"

Now showing items 1-16 of 16

Age differences in risky decision making: the effects of priming, personality, & working memory

Wood, Meagan Michelle (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

In the current study, we examined the effects of priming and personality on risky decision making while playing the Game of Dice Task (GDT). Participants were randomly assigned to one of three priming conditions: Risk ...
Effects of fantasy-oriented play on the development of executive functions

Thibodeau, Rachel Beth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

Although recent correlational studies have found a relationship between fantasy orientation (FO; i.e., a child's propensity to play in a fantastical realm) and higher-order cognitive skills called executive functions (EFs), ...
Evidence of emotion knowledge in down syndrome

Moore, Marie (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

Emotion knowledge was examined in 19 children and adolescents with Down syndrome (DS) who were individually matched to typically developing (TD) children of equivalent mental age (3 to 6 years). The ability to identify ...
Frontal asymmetry and motivational systems: does right frontal asymmetry underlie avoidance or motivational control?

Neal, Lauren Browning (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

Decades of theory and research have proposed a model of frontal asymmetrical cortical activity linking approach motivation and avoidance motivation to the left and right prefrontal cortices, respectively. However, more ...
Individual differences in personality and face recognition ability

Worley, McKensie Martin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Differences in face recognition between extraverts and introverts as well as emotionally negative and emotionally positive individuals were investigated. Personality was measured through the administration of the Big Five ...
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. ...
Rationalizing undeserved outcomes: effects of random positive events on reactions to victims

Elmore, Joseph Dean (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

Previous research has identified several coping strategies that people may use to restore psychological equanimity after being exposed to the suffering of an innocent person, including victim blaming, victim derogation, ...
Reading skills in Down syndrome: an examination of orthographic knowledge

Loveall, Susan Janel (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

The primary purpose of the present study was to examine orthographic knowledge in a sample of individuals with Down syndrome (DS) in comparison to typically developing (TD) children matched on word identification ability. ...
Revisiting empathy deficits in psychopathy

Tortoriello, Gregory Kenneth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020-08)

The present study revisited the foundational assumption of empathy deficits in psychopathy by addressing three considerations: (1) a two-componential operationalization of empathy as the congruence between perceiving a ...
Route choice in virtual environments: the effect of environment size, destination visibility, and regional boundaries

Fu, En (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

Choosing one route among multiple route options represent a navigation task that is influenced by many environmental factors. Several rules have been found that guide how navigators choose a route among several route ...
The effects of classification on teacher and parent interpretations of the cognitive performance of children with intellectual disability

Davis, Megan Benson (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

Previous research has indicated that the classification of intellectual disability (ID) may negatively impact interpretations of the cognitive performance of children with ID, especially for general-education teachers. ...
The effects of expectancy and autonomy on neural measures of motivation

Wilhelm, Ricardo (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

Motivation drives humans to attain desired goals or objects by enhancing our attention, facilitating faster physical movement, and reinforcing behaviors that lead to goal acquisition. Behavioral and physiological studies ...
The face is the thing: faces as a whole are responsible for the lateralization of visual perceptual facial processing

Martin, McKensie LeAnn (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

Previous research has identified multiple tasks that display asymmetries favoring either the left or right hemisphere of the brain. Among these tasks are judgments of facial features, emotion, numerosity, facial resemblance, ...
The relation between theory of mind and empathy in preschool: the case of fantasy orientation

McInnis, Melissa Alyse (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

The purpose of the present study was to explore the relations between theory of mind, empathy, and fantasy orientation in a typically developing preschool population. Preschool children between the ages of 3 and 5 (N = 82) ...
Transfer of training and the role of mental workload in expert performance

Dillard, Michael (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

There is a need to understand how to maximize skill development when training operators to undertake vital operational assignments (e.g., flying aircraft). At present, there is much debate in the training community over ...
Value profiles of emerging adults

Ungvary, Stephen (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

The present study used latent profile analysis to model the values of emerging adults. Two sets of models were run with ten basic-values and four higher-order values as profile predictors. Results of both LPA models ...

Now showing items 1-16 of 16

Search DSpace

Browse

All of Institutional Repository
This Community
- By Issue Date
- Authors
- Titles
- Subjects

My Account

If you find content within the University of Alabama’s Institutional Repository that you believe infringes your copyright or otherwise violates the law, let us know, and we’ll carefully review the material and take appropriate action. You can send notification to security@ua.edu. Copyright notifications must comply with the requirements of Section 512(C)(3) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Note that only the copyright owner or an authorized representative of the copyright owner can file a DMCA Infringement Notice on his/her behalf.

For more information, please see The University of Alabama copyright statement.

Browsing Department of Psychology by Subject "Experimental psychology"

Browsing Department of Psychology by Subject "Experimental psychology"

Search DSpace

Browse

All of Institutional Repository

This Community

My Account