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Mentally Restorative Areas For Students: Impacts Of Nature On Psychophysiological State, Jesse Moore
Mentally Restorative Areas For Students: Impacts Of Nature On Psychophysiological State, Jesse Moore
Honors Theses
Situated in the top outdoor ranking city of Chattanooga, the campus of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) includes diverse areas available for student rest and recreation. This study aims to introduce UTC students into the collection of studies on the effects of natural environments on Attention Restoration Theory (ART) by using the Stroop cognitive test and portable electroencephalograph (EEG) headsets. Participants completed the Stroop test after ten-minute mental restoration sessions in environments of varying natural exposure included on campus. Through analysis of variance, location was found to significantly influence performance on Stroop testing and measures of relaxation (p=0.030). …
Let's Get Physical: The Dual-Task Costs Of Multiple Motor Responses, Taylor Nicole Hutson
Let's Get Physical: The Dual-Task Costs Of Multiple Motor Responses, Taylor Nicole Hutson
Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
Dual-task costs occur when attention is divided among two or more concurrent tasks. Most dual-task studies involve paradigms where participants complete two, concurrent cognitive tasks; in these studies, performance on one or both tasks are slower and/or less accurate. The goal of this study was to examine whether dual-task costs would exist when participants completed a cognitive task while walking and whether those costs would be greater when the cognitive task required a motor-based response or when the task was more difficult. Twenty-two college students completed four blocks of a visual search task while walking. The difficult and the manual …
Assessing Executive Function As It Relates To Self-Regulation, Sarah K. Finley
Assessing Executive Function As It Relates To Self-Regulation, Sarah K. Finley
Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
Slips of action are cognitive errors that occur during routine tasks in everyday life (Clark, Parakh, Smilek, & Roy, 2012). Minimizing these everyday errors involves executive function, a system of complementary cognitive processes that enable control over thoughts and actions, including attention, inhibition, cognitive switching, and maintaining and manipulating the contents of working memory (Norman & Shallice, 2000). Many aspects of executive function are necessary for self-regulation, or the management of habitual, dominant, prepotent responses (Hamilton, Vohs, Sellier, & Meyvis, 2011). The present study explored the relationship between self-regulation, using self-report questionnaires, and executive function, using task-based assessments. Greater self-regulatory …