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Emotional Memory For Affective Words In Manifest And Prodromal Huntington’S Disease, Patricia Lynn Johnson
Emotional Memory For Affective Words In Manifest And Prodromal Huntington’S Disease, Patricia Lynn Johnson
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Huntington’s disease (HD) patients have been found to have specific deficits in emotional processing, most consistently demonstrating impairment recognizing the emotion expressed on a static face. The purpose of this study was to examine emotional memory in HD, which has not yet been investigated, and its relationship with executive functioning, emotional facial recognition, and the disease progression in HD. An emotional memory task with pleasant, neural, and unpleasant words was administered to control (n=26), prodromal HD (n=26), and manifest HD (n=29) participants in addition to executive function measures, an apathy scale, and emotional facial recognition task. Free recall was not …
Historical Simulation In The Secondary Classroom, Emily Arthur
Historical Simulation In The Secondary Classroom, Emily Arthur
USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)
Research in pedagogy concludes that active, engaging, and motivating instruction is effective when teaching social studies in the secondary classroom. A secondary social studies curriculum detailing the Progressive era during the years 1890 to 1930 in American history has been developed in accordance with a national standard produced by the National Council for Social Studies. The curriculum follows a distinct historical narrative that is paired closely with simulation activities. The use of a simulation activity as the primary tool of instruction within the curriculum directly reflects the research findings. The curriculum models the primary and secondary sources used, simulation activities …