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Remembrance: Drink While The Water Is Clean, Marissa Angel

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis paper supports the Artist’s Master of Fine Arts exhibition held at the Tipton Gallery, located in downtown Johnson City TN from November 30, 2015 through January 22, 2016. The works Included in the exhibition consists of a series of mixed media collage paintings, a large scale etching combined with clay and a site specific installation.

The Exhibit features work that delves into the concept of nature as a subject of beauty, as well as a symbol of the resiliency of life. The work in this exhibit exposes the separation that exists between humanity and the natural world. Through …

The Long-Term Effects Of Diet And Exercise On Working Memory Performance In Long-Evans Rats, John Jay Macdonnchadh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Concerns about the dietary and exercise behaviors of individuals in the United States and other Western nations have come under more scrutiny lately. The literature is beginning to show the deleterious effects that poor dietary choices and physical inactivity can have on working memory performance. This study used a sample of 28 male Long-Evans rats to examine the effects that two different diet conditions (beginning at 6 weeks of age) as well as two different exercise conditions (beginning at 12 weeks of age) had on working memory performance. Automated operant conditioning boxes were used to examine working memory on a …

Intermittent Testing Reduces Proactive Interference In Multiple Document Comprehension, Rebecca Marie Mccabe

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The current research examined whether proactive interference (PI)—when old knowledge interferes with the learning of, and memory for, new knowledge—occurred when reading several argumentative texts on the same topic. We also examined whether retrieval practice could successfully reduce PI in this setting. In Experiment 1, participants read either eight or 24 texts on the same topic; some who read 24 texts completed retrieval practice on the first 16. All participants completed a distractor task, then a final free recall of the texts that they read. Experiment 2 explicitly measured memory for supporting evidence and sources, altered the final recall task …

Memory, Phantasia, And The Perception Of Time: A Commentary On Aristotle’S De Memoria Et Reminiscentia, Evan Strevell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

My dissertation is a commentary on Aristotle’s treatment of memory and remembering in Aristotle’s De memoria that concentrates on four central issues. First, what is the proper object of memory? There is a general consensus that Aristotle restricts memory to the past, but there is disagreement over what this means. I argue that the proper object of memory is the remembering subject’s own past activity on the grounds that unless what is remembered is perceived as connected to the subject’s prior cognition, what is remembered will not be conceived as having happened before. By rejecting as memorable in a governing …

The Influence Of Emotion On Memory For A Crime, Taylor Langley

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Researchers have reported errors in recall or recognition of witnessed events, accounting for the most common cause of false convictions of innocent people. Tiwari (2010) indicated that 25% of suspects who were identified in a line-up were actually innocent. Jurors are strongly influenced by eyewitness testimony and this can lead to false convictions. The validity of eyewitness identification is critical in cases in which it is used as evidence. In the current study we examined specific emotion states by inducing fear, surprise, and neutral moods. We hypothesized that participants in the Fear group would be least susceptible to the effects …