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The Third Reich In East German Film: Defa, Memory, And The Foundational Narrative Of The German Democratic Republic, Jaimie Kicklighter

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

This study will explore how East German films released from the 1940s to the 1980s played a central role in both reinforcing and chipping away at the national foundational narrative of the German Democratic Republic. This narrative looked back at the memory of the Third Reich and classified communists as heroes, Nazis as villains, and the majority of Germans as dangerously apolitical while also emphasizing the contemporary Cold War division between the east and the west. This thesis argues that DEFA films utilized the memory of the Third Reich to support, question, and expand this dynamic foundational narrative which remained …

Walks To Nowhere, Lauren Pleveich

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

This essay is an academic justification for a means of producing images explained mainly through ideas of experiential memory.

Memory And Production Of Standard Frequencies In College-Level Musicians, Sarah E. Weber

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

This thesis examines the nature of long-term absolute pitch memory—an ability traditionally assumed to belong only to absolute pitch (AP) possessors—by testing for evidence of this memory for “standard” frequencies in musicians without AP. Standard frequencies, those based on the equally tempered system with A = 440 Hz, are common in the sonic environment of the Western college musical education, and thus could have the opportunity to penetrate listeners’ long-term memories. Through four experimental tasks, this thesis examines musicians’ ability to recognize and produce frequencies from the set of equally tempered frequencies based on A = 440 Hz, without regard …

The Praxis Of Horst Hoheisel: The Countermonument In An Expanded Field, Juan Felipe Hernandez

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

This paper examines the work of German artist Horst Hoheisel in Latin-America. I open the conversation by including Hoheisel’s provocative participation in the 2005 memory debates in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Here, I introduce the nature of Hoheisel’s reasoning and the dialectical self-reflectiveness that is at work in his artifacts. In each project, I look for the way in which Hoheisel lays down the “memorialistic substance” of a specific site together with the self-critical rationality that characterizes his creation. The second part of this essay attempts to construct the theoretical parameters for the expansion of the definition of the countermonument. This …

Letters To Anyone, Michelle L. Dickson

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

Letters to Anyone is written as a parallel text to the body of work I’ve created during my time in graduate school, culminating in the installation almost‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐release.

This thesis deals with my personal narrative as a way to understand the ideas and concepts that my work is derived from. Specific topics include memory, the body, time, process, space, and change.

An End To The “Vichy/Algeria Syndrome”?: Negotiating Traumatic Pasts In The French Republic, Justin W. Silvestri

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

Within the past few years, France has exhibited a changing relationship in regards to its memory of its collaborationist and colonial past. The controversies of the loi du 23 février 2005 and the 2007 Guy Môquet Commemoration displayed a new openness to discuss and evaluate traumatic pasts. Public debate during the two controversies focused on the difficult process of how to incorporate these traumatic events into the national narrative. Furthermore, this process of negotiation has opened up a vibrant discussion over what parties in France possess the authority and the right to construct the nation’s history. Medical metaphors of neurosis …

In The Face Of Threat: How Relationship Threat Affects Cognitive Processing, Ariel Baruch

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

This investigation examined the hypothesis that the presence of relationship threat leads to decreased working memory capacity, and also changes partner perceptions based on adult attachment style. To test this hypothesis, participants were exposed to a threat or no-threat manipulation and then completed measures examining partner perceptions and individual differences. Results suggest that the threat manipulation might have been strong enough for only highly anxious people. These individuals showed higher levels of working memory capacity following a relationship threat, compared to more securely attached persons, and later described their partners in more global, less desirable terms, regardless of threat condition. …

Run Stitch Remembrance, Lyndsey N. Baldwin

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

In an effort to process my grief associated with the death of my grandmother, I created a series of drawings, documenting my daily life in Massachusetts. This body of work constitutes my thesis. In total, I made one thousand and sixty one drawings, each undergoing a series of identical, repeated processes, which represent the number of days lived there. The simplicity, detail and sheer volume of drawings in the installation chronicles a relatable story through complex means. Creating the drawings was a methodical act of remembrance, the practice allowing quiet reflection on each day and its respective history. This body …

Reconstructing Molly Welsh: Race, Memory And The Story Of Benjamin Banneker's Grandmother, Sandra W. Perot

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

Molly Welsh, oral tradition captured in the nineteenth century tells us, was a white Englishwoman who worked as an indentured servant. The same tradition has it that she owned slaves, although she is said to have married (or formed a union with) one of them. I aim not only to recover the life of Molly Welsh Banneker, but also to consider its various tellings—probing in particular at Molly’s shifting racial status. By examining a multiplicity of social and cultural aspects of life for seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Maryland women, I test whether these various narratives are even possible or plausible …

Soldados De Salamina: Terapias Para Después De Una Guerra, Marta Del Pozo Ortea

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

According to Jung, the individuation process is a spiritual transformation through which the individual attains the maturity of his personality. This process requires the incorporation of subconscious material to the conscious life. The unconscious, though personal, is according to the famous psychologist full of images and archetypes that conform what Jung called the “collective unconscious”, which transcends the personal and expands inter-culturally through time and space. This is the perspective used in the present study of Soldados de Salamina (2001), a novel by the Spanish writer Javier Cercas. The hero of this story that combines fiction and reality travels from …

Recall-Based Inhibition In Recognition., Hye-Won Lee

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

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Acquaintance Influences Memory For Consistent Versus Inconsistent Interpersonal Information., Scott F. Van Manen

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

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Memory Performance Following Bilingual Translation: Lexical And Conceptual Determinants Of Cross-Language Transfer., Alexandra Sholl

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

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Recognition Memory For Complex Pictures In Preschool Children., Deborah L. Davis

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

Recognition memory for complex pictures was investigated using 3 variables: meaningf ulness of the target (anomalous or conventional), type of transformation in the distractor (substitution or rearrangement), and extent of transformation (whether the target and distractor were consistent or inconsistent in meaningf ulness) . Three- and four- year olds were familiarized with 16 different thematic scenes with which a child this age would likely have had experience. Half of the target pictures shown to a child were conventional, and half were anomalous, containing either an object or arrangement of objects that did not fit the theme. During the recognition test, …

Priming The Retrieval Of Exemplars Of Semantic Categories., Joseph Vincent Dicecco

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

Two priming experiments extending the work of Loftus (1973) and Loftus and Loftus (1974) were conducted to investigate retrieval from semantic memory. Subjects produced a letter-restricted instance from a semantic category on a prime trial, and then were asked to produce a second, different instance from the category on the target trial. The letter-restrictor for the target trial allowed a response that was either high- or low-related to the prime trial response. In addition, in Experiment 1 the dominance of the target response was varied, while in Experiment 2 the dominance of the prime response was varied. High prime-target response …

Predicting Differences In The Retention Of Prose Materials On The Basis Of Subject Prior Knowledge., Clifford E. Konold

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

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Long Term Memory For Verbal And Non-Verbal Material In Korsakoff Patients., Sunita Mahtani Stewart

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

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The Effects Of Pictures And Spatial Array On Two-Year Olds' Memory For Location., Hilary Anne Horn

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

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Utilizing Comparative Information From Memory ;: The Symbolic Distance Effect., Judy Elin Mckinley

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

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Long Term Retention Differences As A Function Of Subject Ability/, Geraldine M. Fraser

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

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Short-Long-Term Memory Interaction With Underlearned Long Term Storage., P. Everett Fergenson

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

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The Influence Of Personality On The Mnemonic Process, Peter F. Stanne

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

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