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Development Of The Parenting Style And Practice Scale (Psps) In Examining Parenting Practices And Children's Academic Performance, Morgan Kubisch, Danieele Poissant, Beth Friedman-Romell
Development Of The Parenting Style And Practice Scale (Psps) In Examining Parenting Practices And Children's Academic Performance, Morgan Kubisch, Danieele Poissant, Beth Friedman-Romell
Undergraduate Research Posters 2017
What roles do parents play in fostering children's academic success in school? There is a general consensus that confirms the importance of parenting styles and practices on children's academic performance (e.g., Pinquart, 2015). However, there is a lack of up-to-date systematic parenting scales with acceptable validity and reliability. For this reason, it limits our understanding of parenting related studies in the current context. Developing a questionnaire is critical to conduct cross diverse comparisons which would broaden the generalizability of the related research. Adopting the review of literature research approach, the purpose of this study was to develop a scale that …
Validating The Rate Of Perceived Stability Scale To Gauge Balance Training Difficulty, Lorenzo Bianco, Preston Groft
Validating The Rate Of Perceived Stability Scale To Gauge Balance Training Difficulty, Lorenzo Bianco, Preston Groft
Undergraduate Research Posters 2017
An effective way of measuring balance training difficulty is needed to properly conduct balance training. The instructor must ensure that the subject is partaking in the proper balance training difficulty. If the difficulty of the training is too hard, the subject may be at higher risk for injury. If the difficulty is too low, the subject may not receive all the benefits of the program. The purpose of the research study was to validate the Rate of Perceived Stability (RPS) scale. We recruited 25 subjects over the age of 50. The subjects were community ambulators with no musculoskeletal issues. The …
Effects Of Task Requirements On Choice Of Upper Extremity Use In Subjects Chronic Post-Stroke, Trevor Foster, Andrea Matanovic, Amanda Videmsek
Effects Of Task Requirements On Choice Of Upper Extremity Use In Subjects Chronic Post-Stroke, Trevor Foster, Andrea Matanovic, Amanda Videmsek
Undergraduate Research Posters 2017
Purpose: To explore how task requirements influence reaching in people post-stroke. Subjects: Eleven subjects chronic post-stroke with mild to moderate stroke severity Methods: Participants performed sitting reaching tasks under six conditions: object size (small or large), object location (Right or Left) and speed (slow or fast). Subjects were not instructed how to reach. The number of hands used, arm choice (paretic (P) or nonparetic (NP)), and if they reached contralaterally were recorded. Qualitative self-efficacy data was also collected. Data Analysis: A general estimating equation model was used to calculate odds ratios, controlling for side of weakness and hand dominance. Descriptive …
Methods To Increase Efficacy Of Pro-Active Balance Training Among Older Adults, Angelica Sierra Houston
Methods To Increase Efficacy Of Pro-Active Balance Training Among Older Adults, Angelica Sierra Houston
Undergraduate Research Posters 2017
In the health care field, doctors and researchers rely on objective information to make conclusions about a person's health. However, concepts such as pain and balance rely on subjective information to properly assist a patient. The key innovations regarding the assessment of pain began in 1939, starting as a list of 44 words sorted into five groups. Now, the pain scale comes in many forms, from a numeric score ranging 0-10 (Numeric Rating scale or NRS), to a scale of faces with appropriate descriptors with it (Visual analog scale, or VAS). Such as pain, balance is subjective, and what may …
Effects Of Palatal Anesthesia On Timing Of Muscle Contraction During Suckling Infant Pigs, Nadet Najjar
Effects Of Palatal Anesthesia On Timing Of Muscle Contraction During Suckling Infant Pigs, Nadet Najjar
Undergraduate Research Posters 2017
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Moving Multi-Directional Harnessed Balance Training From The Clinic To The Community: Harnesses In A Community Garden, John Demarco, Hannah Simon
Moving Multi-Directional Harnessed Balance Training From The Clinic To The Community: Harnesses In A Community Garden, John Demarco, Hannah Simon
Undergraduate Research Posters 2017
Individuals such as the elderly and disabled frequently have trouble balancing, and therefore have a higher fall risk. A fear of falling can significantly impact mobility, thereby limiting participation in life activities. Balance training programs are often ineffective, because they are not intense enough or related to real life. Our lab has developed a clinic-based intense, engaging multi-directional harnessed balance training program that addresses these concerns. This work describes the process of transitioning the clinic-based training program into a community setting, specifically community gardening. We developed a harness system for a community garden high tunnel with raised beds. We incorporated …
P1: Adjacent-Letter Flanking Bigrams Affect Lexical Decision Performance, Nicole M. Russo, Lea G. Araya
P1: Adjacent-Letter Flanking Bigrams Affect Lexical Decision Performance, Nicole M. Russo, Lea G. Araya
Undergraduate Research Posters 2017
In a lexical decision task in which target strings were flanked by pairs of bigrams, Grainger, Mathot, and Vitu (Acta Psychologica, 2014) found, for words, better performance when flanking bigrams contained target-string letters (e.g., BI BIRD RD; RD BIRD BI; IB BIRD DR; DR BIRD IB) than when they did not (e.g., CE BIRD NT); better performance when flanking bigrams contained letters ordered as in the target (e.g., BI BIRD RD; RD BIRD BI) than switched (e.g., IB BIRD DR; DR BIRD IB); and that only letter order within bigrams—not bigram order relative to the respective target—affected performance. Palinski (CSU …
Decreasing Stress Levels Through Animal Interaction, Cyna Abid
Decreasing Stress Levels Through Animal Interaction, Cyna Abid
Undergraduate Research Posters 2017
The purpose of this qualitative study is to examine college students' feelings after playing with a support dog during a stressful time such as midterm exams and final exams. The goal of the research is to determine how effective the students perceive playing with pets has on decreasing their stress levels during stressful times. The reason this study is being conducted is to focus on the students' experiences and the thoughts and feelings that are occurring within themselves personally during the interaction with the dogs. It is based on their perception and feelings of stress relief rather than their physiologic …
P2: Differential Effects Of Adjacent-Letter And Open Flanking Bigrams On Lexical Decision Performance, Lea G. Araya, Nicole M. Russo
P2: Differential Effects Of Adjacent-Letter And Open Flanking Bigrams On Lexical Decision Performance, Lea G. Araya, Nicole M. Russo
Undergraduate Research Posters 2017
Some models of word identification hypotheses units responsive to bigrams—letter pairs—that may not be adjacent in a letter-string stimulus. Grainger, Mathot, and Vitu (2014) and Palinski (2016) found, for words, responding was more efficient when flanking bigrams contained target-string letters than when they did not. They also found that responding was more efficient when flanking bigrams contained letters ordered as in the target than switched but whether flanking bigrams were ordered as in the target did not affect performance. Palinski (2016) replicated the results of Grainger et al. (2014) and conducted a second experiment that included four additional conditions in …