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The Role Of Presentation Type And Spatial Perspective On Wayfinding, Sejeong Park
The Role Of Presentation Type And Spatial Perspective On Wayfinding, Sejeong Park
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
Wayfinding refers to the process people use to find where to go and how to get there. For that, they need information on the presence and location of landmarks in their environment to be able to navigate through their surroundings. Furthermore, spatial awareness is also crucial in the process. The present study aimed to study how modality, spatial perspective, and language influence (a) wayfinding accuracy, (b) cardinal term, (c) relative term, and (d) landmark usage in directions. The map and text were presented to native and non-native English speakers. They provided directions under route and survey perspective. The results indicated …
Children’S Perceptions Of Ambiguous Interracial Interactions : Behavior And Size Judgments, Julia Wefferling
Children’S Perceptions Of Ambiguous Interracial Interactions : Behavior And Size Judgments, Julia Wefferling
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
Classic work in social psychology found that children’s perceptions of ambiguously aggressive events are biased by race (Sagar and Schofield, 1980). The present research is an attempt to extend upon that work by including an examination of perceptions of the physical size of vignette actors, based on more recent work by Wilson et al. (2017). In this study, 41 children aged 9-13 were recruited to watch cartoon clips of vignettes of Black and White characters in ambiguously aggressive interactions. Participant watched one clip of each target-actor race combination and rated many characteristics (e.g. mean, friendly) of the targets and actors. …
Shared Leadership Approaches In Teams : How Understanding Leadership Impacts The Perceived Presence Of Shared Leadership, Dana Noelle Sobel
Shared Leadership Approaches In Teams : How Understanding Leadership Impacts The Perceived Presence Of Shared Leadership, Dana Noelle Sobel
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
The conceptualization of shared leadership is still in its early stages, and the research on the measurement of shared leadership differs greatly. This study aims to identify how a sample of college students from a public university understand the structure and process of outcomes based on relevant research regarding leadership identity development theories. Based on this understanding, this paper also examines how understanding leadership potentially impacts the amount of shared leadership a student reports within their team, taking into consideration the two primary approaches of shared leadership. Finally, the study investigates how reported shared leadership impacts team effectiveness, reported by …
Question-Asking In Conversational Tasks : A Gender Comparison, Courtney Bell
Question-Asking In Conversational Tasks : A Gender Comparison, Courtney Bell
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
This corpus analysis used unexplored gender disparities in a previously collected speech corpus, the Montclair Map Task Corpus (MMTC) to examine stylistic patterns in utterance goals and question-asking. The MMTC utilized a collaborative map task to explore effective communication, gender differences in communication, and patterns in conversational style. The current study built upon those goals by engaging in a more in-depth analysis of the MMTC conversations. To accomplish this, the previously transcribed conversations were coded to determine turn goals. Turns that were observed as questions were further coded to determine question objectives. Based on prior research on affiliative and assertive …
Servant Leaders As Facilitators Of Couple’S Meaningfulness At Work And Home, Kristine Milorava
Servant Leaders As Facilitators Of Couple’S Meaningfulness At Work And Home, Kristine Milorava
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of having a servant leader (SL) at work on individuals’ and their partners’ work and family meaningfulness (WM) and to explore whether work meaningfulness mediates the relationship between SL and family meaningfulness (FM). SL theory accentuates how leaders simultaneously improve work and family lives by focusing on their employees’ development and this research provided further evidence of this notion. Data were collected from 155 dual-earning couples (310 respondents) and the actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) was applied to analyze the effects of SL on the work meaningfulness of the employees and …
The Effects Of Group Ii Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Antagonism On Delayed Non-Match To Odor Performance In Male Long-Evans Rats, Andrew Wolfarth
The Effects Of Group Ii Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Antagonism On Delayed Non-Match To Odor Performance In Male Long-Evans Rats, Andrew Wolfarth
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
In recent years, there has been an increased interest in the role of glutamate, the brain’s major excitatory neurotransmitter, in MDD. There is ample evidence that glutamate dysfunction is present in patients with varying degrees of depression. With this mechanistic shift behind MDD has come a better understanding of the importance of cognitive dysfunction in depressed patients. The general view of MDD was that it was a mood disorder, however recent evidence suggests that cognitive functioning is also critical to relief of depressive symptomology. Attempts have been made to modulate excitatory neural networks using a class of glutamate receptors known …
The Effect Of (2r,6r)-Hydroxynorketamine (Hnk) On 𝛼-Amino-3-Hydroxy-5-Methyl-4-Isoxazolepropionic Acid (Ampa) Expression And Novel Object Placement Performance In Long Evans Rats, Anosha Khawaja
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is characterized by emotional distress and cognitive dysfunction that lasts for at least two weeks and significantly impairs one’s ability to function at home and at work. Cognitive deficits in domains such as processing speed, memory retention, and executive function can persist beyond the remission of emotional symptoms, which is why it is imperative to develop antidepressants that address cognitive dysfunction. Healthy cognitive function relies on synaptic plasticity, which strengthens communication between cells and is measured in terms of long-term potentiation (LTP). LTP is triggered when activation of AMPA and NMDA receptors leads to an influx …
The Effect Of Metabotropic Glutamate 5 Receptors Stimulation On Delayed Non-Match To Odor Performance In Long-Evans Male Rats, Stacy Jesus Duarte
The Effect Of Metabotropic Glutamate 5 Receptors Stimulation On Delayed Non-Match To Odor Performance In Long-Evans Male Rats, Stacy Jesus Duarte
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
Patients suffering from Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) have cognitive impairments that modern antidepressants are unable to treat. There is a large body of research linking glutamate receptors to both cognitive functions and MDD. The present study looks at one type of glutamate receptors, the metabotropic glutamate 5 (mGlu 5) receptor, and the effects of its stimulation on a cognitive task on male Long-Evans rats. The following two hypotheses were used: 1) Memory performance in the delayed non-match to odor task will be progressively impaired as the time between the information and retention trial increases, and 2) administering a mGlu5 positive …
Parenting Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder : Child Symptom Behaviors, Stigma, And Parental Stress Among Minorities And Non-Minorities, Kayla Renee Breeden
Parenting Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder : Child Symptom Behaviors, Stigma, And Parental Stress Among Minorities And Non-Minorities, Kayla Renee Breeden
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
The current study examines how children with Autism Spectrum Disorder’s symptom behaviors, enacted stigma, and race influences their parents’ experiences with stress. 50 parents and guardians of children with ASD completed an online survey with 93-items composed of four sections: (1) demographic data, (2) symptom behaviors experienced by their child, (3) enacted stigma, and (4) parental stress. The purpose of the current study was to (a) evaluate the differences of ASD symptom behaviors, enacted stigma, and parental stress between minority and non-minority racial groups, and (b) examine whether the symptom behaviors and enacted stigma of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder …
Lateralization Of Pitch Processing, Daniel Rynerson
Lateralization Of Pitch Processing, Daniel Rynerson
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
In the perception of language, studies have shown that the right ear and left hemisphere (RELH) pair processes linguistic syllables more readily than the left ear right hemisphere (LERH) during simultaneous presentation. This phenomenon is known as the Right Ear Advantage (REA). This is believed to occur due to the proximity of language processing areas in the left hemisphere to the left hemisphere reception of cortical auditory signals predominantly from the right ear. An analogous Left Ear Advantage (LEA) has also been reported for pitch processing, presumably with its center of processing in the right hemisphere. The current study replicates …
The Effects Of Handedness On Personal Preferences, Ryan Mcallen
The Effects Of Handedness On Personal Preferences, Ryan Mcallen
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
Lateralization of cerebral function divides the cognitions of the brain between two hemispheres, resulting in differences in thought processing between people based potentially on lateralization. Recent research suggests that these differences in lateralization may render some people more likely to hold certain preferences, attitudes, and beliefs about the world. Individual differences in lateralization can be evaluated with simple inventories measuring handedness. With this in mind, the following study attempted to determine if differences in handedness could be associated with differences in personal preferences, particularly in regards to types of food and forms of entertainment. It evaluated participants by using the …
Bullying, Resilience, And Victimization : An Investigation Among Special Needs High School Students, Sandy Dawoud
Bullying, Resilience, And Victimization : An Investigation Among Special Needs High School Students, Sandy Dawoud
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
While there is extensive research done on high school bullying, there is very little research on bullying in special needs high school students. Resilience levels may have an impact on prevalence of bullying behavior. In this study, high school special needs students were surveyed the Illinois Bully Scale and a shortened Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale to learn about their bullying behavior and resilience levels. The questionnaire measured four different subscales: bullying, fighting, victimization, and resilience. It was hypothesized that resilience levels will have an effect on bullying behavior measured by the Illinois Bully Scale.