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The Effects Of Language In Music On Memory, Cat Terrell
The Effects Of Language In Music On Memory, Cat Terrell
Undergraduate Theses
This thesis focused on the effect of both instrumental and vocal music on performance on cognitive tests designed to test memory in order to gain more insight into whether the presence of language in music affects memory. Four hypotheses were tested concerning the effect of music type, question type, the interaction of the two, and personal experience with music/music training on memory assessment performance. The study found no significant effect of background condition on memory assessment performance, a significant effect of question type on memory assessment performance, no significant effect of the interaction between background condition and question type on …
The Influence Of Gender And Language Complexity On The Credibility Of Expert Witness Testimony, Darcy Egan
The Influence Of Gender And Language Complexity On The Credibility Of Expert Witness Testimony, Darcy Egan
Undergraduate Theses
With the increased use in expert witness testimony in civil trials, the decisions that jury members have made based on those testimonies have become very controversial. Previous research indicates that when a testimony is particularly complex, mock jurors will rely on cues outside the content of the testimony in order to determine the credibility of the witness. Research shows that there are different cues that are associated with higher credibility the expert. Common cues include the gender, occupation, and level of language complexity of the expert witness. This study used these three different cues as the independent variables, with two …