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- Academic -- UNF -- Master of Science in Psychological Science; Autism; False Memory; Working Memory (1)
- Academic -- UNF -- Master of Science in Psychological Science; adolescent decision-making; adolescence; young adulthood; risk behaviors; risk-taking; prosocial behaviors; prosociality; altruism; empathy; peer affiliation; peer influence; positive peers; prosocial peers (1)
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Full-Text Articles in Developmental Psychology
Sentence Recall In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Brett Wallace
Sentence Recall In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Brett Wallace
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
There is an age-shift in neurotypical children: younger children tend to remember information in a verbatim manner so they store item-specific surface characteristics; between nine and ten children engage in gist recall where they store meanings of presented information. The aim of the present study was to explore false memory in children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), as some research suggests that they develop gist recall at a later age than neurotypical children. We are also interested in the role of working memory.
One approach to understanding false memory creation is activation-monitoring (AM) theory. Working memory can play a role …
Prosociality And Risk: How Risky Decision-Making In Young Adults Relates To Altruistic Tendencies, Empathic Concern, And Prosocial Peer Affiliation, Sarah J. Beard
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Adolescence involves an increase in risky decisions, such as reckless driving and illicit substance use, but prosocial characteristics and peer affiliation have yet to be investigated as protective factors. The present study assessed altruistic tendencies, prosocial peer affiliation (PPA), and empathic concern as predictors and moderators of risk-taking, including both self-reported health risks and riskiness in a behavioral task. Young adults from ages 20 to 25 (M = 22.55, SD = 1.38) completed a battery of behavioral tasks (including the Balloon Analogue Risk Task and the Dictator Game) and questionnaires on Amazon MTurk, measuring risk-taking (drunk driving, texting while …