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Daily Eastern News: April 01, 2014, Eastern Illinois University

April

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Modality Switching Within Conditional Reasoning, Nathaniel A. Young

Undergraduate Honors Theses

The format in which humans represent knowledge is still not known. Two perspectives that explain the way in which humans represent knowledge are the amodal and modal perspectives. Recently, a modality switching effect was found during a property verification task. The modality switching effect is a delay in response time in verifying the property of an object in a modality that is different from the previously verified property of a different object. This effect is often presented as evidence to support the modal perspective, but it has not been found in a task more complex than property verification. The goal …

Attentional Effects On Memory For Emotional Faces And Events, Ashley M. Lamb

Undergraduate Honors Theses

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Daily Eastern News: March 28, 2014 , Eastern Illinois University

March

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Daily Eastern News: March 27, 2014 , Eastern Illinois University

March

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Daily Eastern News: March 26, 2014 , Eastern Illinois University

March

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Daily Eastern News: March 25, 2014 , Eastern Illinois University

March

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Daily Eastern News: March 24, 2014 , Eastern Illinois University

March

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Daily Eastern News: March 20, 2014 , Eastern Illinois University

March

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Daily Eastern News: March 17, 2014 , Eastern Illinois University

March

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Up By Upwest: Is Slope Like North?, Steven M. Weisberg, Daniele Nardi, Nora S. Newcombe, Thomas F. Shipley

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

Terrain slope can be used to encode the location of a goal. However, this directional information may be encoded using a conceptual north (i.e., invariantly with respect to the environment), or in an observer-relative fashion (i.e., varying depending on the direction one faces when learning the goal). This study examines which representation is used, whether the sensory modality in which slope is encoded (visual, kinaesthetic, or both) influences representations, and whether use of slope varies for men and women. In a square room, with a sloped floor explicitly pointed out as the only useful cue, participants encoded the corner in …

Of The Most Common Weight-Loss Programs, Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem, And Medifast, Which Is The Most Effective?, Jenna Carlson

2014 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity Documents

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared obesity as a global epidemic, estimating 2.3 billion people will be overweight, and 700 million people will be obese by 2015. With the rise in obesity, weight-loss programs are one avenue that consumers are using to battle the epidemic. Approximately 2/3 of adults in the Western population are trying to lose weight or avoid weight gain.

The purpose of this paper is to review the current research of four major weight-loss programs: Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem, and Medifast, regarding fundamentals of the programs, the programs safety for consumers use, effectiveness of the …

Altered Recurrence In To The Lighthouse, Heather Lamb

2014 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity Documents

Virginia Woolf, in her novel To the Lighthouse, portrays memory progressing in a spiral motion. In this motion, a single memory, event, or moment in time, is captured and relived. These memories are initiated by present events similar to past experiences. Therefore, memories are a series of reoccurring events on a personal timeline that are altered slightly with each reconstruction, an experience that I will refer to as altered recurrence. Through altered recurrence, Woolf depicts art as a result of the creator’s memory; yet, this pattern of memory also deems the work obsolete.

Examining The Historical Representation Of Native Americans Within Children’S Literature, Lauren Hunt

2014 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity Documents

In this research, I evaluated the historical representation of Native Americans in children’s literature. The portrayal of Native Americans in children’s literature is important because Native Americans are commonly included within elementary school social studies curriculum. For this reason, teachers should know how the literature they select historically represents Native Americans. This historical representation includes—but is not limited to—their interactions with European explorers, colonists, and eventually Americans. Teachers must be aware that publishers of children’s books are businesses; their job is to sell books. As a result, these companies do not always ensure that the books they sell are historically …

Examining The Historical Representation Of Native Americans Within Children’S Literature, Lauren Hunt

Undergraduate Honors Theses

In this research, I evaluated the historical representation of Native Americans in children’s literature. The portrayal of Native Americans in children’s literature is important because Native Americans are commonly included within elementary school social studies curriculum. For this reason, teachers should know how the literature they select historically represents Native Americans. This historical representation includes—but is not limited to—their interactions with European explorers, colonists, and eventually Americans. Teachers must be aware that publishers of children’s books are businesses; their job is to sell books. As a result, these companies do not always ensure that the books they sell are historically …

17th Annual Research Fair, College Of Education And Professional Studies

Research Fairs

This pamphlet documents notable student research in the College of Education and Professional Studies at Eastern Illinois University.

Daily Eastern News: Feburary 24, 2014, Eastern Illinois University

February

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Daily Eastern News: Feburary 12, 2014, Eastern Illinois University

February

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Daily Eastern News: Feburary 07, 2014, Eastern Illinois University

February

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Daily Eastern News: Feburary 06, 2014, Eastern Illinois University

February

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Effects Of Peer Victimization On Psychological And Academic Adjustment In Early Adolescence, Sandra Rueger, Lyndsay Jenkins

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

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Daily Eastern News: January 30, 2014, Eastern Illinois University

January

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Daily Eastern News: January 27, 2014, Eastern Illinois University

January

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Bargaining Market Equity Adjustments By Rank And Discipline, Jonathan P. Blitz, Jeffrey F. Cross

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Faculty contract negotiations generally include wages, hours, and other conditions of employment as well as mutually agreed non-mandatory subjects of bargaining. Negotiators typically address wages in terms of across-the-board increases, promotion in rank, merit increases, and one-time signing bonuses. Less typically, faculty salary negotiations include various forms of equity adjustments and salary increases linked to the underlying market and social forces and to salary compression that may, or may not, be related to these forces. The authors describe how they negotiated differential discipline-specific target salaries based in part on College and University Personnel Association faculty salary data.

Organizational Culture, Knowledge Structures, And Relational Messages In Organizational Negotiation: A Systems Approach, Vincent P. Cavataio, Robert S. Hinck

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This study examines a recent bargaining process between the Faculty Association and Central Michigan University. Taking a systems approach, we began with the assumption that a healthy organizational culture produces negative feedback which can help keep participants at the bargaining table despite disagreement. However, if organizational members’ relationships are threatened, organizational culture unravels as destructive messages provide positive feedback to disrupt the system and make impasse more likely. To understand how an university’s culture is impacted during contract negotiations we examined messages published in a university student newspaper, transcripts from the local NPR station, CMU’s press releases, a Facebook page, …

Daily Eastern News: January 24, 2014, Eastern Illinois University

January

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Daily Eastern News: January 16, 2014, Eastern Illinois University

January

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Eng 2009g-001: Literature & Human Values: Love, Hate, & Obsession, Charlotte Pence

Spring 2014

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Eng 2850-001: Postcolonial Literatures In English, Jyoti Panjwani

Spring 2014

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Eng 3901-001: Language And Linguistics, Rosemary Buck

Spring 2014

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