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Binge Drinking: Subtypes And Associations In Young Adults, Christopher J. Skok
Binge Drinking: Subtypes And Associations In Young Adults, Christopher J. Skok
Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research
Binge drinking has been common practice and a rite of passage for many young adults in the college population. The practice of binge drinking has continued even as binging is associated with several cognitive deficits. One unanswered question still remains: namely, at what levels of binge drinking do these cognitive deficits associate? To investigate this question, three different groups of binge drinkers (low, moderate, and heavy) were compared on two measures of cognition: intelligence (IQ) and executive working memory (EWM) capacity. The binge groups were also compared to non-bingers and abstainers to further investigate how they differed in EWM capacity …
Stereotype Threat And Oc Symptomatology: The Impact Of Messy Vs. Clean Environments On Cognitive Test Performance, Ellen R. Kendall, Sarah M. Mcroberts
Stereotype Threat And Oc Symptomatology: The Impact Of Messy Vs. Clean Environments On Cognitive Test Performance, Ellen R. Kendall, Sarah M. Mcroberts
Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research
Stereotype threat has been researched in a variety of contexts such as African Americans’ intellect, older adults’ memory, and women’s performance in math. Despite this extensive research, little has been done in the domain of mental illness. This study examines whether stereotype threat can be induced in people high in obsessive compulsive (OC) symptoms. We hypothesized that, when given explicit information about their OC tendencies, individuals high in OC symptoms would perform less well on cognitive tests in a messy than a clean environment compared to those low in OC symptoms. Group testing sessions included a mix of college students …
Relative Preservation Of Emotion Recognition Abilities In Women Compared To Men With Parkinson's Disease, Colleen Frank
Relative Preservation Of Emotion Recognition Abilities In Women Compared To Men With Parkinson's Disease, Colleen Frank
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
Successful emotion recognition is necessary for healthy relationships. Parkinson’s disease (PD) can be associated with deficits in emotion recognition through both auditory and visual modalities. Because past research has also documented that gender plays a role in emotion recognition, PD could differentially affect men and women. This study examined the abilities of men and women with PD to recognize specific emotions through emotional facial expressions and emotional prosody compared to healthy controls. This study included 28 PD patients (14 men, 14 women) and 40 (20 men, 20 women) age-matched healthy control participants. The PD group displayed deficits on both the …
The Effects Of Sleep Quality On Theory Of Mind, Julie Erwin
The Effects Of Sleep Quality On Theory Of Mind, Julie Erwin
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
Previous research indicates a relationship between Theory of Mind (ToM; the ability to discern others’ thoughts, emotions, intentions, etc.) and psychological disorders. Further, previous research has described a relationship between psychological disorders and sleep disruption. However, no existing research has examined whether sleep quality is associated with ToM. In this study, I explored that relationship in a healthy undergraduate population. To address this question, I proposed to correlate measures of ToM with measures of sleep quality.