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On Environmental Education, James Mackinnon Michel Spreuwenberg-Stewart
On Environmental Education, James Mackinnon Michel Spreuwenberg-Stewart
Senior Projects Spring 2015
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College
An Attachment Style Based Experimental Design To Maximize Dog Adoption Success, Claire Weinman
An Attachment Style Based Experimental Design To Maximize Dog Adoption Success, Claire Weinman
Senior Projects Fall 2015
Evolution and domestication have brought dogs very close to humans. Research has found numerous behavioral, cognitive, neurological, and physiological similarities between the two species. Additional research has found that humans and dogs can share cross-species attachments that are comparable to mother-infant attachments. Furthermore, attachment styles in dogs are classified the same way they are in children. The statistics on the vast amount of dogs in animal shelters, too many of which are being senselessly killed, are shocking. I propose a two-part study that first assesses which attachment style pairings are most successful and which are unsuccessful based on measurements of …
Cognitive Enrichment Intervention For Captive Orcas, Eve Copeland
Cognitive Enrichment Intervention For Captive Orcas, Eve Copeland
Senior Projects Spring 2015
The goal of the present proposal was to design a cognitive enrichment program to reduce stereotypy and physiological signs of stress in captive orcas (Orcinus orca). This intervention consists of an object discrimination and retrieval task, and was designed to simulate orcas’ behavioral need of hunting. Seaworld’s three parks were used as locations for each of the group conditions: the Intervention Group, the Increased Training Group, and the Control Group. The hypothesized results demonstrate that the Intervention Group will show the smallest amount of stereotypic behavior at each interval of the experiment and that stereotypic behavior has a …
Sociality Of Gaze Following In Black And White Ruffed Lemurs: Following A Live Person Versus A Photograph, Hannah Sterling Mason
Sociality Of Gaze Following In Black And White Ruffed Lemurs: Following A Live Person Versus A Photograph, Hannah Sterling Mason
Senior Projects Spring 2015
One measure that is commonly used to assess a species’ mental complexity is its gesture-following ability, or the ability to follow a human gesture (such as a gaze or a point) to choose between potential food sources. Animals that have demonstrated this ability include dogs and primates. The high-level explanation of gesture following is that it signifies an animal’s ability to understand the human’s knowledge of where the food is and his intent to communicate that knowledge. However, gesture following could also be explained as being a low-level mechanism relying on directional bias. Looking at the eyes of another individual …
Beneath The Human Capital Investment: Modelling Student Debt Awareness And A Critical Examination Of Financial Aid Materials Using Construal-Level Theory, Sophia Alecia Sutcliffe
Beneath The Human Capital Investment: Modelling Student Debt Awareness And A Critical Examination Of Financial Aid Materials Using Construal-Level Theory, Sophia Alecia Sutcliffe
Senior Projects Spring 2015
As student loans are increasingly utilized to invest in higher education, it is important to consider how students perceive and understand their loan commitments. Study 1 surveyed a sample of 147 Bard students on their attitudes towards debt and how much they knew about their loan commitments. Over half of the students sampled could not report how much they currently owed in student loans (N=76, 51.4%), 23.8% (N=35) could not identify the types of loans they held, 25.2% of participants could not provide an estimate of how much debt they expect to graduate with within a range of $5,000- $10,000, …
Game And Train: A Targeted Game-Based Mobile Intervention For The Treatment Of Incarcerated Psychopathic Offenders, Sydney Lauren Abualy
Game And Train: A Targeted Game-Based Mobile Intervention For The Treatment Of Incarcerated Psychopathic Offenders, Sydney Lauren Abualy
Senior Projects Spring 2015
The treatment of psychopathic offenders has been a neglected topic in the clinical field. Most interventions available have failed to address core psychopathic traits and instead, use generalized treatments that solely target criminal risk reduction. These current treatments have been shown to yield unsuccessful results related to behavior change and lead to recidivism. The proposed intervention, Game and Train, acts as a response to the inadequate treatments currently available. Two hundred male incarcerated psychopathic offenders will be recruited and asked to participate in an intensive 6-week intervention, Game and Train, that will be accessed via a smart mobile device. The …
The Mind, The Brain, And The Self: The Limits Of Sense And Nonsense In Neurology And Psychology, Max Boris Baird
The Mind, The Brain, And The Self: The Limits Of Sense And Nonsense In Neurology And Psychology, Max Boris Baird
Senior Projects Spring 2015
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.