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Do Our Perceptions Affect Our Decision Making In Legal Contexts?, Scott Benedict
Do Our Perceptions Affect Our Decision Making In Legal Contexts?, Scott Benedict
Undergraduate Honours Theses
Previous research has established that community interaction with the mentally ill, public education on the subject, and social integration all lead to a significantly more positive prognosis for sufferers of mental illness (Trute & Loewen, 1978), especially in ensuring less-frequent interaction with the legal system. Research has also shown however, that the misinformed and uneducated are more punitive and less empathetic (Shaw & Woodworth, 2013). The large representation of the mentally ill in the prison system necessitates revisions of policies regarding the handling of mental illness in social and community immersion, public education and legal contexts. The present study was …
Infants' Sensitivity To Fine Durational Cues In Speech Perception, Alyssa K. Kuiack
Infants' Sensitivity To Fine Durational Cues In Speech Perception, Alyssa K. Kuiack
Undergraduate Honours Theses
Previous research has indicated that infants as young as 3 days of age show sensitivity to prosodic stress patterns and can use this information to distinguish word boundaries (Christophe et al., 1994). Older infants have also exhibited an ability to use prosodic stress patterns to segment streams of speech (Echols et al., 1997) and have shown a preference for samples of speech with the patterns of prosody displayed by their native language versus the prosodic patterns typical of other non-native languages (Werker & Tees 1984, Juscyzk et al. 1993). Adults have demonstrated the ability of language discrimination based strictly on …
Infants' Memory For Melody And Words In Sung Songs, Leanna De Lucia
Infants' Memory For Melody And Words In Sung Songs, Leanna De Lucia
Undergraduate Honours Theses
Past research suggests that infants' recollection of melodic information is hindered when linguistic and melodic properties of music are presented simultaneously over a short duration of time. The purpose of the present study is to examine infants' memory for melody and lyrics when the two stimuli are presented simultaneously over a prolonged exposure time. The design is a head turn preference paradigm. Thirty 6- to 8- month-old infants were familiarized to a song at home for a seven-day period. On day eight, infants were tested and randomly assigned to one of two conditions. The Melody Condition compared the familiar melody …
Rhyming Versus Repetition In Children's Stories: The Role Of Reading Strategies In New Word Recognition, Katherine Stover
Rhyming Versus Repetition In Children's Stories: The Role Of Reading Strategies In New Word Recognition, Katherine Stover
Undergraduate Honours Theses
There is a lack of research that focuses on how the structure of children's storybooks contributes to reading development. Although many parenting sites express the benefits of reading rhyming stories to one's children, there is a lack of empirical research to support this claim. The goal of the present study was to determine whether exposure to rime or repetition strategies would enhance children's ability to correctly pronounce novel words and non-words. In this study, the clue word paradigm created by Goswami (1988) was used to determine if children could more successfully use the orthographic analogy strategy in a story context, …
The Effects Of Visual Cue Facilitation In Spatial Pattern Learning In Rats, Sachia M. Grogan
The Effects Of Visual Cue Facilitation In Spatial Pattern Learning In Rats, Sachia M. Grogan
Undergraduate Honours Theses
Recently published research has shown that a consistent but not coincident visual pattern facilitated the learning of a diamond spatial pattern in humans (Katz, Brown & Sturz, 2014). The purpose of the present experiment was to examine if this could be done in rats, using a square spatial pattern. For each trial, 16 towers were arranged in a 4 X 4 matrix, with one of the nine possible 2 X 2 baiting patterns baited with cheese. The visual pattern group also had four striped towers placed in a 2 X 2 spatial pattern within the larger matrix, while the visual …