Browsing by Department "Psychology"
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(2020-05-13)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes cognitive impairment, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and reduced adaptive function. In particular, reduced adaptive function can present challenges ...
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(2012-07-16)Individuals who are members of stigmatized groups, such as lesbians, gays, and bisexuals, have cognitive deficits in situations that are threatening or hostile to the group in question. Stereotype threat and stigma threat ...
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(2017-06-12)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is associated with progressive cognitive declines that classically affect memory in the mild stages of the disease and gradually impair all other cognitive functions. Although certain changes in ...
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(2021-06-04)Voluntary task switching (VTS) paradigms are often used to assess cognitive flexibility in experimental settings. Here, the cognitive processes related to switching tasks and behavioral changes over time in VTS paradigms ...
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(2015-06-01)Although previous research has shown a negative relation between partner support and PTSD symptom severity among military service members following deployment, the mediating mechanisms of this effect remain poorly understood. ...
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(2018-06-12)The present study investigated the incremental impact of gender harassment on the association between combat exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and problem drinking in 134 female veterans who ...
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(2012-10-19)The team-training literature provides favorable support for the after-action review (AAR)?s ability to improve cognitive, skill, and attitudinal outcomes in co-located and distributed environments. However, the comparative ...
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(2014-01-13)The primary objective of the present study was to investigate the construct-related validity of three situational judgment test (SJT) response formats. The present study addressed a potential common method bias threat ...
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(2014-12-12)Scant research exists regarding the nature of variance in overall level of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) and parent-child informant perspectives of HRQOL specific to children with functional and organic gastrointestinal ...
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(1987)The purpose of this study was to compare the action of various drugs on gastric retention (Experiment 1) and food intake (Experiment 2). The subjects were 79 Sprague-Dawley male albino rats. (Experiment 1 = 40), (Experiment ...
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(1982)Eight hyperactive children were compared to eight control children matched with regard to age, ethnicity and school grade on tests of auditory perception and memory (Digit Span), spatial figure recognition (Gestalt Closure ...
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(PsyArXiv, 2020)Most theories describing the cognitive processes underlying task switching allow for contributions of active task-set reconfiguration and task set inertia. Manipulations of the Cue-to-Stimulus-Interval (CSI) are generally ...
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(2017-08-01)Confrontation is defined as expressing displeasure with mistreatment and is a behavioral response to ostracism – being ignored and excluded by others. According to the temporal need-threat model of ostracism, targets’ ...
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(2010-01-16)Two experiments compared the effects of two cognitive responses (i.e., rumination and cognitive reappraisal) individuals may adopt when confronted with a threat to self-regard. In Study 1, participants received negative ...
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(2017-07-13)Many different theories have been used to predict the effects different facets of virtuality can have on teams. Construal Level Theory (CLT) is more parsimonious in that it provides one mechanism for various facets. This ...
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This study was based on the interaction between two theories, one of which describes how individuals conceptualize their goals (Construal Level Theory) and the other addresses the understanding of the self (Self-knowledge). ...
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(2012-07-11)It is a widespread belief that the ability to recognize information is enhanced when environmental context is reinstated, such as when a witness returns to the scene where a crime was committed in order to enhance their ...
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(2015-04-24)The debate over the existence of recovered memories remains a divisive issue for mental health practitioners and cognitive scientists, in part due to a limited understanding of the processes underlying motivated forgetting ...
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(2018-05-03)Anxiety disorders are some of the most common and debilitating forms of mental illnesses in our society. Understanding the behavioral and brain mechanisms of anxiety is essential in the development of novel therapeutic ...
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(2012-10-19)Previous research has demonstrated that the spinal cord is capable of a simple form of instrumental learning. In this instrumental learning paradigm, rats typically receive a complete spinal transection at the second ...