The purpose of this study was to examine whether feelings about language brokering, moderated by frequency of heritage language use with co-ethnic peers, are a significant predictor of feelings of ethnic identity among immigrant-background Latino/a ad . . .

A study was conducted to investigate the effects of filmed models on children's decisions regarding distribution of reward in a dyadic situation. The principal question was: would children us an equality or equity norm when dividing a reward? Children . . .

Recent studies have suggested that the regular practice of a form of meditation known as Transcendental Meditation has a positive effect upon the psychological functioning of the individual. Unfortunately, these studies have not controlled for both mo . . .

This thesis examined the correlation between demographic predictors and variables based on changes in sexual behavior. Subjects were 143 gay men who participated in a "safe sex" seminar given by the Shanti Project in Los Angeles. Participants filled o . . .

Emotionally disturbed nonrelative adopted and nonadopted adolescents in a psychiatric hospital were compared to investigate possible differences in the severity of their socially unacceptable acting-out behavior, and whether any differences might be r . . .

Four similar experiments were conducted to test cognitive hypotheses of time perception. Experiments I, II, and III utilized the duration judgment methods of Production (MP), Reproduction (MR), and Verbal Estimation (MVE) respectively, with 20 male an . . .

The purposes of this research were to explore (1) the relationship between maternal and paternal rejection with emerging adults' interpersonal relationship anxiety and (2) whether emotion dysregulation mediated the relationship between parental and in . . .

Conjoint lateral eye movements (CLEM) which accompany reflection before answering a question are theorized to be indicative of cerebral hemispheric lateralization of function. Inconsistent results obtained from previous experimental designs in which t . . .

This investigation used a pre-test, post-test; two-group, randomized design to test the effect of the assignment of a "Big Brother" on juvenile probationer’s self-esteem scores. Results were not statistically significant, indicating that the volunteer . . .

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic neurocognitive degenerative disease affecting millions of individuals every day. Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) represents a prodromal gray-area state between normal aging and cognitive impairment. MCI is frequen . . .

A two part experiment was undertaken to compare the effects of punishment-shock on the consummatory response of eating and the instrumental response of bar pressing which led to food. The experiment was performed in order to test Solomon's prediction . . .

The purpose of this study was to investigate the smoking behavior, health knowledge, and attitudes toward smoking of students in the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades of the San Diego Unified School District. The study was also focused on the relati . . .

Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness often involving hallucinations and/or delusions and marked social and cognitive dysfunction (Messias et al., 2007). Individuals who display sub-clinical symptoms of schizophrenia are characterized by the multid . . .

The purposes of this study were to determine: (a) whether public stigma associated with seeking psychological help was related to self-stigma associated with seeking psychological help, (b) whether self-stigma was related to help-seeking attitudes tow . . .

A considerable debate exists with relation to the existence and/ or manifestation of depressive states in adolescents. Kovacs and Beck (1975) identified behavioral symptoms in individuals up to age sixteen which are similar to those evidenced in depre . . .

Resource competition allocation of attention in the dual task paradigm were investigated. Primary tasks were mathematical addition of 3 digit numbers and identification of orientation of triangles. Secondary task was pedaling an ergonometer bicycle. T . . .

This stuqy investigated the relationship between achievement motivation and learning in young children. The major hypotheses of the study are that children high in need achievement learn at a faster rate than those low and that the rate of learning is . . .

Research on racial categories and threat-relevant associations suggests that there are attentional biases associated with judgments of Blacks compared to Whites (Donders, Correll, & Wittenbrink, 2008). Researchers have found that Black-danger associat . . .

Seventy-two subjects, including adult deaf, hearing and art students, were tested by means of (1) Color-Form Sorting Task, (2) Color-Form Preference Task, (3) Color-Word Meaning Task, (4) three Color-Tension Tasks and (5) the Press Test, in order to i . . .

Recent evidence has indicated that social support may play an important role in moderating the relationship between stress and psychological impairment. In the present study, two specific aspects of social support, support behaviors received and recip . . .

The present study utilized a pre test post test design to examine the impact of a six week human sexuality program on psychiatrically hospitalized children. Sex related knowledge, socially acceptable terminology, and attitudes of 25 eight to thirteen . . .

The purposes were to examine: (a) the relationship between perceived parenting (support, psychological control), secure romantic attachment, and generalized anxiety, happiness, and quality of life in Latino emerging adults, and (b) whether perceived p . . .

A model is presented to explain the relationships of brain lateralization, spatial visualization, and mathematics preparation to the development of mathematics anxiety. Sex-related differences are examined. The subjects were 122 students enrolled in i . . .

Synesthesia is a unique condition in which two sensory modalities are experienced simultaneously. In the case of grapheme-color synesthesia, an individual perceives physically achromatic graphemes (letters and numbers) as a specific color, or "photism . . .

Six male and six female observers judged the point at which slowly moving contours appeared to be level with the horizontal plane under complete reduction conditions. Seven different contours were judged at two size levels. Four of the contours were c . . .

With Latinos currently making up the largest minority population in the United States, policy makers are concerned about the factors that sustain engagement in school and keep the high school dropout rates in their current state of decline. The curren . . .

Life satisfaction in three domains was assessed in 82 men and women who were CSUN undergraduates between the ages of 18 and 47 (median age was 22). General, cognitive, and dispositional life satisfaction indicators were employed. The life domains of e . . .

Effects of either a 10% ethanol solution or an isocaloric dextrose solution (both injected intraperitoneally) on social dominance behavior were studied. 56 male, albino, Sprague-Dawley rats, 121 days old were familiarized with the dominance apparatus . . .

The purpose of this investigation was to examine whether or not the correspondence between American stereotypes (American self-image) and American stereotypes held by Japanese varies as a function of the age-level, sex and explicit-language-proficienc . . .

This study attempts to compare the ability of psychotics and non-psychotics to use body empathy. "Body Empathy," for this study, is defined as the ability to empathize with the feelings of another person through non-verbal observation of their body po . . .

Substance use disorders and anxiety and depression are regularly comorbid. Mindfulness has been demonstrated to negatively correlate with anxiety and depression, while mindfulness practices have been shown to improve anxiety and depression. With purpo . . .

The present investigation studied the effect of instructions, as stressor stimuli, on state anxiety and on performance on a serial anticipation learning task. Prior research has attributed the differential effects of such instructions to level of, wha . . .

The current study examined the factor structure, concurrent, and convergent validity of the 8-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-8) among emerging adult men and women of Mexican descent residing in the United States (i.e., U.S. born Mexican Americ . . .

The purpose of this study was to examine maternal anxiety and depression and their subsequent effects on behavior patterns in children. Maternal anxiety was assessed by the Spielberger Trait Anxiety Inventory, while maternal depression was assessed by . . .

This research was initiated to address the problem of the influence of individual differences among therapists as variables affecting client outcome. This study investigated the correlation between therapist personality characteristics, specifically e . . .

Recent research pertaining to the psychology of courtroom behavior has mainly concentrated on the jury; the present thesis is one of the few modern studies dealing with the psychology of testimony. An extensive review is presented of research that dir . . .

The present study examines reactions to brief, narrative jokes as a function of three dimensions; the sex of the subject, the sex of a hypothetical joke teller, and the type of joke; either male superior (a female character is the butt of the joke) or . . .

The purpose of this study was to examine the association childhood maltreatment, temperament and empathy have with psychopathy. The research aims were to examine: (1) the association childhood maltreatment has on psychopathy; (2) the mediating effect . . .

Previous studies have found evidence for "feature-based stereotyping" (FBS), in which the more "prototypic" an individual's features are of their social group, the more that individual will be stereotyped. Both categorization and a direct association . . .

One hundred seventy-seven children identified as learning disabled were selected to study 21 antecedent conditions in existence prior to their diagnosis as learning disabled, as reported by their parents. A standard regression analysis was used to cre . . .

The field project described in the body of this work consists of (1) the development of a modular training program for behavioral observation, (2) a literature based theoretically justified proposal for accomplishing this training with programed video . . .

Psychometrics is the field of study concerned with the theory and technique of educational and psychological measurement. This includes the measurement of knowledge, abilities, attitudes and personality traits. Psychometric measurement tools are often . . .

Recent research suggests that perceivers are less accurate in categorizing multiracial individuals than monoracial individuals. Categorization accuracy for multiracial individuals typically hovers around 20 to 25 percent while monoracial categorizatio . . .

A visual discrimination concept formation training program for low achievers was given to a group of 53 fourth and fifth grade children over a period of three months. Transfer effects of the training procedures were assessed by the Cognitive Abilities . . .

Gibson and Levin (1976) have reported that the study of reading can be divided into three distinct time periods on the basis of general approach. For the first period, starting around the turn of the century until around 1925, the list of those . . .

This study investigated the effects of attitudes toward and knowledge of overpopulation and sexism on childbearing and adoption attitudes. The subjects were 131 students drawn from three high school sophomore and three college sophomore classes. Subje . . .

The phenomenon of torque, first named by Blau (1977a), describes clockwise circling. One hundred thirty male and female college students, 17 to 38 years of age, were studied in an effort to discover the significance of torque as an indicator of cerebr . . .

The understanding of the effect of densely populated settings on human experience and behavior is just beginning. In the early psychological literature, the term "crowding" was used to denote a setting that lacked "enough" space due in part to "too ma . . .

The purpose of this study was the initiation of the validation procedures for the Auditory Perception Test (APT), developed in the late 1960s by Walter Ambinder, a clinical psychologist at Wayne State University. Two studies concerning the APT precede . . .

This study represents an attempt to assess the relationship between unclear communication and deviant behavior. It was hypothesized that as stimuli became less discriminable, and the consequences of responses became less predictable, behavior would be . . .

Impostor Syndrome is a phenomenon that causes individuals to feel as if they either do not belong in a position that they are in or that they do not deserve the successes they obtain (Thompson, Davis, & Davidson, 1998). While previous research has loo . . .

This study examined the prevalence and impact of mental health stigmatization on intentions to seek mental health services among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing young adult college students. It was hypothesized that stigma would be more prevalent among the D . . .

A replication of a study by Shaw (1982) was undertaken to determine the possible mediating effects of psychological androgyny upon common stressful life events. Three hundred and six college students (204 female and 102 male) completed the Bern Sex-Ro . . .

This study investigated the effects of two organizational variables on the recall of word lists; the first was the degree of organization inherent in a list of words to be learned and the second was the type of instructions given to the subject, sugge . . .

Two experiments were designed to investigate the extent to which the subjective meaningfulness of complex pictures was affected by normative vividness, complexity, and temporal conditions of stimulus presentation using a free recall paradigm. Measurem . . .

The two major hypotheses presented in this thesis were that the latencies for mice to attack and to kill crickets would be shorter under a low level of illumination than under a high level of illumination. Six males and six females from each of the C5 . . .

Five male undergraduate students were required to turn an arm ergometer at comfortable self-paced rates. Five work load settings (3,6,9, 12, and 15 footpounds of resistance) were selected to determine the functional relationship between sensitivity to . . .

The present study examined emotional intelligence, relationship perception, and social anhedonia in schizotypy. Approximately 2,000 undergraduates were screened for schizotypy using the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire - Brief. From this screenin . . .

Abstract The Contingent Negative Variation of High and Low Schizotypes During a Continuous Performance Task: An EEG Study By Gregory Koon Master of Arts in Psychology, Clinical Psychology Schizotypy is a dimensional construct of proneness to schizophr . . .

The belief in the power of the moon to influence life on our planet has existed from earliest recorded history, and plays an important role in the history of religion, folklore, and superstition. The conviction that man is to same degree controlled by . . .

Apathy and depression are significant psychiatric disturbances observed in HIV infection. Although symptoms often overlap, recent evidence suggests that these two syndromes are dissociable in HIV. In the present study, we examined the associations bet . . .

The hippocampus has been implicated in a variety of neural mechanisms which modulate behavior. A sinusoidal-like wave form, the theta rhythm has been traditionally stressed as the principle bioelectric activity of this structure. Evidence for this vie . . .

High prevalence rates of sexually risky behaviors (SRBs) and non-suicidal self injury (NSSI) among adolescents and young adults present a need for prevention and intervention efforts to minimize these health-risky behaviors. However, there is a lack o . . .

The purpose of the present study was to determine the relationships among assertiveness, several other personality variables, smoking status, and one's perception of one's health. Rotter's Locus of Control Scale, the College Self-Expression Scale, the . . .

In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as an illness; the American Psychological Association adopted a similar resolution in 1975. The post-decision psychological and psychiatric literatures on homosexuality were exam . . .

The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions and experiences of adolescent females towards bullying and victimization. This study also looked at the relationships between victimization and school climate, teachers' awareness of bullying on . . .

Few methods have been tried to graphically represent more than two variables. This thesis examines a method that is used to represent three continuous variables on a single scatter plot. The variables are displayed in a way analogous to a bivariate sc . . .

A group of currently non-depressed college students (as assessed by the Beck Depression Inventory, BDI) who are vulnerable to depression, were given the Topic Appropriateness Scale (TA) and the BDI on two separate occasions to elicit both their willin . . .

Highly test-anxious female subjects, differing in levels of general anxiety, performed a reading comprehension task following the opportunity to listen to a model speak. Two experimental conditions provided different types of test-taking strategies, a . . .

For centuries, the victims of rape have been shunned by society and derogated by individuals as being in some way “responsible” for that crime. This study sought to replicate the results of past research which consistently tended to demonstrate this s . . .

This research explored family child care providers perception of school-age care. In-depth interviews with four family child care providers in Los Angeles were analyzed using constructivist grounded theory methodology. Five major themes emerged from t . . .

Loneliness is a major problem in our society affecting people of all ages, races, and socioeconomic classes. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between loneliness and general psychiatric distress. The Revised UCLA Lonelin . . .

Sixty-five male and female undergraduate college students were studied to determine the effect of positive imagery on depression. These participants were pre-selected from a pool of 245 subjects who scored 12 or more on the Beck Depression Inventory. . . .

Twenty-three youths, age 15-16, participated in a runaway prevention group. The program was coordinated by a community outreach agency in two schools. The groups were led by an adult volunteer counselor and a peer counselor. Group participation was no . . .

It has been hypothesized that high ambiguity between stimuli will lead to intransitivity. The present study sought to investigate different degrees of ambiguity and the effect on transitivity of judgments. The degree of ambiguity of judgments was defi . . .

To examine the effects of sex of subject, self-esteem, need for social approval, and type of educational experience on self-disclosure, 90 subjects, who were enrolled in either an Introductory Psychology class or a Group Lynamics class, completed the . . .

The purpose of this study was to examine three contextual stressors (i.e., peer victimization, ethnic discrimination, and parental psychological control) and one potential protective factor (i.e., family cohesion) in relation to schizotypy. Self-repor . . .

Mindfulness is the ability to be attentive and conscious of the present moment, while also accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and sensations in a non-judgmental way (Kabat-Zinn, 2003). Being present, especially during performances, has worked to incr . . .

Three treatments of chronic callers to a suicide prevention crisis line by lay volunteers are examined with evaluative research as well as basic research methods. The primary goal of the treatment is to shift the dependency of these clients from a cri . . .

Faced with the ever-increasing problem of child abuse pervading all levels of our society today, researchers are examining the characteristics common to the childrearing experience. Thus far, they have identified unrealistic expectations as one of the . . .

Individuals with developmental disabilities are vulnerable and at-risk for sexual exploitation and abuse due to limitation in sexual education. Past research demonstrates individuals with disabilities are sexually active regardless or not if they have . . .

In an experiment designed to examine attitude change in the communicator as a function of the prior opinions and nature of his audience three variables, each with two levels, were studied: the prestige of an audience (high and low), the perceived beli . . .

This study partially replicated an earlier study by Aaronson (1977), comparing the effects of short-term meditation, relaxation, and an unfocusing technique on anxiety, self-actualization, and locus of control. Using a post-test only control group des . . .

The experiment focused on different ways of presenting information to individuals who are unfamiliar with a specific environment and how it affects spatial orientation. It was predicted that the more “realistically” the medium represented the informat . . .

As with many animal species, a human male's desirability as a potential mate to a human female is generally determined by two factors: genetic quality and willingness and ability to provide paternal investment (Andersson, 1994). Research in societies . . .

Theory and research on the authoritarian personality suggest that in visual and social experiments the authoritarian S is power oriented and tends to perceive equalitarians suspiciously, unfavorably and inaccurately. The present experiment is designed . . .

Subjects attempted to solve a series of puzzles in a study which ostensibly measured performance under conditions of distraction. The stimuli used to induce self-awareness were actually manipulations of self-awareness. Subjects seated in front of a sm . . .

The study was designed to test the hypothesis that motion in visual media can be differentially effective in enhancing the learning of complex spatial relations as a function of the viewer's spatial aptitude. 84 subjects (42 males and 42 females) of h . . .

Traditional approaches to national security emphasize preventing terrorist attacks. However, many security experts argue that fail-safe security is unachievable, and instead advocate emphasizing resilience, reducing the impact of attacks once they hap . . .

Criticisms have b~en raised against factor analysis for lack of objective and reliable methods for comparing sets of factor loadings. In an attempt to meet such criticisms, three measures of invariance or similarity of factors have been offered: the c . . .

The purposes of this study were (1) to examine the effects of perceived ethnic discrimination on mental health (i.e.. depression and anxiety) in emerging adults, (2) to examine whether the relationship between perceived ethnic discrimination and menta . . .

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Latino emerging adults' perceptions of family cohesion, family flexibility, family hardiness, parental support, and parental intrusiveness in relation to depression. Self-report sur . . .

This study examined the impact of contraceptives containing estrogen as well as estrogen fluctuations throughout female participants' menstrual cycle on the expression of borderline personality disorder symptoms. Fifty-six women were administered the . . .

Over the past 15 years, internet and phone technologies have introduced new ways to communicate. Substantial research has shown that social support can positively impact psychological well-being. However, few studies have explored the varying impacts . . .

The influence of involvement, familiarity, and product quality on consumer perceptions and attitudes was examined. Product involvement was measured by scores on the Personal Involvement Inventory (PII), (Zaichkowsky, 1985b). Responses on a frequency o . . .

Recognition memory can be described as identifying a stimulus as having been encountered before. There are individual differences in how judgments are made when encountering a stimulus with uncertainty as to whether or not it has been previously encou . . .

The Premack principle of reinforcement was examined in a context in which contrast effects were allowed to operate. Thirty-two Ss from Psychology classes at San Fernando Valley State College were randomly assigned to one of three experimental groups o . . .

The present study is a pilot study which examined the effects of reading conditions (oral vs. silent), type of activity (resting vs. reading), and the experimenter's presence (present vs. absent) on anxiety states utilizing the State anxiety (A-State) . . .

The study proposed to investigate why those high in grit tend to be more successful, specifically investigating grit's associations with stress and task persistence Part one explored the possibility that grit allows for a more positive interpretation . . .