The ethics of experimentation with human subjects is a topic of continuing controversy. Justification for possibly unethical procedure such as deception, is found by experimenters in subjects' reports that the experiment was a worthwhile experience an . . .

Warnings on consumer products are typically the only devices used to elicit safe product use. Manufacturers have a legal duty to warn about predictable product dangers. and currently the legal system heavily emphasizes the importance of such written p . . .

There are unsettled debates in the literature regarding the strength of top-down and bottom-up processing in visual attention. Control of top-down visual attention was assessed in both younger and older adults using a visual search task. In the task, . . .

For decades, studies have shown that people are better able to distinguish ownrace faces compared to other-race faces, a phenomenon known as the Other-Race Effect (ORE). Research suggests that perceptual experience and social context factors may play . . .

Much research indicates that people form impressions of others based on very little information. Previous research suggests that a social stigma exists toward divorced men and women, and there are also a variety of negative stereotypes associated with . . .

Working memory is a construct central to cognition as it serves as the theoretical bridge between short term and long term memory. Current models of working memory describe function and organization differently based on structural or neural activation . . .

Participants were 112 undergraduate students (75 women and 37 men; M age = 22.1 years, range = 18-46 years). The majority of participants identified Latino/a (68.4%) and having friends (70%) or family (39%), known to be gay or lesbian. This study cont . . .

Simulations were conducted to evaluate the statistical power and Type I error control provided by several multiple-comparisons procedures in two-group designs. Stepwise Bonferroni-based procedures, which are known to control the familywise Type I erro . . .

Thesis (M.S.) California State University, Los Angeles, 2012

Follow-Up Study, Nodal Number, Response Time, Retention Test, Stimulus Equivalence, Training Structures