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Exploring the structure of cognitive processes: discrete and continuous theories of memory and perception
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Cognitive psychologists often debate whether cognitive processes such as recognition memory and visual perception are better described as continuous or discrete. Much of the literature is dominated by continuous latent-strength ...
New onset, recurrence, and persistence of alcohol dependence criteria : maturing out at the symptom level
([University of Missouri--Columbia], 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Epidemiological studies have consistently shown a decrease in the prevalence of Alcohol Dependence (AD) with age after its peak in young adulthood. ...
Motor learning in children with an autism spectrum disorder
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
In addition to social communication difficulties, individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) frequently experience problems in other domains such as motor control and learning. The goal of the current study was to ...
Experience, awareness, and regulation of mixed emotions
([University of Missouri--Columbia], 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Literature on relationships of emotions to psychological adjustment has mainly focused on unitarily valenced affect (i.e., positive or negative emotions). ...
Individual differences in intuitive processing and moral judgment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST) is a broad theory of personality proposing a dual-process approach to information processing, involving an ...
The role of misattribution in the effects of violent video games on aggressive behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Researchers generally agree that acute exposure to violent video games (VVGs) increases aggressive behavior by priming aggressive schemas or scripts, ...
Regulation of positive emotions in youth : relations with affect and depression
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The main goal of the current study was to investigate the role of Regulation of Positive Emotions (RPE) or the "ability to manage responses to positive emotions" in youth development of depression. In order to accomplish ...
Domain-general and domain-specific brain activations and networks in visual and auditory working memory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Working memory (WM) is a latent cognitive structure that involves active maintenance and manipulation of information for a short time. How items are stored in WM is an important issue that remains controversial. Whereas ...
Neural and behavioral effects of regulating emotional responses to errors during an implicit racial bias task
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Emotion regulation plays a key role in several theories of prejudice reduction. Here, we tested whether engaging in emotion regulation strategies while performing an implicit racial bias task would alter neural and behavioral ...
Game violence, game difficulty, and 2D:4D digit ratio as predictors of aggressive behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Previous research efforts have sought to determine whether violent video games cause increases in aggressive behavior. The resulting literature is controversial. Those finding the effect may not have the desired degree of ...
Values, situational need construals, and well-being : relative intrinsic to extrinsic values predict perceiving more opportunities for satisfaction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The link between relative intrinsic to extrinsic value orientations and psychological well-being is now wellestablished, and it is understood that need psychological satisfaction plays a key role in this outcome. It is an ...
Resource-depletion : outcome of failed energy management or adaptive emotion?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The purpose of this study was to determine whether people have a limited self-control ability. Past research has shown that when people controls themselves they are worse at controlling themselve afterwards. So, for instance, ...
Use of score-based tests in IRT Models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Measurement invariance is a fundamental assumption in item response theory models, where the relationship between a latent construct (ability) and observed item responses are of interest. Violation of this assumption would ...
Speech symptoms in Schizophrenia and relationships with working memory, goal maintenance, and processing speed
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
People with schizophrenia exhibit wide ranging cognitive deficits, including slower processing speed (i.e., speed of executing task components). Speech symptoms, such as disorganized speech and alogia, have been associated ...
Effects of a metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 positive allosteric modulator, CDPPB, on spatial learning in rodents
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGlu5) has been implicated in a variety of learning processes and is important for aversive learning tasks. The present studies used an mGlu5 receptor positive allosteric modulator, ...
Methamphetamine-induced hyperactivity and reinforcement learning in rats selectively bred for high and low voluntary running
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The goal of the present research was to assess two lines of Wistar rats selectively bred for high (HVR) and low (LVR) voluntary wheel running, in ...
The motivational primacy of environmental coherence : self-derogation and the experience of meaning in life
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Although the human tendency to make self-serving attributions is well-documented, not all behaviors and cognitions are primarily self-serving. Victims blame themselves for uncontrollable circumstances and individuals ...
An investigation of automatic affective processing : behavioral correlates in schizophrenia and neural correlates in healthy adults
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] An important mechanism in emotional functioning is automatic affective processing. In Study 1, people with schizophrenia (n = 48) and a non-psychiatric ...
Positive affect, intuitive processing, and visual encoding
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The effects of positive affect (PA) on cognitive outcomes have been studied extensively. These effects map on squarely to a Cognitive-Experiential Self Theory (CEST) framework (Epstein, 1991; 1994). One component of CEST ...
Classification problems in growth mixture modeling
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Growth mixture modeling can be used for two purposes: 1) to identify mixtures of normal sub-groups, and 2) to approximate oddly shaped distributions ...