Browsing 2014 MU theses - Freely available online by Thesis Department "Psychological sciences (MU)"
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Attempts to reduce the high false alarm rate in older adults' associative memory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)Whereas memory for individual items stays relatively intact with age, associative memory, (e.g., memory for pairs of items), seems to show a noticeable decline (what is known as older adults� associative memory deficit). ... -
Content reinstatement and source confidence during episodic memory retrieval
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)Episodic retrieval is the process of bringing information about a past experience from memory into conscious awareness. Variation in the retrieval process, in regard to content and quality of the information retrieved, is ... -
Individual differences in alcohol sensitivity and their effects on subjective state and craving in naturalistic environments
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)Sensitivity to the effects of alcohol has long been studied as a risk factor for developing an alcohol use disorder. Several theories exist regarding the profile of subjective responses that constitute the highest risk: ... -
Precision and capacity development in auditory working memory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)This research has explored the development of auditory working memory capacity and precision in children and adults. Very little is known about the capacity limits of auditory working memory, and even less is known about ... -
Predicting risk of mathematical learning difficulties in preschoolers : the role of symbolic and nonsymbolic quantitative knowledge
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)There is extensive debate over whether children's mathematical learning difficulties are the result of deficits in the inherent system for nonsymbolic representations of quantity or in their ease of learning quantitative ... -
Repetition effects in object switch costs: against a switch cost measure of a discrete focus of attention
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)Object switch costs have been taken to index items in the focus of attention (e.g., Oberauer, 2005). They refer to savings in reaction time (RT) when a target object to which a response must be made is the same as the ...