The relationship between self-efficacy and academic performance gained significant attention in educational psychology following the development of Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura 1977b). Academic self-efficacy,...
Tema:
Self-efficacy, Academic acheivement y Education, Higher -- Psychological aspects
The body of research on alcohol and its effects on the brain and human body is extensive. Recent advances in neuroimaging have lead to a better understanding of the underlying physiology of attention coupled with new...
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Acute, Alcohol, Attention y Attention Networks
Tema:
Alcohol -- Physiological effect y Cognition -- Effect of drugs on
There is a significant achievement gap between marginalized minority students and their white peers. The achievement gap is well-documented, and it is theorized that both home and school factors contribute to the problem. This...
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Academic achievement, Students, Black, Hispanic American students, Indigenous American students, Muslim students, Racial justice in education, Teachers -- Training of, Asian American students y Culturally relevant pedagogy
The new responsibilities and circumstances of individuals entering the first phases of adulthood allow for many outlets of coping that may be potentially harmful to one’s health and/or wellbeing, with one such outlet being...
Palabra clave:
ACEs, Attachment, Emotion Dysregulation Parental Warmth y Substance Use
Tema:
Psychic trauma in children, Attachment behavior, Adjustment (Psychology), Parenting y Substance abuse
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Director Tom Insel has created a newmethod of researching and conceptualizing mental health dysfunction. Instead of usingheterogeneous symptom classifications, Dr. Insel believes a...
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Eye Tracking, MMPI-2-RF, RDoC, Schiozphrenia y Thought Dysfunction
Research has suggested that the use of sustained direct attention can result in a fatiguing effect. Itis believed that this attention fatigue is specific to direct attention, which is an intentionalcognitive process. Direct...
Previous research on attitudes toward homosexuals utilized vignettes presented in a holistic fashion to participants (Batson, Floyd, Meyer, & Winner, 1999; Bassett et al., 2002; Mak & Tsang, 2008). In these vignettes,...
Palabra clave:
Attitude, Celibate, Homosexual, Promiscuous y Sequential
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Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity, Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity, Christian conservatism y Homosexuality -- Public opinion
The classification of mental disorders has generated enduring debate due to significantdiagnostic, treatment, and research implications. Recent neurobiologic and genetic discoverieshave underscored the limitations of the...
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Externalizing, Eye-tracking, MMPI-2-RF, PPI-Tri, Psychopathy y RDoC
Tema:
Gaze -- Psychological aspects, Acting out (Psychology) -- Physiological aspects y Eye tracking
The purpose of this thesis was to assess the association between the developmental stage of parenting and changes in disgust sensitivity. Little disgust research has focused on the parenting domain, and virtually none has...
The term “psychopathy” has had a controversial past with varying conceptualizations and definitions. Presently, psychopathy is “considered to entail persistent behavioral deviancy in the company of emotional-interpersonal...
Palabra clave:
disinhibition, five-factor model, narcissism, psychopathy y substance use
Tema:
Psychology, Pathological y College students -- Substance use
