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Learning to Decipher Speech in Noise and the Impact of Sleep on Learning

Description:: Conversation is an important part of human life. Given globalization and the numerous languages around the world, it is increasingly likely that we will be communicating with others speaking in their second language (L2) rather than their first language (L1). In these situations, communication may require more effort. However, people...
Keyword:: Speech in noise and Targeted memory reactivation
Subject:: Psychology and Neurosciences
Creator:: Bassard, Adrianna M
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16791 and etdadmin_upload_1015288

All Mixed Up: Correlates of Emotional Complexity Across the Lifespan

Description:: Individuals experience a wide variety of emotions in their everyday lives. Some experience more variety, or complexity, than others, called emotional complexity. There is a body of research that suggests that emotional complexity is beneficial for mental and physical health; yet more recent work has called these associations into...
Keyword:: Well-being, Emotional Functioning, and Aging
Subject:: Psychology
Creator:: Stephens, Jacquelyn E
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_929214 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16263

Relations and Structure: A View from Dependency Resolution

Description:: This dissertation explores how items encountered in the comprehension of language are stored in memory and subsequently accessed. Processing and comprehending language frequently requires the retrieval of items in memory so that a current linguistic element can be assigned an interpretation. For example, in a sentence such as "Miles loved...
Keyword:: pronoun resolution, dependencies, ellipsis, sentence processing, syntax, and eye tracking
Subject:: Linguistics
Creator:: Hall, Kathleen Gael
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/28/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_818080 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15558

Inauthenticity & Self-Dehumanization: Disconnection from the Self Causes a Loss of Humanity

Description:: People need to feel authentic at work, but authenticity is not always a priority in organizations. This dissertation shows feeling authentic is essential to feeling human. Chapter 1 provides an overview of research on authenticity and self-dehumanization, describing why feeling inauthentic leads to self-dehumanization. Chapter 1 empirically supports the association...
Keyword:: self-dehumanization, social connection, burnout, authenticity, and autonomy
Subject:: Management and Psychology
Creator:: Dobson, Kyle
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_747613 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15155

Online Tools for Evidence-Based Behavioral Practice: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation Among Graduate Students and Clinicians

Description:: Evidence-Based Behavioral Practice (EBBP) is a transdisciplinary systematic approach that emphasizes the use of best evidence in combination with clinical expertise, as well as patient preferences and values, to make clinically-informed decisions about care and treatment (Spring, 2007). Despite numerous benefits and strong policy support of EBBP, findings indicate that...
Keyword:: Evidence-based practice and Web-based learning
Subject:: Clinical Psychology
Creator:: Jeremy Steglitz
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/12/2018
Date Modified:: 10/12/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The Influence of Culturally Varying Discourse Practices on Cognitive Orientations Toward Nature

Description:: Research in cognitive and developmental psychology typically focuses on urban middle-class, European American populations. Although there has been a recent surge in psychological research that focuses on cultural variation (Cohen & Kitayam, 2007), little is known about the practices that support this variation. Knowledge about these practices is critical for...
Keyword:: Gesture, Discourse, Perspective Taking, Culture, Construal, and Folkbiology
Subject:: Psychology
Creator:: Sara Jill Unsworth
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/19/2018
Date Modified:: 09/19/2018
Date Created:: 2008-08-25
Resource Type:: Dissertation

HIV Restitution: Using Vengeance to Explain Nondisclosure and Transmission to Others

Description:: Research suggests that there exists in some homosexual men a moral push towards the disclosure of their HIV serostatus; yet, does an antithetical, individualistic, and self-oriented movement that searches for restitution for HIV infection exist in others? The following study tested the influence of vengeance, hostility, anger, and other negative...
Keyword:: Negative Psychological Traits, HIV, and HIV Disclosure
Subject:: Communication Studies
Creator:: David Andrew Moskowitz
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 07/26/2018
Date Modified:: 07/26/2018
Date Created:: 2007-04-16
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Housing Quality and Child Mental Health: A Longitudinal Study

Description:: AIMS: This study investigated the longitudinal effects of internal and external housing quality problems on child mental health outcomes, as measured by child internalizing and externalizing behavior problems. The study also aimed to elucidate the mechanisms through which housing quality problems affect child mental health by testing the mediating effects...
Keyword:: Housing Quality and Child Mental Health
Subject:: Clinical Psychology
Creator:: Yoo Ree (Yuri) Lee
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/27/2018
Date Modified:: 04/27/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Hippocampal Subfield Deformity Patterns and Memory Function in Non-semantic Primary Progressive Aphasia and Amnestic Dementia of the Alzheimer Type

Description:: Patients with the Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) clinical syndrome have diverse forms of neuropathology, one of which is the cellular and molecular abnormalities of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), at post mortem autopsy. Structural anatomical differences might aid in ante mortem differential diagnosis of neuropathology. The studies in this dissertation investigated one...
Keyword:: Memory, Hippocampus, Neuropsychology,, Primary Progressive Aphasia, Alzheimer's disease, and Structural MRI
Subject:: Clinical Psychology
Creator:: Adam Christensen
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/19/2018
Date Modified:: 02/19/2018
Date Created:: 2016-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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Inauthenticity & Self-Dehumanization: Disconnection from the Self Causes a Loss of Humanity

Online Tools for Evidence-Based Behavioral Practice: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation Among Graduate Students and Clinicians

The Influence of Culturally Varying Discourse Practices on Cognitive Orientations Toward Nature

HIV Restitution: Using Vengeance to Explain Nondisclosure and Transmission to Others

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