Browsing by Author "Kennison, Shelia"
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Assessing the Diagnostic Utility Of Proposed Adult Adhd Symptoms In A Young Adult Sample
Fedele, David A. (Oklahoma State University, 2008-07-01)Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) affects approximately 4 to 5% of adults. Adults diagnosed with ADHD experience more academic, social, and occupational difficulties than their same age counterparts To address ... -
Comparative study of oral proficiency in direct (OPI) and semi-direct (VOCI) testing modes: Measures of complexity, accuracy, and fluency
Alzahrani, Nawal Ali (2020-05)This study aims at comparing oral proficiency performance at two oral proficiency testing modes, namely Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) and Video Oral Communication Instrument (VOCI) in terms of specific measures of ... -
Comparison of the speech patterns and dialect attitudes of Oklahoma
Bakos, Jon (2013-07)The lexical dialect usage of Oklahoma has been well-studied in the past by the Survey of Oklahoma Dialects, but the acoustic speech production of the state has received little attention. Apart from two people from Tulsa ... -
Development and validation of a new sensation seeking measure: Sensation seeking adjective markers
Spooner, Victoria H. (2022-07)Sensation seeking is the pursuit of varied, novel, and complex experiences and has been the subject of many studies in the last several decades. Sensation-seeking traits predict multiple types of risk-taking, such as ... -
Development of an Adult Retrospective Recall Measure of Childhood Television Viewing
Belden, Angela (Oklahoma State University, 2004-07-01)The purpose of this study was to explore the validity of an adult retrospective measure of childhood television exposure. A sample of 146 college students completed the retrospective measure in which they rated their viewing ... -
Developmental span of social strategies, temperament, and stress-related health
Abernathy, Amber Rhea Massey (2015-05)Social hierarchies involve social dynamics that may create physical and emotional challenges (Hawley, 2003). One component related to social hierarchies is social positioning and the control of important resources. The ... -
Effectiveness of the F.B.I.'s Top Ten Most Wanted List
Powell, Jadyn (2022-04-28)The purpose of the current research was to assess what circumstances occurred in fugitive cases, what circumstances lead to the location of fugitives, and the circumstances surrounding sightings and media in the F.B.I.'s ... -
Effects of Social Hierarchies and Perceived Popularity on Stress Levels
Massey, Amber Rhea (Oklahoma State University, 2012-05-01)The purpose of this research is discovering a better understanding of the relationship between social hierarchies and stress levels in adolescents. This study uses a non-invasive approach (saliva samples) in order to assess ... -
Effects of two reading interventions with small-groups of second grade English Language Learners on fluency and comprehension
Villanueva, Cristina Sarahi (2015-07)The study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the HELPS-SG curriculum and a small group repeated reading (RR) intervention on oral reading fluency and comprehension. The participants of this study ... -
Empathy downside: The role of empathy and autism traits in happiness
Turk, Ryen E. (Oklahoma State University, 2023-04-18)Prior research has shown that high empathetic people may be more prone to depression than others (Yan et al., 2021). The present research investigated the relationship between empathy and happiness. We hypothesized that ... -
Entering a discourse community: Reading-to-write strategy instruction for effective paraphrasing among multilingual students
Guo, Meihua (2021-07)Accidental plagiarism may result when a novice writer cannot construct an eligible paraphrase. From the early part of this century, some scholars argue that composition professionals at the college level should not teach ... -
Exploring the Myers-Briggs Type indicator
Blodgett, Jessica (2017-05-12)This study examined the efficacy of an abbreviated method of a personality assessment. Whereas traditional methods of type assessment rely on multi-item questionnaires, this new method utilizes vignettes written by the ... -
Fluency Patterns of Adult Females with Focal Epilepsy
Walters, Rebecca T. (2019-05-01)The purpose of this study was to determine the fluency patterns in female adults diagnosed with focal epilepsy. This study used a two-group parallel quasi-experimental design. Standard scores from the Montreal Cognitive ... -
He said, she said: The influence of childhood adversity and personality on the intrasexual competition strategy of gossip among adults
Smith, Alyson (2019-04-23)Previous research indicates that childhood adversity has lasting effects as individuals transition from childhood to adulthood. The present study surveyed a sample of 524 adults in order to examine the influence of childhood ... -
Hemispheric difference in semantic priming for early and late age of acquisition words
Bowers, Jerald Michael (2008-07)Scope and Method of Study: Empirical Research -
Improving swallow function in progressive dysphagia associated with Huntington's Disease
Adams, Corey M. (Oklahoma State University, 2009-07-01)This study examined the effects of oral-motor, respiratory, and pharyngeal strengthening exercises on dysphagia in individuals with Huntington's disease. In a pre-test, post-test design, five participants voluntarily ... -
Investigation of a holistic human-computer interaction (HCI) framework to support the design of extended reality (XR) based training simulators
Gupta, Avinash (2021-12)In recent years, the use of Extended Reality (XR) based simulators for training has increased rapidly. In this context, there is a need to explore novel HCI-based approaches to design more effective 3D training environments. ... -
Like talking to a brick wall: A research proposal on the effect a human presence has on venting
Holden, Tanner (Oklahoma State University, 2023-04-18)Venting, which is defined as giving free expression to a strong emotion, is a normal part of many people’s lives and there is much research on it; however, most research examines the positive and negative outcomes of it ... -
On the development of a suite of tools for the analysis of Twitter discourse
Redmon, Robert (2022-05)Social media has become a ubiquitous avenue of natural language use that represents an enormous amount of data, which has in the last decade been used in an increasing amount of linguistic research in such topics as regional ... -
Personality and dreams: The relationship between Big Five personality traits and frequency of dream themes
Bethel, Danielle (2022-04-28)The purpose of the present research was to examine the relationship between Big Five personality Traits and specific dream themes. For example, do extraverts more often dream about other people, and do more neurotic people ...