Browsing University of Central Oklahoma by Author "Vanhoy, Mickie"
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A functional role of Facebook : psychological and social needs.
Ferrell, Jason D. (2011)Two studies were conducted to investigate motivations to use Facebook. In Study 1, data from 87 participants were used to determine which psychological (e.g., competence, autonomy, and relatedness) and social (e.g., ... -
A replication, evaluation, and criticism of unconscious thought theory.
Atkinson, Keia James (2014)Modern social psychology has incorporated into the literature a number of theories and effects that were highly counter-intuitive at the time they were introduced, yet have formed a body of literature claiming to demonstrate ... -
AMBER Alerts and their effectiveness.
Creel, Marjon (2015)Do AMBER Alert messages encourage people to become more face-vigilant? Face-vigilance was measured through a recognition task that instructed participants to search for discrepant faces in friendly, threatening, and neutral ... -
Church interior aesthetics : the effects of interior aesthetics, within a worship environment, on the attendance of an 18 to 25 age population.
Beauchamp, Amy Michelle (2008)Protestant churches are experiencing a decline in attendance in young adults aged 18 to 25, showing little interest in attending services yet the spiritual interests among them are high. Historically, cultural shifts have ... -
Complexity of external distractors from small unmanned aircraft systems
Mofle, Theodore C. (2021)The integration of small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) into the transportation system has presented a unique opportunity to investigate the effects these operations will have on other areas of the system. Specifically, ... -
Death-primed memory suppression
Woods, Kristin Renee (2008)Participants (17 males, 37 females) performed a computer-based, five-phase, study recall-suppress-test-recognize task. Participants significantly suppressed more nonword target items compared to death-related prime-target ... -
Don't worry about it! : the anxiety reducing effects of pre-performance routines on basketball free throws.
McCoy, Chad (2013)Pre-performance routines have been found to enhance performance in many sports. These routines may have effects both cognitively and physiologically on those who perform them. Difference in physiological arousal, as measured ... -
Effects of extrinsic rewards and social comparison on inhibitory control in adults with ADHD symptoms.
Sims, William Scott (2015)The current study was an attempt to understand the links between reward processes, upward social comparisons, and behavioral inhibition in adults with ADHD and ADHD symptoms. Studies have shown that motivation can improve ... -
Effects of situational attributions on mental and physical fatigue
House, Ashley (2012)Strength models of self-regulation assume that depletion of a limited cognitive resource may impair performance on subsequent tasks requiring that resource (Baumeister et al., 1999) but multiple resource models assume that ... -
Haptic control of eye movements.
Preddy, Douglas A. (2011)Eye-hand coordination is crucial to many important tasks. A NLDS framework assumes that eyes and hands are interacting facets of one complex oculo-motor system in which physiological and task constraints interact to shape ... -
Hysteresis in visual search.
Likens, Aaron D. (2010)People perform complex visual tasks. Airplane pilots land planes safely on the ground and baseball players swing bats at speeding fastballs. Drivers weave through traffic and sports fans skillfully track the movements of ... -
Implicit associations in novel television advertising.
Becker, Brittney (2012)Advertising is a billion-dollar business, largely invested in television commercials. Although advertising in technology-based contexts such as Internet sites and digital video recording systems is increasing, television ... -
Perceived location of self.
Jones, Katherine M. (2012)Evidence suggests that the perceived location of the self is changeable. I replicated Legennhager et al (2007) where participants experienced a perceptual illusion of a relocated self, created by having a participant wear ... -
Personality and situational correlates of false confessions.
Schrantz, Kathryn (2014)Personality correlates, such as the need to belong, unstable self-esteem, and insecure-anxious attachment style may predict false confessions and internalization. Study 1 examined the influence of these personality correlates. ... -
Primary motor cortex stimulation facilitates visual guidance.
Taylor, Thomas C. (2015)The choices for analyzing cognitive load performance data are often problematic as they are task-dependent and do not generalize well. This makes research into task independent variables necessary. Complexity is one such ... -
Talk vs. actions : using a Q-sort to study an evolutionary view of same sex friendships.
Hendricks, David C. (2008)This study sought to find out whether there are differences between male and female same-sex friendships based on evolutionary theory. The researcher took a self-referent measure known as the Q-Sort. The Q-Sort was ... -
Texting and tapping : a dynamical approach to multitasking.
Silasi-Mansat, Crina D. (2011)Jobs in various work fields (e.g., flying airplanes; Helmreich, 2000) require a high ability to successfully handle more than one task at a time, or to multitask. Researchers usually explain multitasking by having priorities ... -
The dynamics of rowing.
Gibbon, Nicole (2011)A phenomena experienced by many athletes, referred to as 'hitting the wall' lacks empirical evidence of occurrence. Data from eighteen collegiate female rowers (eight novice, ten varsity) revealed the dynamics of rowing ... -
The effects of focused attention on batting performance of collegiate athletes.
Craig, Lauren C. (2013)Proper thinking is essential to effective batting in baseball and softball. However, the qualities that define "proper thinking" are unspecified and therefore require examination. That is, on what should a batter focus for ... -
The effects of labeled praises on behavior disruptions in a high school classroom.
Napier, Deni E. (2012)The purposes of this study were to determine whether receiving labeled praise training increases how often high school teachers use labeled praises to determine if teachers observe a decrease in classroom disruptions after ...