Seilman, Stephanie(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04)
Recent research indicates that memory for real objects is superior to memory for matched pictures (Snow, Skiba, Coleman, & Berryhill, 2014). Although there are several possible explanations for this memory difference, this ...
Shivak, Shelby(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2018-04)
Health anxiety refers to the concern about one’s health, often based on the worry that harmful bodily sensations may be indicative of a serious illness. It was originally thought that health anxiety emerged in adulthood, ...
Klisowsky, Krissie(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04)
Mathematical concepts help build a knowledge base for children to learn more complex mathematical skills, such as algebra (Alibali, Knuth, Hattikudur, McNeil, & Stephens, 2007). The goals of this study were to observe the ...
Tippe, Joshua(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2018-04)
Aristotle (2004) stated every art, activity, and science aims at some good outcome. In parenting, this manifests as a desire for one’s children to be good people and to grow into mature, responsible adults. Discipline has ...
Giesinger, Candice(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04-24)
Noticing the location of an object that causes a change to the mean of a set relies on the ability to determine the mean of the set, and detect that a change has occurred (Rensink, 2002). Previous research suggests that ...
Singh, Jaspreet(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2018-04)
Recent research has discovered that individuals have better memory for animate words compared to inanimate words, indicating that the concept of animacy has implications for memory. However, no research to date has examined ...
Ta, Tony(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2018-04)
An active organization of past experiences shared by an entire cultural group is known as cultural schemata (Bartlett, 1932; Garro, 2001). One may fail to recognize a culture-specific action, behaviour, or concept because ...
Sauer, Tianna(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2018-04)
Vasomotor symptoms (VMS) – hot flashes and night sweats – are one of the most frequent symptoms of the menopause transition. While moderate to severe VMS have been associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular ...
Lewis, Jamie(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2018-04)
Canadian Public Safety Personnel (PSP) are regularly exposed to traumatic events in the line of their duties, making them more susceptible to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; APA, 2013; Breslau, Chilcoat, Kessler, & ...
Dupuis, Dominique(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2018-04)
Stress impacts cognitive and emotional processing by effecting chemical changes throughout the brain, including cortisol levels. The impact of this change may differ based on task type—due to region-specific variations in ...
Earis, Danielle(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2018-04)
Background: Individuals with a spinal cord injury (SCI) confront numerous physical and psychological adjustments. Many report clinically significant depression and anxiety disorders post-SCI; thus, attention to psychological ...
Urszulan, Alexis Lauren(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2018-04-23)
People’s memory for faces varies greatly. Emotions and facial appearance are two factors that influence memory for faces. When emotions are associated with a face, that face is more memorable. However, the literature on ...
Ennis, Alexandra(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04)
Research suggests that females are generally better at emotion recognition than males, but emotion type may moderate this difference. Stress responses may also be moderated by sex, and may affect emotion recognition. Minimal ...
Ahmadi, Reihaneh(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2018-04)
Observers’ psychological characteristics can influence the way in which they perceive pain in others. The goal of this study was to examine if observers’ sensitivity and accuracy in perceiving others’ emotions during pain ...
Ziemer, Julie(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04-25)
The risk of depression in women increase 2-4 times in the years leading up to the last menstrual period, known as the menopause transition (i.e., ‘perimenopause’). Excessive perimenopausal estrogen fluctuation has been ...
Wozniak, Rashell(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04)
A woman’s risk of depression increases 2-3 times during the menopause transition (i.e., ‘perimenopause’), which constitutes the five or so years leading up the last menstrual period. It is hypothesized that the increased ...
Wilhelms, Andrew(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2018-04-25)
Body image concerns are greater and more severe in gay men (Brown & Graham, 2008; Duggan & McCreary, 2004). Passing refers to the tendency for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals to hide or ...
Ward, Taylor Lauren(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2018-04)
Inclusive Education (IE) can be defined as providing children with the opportunity to learn alongside their peers within their appropriate school community and be treated as a contributing individual to the community ...
Waiting, Shanelle(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017)
Anxiety symptoms are common in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD; White, Oswald, Ollendick, & Scahill, 2009). Evidence suggests that modified Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) programs can reduce anxiety symptoms ...
Stewart, Kaiden M.(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04)
As a target memory is recalled or practiced, its competitors are suppressed, making them more difficult to recall in future attempts. This is called retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF; Anderson, Björk, & Björk, 1994), and ...