The full text of Senior Independent Study Theses submitted during and after 2012 are available to download only by College of Wooster users. Unless listed as an exemplar, all other theses are restricted.

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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2007

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Featural and Holistic Face Processing in Individuals With Autism, Ashley E. Zervos
Department: Psychology

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2006

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Dynamic and Influential Relationship Between Attachments to Mother, Father, and God, Robert D. Adams
Department: Psychology

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Relationship Between Working Memory and College Academic Performance, Aung Aung
Department: Psychology

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Competition in Video Games: A Factor Other than Violence that May be Linked to Aggression, Matt Buzby
Department: Psychology

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You Are What You Ate: A Retrospective Study of Early-Life Predictors of Dietary Restraint in Caucasian and African American College Women, Meredith H. Dykstra
Department: Psychology

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Children's Attitudes and Behavior Intentions Toward Typical and Autistic Peers Who Are Aggressive and Non-Aggressive, Michelle L. Hall
Department: Psychology

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Climbing the Social Ladder: The Effects of Social Skills Training on Children with Autism, Lindsey A. Headman
Department: Psychology

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Teacher Support and Locus of Control As Protective Factors For Physically Abused Children, Carly C. Hofmann
Department: Psychology

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Influence of Bilingual Experience on the Developing Brain: Dichotic Listening Differences Between Bilinguals and Monolinguals, Jung Kim
Department: Psychology

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Relationship Between Codependency, Paternal Parenting Style and Intimate Opposite-Sex Mate Choice Among College Women, Amanda Kravochuk
Department: Psychology

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Can Infant Vocalizations be Used as Audio Analgesia? The Effect of Listening to Infant Laughing and Crying on Pain Perception and Coping, Ashley L. Maciulaitis
Department: Psychology

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Change Deafness: Allocating Attention to Auditory Changes and the Effects on Earwitness Testimony, Ellie A. Papke
Department: Psychology

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Too Cool For School? The Relationship between High School Students' Self-Monitoring and Gender Identity to Academic Achievement and their Perception of Valuable Qualities in Peers, Alissa M. Schmidt
Department: Psychology

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Comparison of Bully Prevention Programs in Middle Schools to the Number of Students Involved in Bullying Situations at Each Middle School, Collette R. Smith
Department: Psychology

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Effect of Art Therapy on Self-Esteem and Short Term Memory Performance in the Elderly, Jessica L. Ward
Department: Psychology

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2005

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Adult Attachment Style As a Predictor of Success and Exploration in First-Year College Students, Kathleen Fones-Wolf
Department: Psychology

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Understanding Single-Sex Education: How Group Gender Composition Affects Predictions and Interpretations of Task Performance, Sarah M. Hamerstone
Department: Psychology

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Friendship Structures: Motives in Forming and Managing Ideal and Actual Friendships, Tyler S. Heisterkemp
Department: Psychology

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Perfectionism and Obsessive-Compulsive Tendencies: An Experimental Study to Evaluate the Effects on Athletes and Non-Athletes, Erin N. Herl
Department: Psychology

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Goodbye Sympathy? Goodbye Humanity: How Sympathy and Compassion Can Solve the Animal Rights Debate, Shane Ryan Hess
Department: Psychology

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Adolescent Identity and Romantic Relationships, Rebecca Hicks
Department: Psychology

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"A Rabbi, a Priest and a Terrorist Walk Into a Bar...": How An Adverse Experience Affects Views in Political Correctness, Brandon Holman
Department: Psychology

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"Manly Man" and "Girly Girl": a Likely Couple, or Just Coincidence? a Study of Psychological Androgyny, Sex Roles and Their Effects on Partner Selection and Relationship Satisfaction in College, Courtney M. Holmes
Department: Psychology

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Pet Dogs As Moderators of Physiological Responses to Stress in Learning Disabled and Normally Functioning College Students, Martha E. Huiskamp
Department: Psychology

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Lifetime of Happiness: the Development of Levels and Elicitors of Happiness, a Cross-Sectional Study, Abigail Johnson
Department: Psychology

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Gender Differences in Pre-School Aggression: Intrinsic Gender Differences, the School Setting, and Parental Discipline Techniques, Meaghin Kennedy
Department: Psychology

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Consumer Decision Making: An Interactive Account Between Information Load and Presentation Format, Hyun Joon Lee
Department: Psychology

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Effects of Accutane on the Development of Depressive-Like Symptoms in Rats, Susan McDowell
Department: Psychology

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Virtual Environments: Gender in Spatial Learning Ability in a Virtual Morris Water Maze, Nicholas Ryan Novak
Department: Psychology

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Sex Differences Reflect Evolutionary Significance of Auditory Looming, Rianna L. Planisek
Department: Psychology

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Effectiveness of Approach and Avoidance Coping Strategies on Performance in Golf Putting, Joseph P. Punturi
Department: Psychology

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Can a Woman Deliver a Sports Report As Well As a Man? Differences in Male and Female Viewers' Perceptions of the Credibility of Sports Reporters, Benjamin A. Schafir
Department: Psychology

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"Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Do I See That Treat at All? Well...Maybe?": An Examination of the Concept of Theory of Mind and Dominance Competition in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus Apella) Through Their Ability to Use a Mirror to Locate Hidden Food Rewards, Courtney M. Segovis
Department: Psychology

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"He Lives in a Pineapple Under the Sea," But Can Spongebob Be Influencing Children's Body Image Development?: a Cross-Sectional Analysis of "Spongebob, Squarepants" and Other Popular Television Programming on a Child's Development of Body Build Stereotypes, Bethany B. Skelton
Department: Psychology

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Effect of Live Versus Videotaped Testimony on Juror Perceptions of Recall, Confidence, and Nonverbal Cues of An Adult Female Eyewitness, Meghan Grant Slipka
Department: Psychology

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Use of Nicotine For Treatment of Schizophrenic Behavior: An Examination of Calcineurim Knockout Mice, Lakshman Swamy
Department: Psychology

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2004

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Effects of Homelessness on the Development of Peer Relationships in Children, Michael M. Nienaber
Department: Psychology

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2001

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Reflectiveness, Creativity, and Spirituality: Can Reflectiveness and Imagination Revitalize Spirituality and Religious Belief?, Stephen B. Baughman
Department: Religious Studies; Psychology

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1994

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The Spirituality and Death Anxiety of Hospice Volunteers and Trainees: a Qualitative Research Study, Laura B. Abernethy
Department: Psychology; Religious Studies

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The Examiation of African-American Academic Achievement and European-Amrican Racial Attitudes in a Desegregated Six-Grade Middle School Classroom: The Effects of The Student Teams-Aceivement Divisions, A Cooperative Learning Task, Sunny Marie Birney

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1990

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The Characteristics of Human Learned Helplesness, Heidi A. Huneke
Department: Psychology

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1988

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Reading Comprehension and Preferences of Seventh Grade Students: An Analysis of the Fry Readability Formula and Children's Literature, Rebecca L. DeNelsky
Department: English; Psychology

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1981

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The Effect of Traditional vs. Non-Traditional Family Styles on Sex-Role Preference and Parental Imitation in Preschool Children, Barbara Schutte
Department: Psychology

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A Study of the Influence of Women's Age on the Employment Decision, Elizabeth Ann Van Cleef
Department: Psychology

Theses/Dissertations from 1972

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Galvanic Skin Response: A Measure of Experimentally Manipulated Arousal in PPT Paired Associates Learning, Michael Beynon

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The Effects of Pretraining on the Interaction of Small Groups, Joanne Brodkin

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The Efect of Transfer of Verbal Paired Associates in Mental Retardates and Normal Children as a Function of Interlist Similarity, Jacqueline A. Byers

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The Interruption of Verbal Sequences, Michelle Daniels

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An Investigation Into the Validity of the IT Scale for Children, Jennifer Doane

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A Study of the Correlations Between Three Personality Variables and Attitudes Toward Women, Leslie E. Fisher

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Perceptual Sensory Organization in Retardates and Normals, Barbara J. Hershey

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The Nature of the Relationship Between Self Concept and Sociometric Status, Hugh Hindman

Theses/Dissertations from 1971

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Social Reinforcement of Maze Learning in Children: A Partial Replication, Carol McCracken

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Reinforcing Effects of Weak-Light Onset and Offset as a Function of Pre-Exposure to the Weak-Light Stimulus, Greg Pepper

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The Effects of Contingent Music on Stereotyped Rocking Behavior of Two Severely Retarded Adolescents, Sylvia E. Pownall

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Displacement of Aggression Considered Within a General Study of Aggressive Behavior in Animals, Linda J. Robertson

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Self-Esteem and the Responses to Success and Failure, Margaret Rohrer

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The Effects of Random Reinforcement on Upper and Lower Socioeconomic Status Children, Julia Scranton

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Introversion-Extraversion and Academic Course-Selection of Male Undergraduate Students, Paul A. Shambarger

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Imagining and Naming in Perpretual Learning and Retention, Marcia Smith

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Male-Female Perceptions of the Qualitative Aspects of Sex Role Stereotypes, Lorrie Sprague

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Differential Use of Auditory and Visual Incidental Stimuli in Probem Solving as a Function of Creativity, Douglas Weldon

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Enhancement of Learned Fear with Epinephrine in Two Age Groups of Subjects, Richard Yoshikawa

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The Relationship Between Art Development and Intelligence in Young Children, Carol Zodrow

Theses/Dissertations from 1963

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Method of Analysis of the Serial-Position Curve, Sherrill Green

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A Psychological Study of a Mentally Retarded Deaf Child, Rina Less

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Solitary and Social Learning in Young Children; Development and Preliminary Testing of a Laboratory Task, Miller L. Marcia

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Effects of Environmental Complexity and Training on Brain Chemistry and Anatomy: A Replication, Charles John Milan Meliska

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Mediation of R1-R2 in the Acquisition of S-R1, S-R2 Associations, Nancy L. Morning

Theses/Dissertations from 1962

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Self-Concept, Perceived Parental Attitude and Actual Parental Attitude as Related to Security, Beverly Bowie

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The Recall and Resumption of Interrupted Tasks, Letitia B. Crawford

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Driveand Complex Learning in Acute and Chronic Schizophrenic Subjects, Helen Eipper

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The Relation of Persistence on Specified Tasks to School Grades and Teacher Ratings, Carol Haas

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Operant Conditioning as a Function of Chronological Age and Mental Age, William Bell John

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The Effect of Degree of Initial Learning on Mediation in the Learning of Probabilistic Paired Associates, Johnine G. McCracken

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Performance of Schizophrenics and Normals on the Kuder Preference Record, Margaret Reed

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The Teaching of Psychology at the High School Level, Anne Duncan Stocker

Theses/Dissertations from 1961

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The Effects of Various Noise Conditions Upon Human Mental and Motor Performances, Charles G. Keiper

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Transfer of Training: A Summary of Its History and an Experimental Study, Carol Leunk

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The Therapeutic Relationship in Counseling, Kenalee Ogden

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The Effect of Varied Degrees of Motivation Upon the Relative Strength of Place Versus Response Dispositions, William Smith

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The Historical Development of Extrasensory Perception in the United States, Judith Swanson

Theses/Dissertations from 1959

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Factors Relating to the Underachievement of Junior High School Students, Judith Ann Agle

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A Study of the Juvenile Deliquent with Particular Emphasis Upon the Relationship of the Home to the Juvenile Delinquent, Pat Alcorn

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Problems of Advertising as Related to Determiners of Attention., Joan Becker

Theses/Dissertations from 1958

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Current Theory and Physiology of Hypnosis In Relation to Thought and Conciousness, David Bouquet

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The Impact of Client-Oriented Therapy on Education, David R. Buxton

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Maternal Overprotection: A Problem of Personality, Janette Collins

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The Effects of Alcohol on Maze Learning of Albino Rats, Lewis B. Durr

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Color: Its Affective Value and Control, Mary Homrighausen

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"Formulating an I.Q. Test Based on the Vocabulary of the Five Year Old.", Karl Robert Liesinger

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A Consideration of the Drawing-Completion Test as a Projective Technique, Robert R. Line Jr.

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French National Character: Dominant Personality Traits and their Influence on Behavior, Sylvia Gibbs Spearman

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Concept Formation: A Review of Experimental Literature, Robert McMillan Thompson

Theses/Dissertations from 1957

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An Empirical Study of Non-verbal Communications of Emotions Through Abstrct Drawings of Hospitalized Schizophrenic Women and Normal College Women, Pruglenda M. Bacon

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A Study of Advertising Appeals, Robert V.R. Barnard

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The (Presbyterian) Director of Christian Education, Virginia Blair

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A Study of Psychosomatic Illness, Selma H. Hokanson

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Pastoral Counseling a Study of the Relationship of Psychology to the Counseling Work of the Parish Minister, Elizabeth J. Howard

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A Study of Consumer Behavior - Attitudes and Buying Habits - In Relation to a Selected Group of Appliances, Richard C. Hyde