Dissertations from 2017
Developmental Functioning of Infants and Toddlers with Autism and Cerebral Palsy, Xinrui Jiang
Polynomial Regression Analyses of Parental Desirable Responding, Megan Elizabeth Lilly
Unfriend Me! Applicant Reactions to the Use of Social Networking Information During the Hiring Process, Byron Shane Lowery
Differential Effects of Gratitude and Positive Peer Reporting Interventions on Student Subjective Wellbeing, Classroom Behavior, and School Connectedness, Rachel Marie Olinger Steeves
Motivation for Tobacco Cessation Among Nicotine Dependent Postmenopausal Females, MacKenzie Rae Peltier
Predictors of Positive Adjustment in a Sample of Children Impacted by Hurricane Katrina, Jennifer C. Piscitello
Video Based Intervention and Backward Chaining: Teaching Children with Autism, Philip Ross Richard
Assessing the Impact of White Noise on Cognition in Individuals with and without ADHD, Scott Roye
Immediate Effects of the Mindful Body Scan Practice on Risk-Taking Behavior, Shelley Renee Upton
Reported Child Sexual Abuse: Impact of Adaptive Skills and Association with Psychological Adjustment, Seandra Jean Walker
Generalizability of Multiple Measures of Treatment Integrity: An Empirical Replication, Elizabeth Wilson
Dissertations from 2016
Caregiver Choice in Autism Intervention: Selections and Influential Factors, Hilary Lynn Adams
Lag Time between Parental First Concerns about Development and Entry into Early Intervention: Impact of Child/Family Factors, First Concerns, and Symptom Presentation, Jennifer S. Beighley
Influence of Motivation on Phonics Effectiveness, Rachel L. Bradley
The impact of a transdiagnostic risk factor on willingness to seek treatment among Black students, Kimberlye Elise Dean
The Impact of Experimentally Manipulated Post-Event Processing on the Relationship between Social Anxiety and Cannabis Craving and Use, Anthony Harlan Ecker
An Examination of Autism Symptomatology in Young Children with Family History of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Jasper Abarte Estabillo
Effects of Premature Birth and/or Low Birthweight on Developmental Outcomes, Rachel L. Goldin
Exploring the Relationship between Long-Term Memory and Attention through Attentional Templates, Rebecca Rose Goldstein
Constructing the Search Template: Episodic and Semantic Influences on Categorical Template Formation, Juan D. Guevara Pinto
Examining Teacher Multicultural Competence in The Classroom: Further Validation of The Multicultural Teaching Competency Scale, Melissa Jo Hamilton
The Multidimensional Bullying Victimization Scale: Development and Validation, Shannon Marie Harbin
Psychological and Environmental Predictors of Test Anxiety: A Structural Equation Model, Meredith Taylor Harris
Student Internalizing Behavior Screener and Student Externalizing Behavior Screener: An Analysis of Reliability, Validity, and Usability in Elementary School Populations, Kelsey Lynn Hartman
The Attentional Mechanisms of Active Forgetting, Laura Lee Heisick
Control, Care, and Stress: Parenting's Effect on Child Internalizing Symptoms, Maysa Kaskas
The Mechanisms of Auditory Distraction: The Roles of Interference-by-Process and Attention Capture, Danielle A. Lutfi-Proctor
Promoting Literacy Development in the Early Childhood Classroom: An Evaluation of Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Instruction, Elise Catherine McIver
Treatment Acceptability and Child Discipline: The Influence of Parent Factors, Kasia Simone Plessy
Initial Development and Validation of the Student Wellbeing Teacher-Report Scales, Anthony Joseph Roberson
Effects of Various Seating Arrangements on Disruptive Classroom Behavior, Natalie Marie Robichaux
Activity Level as a Moderator of the Relationship between Child and Maternal Anxiety, Paige Marie Ryan
Programmed Shifts in Reward Quality and Quantity: A Planned Positive and Negative Contrast Analysis, Michael Schafer
Successful Aging in Oldest-Old Adults: Role of Physical and Social Factors, Katie Elizabeth Stanko
Adaptive Behavior Deficits in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder- Cutoff Scores for the ASD-D-A according to DSM-5 Criteria., Nicole Cassandra Turygin
The Impact of Weight Bias on Psychological Functioning: The Role of Weight Discrimination and Internalized Weight Bias, Krystal Marie Waldo
Perceived Barriers to Autism Spectrum Disorder Services, Lindsey Willis Williams
An Evaluation of the Utility of Reading Curriculum-Based Measurement as Progress Monitoring Tools and Predictors of Comprehension, Haley Elizabeth York
Dissertations from 2015
Utilization of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire across Family Structures: Do the Same Constructs Apply?, Leah Michelle Adams
The Moderating Effects of Anxiety on the Relationship Between Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Jamarri Raimon Aikins
Social Functioning in Schizotypy: An Exploration of Communicative Effectiveness through Speech Analysis and Observer Rated Performance in a Socially Demanding Task, Tracey Lauren Auster
Examination of the Effects of the Homework, Organization, and Planning Skills (HOPS) Intervention on Undergraduate Students, Ashley E. Bordelon
The Role of Salience in Second Language Acquisition, Ian South Comeaux
Bullying in Schools: The Relationship between Educational Staff Burnout and Staff Response to Bullying, Katherine Marie Harrison
A Comparison of Psychotic Symptoms Recorded in Patient Files of Persons with a First Diagnosis of Schizophrenia in 1930 and 1960 Cohorts Drawn from a Large State Hospital, Kristopher Michael Lee Henderson
Single or Dual Resources: The Role of Working Memory in Syntactic Processing, Rebecca Ann Horn
Social Anxiety and Cannabis-Related Impairment: The Roles of Anxiety Sensitivity and Intolerance of Uncertainty, Emily Robin Jeffries
Effects of Mirror Exposure and Brief Mindfulness Interventions in Undergraduate Females with Weight and Shape Concerns, Jessica Abaigeal Esmeier Kinsaul
The Baby and Infant Screen for Children with Autism Traits: A DSM-5 Update, Matthew Jason Konst
Evaluating the Interspersal Procedure Using Free Access to a Competing Reinforcer, Catherine Rose Lark
A State-Level Analysis of Deinstitutionalization and the Impact of Chlorpromazine, Joni Maria Lee Pow
Functional Interplay Between Neurocognitive Decline and Risk Factors in Older Adults: A Multivariate Latent Growth Curve Model of Risk, Rebecca Kathryn MacAulay
An Investigation of the Effect of Irrelevant Sounds on Serial Order Recall in Children and Adults, Corey Ian McGill
The Effects of Emotion and Action on Binding in Memory, Kacie Mennie
Using a Dependent Group Contingency to Increase Homework Completion and Accuracy in a General Education Classroom, Sarah Alexa Metallo
Examining the Role of Episodic and Semantic Networks in Anhedonia: Applying the Accessibility Model of Emotional Self-report to Psychometrically-defined Schizotypy, Kyle Robert Mitchell
The Impact of Therapist Self-Disclosure on Client-Perceived Working Alliance amongst Psychiatrist Inpatients, Sean C. Morrison
The Moderating Effects of Family Management Factors on the Relationship between Violence Exposure and Aggression, Christine Marie Raines
Parental Age at Conception: An Examination of Risk Factors Related to Autism Severity and Comorbid Psychopathology, Robert D. Rieske
Effect of Attention Retraining on Pathological Eating Behaviors and Body Dissatisfaction, Jose Silgado
Binding of Independent Contexts in Source Memory, Samantha Nicole Spitler
Trait Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive Factors of Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in Children and Adolescents: A Hierarchical Model, Reanna Elise Whiting
Evaluating and Increasing the Range of Reinforcers for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Megan Kliebert Wiggins
Theses from 2014
Cognitive bias and learning from experience: Reflective processes for reducing bias, Dina Acklin
The moderating effect of gender on the relationship between socialization and internalizing problems in early childhood, Hilary Lynn Adams
Fixed-Time Schedule Effects on Participant Responding: An Evaluation Of Similar vs. Dissimilar Schedule Programs Using a Group Design Approach, Jessica Pearl Alvarez
Examining the Psychometrics of the Psychopathology Inventory for Mentally Retarded Adults-II for Adults with Mild and Moderate Intellectual Disabilities, Brian Christopher Belva
Working Memory, Processing Speed, and Academic Achievement in Adults with ADHD, Alyse Barker Blanchard
The Contribution of Comorbid Symptomology to the Social Skill Deficits in Infants and Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Paige Elizabeth Cervantes
Multivariate Generalizability of Writing Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM): An Examination of Form, Occasion, and Scoring Method, Katherine Hunter Chenier
Inattentional blindness and auditory attention: effects of cognitive load on visual awareness, Dillon James Cornett
Does Subtype Matter?: Comparing the Effects of a Self-Monitoring Intervention on ADHD-C and ADHD-I, Caleb James Corwin
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Check-in/Check-out Intervention for Students Engaging in Relational Aggression and Their Classmates, Emily Patty Corwin
Social Support as a Protective Factor for Bullied Children and Adolescents, Seandra Jean Cosgrove
Influencing the Allocation of Attentional Resources in Tracking: Evidence for a Combined Parallel and Serial Mechanism, Justin Merrill Ericson
Evaluating the Efficacy and Acceptability of Videoconferencing in School-Based Behavioral Consultation, Aaron Jason Fischer
Feedback as a Source of Criterion Noise in Recognition Memory, Bryan Franks
Premature Birth as a Factor in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Rachel Lichtenstein Goldin
Adult ADHD in DSM-IV-TR and DSM-5: impact of increased age-of-onset on prevalence, Morgan Ashwill Grinnell
The Effects of a Test-Taking Skills Intervention on Test Anxiety and Test Performance in 4th Graders, Meredith T. Harris
Examination of the differential effectiveness of interdependent and dependent group contingencies in reducing disruptive behavior in the classroom, Kelsey Lynn Hartman
Factor Analysis and Cut-Off Scores for the Autism Spectrum Disorders-Observation for Children, Megan Alice Hattier
Autism Severity and Comorbid Symptoms in Children with ASD, Jina Jang
Differential Examination of Disgust in Spider, Blood-Injection, and Contamination Fear: Self-Reported and Attention-Based Assessment of Differences, Whitney Shay Jenkins
The role of recursive remindings on memory updating of emotional stimuli, Tanya Karam
Everything is Alright: Parental Positive Impression Management in Assessment of Anxious Youth, Megan Elizabeth Kirkpatrick
What to expect when you're expecting: gaps in utility perceptions of the online adult learner, Byron Shane Lowery
Memory Self-Efficacy and Beliefs about Memory Controllability in Late Life, Bethany A. Lyon
Challenging Behaviors in Children with Comorbid Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Katherine Margaret Macmillan
Effort-Based Decision-Making in Schizotypy, Jessica Elaina McGovern
Examination of the Relationship between School Climate and Other School-Based Factors and Teacher Self-Efficacy, Elise C. McIver
Evaluating Teaching Efficiency in Reading and Spelling Instruction, Sarah Joanne Miller
Recalled Bullying: Development of a Measure to Identify Childhood Victims and Perpetrators by Adults, Melissa Munson
The effect of habituation and changes in cognition on anxious children's performance on the WISC-IV, Franziska Noack
Teachers' Perspectives on the Need and Acceptability of School-Based Identification and Treatment for Children Exposed to Violence: A Mixed-Methods Approach, Rachel Marie Olinger
The Impact of Menstrual Cycle Phase on Smoking Cessation-Related Variables, MacKenzie Rae Peltier
The Efficacy of Interactive Journaling® in Reducing Alcohol Use and Alcohol-Related Problems among Mandated College Student Drinkers, Steven Lee Proctor