School of Psychology Theses and Dissertations
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How Multi-Teaming Affects Individuals and Teams
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-29)This dissertation explores the phenomenon of multi-teaming, defined as an individual’s membership in multiple work teams. Participation in multiple teams gives individuals the opportunity to gain access to the knowledge ... -
HOW PEOPLE INTERPRET AND REACT TO EVERYDAY AUTOMATION ISSUES
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-19)Automation is frequently used in everyday life. However, automation can err and thereby complicate human-automation interactions. Current human-automation literature has investigated cues (e.g., frequency) people use to ... -
Ruminating about Depression and Selective Attention
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-10-02)Depression is a debilitating mood disorder that has been linked to ruminative thinking. Clinical research has found connections between rumination, depression, and deficits in selective attention, especially for negative ... -
Applying Spindex Auditory Cues While Driving and Performing A Secondary Search Task
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-07-08)This thesis investigated the impact of applying “spindex” text to speech (TTS) auditory cues in a long-list searching task on a cell phone while driving as compared to a visuals-only interface. Previous research has found ... -
Can younger and older adults judge the quality of their text summaries?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-05-15)Metacomprehension and aging is an understudied area of research, despite its relevance to education, social information exchange, and important work and life decisions. Results are mixed on whether older adult text ... -
The relationship between basal cortisol levels and cognitive functioning across the adult lifespan
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-03)Age-related declines in cognitive functioning have been well documented, however, there are vast individual differences in the age of onset and magnitude of these changes. This observation has spurred the investigation of ... -
Investigating proximal predictors of intraindividual affect variability in older adults
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-04)The aging process is often coupled with major life changes such as retirement, death of friends and family members, and declines in physical and psychological functioning. Intuitively, any one or a conjunction of these ... -
The compass of control: Congruency sequence effects, boundaries, and task sets
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-18)The congruency sequence effect literature is inconsistent when it comes to the issue of the boundaries of this phenomenon. Some have argued that control is implemented at the level of a stimulus dimension while other have ... -
Using subgoal learning and self-explanation to improve programming education
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-04)The present study combined subgoal learning and self-explanation frameworks to improve problem solving performance. Subgoal learning has been used to promote retention and transfer in procedural domains, such as programming. ... -
Understanding social connectedness of older adults who live alone
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-04)Ample evidence underscores the deleterious effects of loneliness on health and mortality. Therefore, it is important that loneliness risks are identified across all ages and appropriate measures are devised to address those ... -
Analysis of a quantitative behavioral assessment program to identify and treat abnormal behaviors in captive primates
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-03-30)Facilities housing non-human primates are required to make provisions for their psychological wellbeing, which may include monitoring animals for signs of decreased wellbeing such as the presence of abnormal behaviors or ... -
Antecedents of turnover intent: The role of social relationships in job embeddedness
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-01)Voluntary turnover is an important organizational issue with costs beyond monetary losses (Morrow & McElroy, 2007). Subsequently, the detrimental effects have engendered extensive research that has led to multiple turnover ... -
Construct representation of self-report future time perspective for work and retirement scholarship
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-01-09)The dissertation presents evidence on the measurement properties of self-report items in contemporary organizational contexts (Podsakoff & Organ, 1986). Operationally, the dissertation adopts a construct representation ... -
How acute stress during consolidation affects memory for negative materials with different arousal levels
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-12-04)Both human and animal research has demonstrated that acute stress affects memory, and the nature of this effect depends on when the stress occurs. Stress during consolidation consistently enhances memory, but there is ... -
The effects of background music on video game play performance, behavior and experience in extraverts and introverts
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-12-04)For many, listening to music is an enjoyable experience pursued throughout one’s lifetime. Nearly 200 years of music psychology research has revealed the various ways music listening can impact human emotional states, as ... -
Interaction of instructional material order and subgoal labels on learning in programming
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-12-04)Expository instructions, worked examples, and subgoal labels have all been shown to positively impact student learning and performance in computer science education. This study examined whether learning and problem solving ... -
Learning to attend: Measuring sequential effects of feedback in overt visual attention during category learning
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-11-04)Trial-level evidence for feedback sensitivity in fixations during category learning has been previously described as weak. In this dissertation, steps were taken to overcome some methodological issues potentially obscuring ... -
Nurses' problem detection of infection risk: The effects of risk factors, expertise, and time pressure
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-09-29)Problem detection is a critical component in nursing, such that superior detection could lead to quicker intervention, even if the nature of the problem is not yet clear. A critical problem intensive care nurses typically ... -
Cognitive control and prospective memory performance: A mediation approach
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-08-11)The majority of memory research, and research on its cognitive underpinnings has thus far focused on retrospective memory, or memory for things learned or rehearsed in the past. More recently, however, prospective memory, ... -
Using task network modeling to predict human error
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-09-21)Human error taxonomies have been implemented in numerous safety critical industries. These taxonomies have provided invaluable insight into understanding the underlying causes of human error; however, their utility for ...
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