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- 2Evans, Annabel Ness
- 2Fang, Shichen
- 2Hall, David L.
- 2Heller, Robert Barry
- 2Hensch, Shirley-Anne.
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Fall 2017
The present study investigated the association between parental scaffolding during a shared puzzle task and young children’s executive function (EF). Fifty-six children between the ages of 2 and 4 years were assessed on 3 different EF tasks, and completed a shared puzzle task with their primary...
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The Changing Chinese Dragon: Implications for (Cross-) Cultural Psychology in a Globalized World
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Applying a hybridization framework that conceptualizes culture as a dynamic and open system, the overall objective of this dissertation is to illuminate some psychological consequences of sociocultural change in contemporary China. Although (cross-) cultural psychology tends to portray China as...
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Fall 2012
This work stands as an example of “synthetic methodology” in psychological research. Synthetic methodology involves building a model, seeing what it can and cannot do when placed in interesting environments, comparing this behaviour to real-world subjects for parallels and discrepancies, and then...
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Fall 2015
Although many researchers have incorporated concepts related to the human essence in their research, there has yet been a measure to quantify the degree to which one believes that there is a human essence. In the current studies, a belief in human essentialism scale (BHES) is developed,...
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The Development and Transmission of Culturally Unique Attentional Styles in Canada and Japan: A Demonstration of Children’s Cultural Learning and Parents’ Scaffolding Behaviors
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Accumulating evidence suggests systematic cross-cultural differences in patterns of attention, such that North American adults’ attentional patterns tend to be more selective and object-oriented, while East Asian adults’ attentional patterns tend to be more diffused and context-sensitive. ...
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Fall 2010
The prevalence of event clusters in autobiographical memory was examined with an event-cueing task in two parallel experiments. Event clusters are theoretical memory structures that bind specific personal events in narrative-like configurations. Prior research has shown that young adults report...