Understanding the Relation Between Anxiety and Depression Symptoms

Faculty Sponsor: Charles Sanislow Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) are both internalizing disorders found to be highly comorbid with each other. GAD and MDD have four symptoms that overlap in their diagnostic criteria, sleep disturbance, psychomotor agitation/retardation, fatigue, and loss of concentration. Various frameworks and … Read more

Investigating the Word Frequency Effect (WFE) after controlling Age-of-Acquisition (AoA)

Faculty Sponsor: Barbara J. Juhasz Abstract: The current study is the first stage of a multi-study project that examines the word frequency effect (WFE) after controlling for Age-of-Acquisition (AoA). WFE and AoA are two well-documented predictors of word recognition latencies. We extracted data from the English Lexical Project (ELP), a database containing behavioral and descriptive … Read more

Assessment of Data Quality for Web-based Surveys on Immigrant Youth

Faculty Sponsor: Andrea Negrete Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract :Insufficient effort responding (IER) from unmotivated participants can threaten the quality of the research. The purpose of the current research is to prepare the survey dataset for future analysis. The main focuses are to investigate: 1) methods of determining IER. 2) the relationship between IER … Read more