Year: 2025, 2025
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>In today's digital era, smartphone use is having a profound effect on family life. There is growing concern about parental phubbing, which occurs when parents ignore their children in favour of using their phones. This study examined how parental phubbing was associated with children's problematic media use (PMU), and problem behaviours (internalizing, externalizing,attention)… more Year: 2024, 2024
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>It is widely believed that basic mental processes involved in skilled reading are automatic in the sense that they occur without intention. Evidence that reading occurs without intention comes from the observation that the meaning of a colour word (e.g., "red") affects the time to name the ink-colour of the word in the Stroop task. Evidence also suggests that non-colour words (… more Full Text: HOW FAR IS A WRITTEN WORD WE ARE TRYING TO IGNORE PROCESSED? A Thesis Submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of Master of Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY …
Year: 2024, 2024
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Despite the extensive application of Baumrind's parenting style typology, some argue that it may not adequately capture the implicit warmth Chinese parents embrace. This study attempted to examine whether mind-mindedness could be a key indicator for helping children understand the benevolent intentions behind their mothers' authoritarian parenting practices. Specifically, this… more Full Text: DOES MIND-MINDEDNESS MATTER? UNDERSTAND THE CONNECTION BETWEEN PARENTING STYLES AND PRESCHOOLERS’ INTERNALIZING AND EXTERNALIZING BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS FROM A CULTURAL LENS A Thesis Submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the …
Year: 2024, 2024
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>It is widely believed that basic mental processes involved in skilled reading are automatic in the sense that they occur without intention. Evidence that reading occurs without intention comes from the observation that the meaning of a colour word (e.g., "red") affects the time to name the ink-colour of the word in the Stroop task. Evidence also suggests that non-colour words (… more Year: 2024, 2024
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Despite the extensive application of Baumrind's parenting style typology, some argue that it may not adequately capture the implicit warmth Chinese parents embrace. This study attempted to examine whether mind-mindedness could be a key indicator for helping children understand the benevolent intentions behind their mothers' authoritarian parenting practices. Specifically, this… more Year: 2019, 2019
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Three experiments examined whether semantics is activated automatically by testing whether Arabic digits (e.g., 4), number words (e.g., four), and non-number words (e.g., rat) activate semantics in the absence of central attention within the Psychological Refractory Period (PRP) paradigm. In all three experiments, subjects performed colour discriminations as Task 1. In Task 2, subjects… more Full Text: IS SEMANTICS ACTIVATED AUTOMATICALLY? EVIDENCE FROM THE PRP PARDIGM. A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT …
Year: 2013, 2013
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>In the past few years there has been increasing attention paid to the influence of the motor system on numerical cognition. A 2010 study by Domahs, Moeller, Huber, Willmes and Nuerk tested German and Chinese university students. Number processing time was influenced by cross cultural differences in finger counting habits</p><p>This thesis replicated and elaborated on the… more Full Text: Finger-Counting Habits and Number Processing in Canadian and Chinese University Students A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in the Faculty of Arts and …
