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Beat Gestures: An Exploration
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2014)• Beat gestures are small, rhythmical movements that emphasize certain parts of speech • They are not directly related to the speaker’s meaning • Beat gestures occur frequently, but little is known about their function ... -
Behavioral Self Regulation and Emergent Writing Skills in Preschool Children
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2012)There is much debate in American school systems about whether proper preschool curriculum should be more focused on academic skills or self-regulatory skills. This study examines how academic skills are related to behavioral ... -
The Benefits of Being Kind: A Proposed Study Promoting Prosocial Behavior in Low-Income Preschools
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Prosocial behavior has many benefits, including increasing academic achievement, stress-reduction, and increasing happiness and life satisfaction. Preschool age is a critical period for prosocial development. Low-income ... -
The Benefits of Theater Participation on Child and Adolescent Development and Academic Performance
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2015)The goal of this paper to argue the importance of theater arts education on promoting healthy social, cognitive, emotional and physical development in children and adolescents by utilizing past psychological research, case ... -
Better Understanding and Selling to Women: A Recommendation for Marketers and Advertisers
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Marketers want to know what influences consumers to buy. Research shows that gender affects consumer decisions. Furthermore, it has been indicated that marketers should appeal to a female consumer base, since women today ... -
Bilingual Cognitive Advantages: Effects on Mathematical Ability in First- and Second-Graders
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2016)Bilingualism has been found to improve executive functioning. This study examined whether bilingualism aids mathematical ability in first- and second-grade children. Monolingual and bilingual students were given a math ... -
Bilingualism Modulates Attentional Processes of the Brain in Infancy: A Proposed Behavioral and Neurobiological Analysis
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2018)Dual-language management requires significant cognitive engagement, especially from executive function mechanisms. Of these mechanisms, attentional control is necessary in order to track, maintain, switch, and suppress ... -
BMI of Participants in Weight Loss Camps: Should All Campers be Over a Certain BMI?
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010-04)The premise for this study is the idea that adolescent girls will have more success in weight loss when all of their peers in a weight loss context are overweight. If some of their peers who consider themselves to be ... -
Body Image Perceptions Between African-American and Kenyan Women
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)Self-perceptions about body image affect the lives of women and how they view themselves and treat their bodies. This study examines the experiences of women of color and investigates how perceptions and attitudes about ... -
Buddhist Influence on Modern Therapy
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2009)Empirical clinical psychology research turned from broad to specific topics in the 1950’s and 1960’s (Hayes, 2002). Third Wave Therapies emerged Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Dialectical Behavior Therapy ... -
Caregiver-Child Relationship: Proposing a Program for Orphanage Hogar Miguel Magone
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2014)The contrast in attachment styles between children reared in homes versus children reared in institutions, such as orphanages, is very strong. Orphanages and other institutions provide shelter and care for children and ... -
A Case Study on the Effectiveness of Discrete Trial Training Through a Web-Based Program for a 4-Year Old Autistic Child
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2015)Autism among children is growing at a rate of 30 percent each year (Baio, 2014). It is crucial to find affordable and effective means of behavioral therapy for autistic children seeing as most therapies are extremely ... -
Change Management in Sales Organizations
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2009)This study examines change management within an organization and the topics that need to be implemented in order to have a successful change. There were 14 participants, 5 upper management, 2 coordinators, 2 inside sale ... -
The Changes Over Time of Communication Patterns in Subjective Team-Level Person-Group Fit: A Proposed Study
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2016)Person-group (PG) fit is the interpersonal compatibility between an individual and the members of the group that they are working with (Kristoff-Brown, Zimmerman, & Johnson, 2005). There have been a multitude of studies ... -
Charter Schools and Students with Disabilities
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2012)School choice for students with disabilities is difficult to achieve when being “counseled out”, encouraged not to apply, or not being given the right programs as the school does not have them. Many charter schools cannot ... -
Child Initiated Learning and the Outdoor Environment: A Review of the Literature
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019)40% of U.S. children are not ready for school when they enter kindergarten. (Engle & Black 2008). Children 3-7 years old are in the preoperational stage. The No Child Left Behind Act only effective during the concrete ... -
CHILDREN’S COMPREHENSION OF GESTURE AS REPRESENTING VERBS
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2015)In order for gesture to be an effective learning tool, it must be understood as representational, which can be difficult for children (Marentette & Nicoladis, 2011). The current study tests this with a verb learning paradigm ... -
The Clubhouse Summer Camp: Social development for children with Autism
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2016)Research has been done to see which method of intervention best helps children with autism improve their social skills. There are many different approaches for intervention. This study investigates the efficacy of a summer ... -
Coaching Styles and Their Effects on Athletes
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)This literature review examines and analyzes the effects that various styles of coaching have on athletes. The coach has been said to be one of the most important influences upon an athlete’s motivation (Amorose & ... -
Cognitive Dissonance: Justification of Effort and its Effects on Athletic Performance in the Pool
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)The proposed study sought to intersect two very different subjects: cognitive dissonance and athletics. Cognitive dissonance would be induced to see if it fostered improvement in swimmers. The hypothesis presented an ...
