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Psychology Senior Integrated Projects
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This collection includes Senior Integrated Projects (SIPs, formerly known as Senior Individualized Projects) completed in the Psychology Department. Abstracts are generally available to the public, but PDF files are available only to current Kalamazoo College students, faculty, and staff. If you are not a current K College student, faculty, or staff member, email us at dspace@kzoo.edu to request access to this material.
All materials in the Kalamazoo College Digital Archive are subject to Title 17 of the U.S. Code. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise stated, authors retain the copyright for all content posted to the Kalamazoo College Digital Archive.
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Perceived Weight’s Role on Friendship Selection as Mediated by Weight Self-Relevance, Body Satisfaction, and Internalized Weight Bias
(2020-03-01)Given that it is known that individuals in a friendship cliques tend to be of similar BMIs (Bruening et al., 2015; Fletcher, Bonell, & Sorhaindo, 2011), the present study investigates potential explanations as for why. ... -
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy : A Review Integrating the Theoretical Components with the Scientific Research
(2022-03-01)Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is a widely studied treatment intervention for children who are victims of sexual abuse and who exhibit symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). TF-CBT utilizes ... -
Title IX & Access to Menstrual Hygiene Products
(2021-11-01)This summer was spent researching and gaining new knowledge surrounding the topic of Title IX and equal access to hygiene products for menstruating individuals. Once a week I met with Dr. Boatwright and a few peers over ... -
Living, Seeing, and Growing in Oaxaca, Mexico
(2021-11-01)The author originally planned to volunteer for 50 hours as a teaching assistant in a local elementary school in Oaxaca, Mexico, when the school closed due to Covid-19. The SIP became four photo essays applying the concepts ... -
Summer at the ‘Sherm : Reflections on a Summer at Sherman Lake YMCA
(2021-11-01)What kinds of challenges do summer camp counselors face on a daily basis? Can individuals with disabilities successfully work at camp with campers without disabilities? Can students of psychology benefit from working at ... -
Speech Language Pathology : A Career Exploration
(2021-11-01)The proceeding work is a website containing a collection of various online sources regarding the career exploration of Speech Language Pathology. The intended audience is that of Kalamazoo College Psychology majors who ... -
A Collection of Children’s Books to Aid in Speech Therapy
(2021-11-01)The goal for this project was to create a series of children’s books that helped speech and language therapy and had more representation of minorities. With the help of my sister, who was in her last semester of graduate ... -
Support Group for Women and Non-men on Mackinac Island
(2021-11-01)In this experiential SIP, I created a support group for women and non-men in my rural hometown. To start a support group, I had to secure a meeting space, advertise, provide refreshments, keep a journal, and, most importantly, ... -
Using Desensitization Programs to Promote Dental Exam Compliance in Older Adults with Dementia: A Proposed Study
(2021-11-01)With the growing population of Americans aged 65 and older, there will be many more Americans living with Dementia and other age-related cognitive impairments. As a result of the behavioral and psychological symptoms of ... -
Adolescent Perpetrated Intentional School Shootings: Discovering the Characteristics that Influence Media Exposure
(2021-11-01)Although gun violence in schools is rare, the severity and frequency of these crimes has been increasing in the last few years. As waves of these violent shootings shake the United States, news outlets bombard the population ... -
Still-Face Interactions with Household Dogs: Assessing Dogs’ Attention to Their Owner
(2021-11-01)Research shows that dogs attend to humans’ attention in the sense of what object the human points to in laboratory situations that scaffold dogs' attention to humans’ pointing. We suspected that dogs attend to humans’ ... -
How Profanity and Taboo Gesture Increase Pain Tolerance
(2021-11-01)Swearing increases pain tolerance possibly because of its connection to aggression. However little research has explored if taboo gestures produce a similar effect. We hypothesized that the middle finger and “fuck” would ... -
Limitations of Mediated-Interference and Potentiation When Pairing Neutral Flavor Cues
(2022-03-01)Mediated conditioning is the phenomenon in which the elicited representation of a stimulus can modify conditioning even in the absence of the stimulus itself. This occurs when the representation of this stimulus is elicited ... -
Women's Leadership Aspiration Research Internship
(2021-11-01)This summer I was afforded the opportunity to work under Dr. Karyn Boatwright as her primary research assistant and co-author of her manuscript concerning women’s leadership aspirations and the inquiry into the internal ... -
Return to Normal: An Experiential Observational Account of Elementary Students Return to In Person Learning
(2022-03-01)For my senior individualized project, I accepted an internship an Eastside Youth Strong’s Eastside Arts and Sciences Experiential Learning (EASEL) program. I served as an assistant to three educational professionals employed ... -
The Influence of Criminal Charge Type and Demographics in Predicting Successful Reformation in Mental Courts
(2022-03-01)For this study, I will focus on looking at data collected in the mental health recovery court (MHRC) in the Kalamazoo County. In 2008, the Kalamazoo County established a MHRC after discovering an increase repetition of ... -
Relationships to Recognition Among Generation Z College Students
(2021-11-01)The struggle for recognition represents the primary motivation underpinning social conflict among humans (Honneth, 1992). The human need for recognition refers to the desire to be seen in a positive light (Lammont, 2018). ... -
Identifying positive brain development from bonding between infants and caregivers and implementing programs to achieve these results for high-risk infants.
(2022-04-26)How can caregiving facilities ensure that children and infants are provided with an environment for optimal brain development? Many childcare facilities aim to offer a safe but stimulating environment; they are equipped ... -
Collectivism and Individualism
(2022)Individualism fist came about as a construct from a factor analysis performed by Hofstede in 1980. Since then, many researchers have been intrigued by this concept as a way to categorize cultures and attitudes. The constructs ... -
Graphic Design and User Experience Research Internships: A Reflection
(2022)In the present paper, I discuss the design related internships I completed during the Summer of 2021, what I learned from them, how these experiences relate to my career, and how these internships relate to what I have ...
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