College students obtain far less sleep than is recommended and often report that environmental factors such as noisy residence halls impair the sleep they do get. Insufficient and poor quality sleep put college students at risk for suboptimal academic performance, poor neurocognitive functioning, and accidents. The purpose of this study was to examine whether increasing participant accountability and salience of personal health behaviors, including sleep, would improve sleep variables....
Arts & Sciences Research
2012
Making it Personal: Using Personal Salience of Health Behaviors as a Means to Improve Sleep
Megan Kraynok, Lauren Hurd, and Amanda Amstutz
Psychology
2012
Negative Effects of Pre-Learning Stress on Long-Term Memory are Mediated by Gender and the Emotional Arousal of the Learned Information
Ashlee Warnecke, Hanna Burke, Rachael Frigo, Julia Pisansky, Sarah Woelke, Ericka Holcomb, Jeffrey Talbot and Phillip Zoladz
Psychology
2012
Effects of Pre-Retrieval Stress on Long-Term Memory Depend on Individual Differences in Corticosteroid Response to Stress
Sarah Woelke, Hanna Burke, Mackenzie Hoffman, Rachael Aufdenkampe, Julia Pisansky, Jerel McKay, Andrea Kalchik, Jeffrey Talbot and Phillip Zoladz
Psychology
2012
Sex-Specific Impairment of Spatial Memory following a Reminder of Predator Stress
Hanna Burke, Cristina Robinson, Bethany Wentz, Jerel McKay, Kyle Dexter, Julia Pisansky, Jeffrey Talbot, and Phillip Zoladz
Psychology
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized by cognitive impairments, which may result from intrusive, traumatic memories. One factor potentially influencing the development and maintenance of intrusive memories is prefrontal cortex development, a phenomenon associated with age. The present studies examined how age influences the effects of emotional memories on rat physiology and behavior. Adolescent and adult rats were exposed to predator stress and given water maze training...
2012
Blunted Corticosterone Response to Acute Predator Stress Results in Long-Term Spatial Memory Impairment
Phillip Zoladz, Hanna Burke, Bethany Wentz, Julia Pisansky, Sarah Woelke, Jerel McKay, Kyle Dexter, Cristina Robinson, and Jeffrey Talbot
Psychology
Clinical research suggests that a blunted corticosteroid response to trauma may be associated with increased risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In order to more directly test this hypothesis, we examined the influence of a blunted corticosterone response to stress on the development of PTSD-like behaviors in rats. One-month-old, male Sprague-Dawley rats were injected with metyrapone, an inhibitor or corticosterone synthesis, or vehicle prior to being...
2012
Societal Influence on the Development of Alcoholism
Amber Reamy
Sociology
Alcoholism is a chronic disease that develops as a result of a mixture of genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors. It is characterized by a continuation of habitual alcohol consumption following the realization that it poses a threat to the individual’s interpersonal relationships and social standing. Addiction to alcohol tends to be progressive and untreatable, partly due to the cognitive distortions that commonly accompany the disease, particularly denial. In addition, alcoholics...
2012
Sociopaths and the Collective
Wade Boggs
Sociology
This paper addresses sociopathic behavior from the context of society as a whole. Using Durkheim and Mead takes sociopathy beyond a set of individual characteristics and allows us to look at how the sociopathic individual interacts with society to have an impact on the larger whole. Additionally, by understanding this phenomenon through both structural and interactional lenses we are able to see how patterns in society can affect and are affected by sociopathic individuals.
2012
Interracial Adoption in the United States
Arielle House
Sociology
Interracial adoption is the phenomenon where children of one racial or ethnic group are adopted by parent(s) of another racial or ethnic group. Racial disparities are apparent within the adoption system in the United States. With the increasing acceptance of family structures outside the nuclear family, this work examines the continued reluctance to create interracial families through adoption. Max Weber’s concepts of status, party, rationality and the construction of race...
2012
On Bernoulli's Inequality
Tommy Steinberger, Mohammad Zaki (advisor)
Mathematics - ONU-SOLVE Problem Group
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