Department News

Spring, 2008

Dissertation Defense

Megan Maxwell, The Relative Efficacy of Three Procedures for Reducing Canine Responding, March 5, 2008.
Chair:  Andy Lattal

Dissertation Proposal

Yusuke Hayashi, The Effects of the Conditioned Reinforcing Value of the Sample Stimulus on Resistance to Change of Delayed Matching-to-Sample Performance in Pigeons, January 30, 2008.
Chair:  Mike Perone

Advanced to Doctoral Candidacy

Thesis Defense

Stephanie Wagner, Motivation to Change Parenting of Mothers of Children With and Without ADHD:  Associations With Demographics and Psychological Characteristics, February 12, 2008.
Chair:  Cheryl McNeil

Sam Insana, Postpartum Sleep Disturbance and Psychomotor Vigilance Performance, March 10, 2008.
Chair:  Hawley Montgomery-Downs

Natalie Bruner, Discriminative-Stimulus and Time-Course Effects of Kava in Rats, April 21, 2008.
Chair:  Karen Anderson

Jon Slezak, Effects of variable training, signaled and unsignaled delays, and d-amphetamine on delay-discounting functions obtained within session, April 24, 2008.
Chair:  Karen Anderson

Thesis Proposal

Shari Winters, Using Children's Choice to Identify Functional Reinforcers, February 27, 2008.
Chair:  Clair St. Peter Pipkin

Andrea Jones, How Influential Are They?  The Role of Parents, Social Support, Attachment, and Autonomy in College Students’ Likelihood to Experience Social Anxiety, April 18, 2008.
Chair:  Tracy Morris

Taken from WVU Psychology Research page.