2021-2022 Senior Honors Theses
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Item Comparing Parent and Child Interactive Play in the Lab and Home: A Look Into a Child's Optimal Visual Learning Experience(2022-05-03) Pham, Jo-AnneRecent technological advancement allows developmental researchers to use small cameras that can be attached to a child's and parent’s head and document first person view, characterizing child’s and parent’s visual experiences. However, this mainly took place in the laboratory and has recently been introduced into the home setting. There are some uncertainty whether or not laboratory studies accurately reflect everyday interactions between the parent and child. In order to further understand this concept and validate previous laboratory studies in the home, we brought common laboratory equipment, such as the eye tracking cameras, toys, and furniture, into the participant’s home to investigate 1) the feasibility of replicating laboratory studies with head cameras and eye tracking devices and 2) the similarities and differences in typical parental scaffolding behaviors and infant visual experiences in the two settings. This study serves as a feasibility study as well as a case study with one parent and child dyad in each setting (both babies are 10 months old, White, male, and have high SES). Results indicate that parent object holding, object naming, and infant visual gaze have longer duration in the laboratory, however parent verbal behaviors are similar across the two settings. These findings support parental scaffolding behaviors previously observed in laboratory settings, however, they show that these behaviors are more prominent in the laboratory.Item NEURAL CORRELATES OF EMOTION REGULATION IN A SAMPLE OF SYRIAN REFUGEE CHILDREN: AN ERP STUDY(2022-08-11) Mohamad, HanaIntroduction: The Syrian War led to millions of displaced families all around the world. A large portion of those refugees were children, who had to grow up abroad. The United States opened its doors to Syrian refugees, many of which resettled in Texas. As a result, many of these families, including the children, suffer challenges that may include depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. This study focuses on differences in regulation of emotions in these refugee children, whether they have symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and if they show resilience. Methods: Using a multi-method approach, the study consisted of the Emotion Regulation Task that measures event-related potentials (ERP) from an electroencephalograph (EEG) reading, and two surveys. The Emotion Regulation Task consists of three trial conditions (while measuring the ERP): look-neutral, look-negative, and decrease-negative. One survey is the Children’s Impact of Event Scale 13 measure (CRIES-13), which assesses the children for symptoms of PTSD, and the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-R) which measures resiliency. Results: Age has a significant correlation with condition for the area under the curve (F (2,22) =4.02, p=.03). Repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) with ERP trials conditions within-subject factors and max value as the outcome approached significance (F (2,24) = 2.80, p=.08). No other variables were significant. Discussion: The main significant effect was between age and condition, which indicated that the participants reacted differently, or had different abilities in regulating emotion when interacting with the various tasks due to age. Further research is to be conducted with a larger sample, language modifications, and stricter age classifications among others.