Honors Projects for Psychology

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COVID-19 Social Isolation and Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Young Adults
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2024) Gobel, Gina; Maynard, Ashley; Psychology
The Influence of Proficiency in Hawaiʻi Creole on the Identification of Polar Questions in Hawaiian
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2024) Churchill, Haley; Schafer, Amy; Psychology
Exploring the Spiritual Connection: Religion’s Effects on the Intensity of Continued Bonds
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2024) Borja, Kalea Lou B.; Papa, Anthony; Psychology
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders’ Perceived Access to Mental Health Facilities
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2024) Baon, Daniel; Barile, John (Jack); Psychology
COVID-19 Related Anti-Asian Hate: The Responses from Asian Americans
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2023) Wong, Ariel; Dela Cruz, May Rose; Psychology
Love-hacking: A rapid systematic review of intranasal oxytocin for couples therapy
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2023) Jennings, Nicole; Sinnett, Scott; Psychology
The Role of Worry and Secondary Stressors in Maladaptive Grief Responding
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2022) Uchimura, Kyani; Papa, Anthony; Psychology
The Relationship of Self-Compassion and Self-Esteem to Resilience: The Moderating Role of Context Sensitivity
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2022) Nelson, Aneka; Papa, Anthony; Psychology
Interviewing Zen Buddhists on the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale Validity
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2022) Sabellano-Tsutsui, Tiare; Onoye, Jane; Psychology
Mentally Contagious: An Investigation of Parent and Child Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2021) Pensado, Migdalia; Daubert, Emily; Psychology
beta-amyloid generation in neurons
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2022) Oh, YooJin; Vibell, Jonas; Psychology
Discrimination in Hawaiʻi: Experiences and Perceptions of Latinx
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2021) Abreu, Emerson; Scally, Jayme; Psychology
Seeing What We Hear: Sensory Integration Processing of Language and Skin Tone
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2021) Griffin, Maile; Pauker, Kristin; Psychology
Are All Eyes the Same? Eye Gaze Cue Processing Differences in People with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2021) Soares Miehlstein, Maximillian; Sinnett, Scott; Psychology
Effectiveness of Strategies for Cultural Competence When Applied to Different Practice Settings
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2020) Mettias, Hannah; Kataoka-Yahiro, Merle; Psychology
Cultural competence is the ability to interact with people from cultures other than your own through the development of personal and interpersonal awareness. It is important for educators to utilize efficient strategies that can be used across different settings and with different age groups. This portfolio analyzes the literature on strategies that have proven effective in certain settings with a specific focus on the Teach-Back Method. This Teach-Back Method, which has proven effective in healthcare one-on-one adult settings, calls educators to ask patients to repeat instructions and information provided to them in their own words to ensure that the educator has provided knowledge in a way in which their patients understand. This portfolio applied the Teach-Back Method to non-traditional settings to observe its effectiveness in these settings. With The National Kidney Foundation, the Teach-Back Method was applied to younger age groups in a non-traditional group setting. This was taken further by applying the Teach-Back Method to Lawakua Tutoring, where the method was used to teach different, academic content to a non-traditional age group. A handbook for Lawakua tutoring was made to incorporate the cultural competence strategies from the literature into the tutoring setting. A journal from the experience with The National Kidney Foundation outlined the success of incorporating the strategies into different settings. These experiences have shown that the Teach-Back Method is an effective tool for cultural competence not only in its traditional healthcare, one-on-one adult setting, but also in the classroom setting with younger age groups. Implications for future work includes utilizing the teach back method with school-age children and families in healthcare and community health practice settings.
Oahu’s Reentry Support System: A Community Resource Guide for the Formerly Incarcerated
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2021) Sweaney, Madison; Rubin, Ashley; Psychology
Incorporation of the Biopsychosocial Model in Education is Lacking
(University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2019) Tan, Charissa; Takahashi, Lorey; Chun, Maria; Psychology
Studying medicine has long been considered a biomedical pursuit. Education of future medical practitioners reflects this in its narrow focus on obtaining high GPAs and a competitive MCAT score. Opponents argue that this framework causes physicians to be callous and economically driven. Instead, they suggest teaching medical students according to the biopsychosocial (BPS) model, so they receive a comprehensive perspective of medicine that encompasses the biological as well as the behavioral components of treatment. The purpose of this literature review is to observe the ways in which the BPS model has been incorporated into medical education. In the three articles that fulfilled the eligibility criteria, it was demonstrated that there is a large variability to the incorporation of the BPS model in the medical curriculum. Overall, both medical schools and students report needing more formal training in BPS topics before they feel comfortable using the model.
Relative Size Learning in Honeybees (Apis mellifera)
(University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2019) Nakamoto, Max; Couvillon, Patrica; Takahashi, Lorey; Psychology
The honeybee is the only invertebrate species that has been extensively studied in learning experiments, and the results are very similar to those of vertebrates. Such similarities raise questions about the evolutionary development of learning capabilities and their underlying mechanisms. Recently, studies of learning in honeybees have shifted to more complex cognitive phenomena, such as relational learning, once thought to be exclusive to vertebrates. Honeybees are capable of solving same-different relational problems, such as oddity. In the present experiments, bees were first tested for evidence of relative size learning and then for the ability to use relative size in an oddity problem. The methodology employed a free-flying procedure in which foraging honeybees were pre-trained to shuttle between their hive and a testing window where they received a sucrose solution as a reward for choosing the correct stimulus on each trial. After drinking the sucrose, the bee returned to the hive to unload and then returned for another trial. The stimuli used were wooden blocks of four different lengths ranging from short to long. In Experiment 1, bees were tested with a simple discrimination problem using single- pair training of closely-sized stimuli to ensure that all of the stimuli used in subsequent experiments were visually discriminable by the bees. In Experiment 2, bees were presented with two blocks of different sizes on every trial. Half of the bees were in Group Large and were rewarded for choosing the larger block of the pair. The other half of the bees were in Group Small and were rewarded for choosing the smaller block of the pair. The bees in both groups learned to choose correctly, suggesting bees are capable of relative size learning. To determine that Experiment 2 had not been solved by learning the reward probabilities associated with each block size, Experiment 3 served as a novel control condition. The task could not be solved by a relational rule but only by learning reward probabilities. The bees were unable to solve this task, indicating the bees in Experiment 2 had likely solved the task using a relational rule. Given the evidence provided by Experiments 2 and 3 that bees are capable of relative size learning, Experiment 4 was conducted using a task that required the use of two relational concepts: size and same-different. Bees were presented with three blocks, two of which were the same size and one a different size. On half of the trials, the odd-sized block was larger than the other two, and on the other half, it was smaller. The bees were always rewarded for choosing the odd- sized block. The bees learned to choose the odd stimulus significantly more often than chance. These results suggest that honeybees are capable of solving a problem that requires the use of two different relational concepts simultaneously, an ability so far only demonstrated in very few vertebrate species. Such cognitive sophistication in honeybees is surprising. It may be that foraging honeybees use both size and oddity relationships in their foraging decisions. Future research should examine the flexibility and robustness of relational learning capacities in honeybees to determine to what extent this ability is similar to that of vertebrates.
AN EXPLORATION OF INFORMATION PROCESSING AND RECALL
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2019) Anjum, Alian; Sinnett, Scott; Psychology
State-dependent learning suggests that memory can be enhanced if either physical or mental states can be matched at encoding and retrieval (Goodwin et al., 1969). The current research extends this effect to conditions involving food, under the assumption that in academic settings many students study while simultaneously eating some type of snack. Specifically, we used a sample of university students to test whether eating a snack while studying and when being tested at a later time would lead to increased performance on a test covering the studied material. We further tested this notion by varying whether participants received food or not at both encoding and retrieval, and whether the same food was consumed at retrieval, or not. Participants were presented with an article to read and were asked to memorize as much information as possible. They were then subsequently tested on this material after a short delay of 10 minutes. The results showed that the group that received the same food at both encoding and retrieval stages performed statistically better in the memory test than the group that received different types of foods at both stages, or no food. Interestingly, the group that did not receive any food did on average better (but not statistically) than the group that received different foods, suggesting increased specificity for stimulus type in state-depending learning, with incongruent food conditions perhaps leading to a detriment in performance.
Multimethod Assessment of Self-Disturbances in Schizotypy
(University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2019) Berglund, Alysia; Cicero, David C; Kim, Justin; Psychology
In the contemporary model of self-disorders, the primary self-disturbance present in individuals with schizophrenia is ipseity: the most basic sense of selfhood and our ability to cognize ourselves as subjects of our experiences. Schizotypy refers to traits or symptoms similar to schizophrenia, but in a diminished form, and is thought to reflect a liability for schizophrenia- spectrum disorders. Previous research has discovered an association between high levels of schizotypy and occurrences of self-disturbances, through tasks such as two-point discrimination, weight discrimination, and voice recognition. However, there is not sufficient research on the relationship between self-concept clarity, cognition, and anomalous experiences in those with high schizotypy. In the current study, undergraduates are administered measures of anomalous self-experiences, self-concept clarity, and measures of schizotypy to identify possible relationships between self-disturbances and sub-clinical psychotic symptoms. Results found that accuracy in voice recognition is associated to dimensions of schizotypy. Self-disturbances, and self-disorders in general, are not widely discussed, and this study is important to further understand schizotypy to identify early preventative measures for populations vulnerable to developing schizophrenia.

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