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Exploring Parent and Child Perceptions of an Educational Television Show with a Culturally Inclusive Focus to Computational Thinking

Description:: The rise in children’s media use (Rideout & Robb, 2020) and the prioritization of STEM learning (Fayer et al., 2017) has led to the development of new STEM-related apps, TV shows, and other media for young children. One topic in this area gaining popularity is computational thinking (CT). Researchers refer...
Keyword:: Diversity, Culture and Inclusion, Computational Thinking, Early Childhood, Educational Television, and STEM
Subject:: Developmental psychology, Science education, and Communication
Creator:: Lemley, Breniel
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_1011152 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16709

Digital Blocks to Robots: Examining the Role of Cognitive Skills and App and Toy Design in Children’s Digital STEM Play Experiences

Description:: Over the past decade the market for children’s digital play activities focused on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has grown exponentially. One benefit to the growth in digital STEM play is that it can provide children opportunities to engage the cognitive skills and practices that can be valuable for...
Subject:: Cognitive psychology and Developmental psychology
Creator:: Polinsky, Naomi
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16461 and etdadmin_upload_975492

Constructing Possible Futures: How do Latinx women make meaning of their futures across learning contexts, and how does this process change over time?

Description:: Much of our understanding of human becoming and the process by which possible futures are developed has been based on narrow samples of human experience, which are usually more privileged and provide a narrow view of variability in human life and development. The developmental and educational pathways of minoritized young...
Keyword:: Identity Development, Latinx women, Possible Futures, Intersectionality, STEM Learning, and Sociopolitical Development
Subject:: Developmental psychology, Education, and Social research
Creator:: Castillo-Lavergne, Claudia M
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_982633 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16501

Gerotranscendent Growth and Well-Being in the Life Stories of Late-Midlife Adults

Description:: Gerotranscendence involves feelings of coherence with one’s sense of self, greater acceptance of one’s own life, and connectedness to others across time and space. Gerotranscendence is thought to increase with age. The present study is the first longitudinal effort to investigate changes in gerotranscendence across late midlife using life story...
Keyword:: self-transcendence, gerontology, narrative identity, ego integrity, midlife, and life stories
Subject:: Developmental psychology, Personality psychology, and Clinical psychology
Creator:: Reischer, Hollen N.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/16/2023
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16318 and etdadmin_upload_938638

Longitudinal and Concurrent Correlates of Reading Ability: Two Meta-Analytic Approaches

Description:: Learning to read is a complex process that requires integration across sensory, cognitive, and linguistic processes. Accordingly, there are numerous process that may lead to early reading difficulties. The earlier these difficulties are found, the more effective interventions can be, and the deleterious effects of falling behind in reading cannot...
Subject:: Developmental psychology, Audiology, and Educational psychology
Creator:: McWeeny, Sean
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16103 and etdadmin_upload_903579

Language Development in Bilingual Preschoolers: A Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Comparison

Description:: Children acquire linguistic competence via social interactions with adults and learn to converse in accordance with the norms of their communities. The present dissertation examined the communicative patterns of Thai-English bilingual mothers and children in their two languages, as well as compared the bilinguals’ conversations to each of their monolingual...
Keyword:: parent-child interactions, narrative, bilingualism, cross-cultural, cross-linguistic, and language development
Subject:: Developmental psychology and Communication
Creator:: Rochanavibhata, Sirada
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_900936 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16044

Autobiographical Self-Disturbances and Risk for Psychotic Disorders

Description:: Individuals with psychotic disorders experience profound challenges in maintaining a coherent sense of self and identity over time. Although disturbances in the basic, momentary sense of self are core features of psychotic experiences, less is known about psychosis’s impact on the autobiographical self, the experience of being a coherent and...
Keyword:: Self-referential processing, Self-concept, Emerging adulthood, Resting-state functional connectivity, Clinical high risk for psychosis, and Narrative identity
Subject:: Developmental psychology, Personality psychology, and Clinical psychology
Creator:: Cowan, Henry
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_888615 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15974

EEG Correlates of Naturalistic Social Engagement in Children with Typical Development, Language Delay, and Autism Spectrum Disorder

Description:: Social engagement, or shared attention between a child and caregiver, is a critical process for language and social development. Although previous EEG studies have investigated child social processing in closely controlled, experimental studies, no study has examined the interactive, reciprocal process of naturalistic social engagement. In my first paper, we...
Subject:: Developmental psychology and Neurosciences
Creator:: Manning, Brittany L
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/02/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15820 and etdadmin_upload_855920

Language Processing Differences in U.S. Monolingual English-Speaking Late Talkers and Typical Talkers: Specificity of Phonological Representations and Sensitivity to Lexical-Semantic Relationships

Description:: Late talkers (LTs) are a heterogenous group of children who experience delayed language development in the absence of other known causes (Fisher, 2017). Many LTs “catch up” to their typically talking peers (TTs), but some go on to experience continued difficulties with speech and language development (Dale & Hayiou-Thomas, 2013),...
Keyword:: Phonology, Semantics, Language Delay, Late Talker, and Language Development
Subject:: Speech therapy, Language, and Developmental psychology
Creator:: Curtis, Philip Robert
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/28/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15574 and etdadmin_upload_819331

Perceptual and Linguistic Factors in Infants’ Relational Learning

Description:: Humans are prodigious learners. One of our most powerful learning tools is the ability to detect and transfer relational similarities between items and events, despite their perceptual differences. Previous research has found that the roots of this ability extend into infancy. As early as three months of age, infants can...
Keyword:: cognitive development, infant development, language development, and relational learning
Subject:: Cognitive psychology and Developmental psychology
Creator:: Anderson, Erin M
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 01/21/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15068 and etdadmin_upload_739995

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Exploring Parent and Child Perceptions of an Educational Television Show with a Culturally Inclusive Focus to Computational Thinking

Digital Blocks to Robots: Examining the Role of Cognitive Skills and App and Toy Design in Children’s Digital STEM Play Experiences

Constructing Possible Futures: How do Latinx women make meaning of their futures across learning contexts, and how does this process change over time?

Gerotranscendent Growth and Well-Being in the Life Stories of Late-Midlife Adults

Longitudinal and Concurrent Correlates of Reading Ability: Two Meta-Analytic Approaches

Language Development in Bilingual Preschoolers: A Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Comparison

Autobiographical Self-Disturbances and Risk for Psychotic Disorders

EEG Correlates of Naturalistic Social Engagement in Children with Typical Development, Language Delay, and Autism Spectrum Disorder

Language Processing Differences in U.S. Monolingual English-Speaking Late Talkers and Typical Talkers: Specificity of Phonological Representations and Sensitivity to Lexical-Semantic Relationships

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