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Aspects of Maternal Parenting Behavior and Toddler Temperament Work Together to Predict Compliance During a Control Situation?
sizer. Most experiments displayed overall decreases in total particle volume, which is likely due to the evaporation of formaldehyde and first generation imine products. Experiments with formaldehyde and arginine displayed the opposite trend, suggesting that aerosol phase oligomerization products might be scavenging formaldehyde from the gas phase in order to react with it again.
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Carolyn Noack, Sarah Gragg
Coastside County Water District
Faculty Advisor: Adriana Molitor Department of Psychological Sciences
Spencer Morgan
The present study examined relations between maternal behavior, child temperament, and toddler compliance during a laboratory-structured control situation (child clean-up). From a domain-specific socialization perspective, clean-up is a reciprocity task for children with genuine interests in compliance due to histories of mutual accommodation during play. For many dyads, however, clean-up reflects a control task where goals conflict. Although gentle control styles are generally considered better than power-assertive approaches, researchers still need to clarify the effectiveness of specific techniques, especially in light of recent re-conceptualizations of parental control. In the present study, we assessed children’s temperament qualities and cooperation levels (during toy clean-up) among a subsample of 30-month-old toddlers who were classified as experiencing a control situation. Additionally, we coded maternal behaviors (during clean-up) that reflected theoretically distinct features: structure vs. ambiguity and autonomy-support vs. control. Analyses examined the relations between these parenting behaviors, children’s temperament qualities, and toddlers’ cooperation levels.
Faculty Advisor: Drew Talley Department of Marine Science and Environmental Studies
The Coastside County Water District (CCWD) is a private sector water district that serves about 20,000 people in the county of Half Moon Bay, California. The district has two main water supplies; Pilarcitos Lake in rural San Mateo County, and Hetchy Hetchy fed Lower Crystal Springs Reservoir. In order to keep up with a growing population, a massive pump station was implemented at the Crystal Springs Reservoir as well as a water treatment plant at the Deniston Reservoir located in the northern region of the district. In the summer of 2012, I was employed as an intern for the CCWD and received firsthand experience with the water treatment process. The water treatment process involved the addition of coagulants and chlorine to raw water as well as settling in various retention basins. I also constructed an unidirectional flushing program and worked on a variety of other projects.
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Levels: A Mathematical Model
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Erica Nederend
Kelly O’Connell, Gabriella Taverrite
Faculty Advisor: Seth Haney Department of Mathematics
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Mueller School of Business Administration
Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that regulates mood, behavior, aggression, suicidality, and body weight. Regulation of serotonin is very complex, involving multiple feedback loops and auto-regulation. Levels of serotonin tend to fluctuate in response to many factors, including amounts of other hormones and even food intake. A major study on this subject was performed by Best et al. in 2010, titled: “Serotonin Synthesis, Release and Reuptake in Terminals: A Mathematical Model”, where a mathematical model of this complex system was created based on differential equations. Here, we have reduced this complex model into a simplified version with the intent to more easily analyze the effects of the many parameters in the model. Simplifying the mathematical model of this complex system has biological advantages to give insight to mental disorders that are linked to low levels of serotonin. It may also help predict the body’s response to an SSRI, potentially benefitting the ongoing search for a cure for depression. Currently, we are in the middle stages of our intentions of this project. We have determined a simplified version of the model in this paper, which is reduced to three differential equations. Our next step will be to input our model into capable software, which will allow us to visually observe the model and the effects of the various parameters. Furthermore, we will be able to analyze the behavior of serotonin in a single neuron based on different initial conditions and potentially consider states at which all levels of serotonin are constant. This will allow us to make predictions about the long-term behavior of serotonin in the body and make conclusions of the impact that these changes have on mental health.
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Conflict of Measurement and Creativity
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Prior work shows that factors which evoke intolerance towards uncertainty can activate a negative underlying bias against creative ideas which diminishes creative idea recognition. The current study examines the possibility that measurement – showing extremely precise estimates of expectations - can promote creativity bias and diminished engagement (or deter) in creative problem solving. In this study, student participants are asked to choose either a “creative” or “practical” topic to write a paper and are given goals. However, one group of participants receives a measurement condition (extremely precise metrics for grading). We predict that in the measurement condition, participants will choose to write about the practical topic and generate fewer creative solutions than in the no measurement condition. These findings have wide implications for the use of grading rubrics, and suggest that our very efforts to make tasks less ambiguous and quantifiable may actually harm students ability to creatively problem solve.
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