CWU's graduate programs in Psychology include the following:

  • Applied Behavior Analysis: This degree program trains students to apply behavioral science in real-world settings such as clinics or schools. Students use a systematic approach to the assessment and evaluation of behavior, and the application of interventions that alter behavior.
  • Experimental Psychology: This degree is research oriented. Graduates will often work in colleges, universities, research centers, government, and private businesses. Many will continue on for doctoral programs.
  • Mental Health Counseling: The MHC program is not being offered at this time.
  • School Psychology: This degree is assessment oriented. Candidates interview and test students to identify placement issues and optimize learning. Graduates work as school psychologists within the public school system.
  • This collection features theses from students in the Department of Psychology Graduate Programs at Central Washington University.

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Theses from 2024

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Music Density: A Novel Measurement of Music Perception, Tyler Ussery

Theses from 2023

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THE EFFECT OF SENTENCE PRESENTATION ORDER ON ANIMACY VIOLATIONS AND THE N400 EFFECT: A MIXED METHODS APPROACH, Naomi Cady

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College Students' Perceptions of Autistic Peers: A Study of Gender and Stigma, Elise LaRue

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PRIMARY CARE PROVIDER WEIGHT AND RACIAL BIAS: TREATMENT DECISIONS FOR FEMALES LIVING WITH CHRONIC PAIN, Malee Powell

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Cannabis Cues and Effects on Social Anxiety, Erica Steinberg

Theses from 2022

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What About Me: Understanding the Relationship Between Gender Identity and Social Anxiety, Jessica Allen

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The Interrelatedness of Attachment Insecurity, Alexithymia, and Emotional Loneliness, Becky Fromm

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Combatting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Do False Information Tags Work?, Jeremy Simmons

Theses from 2021

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The Personality of Primates: Opinions of Contemporary Primatologists, Courtney Dawn Aucoin

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The immigrant in our head: Skin tone, social categorization, and support for policy, Patrizia Chirco

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Critically Evaluating Website Credibility: Factors that Influence Perceptions of Online Mental Health Information, Mikayla Kimery

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The Effects of Priming on Framing Bias: An Integrative Study Examining Mortality Salience, Self-Affirmation, and Emotional Intelligence, Kyle Klaassen

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Graduate School Psychology Students’ Self Report on Multicultural Competence and Program Satisfaction, Jasmin Moreno Sanchez

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Frontal Alpha Wave Asymmetry in regard to Affect, Monica Leigh Sewell

Theses from 2020

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Effects of Illness Type and Empathy Induction On Illness-Related Stigma in Undergraduate Students, Karlie Hill

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Mood Effects and Individual Differences on Reappraisal and Distraction: An ERP Study of the Sensitivity of Emotion Regulation Strategies, Elsa Mastico

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Forgive Them, Forgive Them Not: The Role of Remorse and Empathy in Interpersonal Forgiveness, Molly Mortensen

Theses from 2019

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Teacher Acceptability of Curriculum Based Measurement as a Universal Screener in Reading, Brooke Adams

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Relaxing Music Effects on Implicit Racial Bias and Neural Activity, Viktoriya Robertovna Broyan

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The Effects of Therapy Balls on In-Seat and On-Task Behavior in Young Children, Ariel Ching

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Music, Video and Perception: An investigation into shaping attitudes toward fish and their natural habitat, Kayla-Ann Hemmings

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Impacts of Self-Efficacy on School Psychologists' Provisions of Mental Health Services, Ashley Jantzer

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Exploring Locus of Control in Offender Cognition and Recidivism Paradigms, Anistasha Lightning and Danielle Polage

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A Book and its Cover: The effects of dynamic and static facial expressions on the perction of personality traits, Jonathan Ojeda

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Comparing the Effectiveness of Verbal Feedback Versus Acoustical Feedback Within a Behavior Skills Training Package When Teaching Beginning Yoga Postures to Novice Yoga Practitioners, Molly Rauschl

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Evaluation of Wildland Firefighter Leadership, Rebecca Rose

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The Effects of Self-Esteem and Mood on the Perception of Others, Sydney Wirkkala

Theses from 2018

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Gender Differences in Task Switching: An Event-Related Potential Study, Briana M. Bratcher

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Confidence in Academic Testing: The Effect of Induced Checking and Anxiety on University Students' Emotional Responses to, and Performance in, Academic Challenge, Elijah Bruner

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The Effects of Moral Message Framing on Political Ideology, Matthew Christiansen

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Development of the Clark and Becker Scale of Symptomatology (CBS): Symptom-Level Item Performance, Michael Clark

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Evaluation of Paper Test Strategies on Computer-Administered Tests: The Impact of Item Response Marking on Test Performance, Erik Ekberg

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An Examination of the In-Group Hypothesis in Facial Expression Inferences Using American and Indian Samples, Scott Lehrman

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The Impact of Mindfulness on Student Success, Casey D. Nightingale

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Modeling the Psychiatric Aspects of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Induced Stress, Danielle Peecher

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Attitudes Toward Anonymous Public Nudes, Marianna Wendt

Theses from 2017

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Effects of Screen Light Filtering Software on Sleep and Morning Alertness, HengYu Chi

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Uncertainty's Impact on Perceptions Toward Randomness, Ross Cook

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Musical Mnemonic Devices or Method of Loci: Which Promotes Higher Recall of Concrete and Abstract Words?, Sky M. Corby

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Cognitive Biases in Alcohol and Marijuana Users, Wyatt G. Frahm

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Piano Music as a Behavioral Intervention at the Ellensburg, WA Developmental Preschool, Christopher Hull

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Behavioral Differences Between Urban and Rural American Crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos), Carolina Montenegro

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Effects of a Growth Mindset Intervention on First-Year College Student Academic Performance, Sarah North Wolfe

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Teacher Perceptions of School Climate and PBIS, Douglas Periman

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A Cultural Comparison of the Facial Inference Process, Janine Swiney

Theses from 2016

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Differences in Attitudes towards Heterosexual and LGBT Homeless Youth in College Students, Jonathan P. S. Clinkenbeard

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Effect of Prior Trauma Exposure on Alpha Amplitude, Heart Rate, and Self-Reported Negative Affect, Gina L. DeNoble

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Self-Compassion, Mindfulness and Wellbeing in Counselors-in-Training, Lea Fairbanks

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Derived Textual Control in Activity Schedules Using a Stimulus Pairing Observation Procedure, Grace Felling

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Online Usage Among College Students: A Comparison of Online Gaming and Facebook Users, Jonathan M. Ingram

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Measuring Self-Reported Exercise, Motivation to Exercise, and Sexism in Women, Sydney C. Jensen

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Life Adversity, Social Support, Resilience, and College Student Mental Health, Joshua Mello

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Manding in Children with Autism: Transfer of Control from Adults to Peers, Michael Layne Miller

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Examination of the Relationship Between Caesarean Section Births and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Breea M. Rosas

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The Effects of Question-Present Versus Item Present Conditions on Acquisition of Mands, Paige M. Thornton

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Mate Selection Comparisons in Heterosexual and Homosexual Individuals, Daina Lee Wierzbinski

Theses from 2015

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Exercise Motivations of Older Adults, Laura J. Attaway

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The Effects of Feedback Sequence on Cognitive Performance, Travis W. Pyle

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Electrophysiological and Behavioral Working Memory Differences Between Musicians and Non-Musicians, Benjamin P. Richardson

Theses from 2014

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Priming the Data: Examining Self-Potentiation in a Word Fragment Completion Task, Michael P. McDonald

Theses from 2012

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A Punishment-free, Toilet-training Protocol for Children with Developmental Disabilities, Chelsea Lynn Pearsall

Theses from 2007

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The Public Perception of Enrichment for Captive Animals, Elizabeth Marie Webb

Theses from 1999

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The Effects of an Organizational Communication Intervention on Job Satisfaction in a Public Health Organization, Ann Kathleen Riley

Theses from 1995

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Introversion, Extraversion, and Humor, Tanna Marlane Boucher

Theses from 1990

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The Effect of Different Approaches to Goal Setting on Goal Commitment, Eileen Mary Piersa

Theses from 1972

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The Effect of a Learning Skills Course including Group Counseling on Low Achievers in the Community College, Paul E. Borg

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Intradimensional Variability with Numbers and Alphabetical Letters in Conceptual Rules, Thomas Henry Clayton

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The Effect of an Increase of a Mother's Complimentary Behavior on her Child's Crying Rate and in-task School Behavior, Mark Connot

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Operantly Conditioning a College Student's Study Behaviors, Norman L. Culbertson

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The Effects of Truth Table Pretraining and Intradimensional Variability on Rule Learning and Attribute Identification Tasks, Eric S. Gebelein

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Experimenter Bias Effect at Varying Levels of Motivation, Leslie Marie Slade Gray

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False Physiological Feedback and Acceptance of a High Fear Message, Michael T. Gray

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A Comparison of Verbal and Geometric Stimuli in Concept Learning, Robert William Greenway

Theses from 1971

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The Use of Selected Films and Film Discussions in Modifying Social Distance in Elementary School Children, Stanton C. Baker

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The Cathartic Effects of Aggressive Responses directed toward an Inanimate Object, Timothy William Creston

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Sub-aversive Response Contingent Foot Shock as a Positive Reinforcer, Robert Lea Fulwiler

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The Effects of CS Habituation and Duration of the Directional Modification of the Cardiac Response in the Guinea Pig (Cavia procellus), Ray Charles Larson

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Duration of State-Dependent Learning induced by NCFS-ECS, Larry Wayne Morris

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The Relationship of Dogmatism and Internal-External Control to Psychological Reactance, Edward J. Schau

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Effects of Volition and Justification on the Arousal of Dissonance during Performance of a Dull Task, George Roger Schoenhals

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State-Dependent Learning as a Function of the Temporal Relationship between Noncontingent Footshock and Electroconvulsive Shock, T. Scott Shutt

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Time Sampling Technique Applied to Counseling Practicum, William David Thomas

Theses from 1970

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Effect of Alcohol on Timing Behavior in the Pigeon, Robert J. Boyd

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Television-Mediated Aggression and Its Effects on Children’s Level of Aggressiveness, Thomas M. Ferguson

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Acceptance of Negroes by White College Students as a Function of College-Class Standing, Religious Conviction, and Race of Experimenter, Harry James Hawks

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A Comparison of ECS and Drug Induced State-Dependent Learning, Mayse F. John

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The Effects of Motivation Level and Task Difficulty on Performance on a Vigilance Task, Donald C. Johnston

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The Effects of Free and Forced Choice with a Time Gradient and Monetary Incentive in a Serial Learning Task, Ernest joseph Lucier Jr.

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Effects of Nurturance on Incidental Imitative Behavior, Ronald Raymond Monti

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Use of the PALS Test to differentiate between High Achieving and Low Achieving Fifth GradeStudents: A Validity Study, Mickey H. Parson

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General Functions and Specific Activities of the Elementary School Couselor as perceived by Principals, Teachers, and Counselors in the Highline Public Schools, Seattle, Washington, Gary Winfield Sherman

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Duty Performance of Vocational Guidance Counselors, Richard K. Swanson

Theses from 1969

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Philosophy of Human Nature as a Function of Political Preference, Political Involvement, and Age, Ralph L. Anderson

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Conditioned Helplessness and Human Escape Behavior, Robert E. Gabbard Jr.

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The Effect of Pretesting on the Training of Conservation Behavior, Lynn Mannan

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The Effects of Varying a T Group Design upon Self Concept, George Richard Woodruff

Theses from 1968

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The Effectiveness of Perceptual Training as a Corrective Measure for Reading Disability, Brenda Bonin Batali

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Concept Identification as a Function of three Semantic Dimensions, Richard Eugene Edwards

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Verbal Conditioning with Vicarious Reinforcement as Related to Peer Attitudes in Grade-School Children, Margaret McCutcheon Lauterbach

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The Effect of Dominance Level When Using Mediated Generalization to Facilitate Concept Formation, Delbert Smith McHenry