Part A:

Part B:

Name of Class: HDFS 1403

Instructor: Timothy Killan

Part C:
Thesis 1

1. Ashley Knapp
2. The Effects of Maternal Information Transmission on Daughters' Responding to
a Voluntary Hyperventilation Challenge
3. 2014
4. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
5. The current study begins to address this gap in the literature by evaluating
whether parental verbal information affects adolescent anxious response to
somatic perturbation.
6. In contrast to prediction, there were no differences in fear-relevant responding
(i.e., post- challenge anxiety, panic symptoms, avoidance) between daughters
whose mothers transmitted negative information and those whose mothers
transmitted positive information concerning somatic arousal elicited by a
voluntary hyperventilation challenge. Importantly, the daughters whose
mothers transmitted negative information reported higher subjective fear levels
in response to their mothers’ information and rated their mothers’ information
 as less pleasant than adolescents whose mothers transmitted positive
information.
7. This study is important to the field of psychology because it gives us a greater
understanding of peoples fear responses and what stimulates them. This can
be helpful not only for future research but also in a clinical setting.
8. If I were to do this study, I would add another control group that does not
receive positive or negative information from their mother. I think that this
could provide additional information about the effects of the mother and what
she conveys to her child. It may be useful also to have a study with the mother
present and not present during the experiment. I think that this could provide
additional information on if the children would be more or less prone to a fear
response when their mother is present in the room. I would also be interested
to perform the study with a more diverse group of gender, race and
socioeconomic levels.

Thesis 2

1. Scott Eidelman
2. 2000
3. Raising Standards following success
4. University of Kansas
5. Together these data are consistent with the hypothesis that participants were
forces more on enhancing their past performance than trying to improve in the
future.