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  • The effect of language on generic knowledge understanding and source reliability: A developmental study 
    Ataman, Merve. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This study investigated the effect of grammaticalized markers of genericity and evidentiality on children’s understanding of generalizability of knowledge and source reliability. It explored whether children generalize ...
  • Effects of goal attainment on autobiographical memory 
    Şenelt Kalelioğlu, Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    The aim of the current study was to explore the effect of goal attainment and valence on characteristics of autobiographical memories. University students and young adults recalled four autobiographical memories related ...
  • The role of response competition in retrieval-induced forgetting 
    Eraltan, Şirin Ezgi. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    Retrieving a target item raises its likelihood to be remembered at a later memory test. However, related but not retrieved items do not benefit and actually suffer from such a retrieval. The phenomenon that retrieval of ...
  • Feature specificity in visual statistical summary processing 
    Yörük, Harun. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2018.)
    People initially process object sets by averaging their features into statistical summary representations. Previous studies have shown that there is independence between summarizing of low and high-level visual information. ...
  • The effect of socioeconomic status and 5-HTTLPR on preschoolers’ social competence and diurnal cortisol levels 
    Mavioğlu, Rezan Nehir. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    Social competence (SC) is an important contributor to children’s development and influenced by genetic and environmental factors. This study investigates the associations between socioeconomic status (SES), SC and ...
  • The influence of recollection-driven factors on the magnitude of feeling-of-knowing judgments :|a non-criterial recollection perspective 
    Avşar Esen, Semra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    In the last decade, non-criterial recollection (NCR) hypothesis (Brewer, Marslı, Clark-Foos, & Meeks, 2010) extended the accessibility account (Koriat, 1993) and demonstrated that in addition to retrieval of target-related ...
  • Self-regulation in at-risk children :|exploring factors that affect cognitive functions in refugee children 
    Coşgun, Begüm. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The number of refugee children is increasing every year all around the globe, along with their suffering from psychological and cognitive problems. Refugee experience may be characterized with chaos which includes multiple ...
  • The relationship between cognitive emotion regulation strategies and autobiographical memory functions 
    Küçüktaş, Selen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Autobiographical remembering serves three functions: self, social and directive (Bluck, 2003). However, different approaches debate whether emotion regulation (ER) is associated to these three functions or it serves a ...
  • A Turkish adaptation of the revised post-event processing questionnaire 
    Baycan, Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Post-Event Processing (PEP) is described as repetitive and intrusive thinking on recent anxiety-provoking social interaction or performance situation. Models of social anxiety (e.g. Heimberg, Brozovich, & Rapee, 2014) ...
  • In search of tonal grounds for short term melody recognition 
    Karan, Alperen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    What information is retained after the first hearing of a note sequence? Taylor and Pembrook (1983) investigated for this question with melodies in C major scale using a singing back and a dictation task. They observed ...
  • Assessing children’s subjective well-being in a school context 
    Ayan, Tuğba. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Children spend an extended period at school from very early ages. The numerous components of school life have an impact on the subjective well-being of children. The present study aims to understand the subjective ...
  • Self-defining memories of change and continuity :|the effect of university experience 
    Özvarol, Müge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The present study investigated stability and change in self-concepts in response to a transitional life experience: university experience. Life transitions typically present challenges to the self, in which case individuals ...
  • Children's reliance on shared psychological attributes to infer group membership 
    Köseler, Begüm. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Our social world is based on complex relationships and organizations, and sensitivity to cues that enable us to represent these relationships is crucial for navigating this complex social environment. The current research ...
  • The relationship between environmental chaos and diurnal cortisol levels of preschoolers 
    Sönmez, Nihan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Cortisol is a widely used biomarker of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis of stress system. The aim of the present study was to investigate the main, additive and interactive role of chaotic home and daycare ...
  • Changes in psychological well-being after disclosing negative autobiographical memories 
    Mert, Nazike. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Emotional disclosure of negative experiences has long been associated with improvement in physical and psychological health (Pennebaker, 1997). The present study has three main goals: First, to test whether disclosure ...
  • Estimating infants’ age from mothers’ infant-directed speech 
    Bozkurt, Ceren. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Speech varies depending on the characteristics of the speaker as well as the recipient. Infant-directed speech (IDS) is a well-known example where individuals modify their speech when addressing infants and children. ...
  • Prejudice against Syrians in Turkey :|the role of age, moral perception, group identification, and contact 
    Üner Yanılmaz, Sinem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    When Syrians fled Syria and took refuge in Turkey as the result of a civil war, various disturbances arose among Turkish people. In order to find out how they perceive Syrians in Turkey, distinct research was conducted. ...
  • Socioeconomic-related differences in Turkish mothers’ autonomy granting to adolescents 
    Keşir, Nihan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This study aims to gain insight into mothers of adolescence’s conceptualization of the adolescence period and their understanding toward adolescence’s autonomy in the context of their socioeconomic status (SES), more ...
  • What if days were shorter? The behavioral effects of a 22-hour period in wistar rats 
    Çetin, Aybeniz Ece. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Light is a significant pacemaker for circadian, that is daily or ~24-h, rhythms that greatly influence mood and various physiological functions. As this connection is well known in psychology, there are many studies ...
  • Autobiographical memories of first- and second-generation Balkan immigrants and place attachment to the homeland 
    Erman, Saliha. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    In the last century, thousands of Turkish and Albanian people immigrated to Turkey from Balkans due to the political and religious oppression. In this study, we investigated the memories of first-generation immigrants ...

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