SABA Master's Thesis Grant Recipients
2011: Meredith Berry (Utah State University)
Meredith Berry received her undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Florida (UF). While at UF, she studied behavioral pharmacology and human choice and decision making under the direction of Marc Branch, Tim Hackenberg, and Brian Kangas. After earning a BS from UF, Meredith decided to pursue a graduate degree studying experimental analysis of behavior at Utah State University (USU). Meredith is in the process of earning her MS from USU under the direction of Amy Odum, who has helped to expand both her perspective of behavior analysis and her research interests. Her current research interests include relapse of operant responding; the influence of context on relapse of conditional discrimination; factors affecting remembering, expression of match-to-sample, and delayed-matching-to-sample performance; resistance to change; sensitization; and the influence of attention and mood-induction on impulsivity and self-control. While pursuing various research interests and working toward academic goals, Meredith hopes to contribute to the understanding of contextual cues on resistance to change and relapse by extending relapse preparations to conditional discrimination performance. Additionally, Meredith would like to thank the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis for supporting graduate student research. She would also like to thank her undergraduate and graduate mentors, collaborators, and everyone in the experimental psychological science labs at USU.
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