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93cognitive barriers essentialism imposes on learning and adaptation in novel contexts.POSTER 2\ ARE YOU?\VSEXTERNAL ATTENTIONAL FOCUS DURING EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE ARTVICTOR OMILABU (THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK CUNY), EDWARD VESSEL (THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK CUNY), MURAT ADASH (GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, KINGSTON UNIVERSITY) How do shifts in focus between the external world and internal thoughts relate to experiences of art? We piloted an experimental artistic performance in which eleven participants responded to attentional prompts crafted to elicit shifts in internal and external focus. Results revealed variability in focus, with certain moments, such as guided meditation, effectively inducing internal focus. These findings offer insights into measurement of attentional dynamics during performance art, with implications for education and therapeutic applications.POSTER 3ADHD SYMPTOMS MODERATING THE IMPACT OF ZOOM'S SELF-VIEW FEATURE ON COGNITIVE LOADABIGAIL WEIR (THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, HUNTER COLLEGE), ABIGAIL FINDLEY (THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, HUNTER COLLEGE, THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE GRADUATE CENTER), JENNIFER DE RUTTE (THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, HUNTER COLLEGE, THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE GRADUATE CENTER), DANA LANE (THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, HUNTER COLLEGE), MAYLYN MEI (THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, HUNTER COLLEGE), JULIET WESCHKE (THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, HUNTER COLLEGE), SARA ZALANYI (THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, HUNTER COLLEGE), TRACY DENNIS-TIWARY (THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, HUNTER COLLEGE, THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE GRADUATE CENTER) Individuals with ADHD may experience heightened cognitive load during video conferencing due to the self-view feature's distracting nature, particularly during passive tasks like watching lectures. In contrast, active tasks such as completing quizzes, may mitigate this effect by requiring more engagement. The self-view feature may also stabilize anxiety by providing consistent visual feedback for selfmonitoring. Findings highlight self-view's dual role: increasing cognitive demands for those with ADHD during passive tasks and reducing anxiety through self-monitoring.POSTER 4ANCHORS AWEIGH: ANCHOR FORMAT AND STIMULUS VALENCE ON MAGNITUDE OF ANCHORINGGREGORY LAHR (SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY), SOPHIE MARKLE (SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY), AVA WEIKEL (SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY), JENNIFER ASMUTH (SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY) Prior research investigating the influence of anchor format and stimulus valence has yielded inconclusive results. This study investigates how numeric and semantic anchors, paired with positive and negative stimuli, influence judgment. Forty-eight undergraduates estimated values for stimuli items presented with numeric (48) or semantic anchors (forty-eight) and positive or negatively-valenced content. Numeric anchors, positively-valenced stimuli, and high anchor values had a stronger anchoring effect. These findings support previous research on factors that influence anchoring heuristics.POSTER 5ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, AND ALCOHOL USE ON ATTENTIONAL BIAS: EMOTIONAL GO/NO-GO TASK.LEANDRA BACHE (WASHINGTON COLLEGE), BRIGID BALDWIN (WASHINGTON COLLEGE), GRACE WALSH (WASHINGTON COLLEGE), SAGE MCKIM (WASHINGTON COLLEGE), AUDREY WEIL (WASHINGTON COLLEGE) Understanding the impacts of mental disorders on cognitive processes including control and inhibition allows for further insight on how psychopathological traits affect neural functioning across the brain. By using an emotional go/no-go task, the effects of harmful alcohol use, high trait anxiety, and high depression will be evaluated by ERP analysis on N2 and P3 amplitude. The threatening stimuli increase amplitude in these potentials depending on high traits of these disorders.POSTER 6ARE ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON EXTERNALIZING BEHAVIORS MEDIATED BY NEURAL RESPONSES TO REWARD?MATTHEW MCCORMICK (TEMPLE UNIVERSITY), COOPER SHARP (TEMPLE UNIVERSITY), SAMANTHA MATTHEISS (FELICIAN UNIVERSITY), SARAH WEINSTEIN (TEMPLE UNIVERSITY), THOMAS OLINO (TEMPLE UNIVERSITY), JEREMY MENNIS (TEMPLE UNIVERSITY), DAVID V. SMITH (TEMPLE UNIVERSITY) 93Saturday, March 8