Psychology (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Thinking about what might have been : cognitive processes in counterfactual and semifactual thinking about controllable events
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)In this thesis we present the results of ten experiments, involving approximately 2000 participants in total, designed to examine how people think about what might have been. We had two main aims. The first aim was to ... -
The child witness : an investigation into children's understanding of the legal process and the perceived competence of children to act as witnesses in legal proceedings
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)Given recent public and professional concern in relation to the levels of child victimisation and recent reforms of the evidentiary rules and legal procedures pertaining to children's evidence, there is an increasing ... -
Models of neurodegeneration in the hippocampus : molecular and behavioural factors promoting neuroprotection and neuropathology
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)We investigated the consequences of brain insult after ischemia and kainic acid using different behavioural tasks, because both ischemia or KA model induce a similar neurodegenerative process to that resulting from traumatic ... -
A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural investigation of Irish and Czech children's accounts of socially-constructed emotions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)The application of a discursive approach to the subject of this study can be seen as an attempt to create a link between psychology and linguistics, where grammatical structures and language itself constitute the basis for ... -
Comparison of cardiac rehabilitation outcome measures
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)The aim of the present study was to investigate the responsiveness of psychosocial instruments to cardiac rehabilitation intervention. Responsiveness refers to the ability of an instrument to detect change over time and ... -
Internal State Language and Emotion Understanding in Children Attending Mental Health Services
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2019)Thesis Title: Internal State Language and Emotion Understanding in Children Attending Mental Health Services. Parental use of internal state (mental state) language (ISL) has been linked with children s understanding of ... -
An Electrophysiological Investigation into Temporal Factors in Human Perceptual Decision-Making
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2019)At any given moment, the human brain receives a barrage of noisy sensory signals that convey important information about events taking place in the surrounding world. In order to function optimally in our environment we ... -
Development of the RISKRES: Screening for risk factors and resilience contributing towards suicidality in adolescents and young people
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2019)Youth suicide is a societal issue which warrants attention. The purpose of this study was to develop a psychometrically sound method to measure both risk factors and resilience as potential predictors of suicidality for ... -
Adolescents' patterns of physical activity and psychosocial factors associated with maintenance, drop out and uptake of physical activity over twelve months
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2016)This thesis sought to quantitatively explore patterns of physical activity among adolescents and the psychosocial factors associated with physical activity maintenance and behaviour change over twelve months. The research ... -
Comparative analysis of safety management systems and safety culture in aircraft maintenance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)The overall objective of the thesis was on developing a deeper understanding of the organisational processes of safety management systems and how they are embedded in the culture of aircraft maintenance organisations. The ... -
Single unit activity in the subiculum of freely-moving rats : spatial and non-spatial correlates
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2001)Compared with the research effort directed at the hippocampus the subiculum has received little experimental attention despite being one synapse downstream of area CAI and in a position to influence many cortical areas ... -
Mindfulness meditation and the clinically modified Buddhist psychological model in psoriasis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2019)The literature on psoriasis highlights that having this chronic incurable condition can result in patients experiencing a heavy psychosocial burden, which can result in higher levels of anxiety, depression, and poorer ... -
Temporal and spatial factors affecting the cross-modal integration of object information
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2005)This thesis is concerned with how temporal and spatial factors influenced the cross-modal integration of object representations across modalities. Specifically tested was whether temporal synchrony and spatial co-location ... -
Contributions to human factors from three case studies in aircraft maintenance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2006)Three case studies form the heart of this thesis. The first one was based on a project called AIR, which was a human factors continuous improvement change initiative. The second one was based on a different type of change ... -
Exploring conscious and preconscious processing of affective pictures in smokers with different levels of dependency : behavioural and physiological outcomes
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2005)The work described in this thesis is directed at investigating preconscious processes which surpasses automatic cognitive control. To test this contention it is necessary to surpass conscious cortical control through the ... -
Attention and reasoning : a task-switching investigation of the mental model theory
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2008)Despite the fact that most theories of reasoning agree on the main role played by limitations in WM capacity in reasoning performance, little research has been directed to elucidate how the executive processes that deal ... -
The role of vision in haptic spatial cognition
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2007)In the studies described here the role of vision on haptic spatial cognition was investigated. Since vision is believed to be the most important sense for spatial perception I investigated whether it affects spatial ... -
Methodological considerations and functional correlates in structural MR image analysis of the brain
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2008)Structural magnetic resonance imaging is a complex and extremely powerful high resolution imaging mechanism that yields excellent soft tissue contrast. Recent times have seen the development numerous structural image ... -
Impaired awareness of deficits and neuropsychological functioning following traumatic brain injury, frontotemporal dementia, corticobasal degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2006)This dissertation consists of an investigation into the phenomenon of impaired selfawareness of deficits following brain damage. Despite a large interest in the area in the neuropsychological literature, there is a distinct ... -
Time estimation deficits in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2005)The main aim of this thesis was to examine whether a time deficit exists in children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and to try to determine the nature and basis for such a deficit if it is ...
