School of Psychology: Recent submissions
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Second Level Education and Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Exploration of Peer, Parent and Teacher Experiences
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2018)Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are extensively reported to find the experience of secondary school challenging. Few studies have informed on this in detail, particularly considering social and behavioural ... -
Dissemination of evidence-based practice to frontline staff working in the field of intellectual disability: An evaluation of training protocols, intervention compliance, and generalisation.
Individuals with intellectual disabilities have the right to the highest standard of service provision. However, reports indicate that the practice of hiring personnel without suitable professional qualifications, is a ... -
Cognitive reserve : an investigation of construct validity and relationships with cognitive function in generally healthy older adults
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2016)This thesis evaluated the construct validity of a multiple-indicator, latent variable model of cognitive reserve (CR), and investigated relationships between this construct and age-related cognitive outcomes in a cohort ... -
Comparing and contrasting the effects of aerobic exercise and the exercise mimetic, resveratrol, on neurocognitive function
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2013)Excerpt from introduction: Although taken out of context from their use in the opening line of Juvenal’s poem, Satire X, from the late 1st century, these words have often been repeated to promote the belief that only a ... -
Investigating accuracy of trade-off and its neural correlates, how well can we trade apples for oranges?
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2018)As humans, we perform trade-off of incommensurable concepts on daily basis. For example, many of purchase decisions, especially those involving complex products with multiple incommensurable attributes, require us to trade ... -
Dual information processing of cardiovascular disease risk perception : an examination of the Extended Parallel Process Model
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2017)The overall objective of this thesis was to examine dual information processing of CVD risk communications through empirical manipulations of both information processing modes (cognitive and affective), and to examine the ... -
A social media-based intervention to support the management of adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2016)Chapter 1 described diabetes, its incidence rate and the difference between Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM), with a focus on T1DM. Management of T1DM is very demanding process that places ... -
Neurocognitive and electrophysiological indices of cognitive performance in ageing
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2011)Combining neuropsychological and electrophysiological methodologies this thesis investigates differential cognitive performance in ageing and attempts to identify neurocognitive and electrophysiological markers with the ... -
Maintaining wellness in fibromyalgia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2017)Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain condition characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue and multiple tender points. It is a common, multidimensional disorder that is associated with complex symptomatology and ... -
Congitive Processes in Moral Judgement
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2018)Psychological theories of morality tend to agree that automatic processes in the mind influence moral judgments, but they disagree about the role of effortful cognition. These theories also focus primarily on how people ...
