School of Psychology: Recent submissions
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Against theoretical eclecticism and in support of a unified conceptual framework for autism intervention research
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2009)This thesis aims to highlight and address two key issues in autism intervention research: (1) the role of theory in autism intervention research; and (2) the practice of theoretical eclecticism in autism intervention and ... -
Human factors competence in aircraft maintenance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2006)The research summarised in this thesis sought to better understand the issue of human factors competence as it relates to the work, performed by technicians in the aircraft maintenance industry. An ethnographic study of ... -
Attachment at the transition to adolescence : concordance with concurrent maternal attachment and child's own attachment in infancy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)The study investigated three main sets of research questions derived from attachment theory developed by John Bowlby (1969/1982b, 1973, 1979, 1980, 1988) and Mary Ainsworth (1967, 1982; Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, ... -
Evaluation of movement programmes in the treatment of dyslexia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2008)Developmental dyslexia, or specific learning difficulty, is a prevalent condition, affecting up to 10% of the population, which can be severely disabling without early diagnosis and persistent and intensive remediation. ... -
Constructing a social psychological model of prejudice towards minorities : social identity, relative deprivation and widespread beliefs
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)A social psychological model of prejudice was developed based on Relative Deprivation and Social Identity Theory. This model emphasised social identification and comparison processes and was designed to predict prejudice ... -
A characterisation of cyclooxygenase activity in synaptic transmission and plasticity in the Hippocampus
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2006)We used in vivo electrophysiological techniques to investigate the role played by cyclooxygenase (COX) enzymatic activity in synaptic transmission and plasticity. The use of selective pharmacological antagonists for the ... -
Acculturation, adolescent mental health & youth suicide in modern Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2004)Since 1990, Ireland has witnessed a 400% increase in young, male suicide (Beagley, 1999) such that Ireland ranks 24th internationally in terms of its youth suicide rate (WHO, 2002) and 25th highest of 35 countries across ... -
Phantom sensation as experienced by people with a spinal cord injury
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2012)All the approaches in this thesis are linked by a common query: What is the meaning, structure and essence of the lived experience for a person with a Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) who perceives phantom sensation and/or pain? ... -
The contribution of cognitive biases to the development and maintenance of smoking-related addiction in adolescents and adults
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2013)Anomalies between self-reported smoking intentions and actual smoking behaviour are common, yet few studies investigate both the explicit and implicit measurement of smoking cognitions within the same sample. Nor do many ... -
How children tell : containing the secret of child sexual abuse
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2008)Despite considerable empirical evidence that most adults do not disclose experiences of childhood sexual abuse until adulthood and many children who have been abused do not disclose this abuse when asked in a professional ... -
A computational study of the mammalian subiculum
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2007)The subiculum occupies a central position as the mediator of information flow between the hippocampal memory system and both cortical and subcortical brain structures. To further the goal of understanding how the subiculum ... -
Babysibs: Dyadic prosody
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Neural evidence accumulation persists after choice to inform metacognitive judgments.
(2015)The ability to revise one's certainty or confidence in a preceding choice is a critical feature of adaptive decision-making but the neural mechanisms underpinning this metacognitive process have yet to be characterized. ... -
Psychosocial adaptation to lower-limb amputation during the year following rehabilitation : a longitudinal and qualitative analysis
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Personality and family relations of children who bully
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Incomplete Hippocampal Inversion: A Comprehensive MRI Study of Over 2000 Subjects.
(2015)The incomplete-hippocampal-inversion (IHI), also known as malrotation, is an atypical anatomical pattern of the hippocampus, which has been reported in healthy subjects in different studies. However, extensive characterization ...
