Browsing Psychology (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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A Study on the Functional Role of the Locus Coeruleus in Memory Formation and Alzheimer's Disease
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2022)Over the past decade, the locus coeruleus (LC) has fast become a key instrument of study, resulting in a growing amount of evidence signifying its prominence and influence within the central nervous system. Moreover, the ... -
Substance Misuse, Emotional Discomfort, Mindfulness, and Materialism: A Tale of Escape and Wanting More
Substance misuse is responsible for approximately 11.8 million deaths each year, with alcohol misuse alone accounting for 5.3% of all deaths worldwide. One challenge in studying substance misuse is its co-morbidity with ... -
Supervisee transfer of learning in psychotherapy supervision.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2017)Aim: Clinical supervision is a well established means of facilitating supervisee learning and transfer of learning is explicitly linked to learning. Within the clinical supervision literature, there is an absence of research ... -
Supportive supervision for community health workers : a case study of Ethiopia's Health Extension Programme
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2017)Supervision of community health workers (CHWs) is an essential component of primary health care programmes. Yet supervision systems tend to focus on inspection and fault finding, which have been found to be demotivating ... -
Surface area and gyrification measures in the human brain : a magnetic resonance imaging study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2009)This thesis was motivated by a clinical interest in identifying measurable brain structure markers that can be used as indicators of malformations of cortical development (MCD) in epilepsy. MCDs may manifest as abnormalities ... -
Sustained attention and associated memory and other cognitive failures in the young and able elderly
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2004)The main aim of this thesis was to study how people pay attention over time and how this capacity changes with age. The populations under study were therefore the young and the able elderly and samples from these populations ... -
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 ... -
The behavioural neurophysiology of stress : effects on hippocampal formation mechanisms of spatial representation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2011)In the fast-paced world we live in we encounter stressful situations on a continuous basis. Some stressors may cause chronic stress whereas others act only on a relatively short time basis and are regarded as acute stressors. ... -
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 ... -
The cognitive processes of young offenders
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)The aim of this thesis was to contnbute to the existing body of knowledge on young offenders by investigating some cognitive processes that to date, have been given little attention in the literature. This thesis comprised ... -
The cognitive psychology of moral reasoning
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2014)In this thesis, the results of eight experiments are presented investigating he cognitive processes involved in moral reasoning. Two major themes were explored, involving important contemporary debates in moral psychological ... -
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 ... -
The contribution of cognitive control and perceptions of risk to problematic driving among young adults
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2013)Every year, millions of drivers throughout the world lose their lives in traffic incidents and young drivers make up a disproportionate number of those killed on the road. There has been no shortage of explanations for ... -
The development of the Trinity Early Screening Test for Dyslexia (TEST-D)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2012)The project to develop the Trinity Early Screening Test for Dyslexia (TEST-D) extends over 3 phases. This thesis describes the processes involved in Phase 1. A large battery of prototypical tests in the phonological, ... -
The effect of audition on the deployment of visuo-spatial attention
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2011)Vision is commonly accepted as being our most dominant sense. However, our everyday experience informs us that the world is not unisensory. Information from other senses can help us in searching for and identifying objects ... -
The effects of crime on Irish victims : psychological and organisational perspectives
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)"The Effects of Crime on Irish Victims: Psychological and Organisational Perspectives" is, as its name suggests, an investigation of the impact of criminal victimisation in Ireland from both a psychological and a victim ... -
The effects of selective amygdalohippocampectomy on episodic memory, spatial representation and discourse production among human neurological patients
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2004)The work described in this thesis is directed at investigating the neuropsychological effects of damage to the medial temporal lobes among a group of patients who have undergone surgery for the relief of medically intractable ... -
The mental representation of "If Only thoughts" : undoing the exceptionality effect
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2009)The aim of this thesis is to investigate the mental representations and cognitive processes that underlie counterfactual 'if only' thoughts. We examine the exceptionality effect, the tendency to undo exceptional antecedents ... -
The multisensory perception of social cues in virtual crowds
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2010)The current thesis contributes to the field of social and affective psychology, with a focus on the perception of social cues from groups or crowds of people. While to date there is a wealth of literature in this area on ... -
The role of body information in the perception of social attention
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2011)The computation of where another person is attending constitutes a crucial part of our daily lives and is necessary for adequately interacting with other human beings in our social environment. The focus of the present ...
