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Browsing Psychology by Date Published
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2013)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that causes severe memory and cognitive decline and currently affects millions of people worldwide. Abnormal cleavage of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) has ...
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2013)Two studies were conducted. Study 1 sought to quantify increases in, and maintenance of, general and domain-specific self-efficacy of youths who complete Spirit of New Zealand 10-day developmental sailing voyages. The ...
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2013)An eyewitness’s memory of an event is a persuasive tool in the criminal justice system. However, when eyewitnesses are exposed to incorrect post-event information, or misinformation, it can alter the accuracy of their ...
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2013)The present research aimed to examine relations between parent reminiscing and later attachment. It was expected that parent reminiscing in early childhood be related to later attachment, even after accounting for continuities ...
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2013)A common feature of mood disorders is disturbances of circadian rhythm and fluctuations in body weight. These are also common side effects of clinical anxiolytics. Likewise, those with eating disorders usually have comorbid ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)Redundancy gain refers to the common finding in experimental psychology that the presentation of multiple, redundant stimuli tends to evoke responses more quickly and accurately when compared to presentation of a single ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2013)Talent is valued and enjoyed in the community, yet research emphasis has been on identifying and developing elite talent, usually in children. Scant information exists about talent in an adult general population. A ...
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2013)Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a well defined metabolic disorder arising from a point mutation on a single gene. This mutation disrupts the metabolism of phenylalanine, which indirectly reduces the synthesis of dopamine. Severe ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2012)Many reading difficulties may be prevented if detected and effectively addressed early (Greenwood & Carta, 2011). In New Zealand, recent policy documents specify instructional targets after one year of school (Ministry of ...
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2012)A growing body of research has shown that childhood Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is linked with psychosocial difficulties in parents, specifically in mothers who tend to be heavily involved in the ...
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2012)Mounting evidence indicates that regular engagement in aerobic exercise improves executive functioning and cerebrovascular health in older adulthood. Recent evidence also points toward some similar benefits in young adults, ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)The developmental periods of adolescence (13- to 18-years), and emerging-adulthood (18- to 25-years) are important stages for an individual’s emotional and psychological development. For most, adolescence and emerging-adulthood ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2012)Eyewitnesses’ reluctance to reject a photographic lineup from which the perpetrator is absent has sent numerous innocent people to jail. Two groups of witnesses are particularly likely to make this error: children and older ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)Human behaviour is effect-oriented; we perform many different types of movements to obtain and respond to a variety of sensory consequences. In our everyday lives we have the experience of being in control of our movements ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2012)To date there has been no convincing evidence for preference reversal in pigeons using concurrent-chains procedures in which the delay and amount of outcomes of choices are not confounded with their frequency. Three ...
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2012)Prefrontal cortex (PFC) delay activity found in working memory tasks has been said to be a neural correlate of memory. However, similar PFC delay activity has been found in reward tasks. Given that a reward usually follows ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)Clinicians who work with children commonly use drawing in their assessment interviews. Drawing in clinical interviews is usually used in one of two ways; as a projective tool, where aspects of a child’s drawing are interpreted ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)The present body of research explores some of the key conditions that influence the contribution of distractor inhibition to selective attention. In particular, the present experiments addressed three questions: (1) whether ...
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2012)False memory research is a highly controversial area, particularly in the practical arenas of eyewitness testimony and memories recovered in therapy, where cases of murder and historic abuse have been overturned due to ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2012)Three studies conducted as part of this thesis investigated the relationship between Christian group identification and multiple forms of intergroup discrimination (i.e., evaluations, trait ratings, white noise distribution, ...
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