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Browsing Psychology collection by Title
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2011)International literature indicates that the rates of obesity are increasing in OECD countries and that there are significant health risks to individuals who are classified as obese. Research has also highlighted that obesity ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2012)Objective: In the field of career-counselling significant attention has been given to vocation and career-related thinking and cognitions in research as well as in interventions supporting personal and vocational development. ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2012)The concept of consonance and dissonance, which are considered to evoke pleasant and unpleasant emotions is one of the most important fundamental concepts in the theory of music. Some argued that perceiving the consonance ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007)Risk management is a key component of aeronautical decision-making and one of the possible causes of pilot error (e.g., Jensen, Guilke, Hunter, 1997). Risk management encompasses risk perception and risk tolerance. Risk ...
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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2005)
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2012)Despite increasing evidence attesting to the fallibility of eyewitness memory, information gathered from eyewitnesses remains critical to the outcome of many criminal investigations. It is not surprising then, that much ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)Past research has shown that extrinsic goal pursuit predicts lower psychological wellbeing and maladaptive behaviours, whereas intrinsic goal pursuit predicts greater wellbeing and less distress. The research presented in ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2011)Background: Many children exhibit hyperactive/inattentive behaviours, but only some experience significant impairment. However, little is known about the reasons some symptomatic children are more impaired than others. ...
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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2011)
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(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, Master of Science, 2011)Is the frequent monitoring of happiness in daily life actually detrimental to happiness? Current psychological literature suggests that explicit focus on happiness may actually be self-defeating (Schooler, Ariely, & ...
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2011)The predictive link between phonological awareness (PA), the ability to identify and isolate sounds within speech, and later reading ability is well documented. With developing PA, children can map sounds onto individual ...
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Reducing the negative effect of cross-examination questioning on the accuracy of children's reports (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007)A growing body of research suggests that cross-examination may be detrimental to the accuracy of children's event reports. The primary goal of the present research was to investigate three specific ways in which the negative ...
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(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, 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, ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)When monkeys learn a list of arbitrary items they acquire a representation of those items in sequence (e.g., A > B > C > D > E) and knowledge of each item’s ordinal position (e.g., A1st, B2nd, C3rd, D4th, and E5th). In ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)The projected two-dimensional motions of a rotating object are sufficient to enable us to perceive its three-dimensional structure—a phenomenon called the kinetic depth effect (KDE). Although the object’s local, three-dimensional ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)I attempted to further our understanding of response inhibition by examining three questions concerning how it works. The first question that I examined was what determines the success of response inhibition. This question ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009)The importance of early reading skill acquisition has been much emphasised, but the long-term effects of early reading instruction have received little empirical testing. Competent reading requires three strands of development ...
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