• Adult age differences in the effect of positive and negative mood on memory for pleasant and unpleasant daily events 

  Davidson, Heather Anne (2018-06-15)

  This study examined the influence of experimentally induced mood change on the learning and recall of a list of pleasant and unpleasant daily events in young (18-35 years) and old (58-75 years) women. Mild mood changes ...
• The neuropsychology of cerebral malaria 

  Dugbartey, Anthony Tekper (2018-06-14)

  The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of cerebral malaria on the neuropsychological functioning of non-immune Ghanaian children. Twenty hospital-referred children between ages 7 and 16 years who met the ...
• Predictive validity of functional assessment and neuropsychological test scores in the vocational outcome of persons with traumatic brain injuries 

  Biggan, Shannah Lynne (2018-06-13)

  This study examines the validity of using a combination of two psychometric measures, an emotional adjustment measure, and functional assessment measures to predict vocational outcome in a traumatically brain injured ...
• Manifestations of depressive symptoms in adolescents: identifying subtypes and their distinguishing features 

  Sears, Heather Ann (2018-06-13)

  The prevalence and nature of depression among adolescents in the general population has received considerable empirical attention in the last decade. Although researchers and clinicians agree that depressive symptoms and ...
• Understanding the dynamic nature of well-being: a multilevel SEM framework to capture intra- and inter-individual associations across multiple timescales and levels of analysis 

  Rush, Jonathan (2018-05-18)

  The study of well-being has a long history of investigation from a nomothetic (between-person) perspective that aimed to understand characteristic levels of well-being and individual difference variables that account for ...
• From a planned action to a revised action: revealing the structure of motor plans 

  Lawless, Katie (2018-04-30)

  We examined the effect of changing from an internally prepared motor plan to a revised action which potentially differed from the original plan along two dimensions: wrist orientation (horizontal or vertical) and left/right ...
• The influence of response discriminability and stimulus centring on object-based alignment effects 

  MacRae, Connor (2018-04-30)

  The present study determined how object-based alignment effects are influenced by the arrangement of the stimuli and response options. It is well established that the magnitude of these effects differ depending on the mode ...
• Raising support for potable recycled water with the elaboration likelihood model 

  Tan, Li Qin (2018-04-19)

  In spite of modern technological advancements that can convert wastewater into potable water, the acceptability of recycled water is generally low. This study examined strategies for increasing the public acceptability ...
• Generalized linear mixed modeling of signal detection theory 

  Rabe, Maximilian Michael (2018-04-10)

  Signal Detection Theory (SDT; Green & Swets, 1966) is a well-established technique to analyze accuracy data in a number of experimental paradigms in psychology, most notably memory and perception, by separating a response ...
• "Peer relations management:" parents' attempts to influence adolescents' peer relations 

  Tilton-Weaver, Lauree Coleen (2018-03-16)

  Scholars of adolescence have identified parents and peers as two important contexts of development. This dissertation examines an understudied linkage between these two contexts: parents' management of adolescents' ...
• Young children’s domain coordination and emotion attributions in the context of mixed domain transgressions 

  Baker, Lesley A. (2018-03-08)

  Drawing on principles of social domain theory, the current study examined children’s attributions of emotion and moral judgements when interpreting moral and mixed sociomoral transgressions. A goal of the current study was ...
• Prime validity affects masked repetition and masked semantic priming : evidence for an episodic resource-retrieval account of priming 

  Bodner, Glen Edward (2018-02-02)

  In several experiments, masked repetition priming in the lexical decision task was greater when prime validity, defined as the proportion of repetition versus unrelated primes, was high (.8 vs. .2), even though primes were ...
• Language development in children with attention deficit disorder 

  Bain, Jody Leigh (2018-01-31)

  Children with an attention deficit disorder (ADHD) exhibit a number of behavioural characteristics which include hyperactivity, impulsivity, and inattentiveness. They may experience difficulties in cognitive, academic, and ...
• Resistance to interpersonal violence : implications for the practice of therapy 

  Wade, Allan (2018-01-19)

  Many individuals who consult psychotherapists have been subjected to interpersonal violence, such as wife-assult, sexualized assault and abuse, physical abuse, sexualized harassment, and other forms of humiliation. In this ...
• Attachment and object relations : mediators between child sexual abuse and women's adjustment 

  Roche, Diane Nancy (2018-01-18)

  This study investigated the nature of the relationship among child sexual abuse, interpersonal relationship capacity and psychological adjustment. Interpersonal relationship capacity included the constructs of attachment, ...
• Attachment style in young offenders : parents, peers & delinquency 

  Nicholson, Tavi R. (2018-01-12)

  It has been argued that early family adversity and relationships with parents and peers are important variables in the etiology of juvenile delinquency. Although several studies point to the connection between attachment ...
• Deriving an executive behaviour screener from the Behavior Assessment System for Children - 2: applications to adolescent hockey players with and without concussions 

  Wong, Ryan (2018-01-08)

  Objective: Executive functions govern our ability to navigate complex and novel situations in day-to-day life. There is increased interest on environmental influences that may cause changes to executive functioning. The ...
• The assessment of parent needs following pediatric traumatic brain injury 

  Armstrong, Kira Emily (2018-01-03)

  The pediatric version of the Family Needs Questionnaire was administered to parents of children with traumatic brain injuries (TBI, n = 19) a year or more post-injury. Parents of diabetic children (DIAB group, n = 21) and ...
• Prospective memory functioning in older adults 

  Friesen, Ingrid Colleen (2018-01-03)

  Research examining prospective memory and aging has grown enormously in last decade but many unanswered questions remain. Prospective memory refers to remembering what one intends to do and it can be contrasted to retrospective ...
• The influence of real-world object expertise on visual discrimination mechanisms 

  Hagen, Simen (2018-01-03)

  Object experts quickly and accurately discriminate objects within their domain of expertise. Although expert recognition has been extensively studied both at the behavioral- and neural-levels in both real-world and laboratory ...

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