• Adolescent dating violence and self-efficacy 

  Schwartz, Christine A. (2018-11-21)

  This study examined relationships among adolescent dating violence, family violence, community violence, dating history, academic history, and various forms of self-efficacy among 306 high school and university students. ...
• Longitudinal profiles of terminal decline: associations between cognitive decline, age, time to death, and cause of death 

  MacDonald, Stuart Warren Swain (2018-11-16)

  Normative age differences and declines in cognition may be overestimated due to influences reflecting impending mortality. The terminal decline hypothesis posits that accelerated cognitive decline for older adults is a ...
• An evaluation of methods for measuring cognitive change in older adults 

  Frerichs, Robert John (2018-11-16)

  Serial neuropsychological assessment of older adults requires well-researched statistical methods to guide clinicians in determining the significance of test score changes at the individual level. This study examined the ...
• Social processing in Asperger’s Disorder 

  Johnson, Shannon Alice (2018-11-16)

  The ability to process social information is impaired in individuals with Asperger's Disorder (AsD). However, the nature of the impairment is not well characterized and the relationships among various aspects of social ...
• I'd know that face anywhere! 

  Gruppuso, Vincenza (2018-11-16)

  The empirical studies reported used the remember/know paradigm to assess the effects of manipulating the number of exposures, delay, and context on the phenomenology of face recognition. In this paradigm, participants ...
• Memory compensation in older adults: assessment of structural characteristics and individual growth trajectories 

  de Frias, Cindy Melo (2018-11-15)

  Older adults can preserve their everyday memory competence, despite increasing limits to plasticity, by engaging in compensatory strategies. The ability to mitigate losses in cognitive functioning and optimize development ...
• A comparative study of elderly persons and health care professionals in regard to making long term care decisions for a marginally incompetent person living alone 

  MacCourt, Penny Lois Jean (2018-11-08)

  The focus of this research was a comparison of the values of elderly people and health care professionals (HCPs) that underlay the care decisions they made for a hypothetical marginally incompetent elderly person living ...
• The intention superiority effect and aging: similar magnitude of effects in an interference paradigm 

  Cohen, Anna-Lisa (2018-11-07)

  Intentions have a special status in such important cognitive operations as prospective memory, or remembering to execute actions in the future. Indeed, recent research has shown that future-oriented information (such as ...
• General medical and birthing experiences of new mothers in the Capital Health Region: an empirical and socio-historical investigation into the concept of personal agency 

  Coughlan, Rory (2018-10-26)

  The concept of personal agency in clinician-patient interactions is problematized by the development of societally legitimated power differentials in medical practices. The abrogation of patient perceptions of agency is ...
• Bridging the gap in public sector evaluation: reconciling best practices and client recognition in a mandated review of a program 

  Barnes, Maria Paulette (2018-10-25)

  With a history going back to the beginning of this century, issues of accountability and fiscal responsibility — often under the guise of program evaluation or review — have been at the forefront of decision-making in ...
• Awareness of neurobehavioral deceits and emotional adjustment in acute- and post-acute rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury 

  Sawchyn, James Matthew (2018-09-21)

  This dissertation examined injury-based and emotional adjustment factors that may influence an individual's self-awareness of neurobehavioral deficits following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Two studies were completed to ...
• The development of a standardized measure of social competence in middle childhood: beginning to bridge the gap between empirical knowledge and clinical practice 

  Saltzman, Jennifer Lesley (2018-09-14)

  Our understanding of children's social competence has increased tremendously over the past two decades. There is increasing evidence to suggest that social and emotional impairments are not restricted to children with ...
• Child custody and access: the views and practices of psychologists and lawyers 

  Jameson, Barbara J. (2018-09-14)

  This study examined the views and professional practices of 52 psychologists, 26 from Alberta and 26 from British Columbia, and 53 family lawyers, 21 from Alberta and 32 from British Columbia, who have current or past ...
• Rehabilitation of attention deficits in traumatic brain injury 

  Penkman, Louise Carol (2018-09-14)

  In the current study, I investigated the question of whether there is a specific effect for the administration of attention retraining above and beyond a supportive, adjustment-oriented approach in improving attentional ...
• The immigrant sibling: an exploration of acculturation and enculturation profiles 

  Quan, Cindy (2018-09-11)

  Acculturation and enculturation processes and sibling relationship quality are important constructs for understanding the psychosocial wellbeing of immigrant adolescents. In this thesis, I used a mixed-method approach to ...
• Do sub-concussive impacts from soccer heading in practice cause changes in brain structure and function? 

  Kenny, Rebecca (2018-09-11)

  Background: Heading is an important part of soccer, yet recent research has indicated that cumulative effects of repetitive heading may cause sub-concussive injury (Koerte et al., 2015). Objective: The current study aimed ...
• The role of metarepresentation in preschoolers’ theory of mind development 

  Quistberg, Kirsten A. (2018-09-05)

  The role of metarepresentation in theory of mind development has been hotly debated. On one side of the debate, researchers suggest that theory of mind develops through a domain general change in representational processing ...
• Learning without feedback: detection, quantification and implications of implicit learning 

  Luehr, Stephen J.C. (2018-09-04)

  Mounting evidence has suggested that structures such as the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and other areas within the medial-frontal cortex are part of a reinforcement learning system responsible for the optimization of ...
• Motor expectancy: the modulation of the reward positivity in a reinforcement learning motor task 

  Trska, Robert (2018-08-30)

  An adage posits that we learn from our mistakes; however, this is not entirely true. According to reinforcement learning theory, we learn when the expectation of our actions differs from outcomes. Here, we examined whether ...
• Predictors of hostile attributions during the transition to parenthood 

  Song, Pauline (2018-08-20)

  The transition to parenthood is arguably one of the most stressful developmental periods in the lifespan, with couples often experiencing increased levels of conflict and relationship distress. It is possible that deteriorating ...

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