• 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 ...
• Role of the claustrum in kindling of generalized seizures 

  Mohapel, Paul (2017-12-21)

  The precise neuroanatomical pathways underlying seizure genesis and propagation are largely unknown. Current evidence suggests that epileptiform activity may travel along preferred anatomical routes and that some structures ...
• Two approaches to assessing eyewitness accuracy 

  Baldassari, Mario J. (2017-12-21)

  This dissertation presents two individual-difference measures that could be used to assess the validity of eyewitness identification decisions. We designed a non-forced two-alternative face recognition task (consisting of ...
• A Neuropsychosocial investigation of persistent post-concussion symptoms after mild traumatic brain injury: contributions of cognitive impairment, anxiety susceptibility, and identity 

  Ross, Stacey Lynn (2017-12-19)

  Objectives: The majority of individuals who sustain a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) will experience a full recovery within the first weeks or months post-injury. However, some individuals will experience ongoing ...
• Constructive questions : how do therapeutic questions work? 

  McGee, Daniel Raymond (2017-12-18)

  In this dissertation, I examined how questions function in psychotherapy. While the Milan group (Selvini-Palazzoli, Boscolo, Cecchin, & Prata, 1980) were the first to recognise explicitly that questions could be more than ...
• Locus of control, awareness of deficit, and employment outcomes following vocational rehabilitation in individuals with a traumatic brain injury 

  Stroup, Elizabeth Suzanne (2017-12-06)

  Employment outcomes in persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are far from ideal and have serious implications for quality of life and financial well-being post-injury. Numerous potential correlates of return to work, ...
• Neural mechanisms of affective instability in substance use 

  Bodkyn, Carmen Noel (2017-12-04)

  Substance use disorders (SUDs) are a growing concern in today’s society. Substantial research has advanced our understanding of how cognitive control, reward processing, and emotional difficulties may contribute to the ...
• Cognitive control operations involved in switching tasks, and deficits associated with aging and Parkinson's disease 

  Woodward, Todd Stephen (2017-11-20)

  The purpose of this investigation was to identify the cognitive control operations involved in task switching, and to apply this understanding to a theoretical account of the qualitatively different task-switching deficits ...

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