Browsing Psychology (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Early Parenting Practices, Child School Readiness and Early Academic Performance
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2024)School readiness and early academic achievement are fundamental to children¿s long-term academic performance, as well as social, physical, and mental health later in life. Thus, one salient goal for educators, researchers ... -
The effect of Medial Septum Stimulation on Hippocampal Electrophysiology and Behaviour of Freely Moving Rats
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2020)This study focuses on the interaction between the medial septum and hippocampus in freely moving animals. To investigate this circuit, we used electrophysiological techniques combined with behavioural tasks. The medial ... -
An Electrophysiological Investigation into Temporal Factors in Human Perceptual Decision-Making
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2019)At any given moment, the human brain receives a barrage of noisy sensory signals that convey important information about events taking place in the surrounding world. In order to function optimally in our environment we ... -
Elucidating multisensory interactions in synaesthesia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2008)This work examines synaesthesia; a neurodevelopmental phenomenon widely believed to be the result of aberrant cross-talk from one cortical area to another. A number of behavioural measures were used to assess the nature ... -
Emotion expression in post-MI/PCI patients : the effects of two types of social sharing on psychological and physiological outcomes
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2016)Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is currently the world’s major cause of death, killing 17 million people a year (World Health Organisation; WHO, 2011). In Ireland 10,000 people die each year from CVD (33% of all deaths), half ... -
Endogenous and Exogenous Factors Shaping Visual Development in Early Infancy
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2023)The human mind is capable of forming elaborate concepts and models of the world and manipulating them so that it can adapt to complex, rapidly changing environments. In contrast with that, machine learning methods and ... -
Enhancing Self-determination in Children with Autism via Behavioural Interventions
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2019)Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are thought to experience a much lower quality of life (QoL) than the general population across the lifespan. Emotional well-being (i.e., happiness) is considered one of the ... -
Environmental philosophy, threat and well-being
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2002)This thesis represents a comprehensive attempt to address the dearth of research on relationships between environment and mental health. The aim is to present a novel theoretical and empirical investigation of the links ... -
Evaluation of movement programmes in the treatment of dyslexia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2008)Developmental dyslexia, or specific learning difficulty, is a prevalent condition, affecting up to 10% of the population, which can be severely disabling without early diagnosis and persistent and intensive remediation. ... -
An evaluation of the clinical effectiveness of a group based cognitive behavioural treatment for individuals with social anxiety disorder and an exploration of the moderators & mediators that influence treatment outcomes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2019)Relatively few studies on social anxiety disorder have addressed the issue of moderators and mediators of treatment outcome. This thesis had several aims. The first was to evaluate the effectiveness of an Irish community-based ... -
Evaluation of the wireless dry EEG Cumulus platform to conduct neurocognitive research
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2023)The identification and validation of reliable brain biomarkers to characterize neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders can be laborious and generally relies on time-consuming brain imaging methods. Brain activity ... -
An Examination of a Precision Teaching Model Within a Response to Intervention Framework Addressing Early Literacy Development of Young Children Within a Marginalised Community
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2023)Fluency is accepted as key to our learners success, however, there are both several gaps within the fluency literature regarding establishing effective interventions and within applied practice, that need to be addressed. ... -
An Examination of an Adaptive Parent-Mediated Intervention delivered via Telehealth for Toddlers `At Risk' of Autism Spectrum Disorder in the United Arab Emirates.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2024)Best practice in interventions for children below the age of three years with suspected or confirmed autism diagnosis is to include behavioural and developmental approaches as early as possible, and ensure active involvement ... -
An examination of the implementation of setting-wide positive behaviour support in an adult disability residential setting
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2022)Positive behaviour support, or PBS, is mandated in Ireland under the Health Act 2007 as an evidence-based framework of practice focused on enhancing quality of life for vulnerable adults living in residential settings. ... -
Examining the Relationship Between Alcohol and Multiple Impulsivity Endophenotypes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2019)Alcohol misuse is a leading global health concern, and its occurrence is rising among adolescents and young adults. Associations between different aspects of impulsivity and alcohol-related outcomes have been the focus of ... -
Executive functioning of cognition and emotion in chronic MDMA (ecstasy) users
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2009)Drugs of abuse produce widespread effects on the structure and function of neurons throughout the brain's reward circuitry, and these changes are believed to underlie the long-lasting phenotypes that characterize addiction. ... -
Expectation in Sensory Processing and Perceptual Decision-Making
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2022)At every level of sensory processing, prior experience contributes to the construction of the perceptual world. In the last two decades, there has been renewed interest in the mechanisms that implement these contributions ... -
Explanations and Familiarity in XAI: How users understand predictions and make decisions using an AI support system
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2023)We compared the effects of counterfactual and causal explanations for an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system?s decisions in a familiar domain (alcohol and driving) and an unfamiliar one (chemical safety) in four experiments ... -
An exploration of caregivers' and peers' support-giving responses to adolescents showing signs of depression.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2020)Background: Adolescent depression is linked to significant impairment, recurrence in adulthood, heightened risk of suicide, and increased all-cause mortality (Schubert, Clark, Van, Collinson, & Baune, 2017; Shore, Toumbourou, ... -
An Exploration of the Applications of Neurally-Informed Models to Perceptual Decision-Making Research
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2023)Understanding how the brain translates sensory input into action is of key importance to our understanding of all cognitive processes. Computational models utilise behavioural data to offer insight into the latent variables ...