Browsing Psychology (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Factors Associated with Decision Making Capacity in Older Adults
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2019)Abstract: Making our own decisions goes to the heart of our autonomy. Increasingly decision making capacity (DMC) of older adults is questioned. The aim of this study was to explore DMC in older people and examine for ... -
Father-Child Conversation and the Development of Executive Function during the Preschool Period
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2020)The present thesis sought to add to the body of research demonstrating the importance of the early father-child interactive environment for child executive function (EF) development. In particular, this thesis focussed on ... -
Flexible cognitive control : task, individual difference and practice determinants of functional neuroanatomy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2006)A defining feature of cognitive control is that it is reflexive - we can rapidly and flexibly adjust attentional processes and executive control over our thoughts and behaviour in response to changing internal or external ... -
Flight crew task performance and the requirements for a new tool supporting the pre-flight, flight planning and briefing task
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From the reconceptualisation of the safety event to an innovative systemic risk management approach
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2024)Safety events occur spontaneously or unexpectedly without prior planning. The objective of this research was to demonstrate that safety events are conceptualised as dynamic combinations of co-occurring factors, both related ... -
Furthering inclusive practices for students with an Autism Spectrum Disorder in Irish Primary Schools
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2010)Inclusion of students with autism spectrum disorder has been the focus of the research. Absent from previous research is the focus on how programmes written and designed for the U. S. school system can succeed in Ireland. ... -
Health Leadership and Management Development in Malawi: Towards a Theory for Health Systems Strengthening
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2022)Background: Strong leadership and management capacity of Human Resources for Health (HRH) is key to a health system s performance. However, there is a dearth of evidence-based literature on the application of health ... -
High-resolution imaging of the human amygdala : role of basolateral and centromedial complexes in reward processing and associative learning .
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2012)The amygdala is an inherently heterogeneous aggregation of nuclei. Although the animal literature has revealed some segregation of function within these nuclei, it has not been possible to investigate the role of human ... -
How children tell : containing the secret of child sexual abuse
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2008)Despite considerable empirical evidence that most adults do not disclose experiences of childhood sexual abuse until adulthood and many children who have been abused do not disclose this abuse when asked in a professional ... -
How do community health committees build capacity for community health systems strenghtening? A realist evaluation in Uganda
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2018)Background: Community-based interventions are widely accepted as an integral component of decentralisation strategies aimed at reducing inequity in health and achieving Primary Health Care for All within less resourced ... -
Human factors competence in aircraft maintenance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2006)The research summarised in this thesis sought to better understand the issue of human factors competence as it relates to the work, performed by technicians in the aircraft maintenance industry. An ethnographic study of ... -
Identifying Context Specific Risk Among Trauma-exposed PSNI Personnel
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2021)Background: The risks associated with police work can have a significant impact on the mental health of police officers and staff. The extant literature primarily highlights the impacts of organisational and operational ... -
Illusory phantom experiences and neural plasticity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2005)Body schema plasticity demonstrates the extent of the malleabihty of sensory maps in the adult brain. Alterations of body schema in clinical populations such as the appearance of phantom limbs after amputation and ... -
The Impact of Natural Aging on Perceptual Decision Making
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2020)The transformation of incoming sensory information into an appropriate motor response is known as perceptual decision making, and constitutes a key computation within the human brain. Mathematical models have proved extremely ... -
Impaired awareness of deficits and neuropsychological functioning following traumatic brain injury, frontotemporal dementia, corticobasal degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2006)This dissertation consists of an investigation into the phenomenon of impaired selfawareness of deficits following brain damage. Despite a large interest in the area in the neuropsychological literature, there is a distinct ... -
Implementing internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for depression and anxiety in routine care: an exploratory study of implementation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2022)Internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy interventions (iCBT) for depression and anxiety have proven their clinical utility through a number of controlled trials, but few studies have been conducted in routine care ... -
Improving the Robustness and Reproducibility of Functional Connectomics-based Biomarkers in Neurodevelopmental and Psychiatric Conditions
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2024)Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)-based functional connectivity offers remarkable potential to non-invasively map individual differences in brain functional organisation to individual differences in behavioural ... -
Increasing emotional intelligence
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2008)The aim of this thesis was to evaluate a programme to develop emotional intelligence in work teams. The thesis is presented in two studies. Study 1 describes the design, application and evaluation of a training programme ... -
Individual differences in value-based decision-making as predictors of substance dependence
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2021)Substance dependence is a leading global health concern. Alcohol use is the primary risk-factor for deaths and disability-adjusted life years among those between the ages of 15-49 (Griswold et al., 2018). Opioid dependence ... -
Internal State Language and Emotion Understanding in Children Attending Mental Health Services
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2019)Thesis Title: Internal State Language and Emotion Understanding in Children Attending Mental Health Services. Parental use of internal state (mental state) language (ISL) has been linked with children s understanding of ...