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Reasoning with insight problems
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2005)
This thesis reports the results of seven experiments that explore insight problem-solving. Insight problems are characterised as ill-defined problems that present difficulty to most people even though they possess the ...
Body, self and world : the embodied experience of chronic illness and medical technology
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2009)
Illness and medical treatment profoundly alter how we experience the body and relate to our worlds. The aim of this thesis is to carry out a conceptual and empirical analysis of the role of the body in the experience of ...
Joint attention and echoic eavesdropping in wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2008)
The aims of this thesis were twofold: 1) to determine if wild Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins
(Tursiops aduncus) engage in behaviors predicted to follow directly from the 'echoic eavesdropping'
hypothesis in a natural ...
Caregivers’ perspectives of their relative’s admission
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2015)
Caregivers often act as invisible pillars of support to both the service user and their adjoined mental health service. Caregiving can have a profound positive and negative effect on the caregiver’s health and relationship ...
The effects of crime on Irish victims : psychological and organisational perspectives
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)
"The Effects of Crime on Irish Victims: Psychological and Organisational Perspectives" is, as its name suggests, an investigation of the impact of criminal victimisation in Ireland from both a psychological and a victim ...
The role of falsification in hypothesis testing
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2006)
The aim of this thesis is to examine how people search for evidence in their hypothesis
testing, that is, how people search for evidence to test whether or not their hypotheses are
true. In chapter 1, we outline the ...
Prismatic adaptation effects on non-spatial and spatial processes in the healthy adult
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2006)
The structure of the thesis is broadly based on the hierarchical division of attention into two domains – intensity and selectivity components of attention (Sturm, 1996; Van Zomeren & Brouwer, 1994). The intensity components ...
Parents of children with autistic spectrum disorders : information, education and family empowerment
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2008)
There is little doubt that the diagnosis of a child with an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) may have both negative and positive implications for the family’s wellbeing and way of life. Certainly, many families can have ...
Exploring the mnemonic functions of the human hippocampal formation using a novel disruption technique
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2006)
The n-Back Working Memory (WM) task, which requires participants to continuously
update their mental set while simultaneously responding to a stimulus presented n stimuli
previous, appears to evoke robust deactivations of ...
Constructing a social psychological model of prejudice towards minorities : social identity, relative deprivation and widespread beliefs
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)
A social psychological model of prejudice was developed based on Relative Deprivation and Social Identity Theory. This model emphasised social identification and comparison processes and was designed to predict prejudice ...