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Does ADHD derive from dysfunction of Gray's behavioural inhibition system?
ADHD is a common childhood disorder that has been classified into three subtypes (ADHDI,ADHD-H and ADHD-C) but may involve a spectrum of symptoms. Deficits in executivefunctions have been considered to be a major source ...
Exploring a social “bouba-kiki” effect and the affective consequences of having a congruent versus incongruent name
This thesis was inspired from studies on the “bouba-kiki” effect, which shows that a sound-symbolic relationship exists between names and the physical objects they represent. Research on the bouba-kiki effect has found ...
'Me', 'My', 'Mine': Maternal Mental State Talk, Children's Social Understanding and the Role of the Self-Concept
This longitudinal study assessed the role of children’s self-concept in the relation between maternal mental state talk and children’s later social understanding as measured by their mental state vocabulary and performance ...
The Acute Impact of Risk Information for Schizophrenia: Ethical Implications of Psychometric Screening
Background: In the psychometric high-risk paradigm, contrary to the principle of informed consent, participants are not usually informed of their risk status. One argument for this nondisclosure is that risk information ...
Establishing movement heuristics for voluntary action: Electrophysiological correlates of movement-outcome learning and the sense of agency
Human behaviour is effect-oriented; we perform many different types of movements to obtain and respond to a variety of sensory consequences. In our everyday lives we have the experience of being in control of our movements ...
Examination of an Assessment-Informed Instructional Consultation Process Implemented with Junior Primary School Teachers
Literacy is an enabler within our society (Stanovich, 2000). The majority New Zealand (NZ) children have and are responding favourably to current teaching methods (Wilkinson, 1998). Those who continue to struggle may ...
The Training and Transfer of Dynamic Decision Making Performance
This study investigated the relationship between the cognitive load experienced during training, cognitive ability and previous electronic gaming experience, and the transfer of performance to a novel situation. The training ...
Pitfalls of Extrinsic Goal Pursuit: Wellbeing, Life Goals, and Self-focused Attention
Past research has shown that extrinsic goal pursuit predicts lower psychological wellbeing and maladaptive behaviours, whereas intrinsic goal pursuit predicts greater wellbeing and less distress. The research presented in ...
The Relationship Between Christian Group Identification and Intergroup Discrimination in Contexts Where Social Identity is Made Salient.
Three studies conducted as part of this thesis investigated the relationship between Christian group identification and multiple forms of intergroup discrimination (i.e., evaluations, trait ratings, white noise distribution, ...
Domestic dogs' understanding of human emotional cues
Past research has focused on the ability of domestic dogs to recognise human communicative cues such as human pointing, eye gaze, attachment behaviour, social learning, and responses to affective stimuli. However, there ...