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Neuropsychological functioning across the ALS disease course and its assessment
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-28)Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a rapid and fatal neurodegenerative disease marked by progressive muscle weakness and wasting. Approximately 50% of people with ALS experience changes in cognition and behaviour. Previous ... -
Construct truncation due to suboptimal person and item selection: consequences and potential solutions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-28)Construct truncation can be defined as the failure to capture variation along the entire continuum of a construct reliably. It can occur due to suboptimal person selection or due to suboptimal item selection. In this ... -
Importance of selecting research stimuli: a comparative study of the properties, structure and validity of both standard and novel emotion elicitation techniques
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-28)The principal aim of this doctoral research has been to investigate whether various popular methods of emotion elicitation perform differently in terms of self-reported participant affect - and if so, whether any of them ... -
Edinburgh Social Cognition Test (ESCoT): a new test of theory of mind and social norm understanding
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)Social cognitive abilities are needed to process and understand social information in order to respond appropriately in everyday social interactions. While there are a number of tests that have been developed to measure ... -
Hybrid model: investigating bilingual language production through code-switching
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)Bilingual language production is an area of psycholinguistic research that has received recent attention. Experimental evidence from bilingual word production tasks has shown that both languages share representation at ... -
Psychological wellbeing in relation to morbidity and mortality risk: exploring associations and potential mechanisms
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)There is evidence of a prospective association between wellbeing and health outcomes including disease risk and longevity. The aim of this thesis was firstly to further explore whether wellbeing is a risk factor for ... -
Linguistic and non-linguistic factors influencing attentional control performance in bilinguals and monolinguals in Singapore and Edinburgh
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)The suggestion that bilinguals show enhanced cognitive control compared to monolinguals in certain aspects of executive function has received much contention. While this has been explained as a result of the extensive ... -
Exploring the explorers: studying the mood, mental health, cognition and the lived experience of extreme environments in a small isolated team confined to an Arctic research station
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)Background: The human ability to adapt to extreme environments is fascinating. Research into this adaptation has been lacking in Arctic isolated teams because it has concentrated on Antarctic teams. The hazards of ... -
Exploring a possible tonal loop in musicians and non-musicians and the relationship between musical expertise and cognitive ageing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)This thesis explored two main research questions, firstly investigating whether musical expertise offers a performance advantage in working memory for sequences of tones that vary in pitch, and secondly whether any ... -
Belongingness in practice: a discursive psychological analysis of aid workers’ accounts of living and working in the field
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)The study described in this thesis represents one of the first attempts to explore belongingness as a practice among aid workers, and to contribute to our understanding of how people account for belonging in situ. In ... -
Maternal 'theories' and infant personality development
(The University of Edinburgh, 1984)This "thesis "begins with a detailed theoretical analysis which is used to "build a framework to describe personality and personality development. The framework derives principally from the personality theory of George ... -
The psychology of deprivation in childhood: a review of the literature and discussion of theoretical problems
(The University of Edinburgh, 1954)The publication of the Curtis Report, and the passing into law of the Children Act 1908, were outstanding landmarks in the history of social welfare in Great Britain. The neglect of the educational, social, physical and ... -
Cognitive style: the reliability and validity of verbal-imagery and wholistic-analytic cognitive style
(The University of Edinburgh, 2002)Cognitive styles are defined as an individual's preferred or habitual way of processing information. In this thesis, existing measures of cognitive style are reviewed and the development of a new more reliable and valid ... -
Chimpanzee personality and its relations with cognition and health: a comparative perspective
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)This thesis aimed to address two main questions. First, considering that personality is frequently associated with cognitive abilities in humans, do chimpanzees’ personalities and cognitive capacities covary in ways ... -
Study of distinct behavioural and cognitive correlates in favour of differentiating dominance, prestige, and leadership components in the explicit power motive
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)This work represents a theoretical and empirical study of distinct subcomponents of the explicit power motive (broadly defined as conscious desires to attain control and prestige) matching distinctions between social ... -
Auditory perception
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Community and creativity in school children as influenced by religious affiliation and type of school attended
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Inquiry into the tetrad difference method of testing the two factor theory of intelligence
(The University of Edinburgh, 1929)PART I: I. Introduction. p.1 | II. Correlations between Mental Abilities. p.4 | III. Cause of correlations between mental abilities: mathematical expressions and geometrical illustration. p.8 | IV. Connections between ... -
Freud after Wittgenstein: a re-evaluation of Freudian psychoanalytic concepts
(The University of Edinburgh, 1998)The remarks reported in Lectures and Conversations, make it clear that Wittgenstein thought both there to be "a way of thinking" in Freud's work that needed combatting, and also there to be something valuable that needed ... -
Narcissism, personality and personality pathology
(The University of Edinburgh, 1999)This thesis used the methods of differential, cognitive and theoretical psychology to investigate the relationships between pathological narcissism and maladaptive personality and behaviour in general, and to attempt ...
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