Browsing Psychology Undergraduate Honours Theses by Issue Date
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Supporting resilience: investigating social support as a mediator of resilience in RCMP members
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2000-08-26)Background: In a Canada-wide survey of public safety personnel, Royal Canadian Mounted Police members (RCMP) scored especially high on screening measures of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), posttraumatic stress disorder ... -
Parental perspectives on the utility of a parent-administered program to treat anxiety in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017)Anxiety symptoms are common in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD; White, Oswald, Ollendick, & Scahill, 2009). Evidence suggests that modified Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) programs can reduce anxiety symptoms ... -
Client correspondence in internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy: an examination into client communication with therapists and symptom improvement
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04)Background: Internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (ICBT) is an efficacious treatment for anxiety and depression. Most ICBT programs include therapist assistance in the form of secure online messaging; however, a ... -
The effect of trauma history on mood sensitivity to perimenopausal estradiol fluctuation
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04)A woman’s risk of depression increases 2-3 times during the menopause transition (i.e., ‘perimenopause’), which constitutes the five or so years leading up the last menstrual period. It is hypothesized that the increased ... -
Centrality bias for rejecting lineups: examining the impact of wildcard positioning on youth eyewitness choosing behaviour
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04)Eyewitnesses can be extremely important figures in the criminal justice system. However, there are many factors that can affect their abilities to make correct decisions when viewing photographic lineups. The age of an ... -
Development of mathematical concepts in grade 4 students
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04)Mathematical concepts help build a knowledge base for children to learn more complex mathematical skills, such as algebra (Alibali, Knuth, Hattikudur, McNeil, & Stephens, 2007). The goals of this study were to observe the ... -
Teaching diverse students: exploring factors contributing to multicultural efficacy
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04)The rapid increase in immigration in different parts of Canada calls for the implementation of effective teaching practices that accommodate cultural diversity. Many White teachers enter classrooms with limited cross-cultural ... -
Memory unitization and retrieval-induced forgetting for DRM word lists
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04)As a target memory is recalled or practiced, its competitors are suppressed, making them more difficult to recall in future attempts. This is called retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF; Anderson, Björk, & Björk, 1994), and ... -
Effects of motor involvement on memory performance for pictorial and 3D objects
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04)Recent research indicates that memory for real objects is superior to memory for matched pictures (Snow, Skiba, Coleman, & Berryhill, 2014). Although there are several possible explanations for this memory difference, this ... -
The relationship between child and parent health anxiety and associated constructs in children and adolescents with congenital heart defects
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04)Health anxiety refers to worries about one’s health, often based on the worry that changes in bodily sensations are indicative of a serious illness. It was originally thought that health anxiety originated in adulthood, ... -
Adults’ perceptions of children who disclose a transgression to peers or adults
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04)Children who witness or experience a transgression often do not disclose the event to anyone. There are a variety of reasons why a child may not disclose this event, such as being asked to keep it a secret, fear that they ... -
Sex differences in the effects of stress on emotion recognition
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04)Research suggests that females are generally better at emotion recognition than males, but emotion type may moderate this difference. Stress responses may also be moderated by sex, and may affect emotion recognition. Minimal ... -
Mental health outcomes for children in YMCA of Regina physical literacy programs: a pilot study
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04-17)According to the Canadian Mental Health Association (2006), mental health disorders are the most common health problems affecting children and youth in Canada; meanwhile, only 20% of children diagnosed receive treatment. ... -
Understanding the experiences of women who stay in abusive relationships
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04-22)The choice to stay a relationship affected with intimate partner violence (IPV) is not one that is well understood. IPV is defined as physical, sexual, or psychological abuse against an intimate partner (Mason, Hyman, ... -
Can perceptual averaging really occur in the absence of change localization?
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04-24)Noticing the location of an object that causes a change to the mean of a set relies on the ability to determine the mean of the set, and detect that a change has occurred (Rensink, 2002). Previous research suggests that ... -
The effects of a single bout of aerobic exercise on spider fear treatment outcomes
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04-24)Specific phobia involves severe fear or anxiety of a particular object or situation (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). The disorder is associated with disruptions in functioning and often occurs in combination with ... -
Impact of reproductive history on mood sensitivity to hormone fluctuations during the menopause transition
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2017-04-25)The risk of depression in women increase 2-4 times in the years leading up to the last menstrual period, known as the menopause transition (i.e., ‘perimenopause’). Excessive perimenopausal estrogen fluctuation has been ... -
Effects of acute stress on cognitive and emotional interference
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2018-04)Stress impacts cognitive and emotional processing by effecting chemical changes throughout the brain, including cortisol levels. The impact of this change may differ based on task type—due to region-specific variations in ... -
Does inversion disrupt averaging of emotional expressions?
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2018-04)Previous research suggests subjects compute statistical summary representations (SSRs) to represent the average emotion of a set of faces without representing the individual faces comprising the set. Evidence for this claim ... -
The role of within-person and context variability on face learning
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2018-04)We investigated whether increased variability leads to better retention of a target face. Previous research suggests that increasing variability had no effect on memory for a target presented a few minutes later. In the ...
