Psychology & Neuroscience: Recent submissions

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    • Social and personal psychological influences on individual engagement with global climate change 

      Ogunbode, Charles Adedayo (University of St Andrews, 2018) - Thesis
      The aim of this thesis was to examine the way individual responses to global climate change are determined by intrapersonal, social and experiential factors through three streams of research. The first stream employs ...

    • The forgotten children 

      Pollock, Linda Anne (University of St Andrews, 1981) - Thesis
      The prevailing viewpoint on the history of childhood is that: (a) there was no concept of childhood prior to the 17th century; (b) children were cruelly disciplined; (c) there was a formal parent-child relationship. The ...

    • The development of spatial knowledge and orientation 

      Conning, Alison M. (University of St Andrews, 1985) - Thesis
      This thesis describes a series of experiments which investigate preschool children's spatial abilities. To overcome the problems of extrapolating from traditional laboratory task to abilities in the real world, the children ...

    • Learning how to learn : the development of memory in 3-6 year-olds 

      Whittaker, Stephen (University of St Andrews, 1984) - Thesis
      The aim of the present study was to investigate the development of children's ability to make use of external sources of information when they are studying or remembering different types of information. More specifically, ...

    • Children's judgements of sameness-difference among schematic faces 

      Roy, Carolyn Mary (University of St Andrews, 1983) - Thesis
      Researchers have found that young children often make "confusion errors" in judging visual stimuli for sameness. That is, children are reported to treat as "just the same" stimuli that are not identical in all respects. ...