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Towards a Theory of Visual Concealment
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-26)The goal of this dissertation is to take initial steps towards understanding concealment behaviour and ultimately developing a theory of visual concealment. Since there are relatively few studies of concealment in the ... -
Towards an Understanding of How People Build Mental Representations
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-13)Navigating the environment and making everyday decisions is a process plagued by noise, uncertainty, and non-stationary contingencies. Efficient and effective action is predicated upon a stable internal representation of ... -
Towards an Understanding of Sexual Desire Discrepancy in Couples
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-19)Sexual desire is deeply embedded in interpersonal relationships and cannot be fully understood outside of this context. As such, research that focuses on sexual desire problems at the level of the couple is critical for ... -
Tracking the Transition from Sublexical to Lexical Processing in Reading Aloud: On the Creation of Orthographic and Phonological Lexical Representations
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-26)Participants read aloud a set of nonword letter strings, one at a time that varied in the number of letters. The standard result was observed in two experiments; the time to begin reading aloud increased as letter length ... -
The Uncertainty Model of Boredom and Self-Control Failure: How Ambient Uncertainty Influences Affect and Behaviour during Unrelated Goal Pursuit
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-04)Integrating basic theories of motivation, boredom and self-regulation, in this dissertation, I present the Uncertainty Model of Boredom and Self-Control Failure (UM-B-SCF). The UM-B-SCF proposes that motivational states ... -
Unclaimed Prize Information Increases the Appeal of Scratch Card Games
(Taylor and Francis, 2020-11-03)Previous research suggests that intuitively appealing, yet uninformative unclaimed prize information is capable of biasing gambling-related judgments when people compare scratch cards that vary in the number of unclaimed ... -
Underestimation of Dual-Task Response Time is Not Caused by Delayed Perception
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-01)In the Psychological Refractory Period (PRP) paradigm, the stimuli for two separate tasks are presented in rapid succession. The stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) is typically varied, resulting in slower responses to Task 2 ... -
UNDERLYING COGNITIVE PROCESSES IN READING, MATH, AND COMORBID READING AND MATH LEARNING DISABILITIES
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-24)The performance of 223 Grade 4 children, with Average overall IQ and no disability (ND), or reading disability (RD), or math disability (MD), or reading/math disability (RD+MD), was compared on theoretically-derived factors ... -
Understanding Anxiety Through the Constructs of Attentional Bias and Attentional Scope
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-13)Anxiety disorders are common and debilitating, and there are substantial research efforts to better understand and treat them. These efforts are characterized by two leading trends: an emphasis on the role of attentional ... -
Understanding boredom proneness: Cognitive and affective correlates in healthy and traumatic brain injured individuals
(University of Waterloo, 2017-03-16)Boredom proneness has been associated with a raft of negative cognitive, affective, and behavioural consequences. Research has sought to better understand boredom proneness from both cognitive and affective perspectives; ... -
Understanding repeated actions: Examining factors beyond anxiety in the persistence of compulsions
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-06)Two decades of research on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has helped us develop a strong understanding of why obsessions are often followed by the performance of a compulsive act. What we have understood less well is ... -
Understanding the Decision to Enroll in Massive Open Online Courses
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-27)The prevalence of high-paying, stable jobs for low skilled workers has declined over the past few decades. As a result, individuals lacking marketable job skills may be less likely to succeed in the workplace. Given this ... -
Understanding the influence of anxiety on gait in Parkinson's disease
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-15)Anxiety is a prevalent non-motor symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and has been linked to motor impairments in PD, yet there is a huge gap in the understanding of whether anxiety affects movement, namely gait, in those ... -
The Unique Influence of Executive Functioning and Grit on Goal-Oriented Behaviours
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-25)Within the social psychology literature, four different behaviours have been highlighted as playing a particularly salient role in goal-motivation: promotion, prevention, locomotion, and assessment. Personality traits and ... -
Uniquely Diverse: Ethnic Diversity and Interethnic Contact Predict Individualistic Values and Behaviour
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)Research on social change suggests that cultural values and behaviour have become increasingly individualistic over the past century. Prior researchers theorized that shifts in sociodemographic variables—e.g., changes in ... -
Unpacking Four Forms of Third Culture in Multicultural Teams
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-25)Multicultural teams are capable of producing creative and high quality solutions, but are also prone to conflict (Stahl, Maznevski, Voigt, & Johnson, 2010). Thus, it is important to understand the conditions which encourage ... -
Updating Local and Global Probability Events During Maze Navigation
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-29)Our mental models consist of relational knowledge. We apply this knowledge about whether something is near to or far from something else to solve tasks. As a specific exam- ple, when we navigate in our environment, we have ... -
The use of facial features in facial expression discrimination
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-27)The present four studies are the first to examine the effect of presentation time on accurate facial expression discrimination while concurrently using eye movement monitoring to ensure fixation to specific features during ... -
Use of non-orthogonal factor analysis for gauging illusory halo: A technical report
(2022-05-27)Non-orthogonal factor analysis is examined as a possible aid in assessing the extent of illusory halo in survey responses. Data from several studies involving students' evaluation of teaching (SETs) are re-analyzed with ... -
Using Mental Set to Change the Size of Posner's Attentional Spotlight: Implications for how Words are Processed in Visual Space
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-05)The present thesis investigated how words are processed within the context of visual search. Both explicit and implicit measures were used to assess whether spatial attention is a prerequisite for words to undergo processing. ...