Browsing Τμήμα Ψυχολογίας / Department of Psychology by Title
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A meta-analysis of sex differences in human brain structure
(2014)The prevalence, age of onset, and symptomatology of many neuropsychiatric conditions differ between males and females. To understand the causes and consequences of sex differences it is important to establish where they ...
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The metaphor of the triangle in theories of human development
(2007)Developmental psychologists have a long history of using triangle metaphors to conceptualise the social constitution of psychological development. In this paper, we present a genealogy of triadic theories, to clarify their ...
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Method effects on an adaptation of the rosenberg self-esteem scale in Greek and the role of personality traits
(2016)Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale is a balanced, 10-item scale designed to be unidimensional; however, research has repeatedly shown that its factorial structure is contaminated by method effects due to item wording. Beyond ...
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Methodology, Epistemology and Ideology of History Educators Across the Divide in Cyprus.
(AHDR, 2011)
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Methylphenidate and problem solving in children with ADHD: Does equal outcome mean equal process?
(2001)This study examined between-group differences in planning of 9 grade 6 children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who were on stimulant medication and a matched comparison group of 9 without ADHD on a ...
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Migration in the Greek-Cypriot Press between 2011-2015: Visibility, topics, figures and the debate between pro-migrant and anti-migrant discourses
(2018)Migration has gradually become a regular topic covered in the national and local Greek-Cypriot media. National media had to accommodate significant changes related to Cyprus’ gradual transformation in the 1990s from a ...
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Mind and intelligence: Integrating developmental, psychometric, and cognitive theories of human mind
(Springer International Publishing, 2017)This chapter summarizes a comprehensive theory of intellectual organization and growth. The theory specifies a common core of processes (abstraction, representational alignment, and cognizance, i.e., AACog) underlying ...
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Mind-culture interactions: How writing molds mental fluidity in early development
(2012)This study investigated intellectual development in 4-7. years old Greek and Chinese children. They were examined on speeded performance, working memory, reasoning, and self-awareness tasks in order to investigate possible ...
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Mind-Personality Relations from Childhood to Adolescence
(2018)We present three studies which investigated the relations between cognition and personality from 7 to 20 years of age. The first investigated developmental relations between three reasoning domains (inductive, deductive, ...
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Mindfulness and dynamic functional neural connectivity in children and adolescents
(2018)BACKGROUND: Interventions that promote mindfulness consistently show salutary effects on cognition and emotional wellbeing in adults, and more recently, in children and adolescents. However, we lack understanding of the ...
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Modeling of dyslexia: Is a unitary model of dyslexia possible?
(Nova Science Publishers, 2009)
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Modeling the Developing Mind: From Structure to Change
(1999)This article presents a theory of cognitive change. The theory assumes that the fundamental causes of cognitive change reside in the architecture of the mind. Thus, the architecture of the mind as specified by the theory ...
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Modeling the effects of perceptual load: Saliency, competitive interactions, and top-down biases
(2016)A computational model of visual selective attention has been implemented to account for experimental findings on the Perceptual Load Theory (PLT) of attention. The model was designed based on existing neurophysiological ...
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Modeling the Stroop phenomenon: Processes, processing flow, and development
(2001)A model of the Stroop phenomenon is proposed which postulates that the classic effect is an additive function of three parameters, that is, dimension selection (decision making about which dimension to respond to), dimension ...
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Modelling the structure and development of g
(2008)This study investigated the structure and development of processes involved in g. One hundred and forty children, about equally drawn among primary school grades 1-6 were examined by four types of Stroop-like speeded tasks ...
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Models of intelligence and learning: An interview with Jagannath P. Das
(2007)This article presents, Goeffrey N. Molloy (GNM) and Timothy C. Papadopoulos (TCP) Conversation With J. P. Das (JPD), on the topic 'Models of intelligence and learning'. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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Modern theories of measurement: IRT models.
(Open University of Cyprus, 2010)
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Modern theories of measurement: Rasch models.
(Open University of Cyprus, 2010)