Browsing School of Psychology (Scholarly Articles) by Author "O'Hora, Denis"
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The effects of a goal setting intervention on productivity and persistence in an analogue work task
Tammemagi, Triona; O'Hora, Denis (Taylor & Francis, 2013-02-27)The authors of this study sought to quantify the beneficial effect of goal setting on work performance, and to characterize the persistence or deterioration of goal-directed behavior over time. Twenty-six participants ... -
Mutual entailment of temporal relations in younger and older adults: reversing order judgments
McGreal, Catherine; Hyland, John; O'Hora, Denis; Hogan, Michael (Springer Verlag, 2016-05-12)For temporal relations, mutually entailed relations are different to those directly trained; we learn that A occurred before B and derive that B occurred after A. Deriving such relations results in lower accuracy and ... -
Relational frame theory and intelligence
O'Hora, Denis (Taylor & Francis, 2010-06-10)The current paper re-examines the concept of intelligence using Relational Frame Theory (RFT) and suggests a theoretical framework for the analysis of “intelligent” behaviors. We begin by introducing the practices of the ... -
Rule-governed behavior: teaching a preliminary repertoire of rule-following to children with autism
O'Hora, Denis (National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 2011)Rule-governed behavior is generally considered an integral component of complex verbal repertoires but has rarely been the subject of empirical research. In particular, little or no previous research has attempted to ... -
Teaching children with autism: a basic component skill of perspective-taking
O'Hora, Denis (Wiley, 2010-09-26)Perspective-taking is an area of human functioning that is rarely studied by behavior analysts but likely entails a complex repertoire of verbal and relational behavior. Perspective-taking is generally acknowledged to be ...