Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Author "Stewart, Ian"
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Assessing and training analogical reasoning in young children using relational frame theory
Kirsten, Elle Ben (NUI Galway, 2021-09-23)Analogical responding is pervasive in everyday language and cognition and is a key component in learning. However, despite this, there is as yet relatively little behavioural research on 1) the age of emergence and 2) ... -
Assessing and training early emergent derived relational responding in children with autism
Ming, Siri (2015-09-30)Many children with autism fail to develop generative language despite intensive teaching; their language can be described as “rote”. Research in the area of derived stimulus relations, in particular Relational Frame Theory ... -
Assessing and training temporal relational responding in children
Neufeld, Jacob (NUI Galway, 2023-12-19)Time is a fundamentally important dimension of human experience and responding adaptively in terms of this dimension is critical to human personal and societal functioning. However, there is an important distinction ... -
Conceptualising and modelling hierarchical classification from a behavioural perspective
Slattery, Brian (2013-10-03)This thesis involved conceptualising and modelling hierarchical classification from a behavioural perspective. Classification refers to grouping stimuli according to their physical or functional similarity (Barnes-Holmes, ... -
Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a Scale to Assess Sexual Difficulties in Gay Men
McDonagh, Lorraine K. (2013-12-20)A sexual difficulty or dysfunction has been defined as the disturbance or inadequacy of normal sexual responding (Rowland, 2007). The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-5; American Psychiatric ... -
Examining paranoia in the general population from a Contextual Behavioural Science (CBS) perspective: New insights from Relational Frame Theory (RFT) and the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP)
Stewart, Corinna (2018-01-26)The current thesis presents a first step towards examining paranoia from a functional-analytic perspective. The focus of the research was ‘self-beliefs’ as a wealth of evidence in the existing cognitive-clinical literature ... -
Investigating the use of the Relational Evaluation Procedure (REP) in children
Hayes, Jennifer (2017-03-27)The core aim of this thesis was to explore the use of the Relational Evaluation Procedure (REP) in children, both typically developing, as well as developmentally delayed. The REP (e.g., Stewart, Barnes-Holmes & Roche, ... -
Testing and Developing a Protocol for Training and Assessment of Relational Precursors and Abilities
Moran, Laura (2014-02-07)This thesis involved testing and further developing a multi-level computer-based protocol for the assessment of core language skills in typically developing children and children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The ... -
Testing and developing procedures for assessing and training hierarchical classification skills in young children using relational frame theory
Mulhern, Teresa (2018-02-22)The current thesis aimed to conceptualise, assess and train features of hierarchical classification from a behaviour analytic, or more specifically a Relational Frame Theory (RFT), perspective. Classification refers to ...