In one of the Father Brown short-stories, G.K. Chesterton described the (fictitious) French detective Aristide Valentin by writing that ‘‘(h)e was not ‘a thinking machine’; for that is a brainless phrase of modern fatalism and materialism. A machine only is a machine because it cannot think.’’ Although this aphorism dates from 1911, long before the notion of a thinking machine became popular, i...

Title of Thesis: Changes in Cognitive-Behavioral Constructs Across Treatment Modalities for Seasonal Affective Disorder: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Light Therapy, and Their Combination Kathryn Tierney Lindsey, Master of Science, 2003 Thesis directed by: Kelly J. Rohan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology Changes in cognitive and behavioral factors have bee...

This study explored relationships between several hypothesized dimensions of gender identity and substance use outcomes within a non-probability sample of adolescents in Monterrey, Mexico. Based on Mexican concepts of machismo and marianismo, four gender identity constructs were measured: aggressive masculinity, assertive masculinity, affective femininity and submissive femininity. The study as...

Cognition involves the control of behaviour both within external environments and internal to an autonomous system. The control of behaviour is vital to an autonomous system as it responds to its external environment and acts to further its goals. Excepting the most spartan of environments, the potential available information and the associated combinatorics in a perception, cognition and actio...

I describe and evaluate the hypothesis that effects from parent-offspring conflict and genomic imprinting on human neurodevelopment and behavior are central to evolved systems of mother-child attachment. The psychological constructs of Bowlby’s attachment theory provide phenomenological descriptions of how attachment orchestrates affective-cognitive development, and patterns of imprinted gene e...

According to the traditional view, both imageability and concreteness ratings reflect the way word meanings rely on information mediated by the senses. As a consequence, the two measures should and do correlate. The link between these two indexes was already hypothesized and demonstrated by Paivio et al. (1968) in a seminal article, where they introduced the idea of imageability ratings for the...