Browsing Brock Theses by Subject "adolescence"
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Devaluation of Sucrose Caused by Social Instability Stress in Adolescent Male Long-Evans Rats in the Presence of an Unfamiliar Peer
Rats that undergo the Social Instability Stress procedure during adolescence (SS: daily 1-hour isolation + re-pairing with an unfamiliar cage partner for 16 days) display changes in reward-related behaviour. Specifically, ... -
The Development of Reward Sensitivity- Exploring the Role of Culture and Parental Education on Adolescent Development
The period of adolescence is marked by increased levels of risk taking. One proposed reason for this developmental pattern is a rise during adolescence (relative to earlier and later periods) in the degree to which behaviors ... -
Genetic and Electrophysiological Correlates of Self-Regulation in Adolescence
Self-regulation is considered a powerful predictor of behavioral and mental health outcomes during adolescence and emerging adulthood. In this dissertation I address some electrophysiological and genetic correlates of ... -
Handwriting Intervention: Impact on the Reading and Writing Abilities of High School Students
(Brock University, 2013-10-09)Handwriting is a functional task that is used to communicate thoughts using a written code. Research findings have indicated that handwriting is related to learning to read and learning to write. The purposes of this ... -
Lying to parents and friends: A longitudinal investigation of the relation between lying, relationship quality, and depression in late-childhood and early adolescence
Lie-telling has been suggested to increase from childhood through adolescence; however, research on how dishonesty influences other areas of functioning is limited. The goal of this thesis was to examine dishonesty separately ... -
Who Bullies and When? Concurrent, Longitudinal, and Experimental Associations between Personality and Social Environments for Adolescent Bullying Perpetration
Increasing evidence suggests that bullying may be used by adolescents as a strategic, adaptive tool against weaker peers to obtain valued resources like social status and romantic partners. However, bullying perpetration ...