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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"goal-directed behaviour"”.
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Serotonergic modulation of cognition
… distinct decision-making systems, namely goal-directed and habitual behaviour. Goal-directed behaviour is characterized by the consideration of future choices and respective outcomes whereas habitual responding is driven by stimulus-response associations. Response inhibition is essential …
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The Role of Emotion Regulation in the Expressive Writing Intervention
… ability to accept their emotions, engage in goal directed behaviour when distressed, and access emotion regulation strategies they perceive as effective. No support was found for our moderation hypothesis. However, a significant moderation was discovered revealing that difficulties engaging …
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Apathy and Impulsivity in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Syndromes
… separating patient ratings, carer ratings and behavioural tasks. Apathy and impulsivity measures were positively correlated, frequently loading onto the same components and providing evidence of their overlap. The data confirmed that apathy and impulsivity are common across the spectrum of …
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When Anxiety Meets Impulsivity: A Risk Factor for Poor Effortful Control
… and activation control (ACTC), that support goal-directed behaviour. This study examined the relationships among trait anxiety, impulsivity, and EC in 104 young adults. Participants completed self-report measures of trait anxiety (State Trait Anxiety Inventory), impulsivity (Barratt …
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The influence of parenting styles and practices on the identification of goals and aspirations of Grade 11 learners in the Western Cape
… of motivation that aims to explain individuals' goal directed behaviour. Grade 11 learners are naturally in a stage of pursuing certain life goals and aspirations in the process of completing their schooling careers. Often the circumstances or environment provide the opportunities for individuals …
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Stress and selective attention : the impact of a stressful challenge on mood, cortisol, and the processing of emotional information
… regulation that facilitates the maintenance of goal-directed behaviour.
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Cognitive Control across domains: integrating language, pain perception and clinical applications.
… model of cognitive control that supports goal-directed behaviour across contexts. Findings from studies on reading comprehension in children (Paper 2) show that deficits in proactive control, particularly semantic working memory, impact language processing, while clinical evidence from …
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The role of the default mode network in contextual control
… the importance of meaningful context in guiding goal directed behaviour, little evidence has emerged about the underlying cognitive mechanisms involved. This thesis aims to addresses this gap in the literature by integrating two commonly disparate topics in neuroscience: cognitive control and the …
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Goal Pursuit, Motivation And The Experience Of Positive And Negative Affect In Young People: An Experience Sampling Study
… thesis aimed to test a psychological model of goaldirected behaviour in a sample of young adults, using experience sampling methods. The purpose was to assess the relationship between goal-related appraisals of success and importance, and fluctuations in both positive and negative affect as …
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Motivational modulation of on-line attention control processes
… with cognitive mechanisms in directing human behaviour and performance. A series of five experiments were conducted in which the Rogers and Monsell (1995) task switching paradigm was combined with motivational manipulations involving earned point incentives (Derryberry, 1993) to investigate …
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The role of ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in performance of spatial self-ordered response sequences in the marmoset
… its contribution to those aspects of goal-directed behaviour such as planning and executing spatial response sequences requires further analysis, using more refined methods than have been employed hitherto. These studies investigated the role of vlPFC in performance of self-ordered …
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The Role of Executive Functions in Mathematics and Physics Achievement in Secondary Schools: A Comparative Study of 15- to 17-year-old Students Across Science and Humanities Curriculum Tracks
… influence executive functions to drive goal-directed behaviour in task execution. Hence, the current study compared students from science and humanities curriculum tracks. This integration forms the crux of this investigation, setting it distinctly apart from existing studies. Structural …
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Temporal Patterns of Co-occurrence between Children's Self-regulatory Behaviour and their Private and Social Speech
… In particular, the real-time verbal mediation of behaviour has been studied in the context of private speech use and self-regulation, pioneered by Vygotsky and continued by others who followed this line of research. However previous studies have mainly attempted to find correlations between speech …
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Brain substrates of behavioural endophenotypes predictive of compulsive drug-seeking
… after protracted drug use. Several antecedent behavioural endophenotypes and perturbations in underlying reward-related circuitry have been linked with increased vulnerability of the development of addiction. To what extent these behavioural and neural markers pre-exist or are induced by drug …
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The Impact of Leadership Style on Innovation in Iraq's Higher Education Institutions: The Role of Knowledge Sharing
… influence on innovation, leading to increased goal-directed behaviour on the part of followers, promoting organisational change, and a spirit of trust, and helping followers to exceed their performance expectations. Knowledge and knowledge sharing are recognised as the most significant …
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The role of frontal-striatal circuits in instrumental behaviour
Behaviour can be goal-directed, when performing an action to obtain a specific goal, and it can be habitual, whereby a stimulus in the environment can trigger a response regardless of the outcome. Behavioural output can be a mixture of goal-directed and habitual aspects and there may be a …
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Mechanisms of apathy in health and Parkinson's disease
… models of brain function. These models cast behaviour as an inferential process, where sensory information is continuously integrated with predictions or 'prior beliefs' about the consequences of action. I propose that apathy is a failure of active inference, caused by aberrant precision of …
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Neuropsychological and biological mechanisms of checking in OCD and clozapine induced Schizo-OCS
… several possible explanations of compulsive behaviour as manifested especially in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and schizophrenia, following treatment with the second generation antipsychotic medication clozapine. Particular focus is placed on compulsive checking behaviours and their …
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Exploring conflict: the justification of violence
… The Model treated conflict as aggressive behaviour to the understanding of which knowledge of its purposes added little. Established theory understood it as goal-directed behaviour producing aggression because not all parties could have all they wanted. Consistently with its view of …
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Rock, Paper, Aliens: Effects of Labels and Iconicity on Non-Linguistic Cognition
… label and iconic advantages extend to practical behavioural domains, and whether these advantages are underpinned by the same mechanism as those proposed for real labels. The thesis details five behavioural experiments designed to address these questions. We hypothesised that even novel labels …
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