An investigation of implicit measurement techniques amongst low risk and forensic samples

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dc.contributor.advisorMurphy, Raeganen
dc.contributor.advisorHammond, Seanen
dc.contributor.authorMcDonough, Sinead
dc.contributor.funderApplied Psychology, College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, University College Corken
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-26T11:44:58Z
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dc.date.issued2014
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dc.description.abstractThere are difficulties with utilising self- report and physiological measures of assessment amongst forensic populations. This study investigates implicit based measures amongst sexual offenders, nonsexual offenders and low risk samples. Implicit measurement is a term applied to measurement methods that makes it difficult to influence responses through conscious control. The test battery includes the Implicit Association Test (IAT), Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP), Viewing Time (VT) and the Structured Clinical interview for disorders. The IAT proposes that people will perform better on a task when they depend on well-practiced cognitive associations. The RSVP task requires participants to identify a single target image that is presented amongst a series of rapidly presented visual images. RSVP operates on the premise that if two target images are presented within 500milliseconds of each other, the possibility that the participant will recognize the second target is significantly reduced when the first target is of salience to the individual. This is the attentional blink phenomenon. VT is based on the principle that people will look longer at images that are of salience. Results showed that on the VT task, child sexual offenders took longer to view images of children than low risk groups. Nude over clothed images induced a greater attentional blink amongst low risk and offending samples on the RSVP task. Sexual offenders took longer than low risk groups on word pairing tasks where sexual words were paired with adult words on the IAT. The SCID highlighted differences between the offending and non offending groups on the sub scales for personality disorders. More erotic stimulus items on the VT and RSVP measures is recommended to better differentiate sexual preference between offending and non offending samples. A pictorial IAT is recommended. Findings provide the basis for further development of implicit measures within the assessment of sexual offenders.en
dc.description.sponsorshipApplied Psychology, College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, University College Cork (Studentship)en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationMcDonough, S. F. 2014. An investigation of implicit measurement techniques amongst low risk and forensic samples. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.en
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/1771
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dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.rights© 2014, Sinead F. McDonough.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/en
dc.subjectImplicit measurement sexual offendersen
dc.subjectViewing time, rapid serial visual presentation and the implicit association testen
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dc.titleAn investigation of implicit measurement techniques amongst low risk and forensic samplesen
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoral Degree (Structured)en
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD (Arts)en
ucc.workflow.supervisorraegan.murphy@ucc.ie
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