To see or not to see: an investigation of social information processing bias among sexual offenders with a mild learning disability
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Whitefield, Elaine
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2018-05-22T12:49:56Z
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2018-05-22T12:49:56Z
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2006
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INTRODUCTION: Understanding of the cognitive processes, and in particular social
information processing bias, that generate cognitive distortions among sexual offenders
with a
learning disability has been hampered by the lack of empirical research.
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OBJECTIVES: To employ the flicker paradigm to investigate social information
processing bias among sexual offenders with a learning disability, non-offenders with a
learning disability and non-offenders without a learning disability.
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DESIGN: An independent groups design was employed to compare the data obtained
from a participant group of sexual offenders with a mild learning disability with two
comparison groups of non-offenders with a learning disability and non-offenders
without a
learning disability.
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METHOD: Participants were asked to view successively and repeatedly on a monitor two
versions of a visual scene (an original and a slightly altered version of the original) until
they detected the change. The changes to the original visual stimuli were either sex-related (midriff of a person being exposed) or neutral related (object being removed
from a scene) changes. The experiment was counterbalanced with participants viewing
equal number of sex-related and neutral related changes to the original stimuli.
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RESULTS: Non-offenders without a learning disability required less time to identify sex-related and neutral related changes than individual with a learning disability. However,
no significant interaction was observed between type of participant group and type of
stimulus change. This finding indicated that the nature of change in the stimulus did not
influence the speed at which the participants responded. Results are discussed in
relation to previous research
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CONCLUSION: Results obtained from the present study highlight that this as a complex
area to investigate, as there is currently no clear framework to guide this area of
research. Strengths and limitations of the present study are addressed and areas of
future research are explored.
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http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30917
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The University of Edinburgh
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Annexe Thesis Digitisation Project 2018 Block 19
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To see or not to see: an investigation of social information processing bias among sexual offenders with a mild learning disability
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Thesis or Dissertation
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Doctoral
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DClinPsychol Doctor of Clinical Psychology
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