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Showing 1 to 20 of 246 for “"Apprehension"”.
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Perception and Nonconceptual Apprehension
My dissertation articulates and resolves a problem at the heart of debates about how perception guides our actions and deliberations. The problem arises from the independent plausibility but mutual inconsistency of the following theses: * Some perceptions provide us reasons * Only belief-like …
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Communication Apprehension and Perceived Responsiveness
… college students struggling with Communication Apprehension in the public speaking context. Research has consistently found that perceived responsiveness acts as one form of social support, and social support has been found to decrease stress (Maisel, Gable, & Strachman, 2008). Given the fact …
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Communication Apprehension and Perceived Responsiveness
… college students struggling with Communication Apprehension in the public speaking context. Research has consistently found that perceived responsiveness acts as one form of social support, and social support has been found to decrease stress (Maisel, Gable, & Strachman, 2008). Given the fact …
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Writing apprehension and the computer classroom
… to determine if computers affect writing apprehension. Both experimental and clinical methodologies were employed in the form of surveys and interviews, respectively. The results indicate that computers have no measurable effect on students' writing apprehension; Instructors' backgrounds …
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Writing Apprehension: Can Sentence Combining Help?
… a regimen of sentence-combining would have less apprehension about writing than students who were taught composition in the traditional mode. The subjects were four intact classes of seventh-grade students whose average IQ of 99, who were 12.2 years of age, and who were in classes for students …
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Meaning Apprehension in the Cerebral Hemispheres
… cognitive neuroscience theories of meaning apprehension, this work shows that the hemispheres exhibit broad similarity in semantic representations and breadth of semantic activation. Instead, the present results suggest that the hemispheres differ in when and how they recruit multiple …
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Communication Apprehension Among Business and Accounting Students
… Prior research has identified communication apprehension, or fear of communicating, as a major factor which inhibits an individual‟s willingness to communicate and his/her capability to develop effective communication skills. The purpose of this study is to explore communication apprehension, …
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Writing Apprehension: Can an Individualized Approach Help?
… Language Arts (ILA) program חס writing apprehension. Subjects were 152 eighth graders enrolled in a middle school. The subjects were from five language arts classes and were taught writing during the 1986-87 school year by the Individualized Language Art's (ILA) program. The data …
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A Description of the Approaches to Communication Apprehension
… utilized in the treatment of communication apprehension, commonly described as stage fright or speech anxiety, specifically an “average person” in an educational setting. The research was centered on a clarifying question - what are the major methods of treating communication apprehension as …
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Communication Apprehension and Organizational Effectiveness in a Customer Service Environment
… the relationships between employee communication apprehension and levels of productivity, job satisfaction, job tenure, and position of employment within an organizational setting. The customer service industry was chosen for this study as it represents a growing sector of American employees. Due …
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Transhumanism and the imago Dei: narratives of apprehension and hope
… and virtual reality generate narratives of apprehension within contemporary Western technoculture. Transhumanist narratives declare that humanity is now upon the brink of seizing technological control of its own evolution, and creating a brighter and better posthuman future. For many, this …
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Communication apprehension : a review of research and a survey of educators
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Communication Apprehension as a predictor of Proxemic Establishment, Self-Esteem, & Dogmatism
… traits as they relate to communication apprehension, the purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of communication apprehension with proxemic establishment, self-esteem, and dogmatism. The study analyzed these variables utilizing subjects who were statistically either high …
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Apprehension of Resistive Characteristics of Plasma Ionized Hybrid Nano Fibrous Silicon
Literature review done for the study identified number of challenges with the conventional way of manufacturing nano patterned surfaces. Also, it indicated immense potential of nano structured surface as a sensing surface for numerous applications. Without using any complex and expensive …
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Exploring the impact of group work on communication apprehension for business students
… (PRPSA) and the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension (PRCA-24), were used to establish students' level of communication apprehension. In addition, two supplemental surveys were developed to collect both demographic information as well as students' perceptions about public speaking and …
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Assessing Undergraduate Business Students' Oral Communication Apprehension: Implications of Stakes and Situations
… among many possible factors, oral communication apprehension (OCA) appears a significant contributor to ineffective oral communication. OCA may also significantly impede oral skills development by impacting the core aspects of spiral curriculum, an educational theory aimed at the processes of …
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