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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Behavioral Coding"”.
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The role of systems-level variables in family adaptation to bereavement: a concept-validation study of cohesion and expressiveness
… methods this study developed a reliable behavioral coding system for observing family members as they described the story of a child's death. The study also examined the relationship of these observable behaviors to both self-reports of cohesion and expressiveness and measures of …
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Depressed Children's Friendships
… lower perceptions of friendship quality. Behavioral coding and post-game evaluations revealed few significant differences between depressed versus nondepressed children, but depressed children's partners were observed to display more negative emotion than the partners of nondepressed …
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Parenting Behaviors Influence Children’s Mathematical Skills: Examining Potential Mediating and Moderating Roles of Child Executive Function
… and child EF were assessed via questionnaires, behavioral coding, and a battery of EF tasks; during the second visit (child age=14), children’s math skills were assessed using a standardized test of achievement. Regression analyses revealed a direct effect of a composite measure of …
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Establishing a Link Between Personality and Social Rank in a Group of Bottlenose Dolphins (<i>Tursiops truncatus</i>)
… staff. Personality traits were derived from behavioral coding using context-specific correlational matrices. The traits were then correlated to each dolphin’s social rank position. The results suggest that a relationship between individual personality and social status is present, but …
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Differences in male and female depression: investigation of a social interactional model
… of differences have been identified including behavioral, cognitive, and environmental responses. Recently, increasing attention has been directed toward the importance of social interactional factors in depression. However, this research has been contradictory and inconclusive. The purposes of …
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Do Pinnipeds Have Personality? Coding Harbor Seal (<i>Phoca vitulina</i>) and California Sea Lion (<i>Zalophus californianus</i>) Behavior Across Contexts
… in two unstudied marine mammal species, using behavioral coding.</p> <p>Two California sea lion and three harbor seal personality factors were extracted using exploratory factor analysis. Two factors were broadly similar across species; the first, Boldness, resembled human Extraversion, and to …
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The Maternal Force Awakens Emerging Fear Reactivity and Regulation: Preliminary Results from the Baby JEDI Study
… age, infant fear reactivity was assessed using behavioral coding during the Laboratory Temperament Assessment Battery fear tasks and infant fear regulation was examined via respiratory sinus arrhythmia reactivity during the fear tasks. At 10- and 14-months, maternal parenting behaviors were …
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The Moderating Role of Mindfulness on the Relationship between Parental Stress and Response to Child
… of maternal criticism directed toward child via behavioral coding. Mother's heart rate (HR) was monitored to determine the physiological measure of stress reactivity. Mothers also completed self-report forms to indicate levels of mindfulness, perceived stress-reactivity and parenting feelings. …
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Effects of Task Clarification and an Adaptive Computer Software on Implementation of Mand Training using an iPad® as a Speech Generated Device
… instructional method and a primary focus in behavioral language training for children with autism. A rapidly growing research base supports manding training using hand-held computing technologies (e.g., iPad®, iPod®) as speech generating devices (SGD) for establishing a manding repertoire in …
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Caregiver Level Predictors of Self-Regulation in Preschool-Aged Children
… praise, questions, and commands using the Behavioral Coding System (BCS) from McMahon and Forehand (2005). We hypothesized that across both available measures of self-regulation (assessor report and maternal report) high levels of caregiving self-regulation would be associated with higher …
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Automatic Behavioral Analysis from Faces and Applications to Risk Marker Quantification for Autism
<p>This dissertation presents novel methods for behavioral analysis with a focus on early risk marker identification for autism. We present current contributions including a method for pose-invariant facial expression recognition, a self-contained mobile application for behavioral analysis, and a …
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Effect of selection for interspecific behavior on stress and conspecific behavior in tame and aggressive foxes
… generations, physiological, morphological, and behavioral changes start to appear, a phenomena known as “domestication syndrome”. Exploring the mechanisms behind these early changes observed during the process of domestication would allow for further understanding into the physiological and …
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Driving Simulation for Interaction
… of the interaction through qualitative behavioral analysis. The thesis concludes with an outlook on how these methods and simulators, in particular the discovery-based approach, could find applications within the research fields of Human-Robot Interaction and Human-Computer Interaction.
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How sweet it is to be loved by you: Examining the psychometric properties of a novel tool for assessing parent-to-child warmth and affection (Warmth/Affection Coding System)
… clinical use are limited. The Warmth/Affection Coding System (WACS) was explicitly developed to have clinical utility as a novel observational coding system to assess both verbal and non-verbal warmth/affection in real time. The present study sought to establish the preliminary reliability and …