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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Naturalistic Setting"”.
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Parent-Child Interaction: Development of Measure for a Naturalistic Setting.
<p>Parent-child interaction could arguably be the most important factor in child development, including academic achievement, behavior, and personality. This study suggests that the quantity of parent-child interaction is just as important as quality, and we test the reliability and validity of our …
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Brainstorming in a Naturalistic Setting: A Comparison of Nominal and Real Group Performance
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Daily stressors and memory failures in a naturalistic setting: Findings from the normative aging study
… sought to test this relationship in a naturalistic setting by examining daily stressors and memory failures via a daily diary paradigm. Further, age differences in reactivity (the likelihood of reporting a memory failure when a stressor is experienced) were examined. The primary source …
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Thinking About Thinking in Study Groups: Studying Engineering Students' Use of Metacognition in Naturalistic Setting
… this research has been conducted in experimental settings and has focused on individual engagement. While experimental settings provide evidence that metacognition is important to learning, these controlled studies do not tell us if students actually engage in metacognition in their own contexts. …
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Children Teaching and Learning in Peer Collaborative Interactions
… interactions. The research took place in the naturalistic setting of a preschool classroom at the Virginia Tech Child Development Laboratory, which is a university-based preschool in Blacksburg, Virginia. The children were videotaped in their collaborative interactions and the interactions …
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Team Member Characteristics Contributing to High Reliability in Emergency Response Teams Managing Critical Incidents
… teams’ High Reliability in hospital-based settings. ERT High Reliability, or “better than expected” team performance has been linked to overall patient care and safety. The purpose of this study was to identify and describe individual team member characteristics that contribute to High …
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The Impact of Expertise in Archery on the Attentional Biases of Perceptual and Representational Pseudoneglect
… on the right has since been observed in a naturalistic setting (Nicholls, Loftus, Meyer, & Mattingley, 2007). But rather than an interesting quirk of statistics these studies, and many others have captured a phenomenon called pseudoneglect (Bowers and Heilman, 1980). It represents a subtle …
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Virtual Reality Based System for Measurement and Interpretation of Pupillary Function
… the capacity to gather data in a more naturalistic setting, and the ability to offer more flexibility in experimental design. Researchers can create and manage precise VR settings that cause certain pupillary responses, leading to more uniform experimental conditions and enhanced …
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Long Branch Nature Center - modern primitivism and the constructed dialogue of being within nature
… through the lens of civic architecture within a naturalistic setting. The fundamental thesis of this project is that there is a primal biological thread that connects human beings to the natural order, whether on a visceral or conscious level. This project explores the belief that humans …
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Developing early algebraic reasoning in a mathematical community of inquiry
… to investigate both teaching and learning in the naturalistic setting of the schools and classrooms. The design approach supported the development of a model of professional development and the framework of teacher actions to facilitate algebraic reasoning. Data collection over the school year …
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Newly Licensed Teenaged Drivers: A Field Study Evaluation of Eye Glance Patterns on Straight Road Segments
… Currently there is a lack of continuous and naturalistic data in the field of teenaged driving. The purpose of this study was to obtain continuous performance data from a naturalistic setting by equipping the personal vehicles of newly licensed teenaged drivers with a data collection system …
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USING BEHAVIORAL SKILLS TRAINING TO PROMOTE OPTIMAL BLACKJACK STRATEGIES
… using behavioral procedures and generalized to a naturalistic setting. Following training, three participants won money in a casino setting, likely improving the entertainment value and reducing the financial costs of the game. Overall the results suggest recreational players make significant …
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Accuracy and Social Motivations Shape Judgements of (Mis)Information
… participants’ online social networks in a naturalistic setting (e.g., incentivizing people to follow and unfollow specific accounts on Twitter in a randomized controlled trial) influences beliefs about the opposing political party and the sharing of misinformation.
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Case Studies of First-Year Elementary Teachers on St. Croix to Develop a Model for Teacher Leadership
… and ethnographic approach in the naturalistic setting of the St. Croix School District determined the perceived assistance and support needed by first-year teachers. Data for case studies of five first-year teachers were collected from classroom observations, group meetings, …
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Health Perceptions and Health Care Practices of Lakota Sioux Living Off the Reservation in Western South Dakota
… reservation were interviewed in their homes or setting of their choice. This study confirmed that for this sample of adult Native American men and women, perceptions of health and care practices are deeply rooted in the past and are affected daily by multiple consequences. The detailed responses …
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The Effects of Perspective-Taking Training on Empathy Development in Adult Male Sex Offenders
… perspective-taking training to the offenders' naturalistic setting. The additional training may have contributed to a decrease in narcissistic features, increased awareness of societal denial of sexual crimes, and a utilization of perspective taking to decrease aggression. The additional …
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Factors Which Influence Kindergarten Teachers Selection of Trade Books for Use in Readaloud Sessions in Their Classrooms
… of experience, and data were collected in the naturalistic setting through means of interview, focused book review, and think-aloud procedures designed to approach the participants' thinking from a variety of angles. Fieldtesting was conducted to help strengthen the inquiry design and provide …
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An ethnography of older adult second language learners' expectations for success
… a second language in a school located in a naturalistic setting and where classes are comprised of learners of mixed ages. Factors relevant to success and failure were investigated in the hope that language acquisition could be facilitated for these people.The researcher functioned as a …
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Workaholism: how does it impact on people’s lives?
… perspective involves applied research in a naturalistic setting, using triangulated, quantitative data within a contrasted-group design (i.e., workaholics, non-workaholics). Time diaries were used to assess the impact of workaholism on the allocation of time to ‘outside-work’ activities such …
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Trait Emotional Intelligence: Protecting Health from the Negative Impact of Stress
… and health; and second, the exploration in a naturalistic setting of the capacity of trait EI subscales to explain significant variance in cortisol reactivity, when personality, gender and age were controlled. Results revealed neither ERE nor EC could explain significant amounts of variance in …
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