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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Perseveration"”.
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An Examinstion of Perseveration in Personality Inventory Responses
… study was designed to test the hypothesis that perseveration in personality inventories can be measured and used diagnostically. Perseveration is defined as the inability to shift or to break through an established set in order to perform a task. Possibilities of improving the method of …
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Verification of the narratives test with perseveration responses on the Wisconsin Card Sorting and category tests
… to determine the efficacy of a newly developed Perseveration Response as a measure of frontal lobe dysfunction.The effectiveness of the Narratives Test as a measure of fronal lobe dysfunction could not be verified as determined by its relationship with the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test.It was, …
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Perseveration and Problem Solving in Infancy: Reasoning About Containment Events in Two Violation -of -Expectation Tasks
… for a recent model that explains infants' perseveration in terms of limitations in problem-solving abilities."
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Cerebral asymmetry in facial affect perception of women: neuropsychological effects of depression
… motor functioning such as hand grip strength, perseveration, and fatigue. Results indicated that the depressed women were characterized by elevated levels of both depression and anxiety, suggestive of an agitated, depressive state with heightened arousal. Further, depressed as compared to …
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Momente des Übergangs
… ob es auch dann zu Wechselkosten bzw. einer Perseverationstendenz kommt, wenn die Versuchspersonen zwei in unterschiedlichen Merkmalsdimensionen mit dem Target übereinstimmende Referenzreize dargeboten bekommen. Der Ort, die Merkmalsdimension, die Merkmalsausprägung der mit dem Target …
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Neurochemical and Neuroanatomical Basis Of Reversal Learning In The Rat
… learning, and dorsolateral infusions producing perseveration in the early phase. By contrast, raclopride infusions into the anterior dorsomedial striatum produced a general slowing of responding, whereas infusions into the nucleus accumbens core region had no significant effects. The second part …
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The effect of immediate or delayed feedback, immediate retention test given after immediate and delayed feedback or omitted : amount of time spent with feedback, and verbal ability on long- and short-term retention of various levels of multiple-choice items and error pattern analyses
… immediate or delayed feedback. The interference perseveration hypothesis was examined as a possible explanation of the delayed retention effect (DRE).Two analyses of the data were performed to test the DRE. The first was a univariate analysis of covariance of the four treatment conditions, …
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Delalyed responses in autistic children
… of choices were presented. Verification for perseveration indicated that only one subject (an autistic) did perseverate. A reliable trials effect was found as expected. In Experiment 2, the autistics performed less efficiently with the 9 and 15 sec. delay intervals as compared to delay …
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Neuropsychological test performances of young depressed outpatient women: an examination of executive functions
… a Dynamometer task of hand grip strength, perseveration, and fatigue, the FAS Verbal Fluency Test, a Serial Sevens Test, the Stroop Color and Word Test, and the Trail Making Test, as well as a memory measure, the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test. Despite past research which has indicated …
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Examining the Conjoint Impact of Depressive Symptomatology and Mind Wandering on Affective Dynamics in Response to Emotionally Salient Visual Stimuli
… with negative-content mind wandering and perseveration on the negative stimulus, whereas positive stimulus presentation weakened the relationship between depressive symptoms and positive-content mind wandering. In the prediction of affect decay over time following stimulus presentation, …
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Cognitive variability
… described as flexibility, fluidity, rigidity, perseveration, variability, and other similar terms. Generally, all these terms have refenced to the idea that the behaviour of people in different situations or of different people in the same situation··, varies along a continuum marked at one end …
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Depressive Rumination and the Mood-as-Input Hypothesis
… is an additional relevant variable in a basic perseveration task.
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The neuropsychological investigation of dyslexic readers: an experimental approach to subtyping
… anterior functioning (e.g. verbal memory, motor perseveration, and vigilance) while DR-F and NR children did not. A dual processing model was proposed to explain the findings for the DR-NF children. Limitations, implications for the treatment of DR children, and directions for future research are …
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Performance on the Dementia Rating Scale-2 and deep brain stimulation screening : a retrospective review
… were DRS-2 cognitive subscales, where Initiation/Perseveration (I/P) (verbal fluency) accounted for the highest variance. Depression was also a significant predictor of the TDRS score. This exploratory study contributes to research on prescreening of DBS PD patients in South Africa and highlights …
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Set shifting ability of rats perinatally exposed to bisphenol A and a high fat diet
… significant effects of treatment for accuracy or perseveration during the extra-dimensional shift. There were significant 3-way interactions, one between dose and diet, and the other between dose and diet and block. However, post hoc analyses revealed no significant differences from control doses, …
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Effects of positive metacognitions and meta-emotions on coping, stress perception and emotions
… three factors: (1) Confidence in Extinguishing Perseveration, (2) Confidence in Interpreting Own Emotions as Cues, Restraining from Immediate Reaction and MindSetting for Problem-Solving and (3) Confidence in Setting Flexible and Feasible Hierarchies of Goals. In terms of assets, resilience …
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Lexical Bias in Speech Errors
… part of the exchange than by priming the perseveration. A fourth and final experiment attempted to replicate the primary piece of experimental evidence for a lexical editor---Baars, Motley and MacKay (1975) Experiment 2, which showed the disappearance of the lexical bias effect when …
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Vascular risk and depression in outpatients at Groote Schuur Hospital memory clinic
… category fluency, CLOX I, and an initiation/perseveration index). Results: Vascular risk and depression were significantly related, even after controlling for age and functional impairment. However, using a vascular risk model of vascular depression, the data provided no further support for …
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