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Showing 1 to 20 of 347 for “"Psychology, Developmental."”.
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Relationship predictors of prenatal maternal representations of the child and parenting experiences one year after birth
… conducted through two distinct fields of psychology: developmental and social/ personality psychology. These two fields tend to use different research strategies and measures and focus on different types and aspects of relationships, yet both make important contributions to the attachment …
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CEREBRAL ASYMMETRIES IN PERCEPTION AND PRODUCTION OF EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIONS: A DEVELOPMENTAL STUDY (LATERALITY).
… AND PRODUCTION OF EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIONS: A DEVELOPMENTAL STUDY (LATERALITY).
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Le développement de la simulation des expressions faciales emotionnelles chez les enfants
La capacite de simuler et de dissimuler des expressions faciales émotionnelles a été éxaminée auprès d'enfants dont l'âge variait entre 6 et 10 ans. Suite à la lecture de courtes histoires, les enfants devaient montrer avec leur visage comment les personnages exprimeraient leurs émotions (joie, …
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Towards a more specific model of anorectic pathogenesis: Parental selfobject use of the pre-anorectic child.
… risk for anorexia in the face of the normal developmental and environmental stresses of adolescence. More precisely, these personality factors place her at such risk, firstly, by compromising her ongoing self-esteem regulation either by sharply restricting the conditions under which she is …
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Developmental Origins of Infant Emotion Regulation: Mediating and Moderating Effects of Infant Temperament and Maternal Sensitivity
The current study examined perinatal factors that impact infant emotion regulation (ER) development. Prenatal depression, generalized anxiety, pregnancy-specific anxiety (PSA), and diurnal cortisol levels were assessed in 256 pregnant women in early and late pregnancy. Infant temperamental …
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Thinking outside the box: Exploring creativity and social skills in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
The current study investigated the constructs of creativity and social skills in children between the ages of 8-11 years who had been previously diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Information on the construct of social skills was attained via self-report measures …
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Examining the Influence of Sensorimotor Experience on 5-year-old Children's Word Learning
According to strong theories of embodied cognition, sensorimotor experience is essential for gaining, representing, and accessing conceptual knowledge. The role of embodied knowledge in adult language processing has been studied quite extensively, and embodied experiences are considered necessary …
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Varieties of Naturalized Epistemology: Criticisms and Alternatives
… for example, are urged to draw on psychology and evolutionary biology in order to show our beliefs are justified. I argue that this project fails. First, the naturalist's thesis that theory is underdetermined by evidence poses difficulties for the optimist's attempt to show that our …
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Going Mobile in Rural America: The Community Effect Rural Trailer Parks on Child and Youth Development
… entrepreneurial efforts construct a resourceful developmental context in the wider social arenas of neighborhood and community. Without individual entrepreneurial attributes, most park children and youth travel a pathway predicted by parental working-poor class-status, or that of their densely …
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Investigating the Various Ways Parental Incarceration Affects Children: An Application of Mixture Regression
Previous research examining effects of paternal incarceration has been limited conceptually and methodologically. Using risk and resiliency theory, the various ways children are affected by fathers' concurrent and previous incarceration are outlined. Using mixture regression, the various ways …
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Aerobic Fitness and Attentional Control in Preadolescent Children
… a more general effect on cognition during the developmental period of the lifespan. Thus, further research is necessary to gain insight into the general versus selective nature of the relationship between fitness and cognition. Results indicated higher-fit, compared to lower-fit, preadolescent …
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Stability and Change in Children's Copying of Drawing Schemata: A Developmental Analysis
This study also provided evidence to support the argument that copying is not necessarily a straightforward act. It is an activity loaded with several levels of cognitive processes from cognition to the manipulation of images.
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"""Everybody Here Used to Be Somebody"": Recapturing Self-Continuity in a Retirement Town"
In response, the residents of Eliotville have developed a wide range of measures which compensate for their limited opportunities. A wide range of club and volunteer activities, not specifically geared toward the achievement of self-continuity, enable the residents to repeatedly engage themselves …
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Medicalization and Mother-Blame: A Study in the Clinical Management of Deviance in Mexico
"Medicalization is a way of defining devalued personal and social conditions as ""illness"" and then subjecting them to medical labels and treatment. Medicalization has become an important method for managing deviance in the United States (Gabe & Calnan 1989), and one therefore wonders whether it …
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Characteristics of Disfluencies of Preschool Children Who Stutter: A Longitudinal Study Regarding Persistence and Recovery
This study was supported by grant #R01-DC00459 from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Principal Investigator: Ehud Yairi.
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Soft Constraints on Mapping Form to Meaning in Lexical Acquisition
Research in diachronic Linguistics has shown that homonyms are often avoided in language. This study proposes that this trend is a result of general cognitive principles at work during language acquisition. In support of this proposition, the first two experiments present findings demonstrating …
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Structural Priming in Mandarin Chinese and Its Contribution to Syntactic Productivity Among Young Children
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 83939 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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The Roles of Scene Characteristics, Memory and Attentional Breadth on the Representation of Complex Real -World Scenes
"An accurate and detailed representation of the environment is presumed to help observers notice when an object moves or when an object changes (e.g., drivers should be aware of the details concerning traffic, so that if a car suddenly stops in front of them, they may respond in a timely and …
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Mentoring in Academia: An Exploration of Mentoring Relationships Between Graduate Students and Faculty Members
An interview study and a web survey study were conducted to investigate the mentoring relationships between graduate students and faculty members. Participants in the interview study were 32 (16 female, 16 male) graduate students registered in one of 7 randomly selected academic departments at a …
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