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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Psychology - Children"”.
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Forgiveness Education as a Factor in Adolescent Adjustment to Parental Divorce
1 PDF file (124 pages)
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Voice of the voiceless: The effects of labeling children in public schools
1 PDF file (vii, 294 pages)
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Increasing children's self-initiated compliance to their dental regimens
The present study examined the separate effects of an educational program, feedback, and a token economy on the rate of brushing and flossing in the home environment.
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Maintaining culturally disadvantaged fourth-graders' attention to oral verbal teaching through intermittent auditory stimulation
… to the presentation of material about which the children were questioned. The purpose of the study was to learn whether the nature of the tone bell stimulus reflects the accuracy of responses due to attention having been directed to the lesson content. The author hypothesized that a combination …
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Acculturation and Mental Health in Chinese Immigrant Youth
The dissertation investigated the relationship between acculturation, acculturative stress, locus of control, and perceived social support on the mental health of Chinese immigrant adolescents. Study participants included 81 first generation Chinese immigrant adolescents. Mental health was …
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Club social y académico Infantil Los Robles Ltda.
El Club social y académico Infantil Los Robles Ltda. , es una empresa que se ubicará inicialmente en la localidad de Usaquén, enfocado a niños de 6 a 12 años el cual ofrecerá un servicio similar al que presta un club para adultos, con herramientas adecuadas y acordes a los gustos y afinidades de …
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Establishing imitative behavior and stimulus control in retarded children using peer trainers
<p>Two severely retarded children were trained to serve as imitative learning trainers for two profoundly retarded children. Initially, one trainer reinforced the correct imitations of one trainee but not the other. A second trainer reinforced the correct imitations of a second trainee but not the …
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Effects of programming in relation to working memory span on cognitive ability
… working memory span (high vs. low). Sixty-seven children in 5th grade in one elementary school in Iceland were randomly assigned to two groups, involving seven weeks of interventions; programming lessons and innovation lessons. Three cognitive ability tests, WISC-IV part 2, WISC-IV part 7 and …
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Development of Speed, Memory, and Fluid Reasoning in Children
Children's memory and higher-order cognitive abilities such as fluid reasoning improve with age, but the relationships between these abilities are not well understood. The developmental cascade model proposed by Fry and Hale: 1996) suggests that age related improvements in speed of processing are …
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Parental Mental Health: The Role of Parental Attachment to Their Child with ASD
<p>Research suggests that parents of children with an Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) experience higher levels of stress than both those of typically developing children and children with other developmental disabilities. Parental stress may spill over into additional domains of parental …
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The Effects of the Social Listener Reinforcement Protocol on the Audience Control of Stereotypy and Social Operants for Students with Developmental Delays
In a within-subjects alternating treatments design, I tested for the presence of audience control in four participants' frequency of stereotypy in a self-contained special education setting versus a general education setting. Three students with autism, and one student diagnosed with an emotional …
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Father role identity : An exploration of the construct and its measurement
… and their post-divorce contact with their children. Preliminary research suggests father’s identification with the parent role may play an influential role in this contact. Though the Self Perceptions of the Parental Role Questionnaire (SPPE) has been utilised to measure father’s …
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Wh-Question Processing in Children with Cochlear Implants
<p>Children with cochlear implants (CIs) have exhibited difficulty accurately answering and producing wh-questions. The syntactic construction of wh-questions include syntactic movement, whereby the wh-question phrase that replaces the subject or object noun is fronted to the beginning of the …
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HIV/AIDS orphans as heads of households : a challenge to pastoral care
… has done a great damage to families and their children. Due to HIV/AIDS, grandmothers find themselves caring for their sick children, grandchildren and orphaned grandchildren. Because of the large number of AIDS orphans, the existing pool of community-based support has become saturated. …
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An experimental investigation of learning and performance in children with academic disabilities
… distinction has developed in the literature on children with academic difficulties. Here it has been referred to as a distinction between "assimilation and utilization" or between "disorders in the function of taking in knowledge" and "disorders in the use of learning." Other recent …