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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Reinforcement theory"”.
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Effects of Controlled Reading Reinforcement on Junior High Students
… a motivating environment based upon operant reinforcement theory. The second purpose of this study was to show how a high degree of structure and systematic application of operant reinforcement theory works in a junior high school reading class.
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The Motivation Beliefs Inventory: Measuring Motivation Beliefs Using Four Motivation Theories
… employee motivation, particularly those based on reinforcement theory. Answering this challenge was difficult, however, given the lack of instruments designed to measure motivation beliefs at all, much less beliefs from a range of prevalent theories. Using principal components and parallel …
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Latent Learning as a Function of Exploration Time
… (b) raise again the question of whether reinforcement theory adequately explains this type of behavior.
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Psychological Abuse and Health: What Role Does Forgiveness Play?
… lead to either greater psychological abuse (reinforcement theory), or lower psychological abuse (interpersonal theory). Questionnaires were completed by 291 participants who were dating at least 2 months. More forgiveness-particularly Absence of Negativity-was related to less abuse received …
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Aspects of Adhesion of Metallised Plastics.
… have been studied and it has been shown that reinforcement theory can be applied to certain ductile metal coated composites to predict tensile strength. For low-level adhesion composites it was necessary to modify the theory by including an interaction factor. The problem of brittleness …
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Executive Authority and Judicial Intervention: A Lawfare Critique into the President’s Powers of Appointment
… institutions. Relying on democratic reinforcement theory, I will argue that the Courts' intervention in these cases has been to further constitutionalism and good governance. It is not, as some of the lawfare critics suggest, a breach of the separation of powers principle or an …
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Structure and properties of carbon fibre reinforced aromatic thermoplastics
… size. Using suitable modifications of planar reinforcement theory to produce a quasi-isotropic theory, an accurate prediction of the experimental values is possible, from the Modulus Reduction Factor [MRF]. A similar approach with respect to the experimental strength can only be made if the …
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A laboratory investigation on the shear strength characteristics of soil reinforced with recycled linear low-density polyethylene
… material in various applications, such as soil reinforcement addresses the need for engineering solutions with a multifaceted approach which strike a balance between environment, economy and equity. This has been the driving force behind research on the use of alternative materials in …
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Linking ecological divergence and reproductive isolation: a tale of two killifish
… L. goodei due to low fitness in hybrids (i.e. reinforcement). The classic signature of reinforcement is heightened behavioral isolation in areas of sympatry. In Chapter 4, I explicitly tested whether or not reinforcement of male preferences had occurred by comparing male preferences from …