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Showing 1 to 20 of 430 for “"Social Learning"”.
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Rational Social learning
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1996.
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Social learning in markets
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1996.
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Altering the social learning climate: raising the legal age of tobacco purchase and social learning theory
… ways proposed by the concepts of Ronald Akers' Social Learning Theory (1979). The present study postulated limiting access to cigarettes would reduce all measures of cigarettes use, resulting in fewer smoking associates to model smoking behavior, fewer favorable definitions of cigarettes, and …
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Imitation and social learning for synthetic characters
… animated characters and robots capable of rich social interactions with humans and each other, and who are able to learn by observing those around them. An increasing amount of evidence suggests that, in human infants, the ability to learn by watching others, and in particular, the ability to …
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Prediction of bulimic behaviors: social learning analysis
… the relationship between principles of social learning theory and binge eating episodes in 31 normal weight bulimic women. Participants were asked to monitor the following: (1) levels of self-efficacy related to resisting the urge to binge and/or purge as well as levels of self-efficacy …
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A Comparison of Social Learning in Domestic Canines
… in one of two ways) to look into the methods of social learning they use and compares how they learn from humans vs. other canines. Sixty-four dogs from the Humane Society of varying backgrounds, ages, sexes, and reproductive statuses were tested on their ability to open the two-action feeder and …
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Learning Outside the Box: Designing Social Learning Spaces
Social learning theory asserts that learning involves constructing knowledge through dialogue with others. Traditional learning spaces designed with didactic pedagogies in mind are often not flexible enough to cater to the range of social learning activities promoted by educationalists in …
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Essays in Firm Behavior, Innovation, and Social Learning
… dynamic decision making and the possibility of social learning. The chapter first confirms that operators have changed their input decisions over time in a manner that is consistent with learning about how to better use the fracturing technology. It then develops an estimates an econometric …
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Essays in macroeconomics, corporate finance, and social learning
… released without delay. This produces asymmetric learning dynamics for the economy, with gradual booms and rapid recessions. In a boom the belief about the aggregate state increases, information is pushed off into the future, and learning is slow. In a recession the belief is falling, triggering a …
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Another look at social learning theory and dating violence
1 PDF file (vi, 98 leaves ; 28 cm)
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Planning support systems for spatial planning through social learning
… In particular, PSS are viewed as supporting social learning in spatial planning processes. The study includes cases in Boston, Kansas City, and Austin. The findings indicate high levels of social learning, broadly confirming the collaborative planning theory literature. Participants at …
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Information processing, intelligence and social learning in autism spectrum disorder
… disorder, which affects communication, social interaction, and flexible behaviour. Kanner’s and Asperger’s original descriptions suggested a hidden intelligence in Autism, reflected in islets of ability. However, for more than three decades it has been documented that ASD has a strong …
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Incentives, Innovation, and Imitation: Social Learning in a Networked Group
Humans' extraordinary talents for learning from their environments and from each other are the basis of cultural and technological development, but factors affecting the use of these skills such as time, information differences, group size, and material incentives are not yet completely understood. …
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Exploiting Social Learning as a Legitimate Tool in Coach Development
… coaching research, knowledge and practice on how socially mediated learning activities can influence both coach behaviour and learning for better and for worse, as well as how coach developers might better exploit them as a legitimate tool in coach development provision. Accordingly, Chapter 2 …
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Generation and Analysis of Strategies in an Evolutionary Social Learning Game
… games have been developed to investigate what learning strategies work best and how they might have evolved. In this dissertation I present an extensive set of mathematical and simulation results for Cultaptation, which is one of the best-known such games. I derive a formula for measuring a …
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Social learning online: A study examining the use of threaded discussions
… for younger students had the relationships of social ability, student demographics, task complexity, motivation, and student perceived sense of community within the online classroom. The expectation was that these factors would have a relationship with overall sense of community. Samples of …
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