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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"adults' knowledge"”.
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ADULTS’ KNOWLEDGE OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND CHILD GUIDANCE
… the quality of parenting skills and parenting knowledge about children’s development have profound effects on children’s development. Studies to date show that most adults lack knowledge of child development and developmentally-appropriate child guidance. These studies, however have focused on …
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Knowledge of AIDS, perceived risk of AIDS, and at-risk behaviors among older adults
… Health Belief Model, this study examined older adults' knowledge of AIDS, perceptions of risk to AIDS, and at-risk behaviors. A total of 166 questionnaires were received from the EXCELL and Senior Adult Theater Group members actively enrolled at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The results …
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Cognitive strategy intervention for elders living in a residential care facility.
… to improve everyday memory functioning, older adults’ knowledge of memory strategies, confidence in their memory, and quality of life may improve. The present study examines the efficacy of a five-session cognitive strategy program for elders on memory self-efficacy, quality of life, and memory …
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Media and Memory: The Impact of Presentation Style on Middle Aged and Older Adults' Recall of Health Information
… educational tools on middle aged and older adults' knowledge of asthma. Participants were randomly assigned to experimental groups and either shown print-based, video-based, or no educational materials and asked questions about triggers of asthma symptoms and questions about inhaler usage. …
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Prior Knowledge and Age Effects in Memory: Implications for Episodic and Short-term/ Immediate Memory
… Lindenberger & Baltes, 2003). However, older adults also consistently show stable or even improving levels of semantic knowledge (Surprenant & Neath, 2007). In younger adults, Hemmer and Steyvers (2009) showed that episodic memory for the properties (i.e. size) of familiar items is influenced …
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Investigating children's participation in decision-making in New Zealand primary schools: Participation, pathways and potential.
… New Zealand context. This thesis addresses this knowledge gap by examining children’s participation in decision-making in two New Zealand primary schools. By investigating the perspectives of principals, teachers and children, this study sought to critically examine the ways in which children …
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Flipping the Narrative: Highlighting the Positive Aspects of Healthy Aging
… inevitably have a detrimental impact on older adults’ cognition, health, and general well-being. However, there are several other domains of cognition that remain stable or improve during healthy aging. For example, emotional functioning increases with age: older adults can better regulate …
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How do childhood ADHD and stress relate to adult wellbeing and educational attainment? A data science investigation using the 1970 British Cohort Study
… about 50% of ADHD children function well as adults, knowledge is limited about psychosocial factors in outcomes, (Costello & Maughan, 2015) such as those related to stress. State regulation theory, (Sanders, 1983; Sergeant, 2000) was the basis for an investigation using data from the age 0, …