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Showing 1 to 20 of 146 for “"inattention"”.
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Trait inattention and goal representations.
Inattention is a symptom of many clinical disorders. Research has shown that the symptom of inattention is best thought of as being on a continuum. Consistently, sub- clinical inattention has been shown to be related to impairments in working memory, particularly those functions related to goal …
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Consumer inattention, uncertainty, and marketing strategy
… investigates the implications of consumer inattention and uncertainty for firms' advertising and pricing decisions. The first chapter is an overview of the problems addressed in the dissertation and the main findings. The second chapter develops a theory-based, cost-effective method to …
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Rational inattention in control of Markov chains
This thesis poses a general model for optimal control subject to information constraint, motivated in part by recent work on information-constrained decision-making by economic agents. In the average-cost optimal control framework, the general model introduced in this paper reduces to a variant of …
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Assessing the Effects of Driving Inattention on Relative Crash Risk
… establish direct relationships between driving inattention and crash and near-crash involvement. Relative crash risk was calculated using both crash and near-crash data as well as normal, baseline driving data, for various sources of inattention. Additional analyses investigated the …
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The influence of inattention on rapid automatized naming and reading skills
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. School Psychology, 2010
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Exploring non-clinical inattention in adults: prevalence, and links to working memory and self-regulation.
Inattention is a symptom related to several mental health disorders, most notably ADHD. Recent work has suggested that a) inattention is a symptom worth studying in it’s own right regardless of co-occurring pathology, b) it persists beyond childhood and may be more relevant to adults than the other …
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Adolescent inattention/overactivity/impulsivity as an outcome of early institutional deprivation: the role of genetic factors
… between early institutional deprivation and inattention/overactivity/impulsivity (IOI) in a sample of institutionreared children adopted from severely depriving conditions in Romania before the age of 43 months. The total sample comprised 144 institution-reared and 21 noninstitution-reared …
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Using instructed response times to compare inattentive responding across paper and online modalities: measuring research participant inattention
… an effective and necessary step in identifying inattention. Online data collection in non-lab environmentsmay be developing in a promising direction, but further research is needed to identify and counter the increased tendency for inattention in those environments.</p>
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Evaluating sleep and circadian rhythm disturbances and symptoms of impulsivity and inattention: Implications for adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
… findings linking symptoms of impulsivity, inattention, and later chronotype with elements of the core molecular clock. However, we did find differential susceptibility to the previously identified risk factors; poor sleep quality and social jetlag which were both modified by genotype. …
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Testing inattention as a predictor of graphomotor and cognitive processing speed in unmedicated, young adults, when depression and working memory are controlled
… of literature does not look into the capacity of inattention severity to predict PS, graphomotor versus primarily cognitive, in unmedicated, young adults, when depression and WM are controlled. Therefore, my study investigated the dimension of inattention as a predictor of graphomotor PS and …
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Does viewing bullying violence affect the allocation of attention in young adults?
… test the relationship between symptoms of inattention and vicarious experiences of bullying. The research questions of the current study were: 1) Can vicarious bullying induce symptoms of inattention?; 2) What happens to inattention after multiple exposures to vicarious bullying?; and 3) …
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The Relationship between Unintentional Injury Risk and Risk Taking Behaviors: The Effects of Impulsivity/Overactivity and Inattention, Grade, and Gender in School-Age Children
… the relationship of behavior subscales (inattention and impulsivity/overactivity), grade, and gender to unintentional injury risk and risk-taking behaviors among primary school-age students. The participants included the parents, guardians, and teachers of 109 primary school-age students. …
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Does the type of care matter? : a study of the effect of early substitute care
… classroom controls in showing a high level of inattention/overactivity'. The teacher questionnaire and observational measures showed, however, that the increased rate was substantially higher in the institutional group than the family foster group. This difference was not explained by cognitive …
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Examining Attention, Impulsiveness, and Cognitive Failures in Driving Behaviors
… inhibition and attentiveness. Impulsiveness, inattention, and cognitive failures have been linked to other risky behaviors, but a comprehensive evaluation using multiple methods of measurement of these has never been conducted to analyze their impact on dangerous driving. The purpose of this …
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Youth Musicians’ Executive Functioning and its Impact on Emotional and Behavioral Health
… (BASC-3 Emotional Self-Control subscale), Inattention, Hyperactivity and Aggression (Conners 3), and children aged 8 and older self-reported their own Inattention, Hyperactivity and Aggression (Conners 3). Teachers took attendance at each lesson to enable time spent practicing to be …
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Understanding And Improving Adhd Symptom Recall: An Investigation of Temperament And Childhood Symptom Recall Over Time
… tend to underreport previous symptom levels of inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity. Higher parent reported reward dependence was associated with lower inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity in childhood. Higher novelty-seeking was associated with both inattention and …
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Lead and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Meta-Analysis
… focusing on the association between lead and inattention or hyperactivity-impulsivity symptoms were gathered from the online databases PsycINFO and Medline. These articles were then coded for content, including the methods used to assess lead exposure, the type of ADHD symptoms examined, the …
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Anxiety as a Compensatory Factor for Executive Functioning Abilities and Later ADHD Symptoms in Youth with ADHD
… anxiety symptoms and ADHD symptoms (e.g., inattention and hyperactive-impulsive [H-I]) on EF abilities (e.g., working memory [WM] and inhibition) both cross-sectionally and longitudinally in a large, well-validated sample. This study also investigated whether compensatory interactions …
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Experiments on consumer preferences and decision making
… number and bundling of tariffs) and consumer inattention. The complexity induced by product bundling, non-linearity and number of tariffs has an important role, but this is overstated if the explanatory power of inattention is neglected. I show that a ‘smart nudge’ policy of automatically …
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