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Behavioral Motivation of Prospective Mars’ Crewmembers
<p>Living in extreme climatic conditions is challenging on planet Earth which encourages researchers hoping to find life on other planets such as Mars. This research was conducted to explore the effects on human behavior and willingness to go to Mars when individuals were informed about all the …
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Career indecision amongst prospective university students
… study would examine the nature thereof amongst prospective university students. The prevalence of specific aspects of career maturity (namely, self-information, decision-making, career information, integration of self-information and career information, and career planning) underlying career …
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Adoption anxiety among prospective adoptive parents
… This has created some anxiety among the prospective adoptive parents regarding the possibility that their contact with the birth mother may somehow create a problem or spoil a successful adoption from taking place. Anxiety surrounding this process may manifest itself in three ways: (1) …
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Personal Scripture Study of Prospective Missionaries
… focus on the personal scripture study of prospective missionaries. However, available social research offered little indication of the state of scripture study among future missionaries. Consequently, this study maintained an exploratory design and utilized qualitative research methods to …
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The ecological validity of prospective memory experimentation
Prospective memory (PM) is the ability to remember and fulfill future intentions, a crucial ability in everyday life. Discrepancies between performance in standard laboratory tasks versus naturalistic tasks has led to translational concerns to everyday life. Validity concerns surrounding laboratory …
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Perceptions of Prospective Teachers towards Teaching Profession
… of this study was to explore the perceptions of prospective teachers towards teaching profession. The study employed a case study research design. Moreover, a qualitative approach was used in this study. Purposive and simple random sampling procedures were used to sample the respondents. The …
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A Prospective Epidemiological Study of Youth Smoking
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Mindfulness meditation training and naturalistic prospective memory performance
… explore the relationship between mindfulness and prospective memory (i.e., the ability to remember to execute a future intention). To explore this relationship, students in either a mindfulness condition or vocabulary control condition were asked to complete 10 self-concordant academic tasks (both …
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The effect of unresolved interruptions on prospective memory
… how memory for future intentions (termed prospective memory or PM) was impacted by interruptions, unresolved interruptions, and delays. The PM task was to shop for eight items within an environmental sustainability rating task. A comedy routine appeared after participants had rated several …
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Disability discrimination of prospective adoptive and foster parents
… requirements, lack of protections for disabled prospective parents, and the patchwork of state laws threaten that disability impedes persons throughout the United States from becoming adoptive or foster parents. Prospective parents with disabilities may face categorical denials when seeking to …
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Relationships between spirituality and wellness among prospective physicians
… spirituality and wellness in a population of prospective physicians. The subjects were first (n = 47) and second (n = 30) year medical students at a north Texas medical school. Each subject completed the Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs Scale (SIBS, r = .92 and Cronbach's Alpha = .92) and the …
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The relationship between visual attention and prospective memory
… current study examined the role of attention in prospective memory. Prospective memory refers to the ability to form an intention to do something in the future, such as email a colleague, and additionally remembering to do so at the appropriate moment. Theories of prospective memory retrieval …
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A prospective investigation of joy and trait gratitude
<p>This prospective study examined the relationship between trait gratitude and future joy. The purpose was to determine if trait gratitude could predict future joy. Previously, studies have not examined the specific relationship between these two emotions, but there is good reason to believe that …
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Helping Prospective Teachers to Understand Children's Mathematical Thinking
… experiences were successful in changing the way prospective teachers interpreted children's mathematical thinking. While the results show it was possible to use videos to improve prospective teachers' interpretive abilities, it was not possible to improve their ability to apply the …
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A manual for the prospective Indian service teacher.
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University
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Pre-service preparation of prospective secondary teachers in reading
… study concerned the pre-service preparation of prospective teachers in meeting and comprehending the reading problems they will encounter during their professional teaching careers. The literature and research reviewed for the study revealed a paucity of studies that deal with the pre-service …
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Determining the effects of emotion on prospective memory performance
Prospective memory is the ability to remember to complete future intentions. Throughout the study of prospective memory, the use of emotional stimuli tends to lead to contradictory effects. Some studies suggest that emotional stimuli, particularly positive stimuli, lead to better prospective memory …
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