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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"social understanding"”.
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Developing a social understanding of autism through the 'social model'.
… if it is not presented in ways that enables understanding). The findings significantly challenged current and past theories of autism and questioned the 'truth' in the 'knowledge' ascertained from positivist research methodologies. Listening to the collective 'voice' of young people with a …
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Can guessing intention be a useful component of a personalised system to support social understanding?: A case study involving three adults with Asperger syndrome
The ‘social deficits’ of people with Asperger syndrome (AS) are well evidenced both in personal accounts and in research. However, there is a lack of understanding of what adults with AS find useful to know in social situations. This study explored the information that three adults with Asperger …
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Investigating children’s perspective taking and normative frames of social understanding: A critical design ethnographic study of teacher-led dialogue around stories in early years’ classrooms
Abstract Social communication with adults and peers supports children to play a shared, active, and reflective role in negotiating meaning and making sense of their own social experiences. Through these conversations, children begin to adopt narrative structures, heuristics and rules which help …
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Executive Function, Social Emotional Learning, and Social Competence in Autism Spectrum Disorder
… the concurrent role of multiple antecedents of social competence in a group of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Existing models of social competence were adapted to include three domains of executive function (EF: Cognitive, Behavioural, and Emotional Regulation), and two domains of …
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Developing Emotional Security Among Children Who Have Been Adopted
… dog (n=22), while another was exposed to the social robotic dog (n=21). The development of emotional security was targeted for measurement in this study using the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test," a test of social understanding that has been linked in the literature to oxytocin- a hormone …
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Language-specificity and young preschoolers' social-cognitive development
… in reference to mental states in children’s social understanding. The importance of access to, or an understanding of, mentalistic language has been stressed regarding the development of children’s social understanding (e.g., Astington & Baird, 2005). It was predicted that the exposure to the …
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FIRST GRADERS AS SENSITIVE SOCIAL PARTNERS AND SKILLED READERS
… Rican children’s reading experience and their social cognition by: (1) assessing them through quantitative and qualitative measures that reveal their capacities in these areas at the end of their first grade year, and (2) documenting their reading experiences at home and at school through …
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Reconceptualising the child within the family and the school : an investigation into how Zimbabwean children orphaned by AIDS negotiate their personal identities within a stigmatising society
… with the real presence of deeply embedded social understanding, often caricatured as myths and misconceptions by educated people, about AIDS in these schools and communities, which have the consequence often of stigmatizing the child-orphans. In developing the rationale for this type of …
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Learning From the Lives of Others: A Social Analysis of Human Exemplarity and Imitation
… structures of similarity and difference within a social context. The second topic deals with how something, once it becomes an example, calls out for human imitation. Using William James and current research in the cognitive sciences, I argue that an imitative response may often occur because of a …
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Curating the object: Art collection and aesthetics in nineteenth-century Britain
… and drew on John Ruskin’s legacy to develop a social understanding of the aesthetic object. By the nineteenth century, the meanings of the “curator” (a caretaker of things) and the “curate” (a healer of souls) had drifted far from their common Latin root, curare (to heal or to care). By …
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Eye to I
… This connection forms the foundation of our social understanding and has evolutionary implications. From there the story moves to gaze in love, and other social encounters. I look at the role of eye gaze in the judgments we make about others - the way in which direct eye contact may affect …
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Sociodramatic Play and Child Development
… out of a concern for the perceived devaluing of social pretend play in both formal early-years educational environments in particular and in wider western society as a whole, this research seeks to identify and categorise some of the potential developmental benefits of this kind of play activity. …
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The relationship between a child's affect regulation and their social cognition (theory of mind and empathy)
… human development and is crucial for successful social functioning and emotional health. Similarly social cognitive skills like empathy and Theory of Mind (ToM) are also necessary for successful social understanding and interaction in childhood. Researchers have reported associations between …
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Complex associations : facilitator, host and refugee, a 'round-about' way of drama for inclusion
… effectiveness in tackling issues related to social exclusion, xenophobic sentiment and violence.The study approaches the topic from three social perspectives considering the position of refugee, host and facilitator and parallels these positions in order to highlight relationship structures …
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Self-Actualization Wellness: A Developmental Approach to Predicting and Reducing College Student Stress Related to Person and Environment Variables
… Wellness (self-sufficiency, self-care, self-social understanding, self-assess, self advocate, and self-compassion) statistically significantly predicted person variables and environment variables. Recommendations for college students, postsecondary institutions, and policy makers and …
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Migration and identity processes among Somali immigrants in Canada
… that the process of migration must be seen as a social process above and beyond the physical movement. The social process of migration brings forth a contact between two hitherto unfamiliar groups to each other. The data pertaining to this question points out that Somalis do not employ …
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The Development of Social Behavior in the Tibetan Macaque (<i>Macaca thibetana</i>)
<p>Social cognition is vital for the proper integration into adulthood for any highly social animal species. The development of social intelligence during the childhood and adolescence of a social organism affects the individual throughout its life. This social intelligence allows for the …
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An analysis of war trauma and refugee distress among Bosnian Muslim women : exploring social and personal healing in the aftermath
… to integrate war and refugee experiences into social understanding is examined. Individuals in the study identified themselves as Bosnian women – culturally, nationally, ethnically, and religiously. Not only did war threaten those identifications, in some aspects, it fundamentally altered them. …
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Communicating Global Climate Change: Framing Patterns in the US 24-Hour News Cycle, 2007-2009
… the categorization of reality for the purpose of social understanding and communication ease. The method of content analysis was used to investigate global climate change framing patterns identified in a sample of articles published online by selected US 24-hour cable news outlets (MSNBC, FOX, …
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Enabling the Great War: Ex-Servicemen, the Mixed Economy of Welfare and the Social Construction of Disability, 1899-1930
… disabled. The war prompted not only changes in social policy, but in societal attitudes towards impairment as a whole. This thesis will assess provisions for disabled ex-servicemen between the years 1899 and 1930. It will examine attitudes towards disability and argue that a social understanding …
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