Sentences with phrase «affective states on»

Effects of affective states on noncontingent outcome expectancies and beliefs in internal or external control

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«People can use solitude, or other variations on being alone, to regulate their affective states,» the study authors write, «becoming quiet after excitement, calm after an angry episode, or centered and peaceful when desired.»

Those who think on Marxist lines believe that all that is necessary to inspire and polarize the human molecules is that they should look forward to an eventual state of collective reflection and sympathy, at the culmination of anthropogenesis, from which all will benefit through participation: as it were, a vault of intermingled thoughts, a closed circuit of attachments in which the individual will achieve intellectual and affective wholeness to the extent that he is one with the whole system.

On the contrary, its value lies solely in the fact that it is the psychic correlate of a biological growth reducing contending desires to one direction; a growth which expresses itself in new affective states and new reactions; in larger, nobler, more Christ - like activities.

Popham argues that assessment in the United States has suffered from six crucial, recurring problems: too many curricular targets; the underutilization of classroom assessment; preoccupation with instructional process; the dearth of «affective» assessments, i.e., those focused on attitudes, interests, and values; instructionally insensitive accountability tests; and the reality that educators «know almost nothing about educational assessment.»

Since state assessment tests put a high premium on verbal, logical, and visual intelligences as well as cognitive (as opposed to affective) learning, is it justified for teachers to provide assessments in learning styles and intelligences that are not emphasized on these tests?

It's easy for people to dwell on negative affective states because, according to neuroscientists, there are more neural networks in the brain associated with negative affect than with positive affect (Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Finkenauer, & Vohs, 2001); some scientists even speculate that these may be in the ratio of 5 to 1.

Lecture - The Neurobiology of Love by Semir Zeki Sun 13 Sept, 2 — 3 pm Semir Zeki, (Professor of Neuroesthetics at the University College London) discusses his pioneering research on the organisation of the visual brain and his experimental enquiries into how a visual stimulus triggers an affective, emotional state, similar to our experience of beauty, desire and love.

The problem with this is that such are an unduly high percentage of the population of many states with only one or two representatives in Congress: thus their voices are disproportionately affective on the formulation of policy.

It is possible that the pictures, rather than the affective states created by them, may have led the subjects to focus on the details of the picture thus causing a narrowing of attentional scope.

The Positive Affect and Negative Affect Schedule (Watson et al., 1988; Terracciano et al., 2003) assessed the affective components of subjective well - being by requiring participants to indicate on a 5 - point Likert scale to what extent (1 = very slightly, 5 = extremely) they generally experienced 20 adjectives describing affective states (10 for positive affect and 10 for negative affect) during a specific period («in this moment, today, last week, last month, or generally»).

The best study on the population prevalence of mental illnesses done in mainland China using the Present State Examination (PSE) also found extremely low rates of depression (a combined point prevalence of 1.4 % for all affective disorders and neurasthenia), 1 but such results should to be viewed with caution.

They tend to remember emotions experienced by people better than those experienced by Muppets or animated characters, and they do not necessarily focus on emotions of the characters when retelling the narrative of a television program.5 By the time they reach age eight, however, children, especially girls, are more likely to mention characters» affective states when retelling a televised story.6 Older children also begin to understand television characters» more complex emotions, such as jealousy.7 Like their younger counterparts, older children's recall of affect is higher if they perceive the program as realistic.8

We also focus on drug dependence, since negative affective states are a prominent feature of drug withdrawal and likely play a critical role in the persistence of drug addiction.

Based on past findings that older adults endorse statements of mood stability (e.g., Lawton et al., 1992), we expected that those older individuals who rapidly regulated their mood would maintain that positive affective state as time progressed.

My Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab website: www.kirkwarrenbrown.vcu.edu Back to Top Amy Brunell, Ohio State University at Mansfield About My Research: Broadly, the focus of my research is on self processes and social contexts.

Meantime, we hypothesize a dynamic relationship between the two factors based on the assumption that the affective experiences that children collect via their emotion regulation efforts will influence the cognitive structures and processes related to the regulated emotional states, and vice versa (Rieffe et al., 2005; Pons et al., 2010).

We can hypothesize that mothers may be more focused on superficial aspects and on external events, such as school performance, rather than children's psychological experiences, affective thinking, and intimate emotional states.