Sentences with phrase «asked study subjects»

First, to determine if this effect was in fact true, the researchers conducted a series of lab experiments in which they asked study subjects to talk about products both face to face and through text messaging.

The researchers used something called Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to stimulate an area of the brain associated with creativity while they asked study subjects to complete tests of verbal creativity, such as coming up with as many associations between a set of words as possible.

Not exact matches

One 2014 study by the University of Warwick in England asked subjects to perform skill - based math problems, which researchers used to mimic typical white - collar work.

According to this study, when subjects were asked to evaluate products with different color names (such as makeup), «fancy» names were preferred far more often.

To figure this out, the research team asked the friends of 417 study subjects to rate their level of charisma.

In an interview in the March 2008 newsletter to the Grant Study subjects, Vaillant was asked, «What have you learned from the Grant Study men?»

This time around, instead of having study subjects read a bit of Don DeLillo or Louise Erdrich, they asked more than 2,000 people how many of a long list of authors» names they recognized.

The study subjects were then asked how many of the pairings they recalled 30 minutes after the memorization session, compared to after sleeping through the night with the distressing images still percolating in their brains.

To examine the effect of strategic laziness on memory, the scientists asked a group of study subjects with brain injuries resulting in memory damage to try and memorize a list of words.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.

After dosing study subjects with approximately the amount of tryptophan you'd get from a turkey dinner, the researchers paired up participants and asked them to play a simple game involving dividing a small pot of money.

The series of studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.

Before they actually took aim, half the study subjects were asked to listen to relaxing music and half were told to visualize missing the target.

(ask questions about level of education completed, schools they attended, and subjects they studied)

By asking the subject that you are studying??

It isn't long before somebody is asked to organize activities for the children, snacks for the children, then somebody doesn't like the subject matter of the adult study, somebody says it's going on too long, too short, and where's the music, we need somebody to play guitar, and who's going to organize the prayer at the end, and why do the children interrupt us all the time when we're trying to talk to God?

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

«Government has no right to force subjects on any Nigerian child neither does it have the authority to drop Christian Religious Studies at the Senior Secondary School level while asking him / her to continue to read Islamic Studies which he / she can not do at university level.»

These methods must provide ways rigorously to test and test again any claim to have discovered the truth about the subject under study, and the tests must be shown to be appropriate to the sort of thing being studied and to the sort of questions being asked about it.

One more thing I did not anticipate: that 40 years later a well - meaning student of a brand - new academic subject called «Holocaust Studies» would ask me: «Why didn't you leave Germany while there was still time?»

In his studies of gregariousness, Stanley Schachter described to his subjects a frightening experiment and then asked them whether they would prefer to be «together» with others during the experiment, «alone,» or «don't care.»

Precisely because it is a theological school, it will be helpful to ask three different sorts of questions about it, and then to ask how the answers to the three are themselves interrelated in the structures that pattern the school's common life: What construal or construals of the Christian thing are assumed in the way the subjects of study are addressed?

Robert Larzelere, associate professor of human development and family science at Oklahoma State University, conducted a meta - analysis of 26 studies on the subject, and found that, overall, spanking seemed more effective than 10 of 13 alternative disciplinary methods for getting a child to behave or do as asked.

For example, a Psychology 101 student, familiar with how scientists run experiments, might volunteer as a study subject in which they are asked to wear a backpack, and guess the incline of a hill.

Asking whether the person pictured was black or white would have sped up their performance, yet subjects — adults in one study and children as young as age 10 in the other — rarely mentioned race unless their partner did so first.

In the current study, 87 healthy subjects were given a clinical questionnaire and asked to rate to what degree they have problems with regulating emotions in their everyday lives.

In the study, 986 subjects were asked to read and evaluate online news stories.

As a science teacher, you may be asked to teach a subject that you have not studied since first year at university.

Dubock, who has kept in touch with the research team, says they avoided the term «genetically modified» because U.S. government guidelines on consent forms ask researchers to explain a study in «language understandable to the subject or the representative,» and because the term «genetically modified» has become so loaded that people might equate it with danger.

In the current study, Brass and co-author Patrick Haggard, a professor of cognitive neuroscience and psychology at University College London, asked 15 subjects to push a button on a keyboard while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to monitor brain activity; participants were instructed to occasionally skip the action.

In one of Huebner's studies, for example, subjects were told about a robot who acted exactly like a human being and asked what mental states that robot might be capable of having.

Experiments then started to look at humor production, asking subjects to come up with jokes or studying how people amuse one another in the real world.

In one common experiment for studying the speed of thought, researchers briefly show test subjects a lopsided, upside - down U and then ask them which leg of the figure is longer.

To study this decline, the researchers conducted four separate experiments in which the subjects in each were asked, multiple times, about their anxiety, physical symptoms, and energy level.

In the study, subjects were asked to sit facing a black screen, behind which were five loudspeakers.

The current study asks the question: is glucose control in subjects who already have diabetes adversely affected by too little sleep or poor sleep?

The team analyzed the frequency of different types of immune cells in blood collected from 110 one year - old study participants, the presence of immune - stimulatory components in the subjects» house dust and asked whether any of the factors correlated with an increased of asthma at age seven.

In this study, we presented computer - morphing animations of the facial expressions of six emotions to 43 subjects and asked them to evaluate the naturalness of the rate of change of each expression.

In his book, Harper cites an English study on women enrolled in a weight loss program: The researchers asked about half of their subjects to write down their strategies for managing temptation (for example, When sugar cravings strike, I will make a cup of tea).

In a recent study on sexuality, when subjects were asked why they had sex at a certain time, the convenience rhythm — they were already in bed, their partner was available, and sex didn't interfere with their work schedule — accounted for 72 percent of sexual encounters!

In a double - blind, placebo - controlled study, they tested subjects» cognitive abilities using three methods, asking them to do simple math, a timed - response task, and the classic Stroop test (in which color words like red are written in other colors, like blue, and subjects are asked about the color or the word).

I asked Ms. Giancoli to review a small study involving 30 subjects, using an «alternate day fasting» program.

In our experience, even though we asked the volunteers not to change their diets or eating patterns before beginning the study, it is not uncommon for subjects to report for study with a fasting glucose concentration lower than when they were recruited (13, 21).

Thus, in the current study, subjects were asked to eat 6 times / d at predetermined times during the EB and OB periods.

All subjects were asked to keep a daily diary for the first 12 weeks of the study that included information on smoking status, craving, and withdrawal symptoms.

During the study, subjects were asked not to consume any additional nuts or nut products or alter consumption of dietary fiber or vegetable protein foods.

A particularly interesting study asked subjects about their thoughts on race and dating, with.

Conversation Nation, the largest study ever conducted on the subject, asked more than 2,000 singles across the United States to weigh in on the importance of conversation in the search for love.

In the core subjects of English, math, science, and history (including geography and civics, never say «social studies»), there is absolutely no reason why we ought not ask all young Americans to learn most of the same things while in the elementary and secondary grades.

Over the course of the study, the researchers periodically asked the children to identify subjects in as many as 96 sentences.