Sentences with phrase «children test a hypothesis»

A plan for around 4 or 5 lessons, where children test a hypothesis and investigate their own water consumption.

Not exact matches

Mom and Dad can begin experimenting on the day their baby is born, and they can continue to test hypotheses well into their child's toddler years.

I think there might be something to the c - section explanation... Although I have only one child so I can't test the hypothesis personally.

As I argued, to test evolutionary psychology's hypothesis, we need to look at physically abused children, not sexually abused children or children who were the victims of very broadly defined neglect.

«We thought this was a very interesting set up and when we tested these two competing hypotheses in this adoptive - based research design, we found there was no association between parenting and the child's intelligence later in life once we accounted for genetic influences,» Beaver said.

Researchers tested a number of hypotheses, among them whether more unexpected births and larger families might be associated with parents being less happy than child - free people.

The hypothesis will now be tested in a new study involving 210 children at neonatal units in three Swedish cities; Gothenburg, Lund and Stockholm.

Although evidence of animal body or paws stencils were completely absent from the rock art of North Africa up to now, Honoré decided to test her hypothesis that these hands might not be those of human children after all.

I want to know whether children can understand stories, if they can explain their own reasoning when they do a math problem, if they can formulate their observations and test hypotheses in their science classes.

We tested the hypothesis that this classification system may actually increase the attractiveness of games for children younger than the age rating.

This hypothesis is also suggested by the negative relationship between number of nights per week parents prepared quick and easy suppers and the frequency of children's vegetable consumption (r = −.27; P =.01, Pearson's 2 - tailed test).

To test the hypothesis that audible television is associated with decreased parent and child interactions.

Children were videotaped eating a standardized snack with their mothers at 3 time points across toddlerhood to address 2 objectives: 1) to identify maternal and child characteristics that are associated with observed maternal feeding behaviors, and 2) to test the hypothesis that more prompts, a greater percentage of prompts being assertive, and more intrusiveness are associated with greater child adiposity.

We tested the hypothesis that randomised allocation to the FLNP would be associated with significant advantages over a waiting list control condition, in terms of parenting and child and parental well - being in the short and medium term.

The hypothesis is that so doing reduces child abuse and neglect, though difficulties in measuring the phenomenon preclude thorough testing.

Testing the hypothesis that certain maternal feeding behaviors increase children's adiposity is difficult because the suspect feeding behaviors tend to cluster within low - income and minority populations, which have a higher risk of childhood obesity (22, 23).

Using nationally representative data on 2,655 Black and White married couples with children, we test this hypothesis by measuring the impact of remarriage and stepchildren on the frequency of marital conflict.

To test the main hypothesis, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was performed on the 39 SCQ items and the results were compared with a previous factor analysis of the SCQ in a sample of children with ASD and other psychiatric problems (Berument et al. 1999).

Objective To test the hypothesis that audible television is associated with decreased parent and child interactions.

We tested the hypothesis that participation in the parenting intervention would be associated with significant advantages over a waiting list control condition, in terms of parenting and child and parental well - being in the short and medium term.

Objectives: This study sought to identify factors associated with maternal feeding behaviors and to test the hypothesis that more maternal prompts to eat, more assertive prompts, and more intrusiveness are associated with greater child adiposity.

We test the hypothesis that this association is mediated by concurrent psychosocial stresses and maternal life - course risks including those that predate the child's birth.

Hypothesis 3 (unadjusted associations are attenuated by adjusting for child, family and community characteristics): Adjusting for covariates almost always attenuated associations among water and toilet access and test scores.

In this study we tested the hypothesis that parents» differential treatment of their children would be associated with differences in siblings» negative emotionality.

Beyond the nurture assumption: Testing hypotheses about the child's environment.

Using bias - corrected bootstrapping procedures, we tested the hypothesis that longitudinal associations between maternal BE and nonresponsive parent feeding practices would be mediated by parents» unsupportive responses to children's negative emotion.

To test the hypothesis that married parents provide a better environment for children's development, we can not assign some single parents to the «get married» group and others to the «remain single» controls.

In future, it would be important to systematically investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness programs for different participant groups (with respect to child problems as well as parental problems) as well as testing specific hypotheses about the six mechanisms through which the program might work in clinical settings.

To clarify this relationship, we tested the following hypotheses in a population - based study: (1) children with ADHD have a higher risk of developing depression than children without ADHD; (2) the pathway from ADHD to depression is mediated (partly) through anxiety and disruptive behavior disorders; and (3) mediation through anxiety is more prevalent in girls, and mediation through disruptive behavior disorders is more prevalent in boys.

Psychopathic traits and preattentive threat processing in children: a novel test of the fearlessness hypothesis

Namely, the use of multiple informants (i.e., mother, father, teacher) to rate child CU traits and behavior, unique methods (i.e., self - reports and direct observations) to assess two distinct dimensions of parents» emotion socialization style, and the use of independent and heterogeneous samples (i.e., community and clinic children) to test our hypotheses.

Therefore, we test a third hypothesis — that the association between recent caregiving and sibling tension will be stronger when adult children perceive their mothers as favoring particular offspring as future caregivers.

We tested the hypotheses that children randomized to participate in MBCT - C would show greater reductions in (a) attention problems, (b) anxiety symptoms, and (c) behavior problems than wait - listed age and gender - matched controls.

Topics include (1) elements of the research process; (2) types of designs, program evaluation; (3) ethical considerations of research: informed consent, research with diverse and vulnerable populations, research with children, human subjects review; (4) basic measurement concepts: validity, reliability, norms, score interpretation; and (5) basic statistical concepts: frequency distributions, central tendency, measures of variability, correlation, normal curve, hypothesis testing, significance tests.

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behavchild development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behavchild effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behavChild Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.

We aimed to test this hypothesis by testing a mediation model in which the relationships between both vulnerable and angry child modes, and pathological worry were mediated by avoidance.

Using a representative community sample of 308 16 - year - olds from the Child Development Project (Dodge, Bates, & Pettit, 1990), we tested and corroborated the hypotheses that participants with relatively low anxiety and high APSD scores would display poorer passive avoidance learning and less interference on a spatially separated, picture - word Stroop task than controls.

We tested the hypothesis that deviation in birthweight or placental weight would mediate the association between prenatal exposure to sGC and child mental health.

We tested the hypothesis that siblings of children with cancer would have poorer social functioning than comparison peers across all measures.

Although this could not be tested in the current study, given the theoretical importance of attachment security to child emotional functioning (e.g., Cassidy, 1994), as well as the well - established link between emotional dysregulation and childhood anxiety, another hypothesis is that attachment security relates to anxiety via children's emotional capacities, including children's emotion understanding and regulation.

To test Hypothesis I, a regression analysis was conducted assessing the degree to which a child's intelligence and parental depression account for the child's adaptive behavior after controlling for demographic variables correlated with adaptive behavior.

The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that the impact of maternal and paternal depressive symptoms on the child might be mediated by coparenting support and conflict.

We tested this hypothesis and examined the clinical relevance of synchrony by observing naturalistic play in 19 clinic - referred and 23 non-clinic referred mother — child dyads.

Parent and Child ADHD Symptoms in Relation to Parental Attitudes and Parenting: Testing the Similarity - Fit Hypothesis.

Using epidemiologic methods to test hypotheses regarding causal influences on child and adolescent mental disorders

In order to test the hypotheses, we utilized data from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study.

An integrative structural equation model tested hypotheses that mothers» parenting (i.e., low levels of inductive discipline and maternal warmth) would mediate adverse effects of early maternal distress on child effortful control, which in turn would mediate effects of maternal parenting on child externalizing behavior.

Two hypotheses were tested: the similarity - fit hypothesis, which predicted that parent and child similarity will improve parenting, and the similarity - misfit hypothesis, which predicted the opposite.

However, rather than making a specific hypothesis regarding the role of current or recalled MDT in children's depressive symptoms, we conducted exploratory analyses to test the relative strength of these two associations.