Sentences with phrase «more affective experience»

Haugaard is currently researching the mechanics of sound, trying to find ways to use and exploit the subtleties of sound to engineer a more affective experience.

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The first factor is especially obvious on the higher levels of experience, but the affective response, as integral part of the experience (rather than as reflective reaction), predominates in the more primitive forms.

The more startling the affective experience, the less explicable it seems, the easier it is to make it the carrier of unsubstantiated notions.»

In fact, up to 9 % of North Americans living at more northern latitudes experience symptoms severe enough to warrant a clinical diagnosis of seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and even more suffer from milder cases of the winter blues.

On the more extreme end of the spectrum, you may be part of the 5 percent of the U.S. population that experiences full - blown seasonal depression, otherwise known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD).

The following are common characteristics of gifted children, although not all will necessarily apply to every gifted child: • Has an extensive and detailed memory, particularly in a specific area of interest • Has advanced vocabulary for his or her age; uses precocious language • Has communication skills advanced for his or her age and is able to express ideas and feelings • Asks intelligent and complex questions • Is able to identify the important characteristics of new concepts and problems • Learns information quickly • Uses logic in arriving at common sense answers • Has a broad base of knowledge; a large quantity of information • Understands abstract ideas and complex concepts • Uses analogical thinking, problem solving, or reasoning • Observes relationships and sees connections • Finds and solves difficult and unusual problems • Understands principles, forms generalizations, and uses them in new situations • Wants to learn and is curious • Works conscientiously and has a high degree of concentration in areas of interest • Understands and uses various symbol systems • Is reflective about learning • Is enraptured by a specific subject • Has reading comprehension skills advanced for his or her age • Has advanced writing abilities for his or her age • Has strong artistic or musical abilities • Concentrates intensely for long periods of time, particularly in a specific area of interest • Is more aware, stimulated, and affected by surroundings • Experiences extreme positive or negative feelings • Experiences a strong physical reaction to emotion • Has a strong affective memory, re-living or re-feeling things long after the triggering event

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

In humans, both the HPA system and the autonomic nervous system show developmental changes in infancy, with the HPA axis becoming organized between 2 and 6 months of age and the autonomic nervous system demonstrating relative stability by 6 to 12 months of age.63 The HPA axis in particular has been shown to be highly responsive to child - caregiver interactions, with sensitive caregiving programming the HPA axis to become an effective physiological regulator of stress and insensitive caregiving promoting hyperreactive or hyporeactive HPA systems.17 Several animal models as well as human studies also support the connection between caregiver experiences in early postnatal life and alterations of autonomic nervous system balance.63 - 65 Furthermore, children who have a history of sensitive caregiving are more likely to demonstrate optimal affective and behavioral strategies for coping with stress.66, 67 Therefore, children with histories of supportive, sensitive caregiving in early development may be better able to self - regulate their physiological, affective, and behavioral responses to environmental stressors and, consequently, less likely to manifest disturbed HPA and autonomic reactivity that put them at risk for stress - related illnesses such as asthma.

Based on the literature in older children, it was hypothesized that preschoolers with a greater family history of affective disorders, who experienced more stressful life events, or who had greater comorbidity would be at an increased risk for recurrent and more severe depressive episodes during a 24 - month period.

Additionally, with more years of emotion regulation experience, young rapidly regulating individuals may come to resemble their older counterparts both in affective profile and in their ability to sustain a regulated positive mood over a prolonged period of time.

Second, we also expect affective empathy to be associated with spousal support provision, such that when the provider experiences affective empathy (i.e., empathic concern, personal distress), the provider will offer higher levels of positive support (i.e., more emotional and instrumental support) and lower levels of negative forms of support (Hypothesis 2).

Like the woman, also the man lives the pregnancy and the childbirth such as a phase of psychological restructuration and he confronts himself with his personal and family history.56 But, unlike the woman, the man does not experience an emotional exchange with the child during the pregnancy or after the childbirth and he establish the relation in the two months after the childbirth.57, 58 They experience important changes and they have more difficulty to begin a good affective relationship with the child than the mothers that establish it after the childbirth.

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.