Sentences with phrase «of adaptive behavior»

Developing criteria for establishing interrater reliability of specific items: Applications to assessment of adaptive behavior

The relationship of adaptive behavior with depression was also significant (r =.29, p <.05).

For parents in both NAR and non-NAR groups, child's intelligence was directly related to parents» rating of adaptive behavior in their children (r =.61, p <.01; r =.63, p <.05, respectively).

The present study examined trajectories of adaptive behavior, behavior problems, psychological symptoms, and autism symptoms in adolescents and adults with fragile X syndrome (n = 147) over a three - year period.

In a review of adaptive behavior research, Harrison (1987) reported that the relationship between intelligence and adaptive behavior was moderate with correlations ranging from.40 to.60.

Maternal warmth was associated with higher levels of adaptive behavior, lower levels of autism symptoms, and decreases in behavior problems over time.

This brings up the curious question of why such Hominids should be less astute, shall we say, than than our rodent cousins in terms of their adaptive behavior, a topic which even the former Mr. Dr. Professor Gould does not seem to address in his opus as far as we have been able to ascertain in our book club readings.

Children of mothers receiving PAT and CPAT demonstrated higher rates of positive engagement, and children of CPAT mothers demonstrated higher levels of adaptive behaviors than children in the WLC.

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Which is a way of teaching people alternate behaviors that are more adaptive to help them relieve their stress instead of pulling their hair out.

Informing on adaptive strategies is becoming critical as many companies are faced with adapting to new buyer behaviors and new social dynamics as a result of the evolving social age.

It has become the singular achievement of this ideology to detach society's self - understanding from the frame of reference of relational, reciprocal, communicative interaction, with all of its symbolic reinforcements, and to replace it with a scientific, objectivist model which aspires to the self - reification of men under categories of manipulative rational action and adaptive behavior.

But a lot of human behaviors are more or less adaptive depending on the context in which they are enacted.

Evolution explains the adaptiveness of certain behaviors of singing animals, but there are two ways of conceiving adaptive behaviors.

This however, is more likely to be adaptive behavior on my part because Kyle is one of the most low - maintenance guys I've ever met.

Infants with untreated torticollis may be at increased risk for early motor delay, global delay, impaired balance and coordination, delay in acquisition of gross motor skills, and reinforcement of altered movement patterns due to adaptive motor behavior.

empower families to respond to their child's behavior in a manner that acknowledges past trauma but promotes the learning of new, more adaptive reactions to stress.

The data suggest the important role of adaptive human behavior in determining the characteristics of congested flow.

A higher likelihood of anxious behavior may have an adaptive advantage for less physically fit creatures.

Previously, the researchers reported that fifty - six percent of the children in the study showed declines in adaptive behavior at or before the age of ten, with an average age of seven years for the beginning of the decline, both in relation to their peers and in absolute terms.

«Our discovery of the impact of contingent maternal responsivity on child adaptive behavior development underscores the fact that the manifestation of FXS is not just the product of biology, but is ultimately attributable to the dynamic interaction of biology, behavior and environment over lengthy periods of time,» said Steven Warren, Distinguished Professor of Speech - Language - Hearing: Science & Disorders.

The first is changes to the environment that significantly alter habitat, in effect» «altering the rules of the game,»» as Arens puts it, so that physical characteristics and behavior that once proved adaptive for certain organisms — dinosaurs, for instance, that relied on flowering plants for food — no longer work as well.

«Speed - dependent attraction governs what goes on at the heart of midge swarms: New study reveals swarm cohesion stems from an adaptive behavior, where the faster individual midges fly, the stronger the gravitational - like force they experience.»

That's why I wrote the book Sociobiology, about the adaptive value of cooperative behaviors.

Evolution and economics are not just analogous to each other, but they are actually two forms of a larger phenomenon called complex adaptive systems, in which individual elements, parts or agents interact, then process information and adapt their behavior to changing conditions.

These optimal outcomes include increased IQ, increased adaptive and social behaviors as well as promoting the normal development of the brain and behavior that optimizes a child's potential to participate meaningfully in the community into their adult years.

Although the scientific community has only recently accumulated enough evidence to argue that geophagia is an adaptive behavior, people — and not just pregnant women — have used clay minerals as remedies for nausea, vomiting and diarrhea for thousands of years.

His studies of nonsuicidal self - injury (such as cutting and burning) among adolescents have demonstrated that these behaviors may serve an adaptive function by activating the body's ability to self - regulate runaway anger, anxiety, or stress.

Among his hypotheses was that the birds were successful in their adaptive radiation — the evolutionary diversification of morphological, physiological and behavior traits — because they were early colonizers of the islands.

If female orgasm is an adaptive behavior, then there are plenty of women whose genes are headed the way of the dinosaurs.

Hrdy now believes that some of her contrarian insights, such as that killing infants might be adaptive behavior, may have grown out of her struggle against male bias in anthropology and evolutionary biology.

(Those three are grounded in the principles of behavior modification, a technique that reinforces adaptive activities.)

Chimps and bonobos are not Looney Tunes humans; neither are they human ancestors, but creatures with a long evolutionary history of their own, which has provoked its own adaptive responses, its own repertoire of behaviors.

Although the details of such a species - specific neural mechanism remain largely unknown, our findings may provide important insight into the neural mechanisms underlying the species - specific adaptive behaviors.

Successful behavioral adaptation to habitat is fundamentally important to species fitness, but linking such behaviors to genes has proven difficult due to plasticity of phenotypes and rarity of within - species genetic variation underlying adaptive behavioral patterns.

Epigenetically - effected hypothalamic GnRH secretion is central to my model of nutrient - dependent pheromone - controlled adaptive evolution, which was presented as «Olfactory - genetic - neuronal - hormonal reciprocity in learning, memory, behavior and in immune function» during a 1995 Anti-Aging medicine conference.

Using Niko Tinbergen's «four questions» as a guide, we will discuss the evolution of primates and emergence of the social function of the behavior (phylogeny), the development of the behavior during a individual's lifetime (ontogeny), the specific biological and chemical processes and motivations responsible for the behavior (mechanism), and how the behavior increase the fitness of individuals, allowing for its continual selection in primates (adaptive value).

Research interests: adaptive benefits of social bonds, juvenile social behavior, life history theory

This adaptive behavior, Emerson speculates, lets the group of cancer cells prepare for the next unanticipated threat.

These results complement cellular and physiological data and show that dopamine at encoding promotes the prioritization of events in memory, with implications for understanding the role of memory in adaptive behavior.

Schaefer, A.; Sampath, S. C.; Intrator, A.; Min, A.; Gertler, T. S.; Surmeier, D. J.; Tarakhovsky, A.; Greengard, P. Control of Cognition and Adaptive Behavior by the GLP / G9a Epigenetic Suppressor Complex.

While vigilance and flight behaviors may be adaptive for a wide variety of external threats, headshaking behavior may be a specific adaptive response to bees, namely, to knock bees away from the facial area.

Research on the evolution and function of play at NIMBioS has culminated in a special issue of the journal Adaptive Behavior that examines the evolution and origin of play via mathematical and computational approaches.

Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which covers A podcast is an episodic series of digital audio or video files which a user can download and listen to.

And even more impressive, research has linked curiosity to a wide range of important adaptive behaviors, including tolerance of anxiety and uncertainty, positive emotions, humor, playfulness, out - of - box thinking, and a noncritical attitude — all attributes associated with healthy social outcomes.

The mission of the Council is to synthesize and communicate science to help inform policies that promote successful learning, adaptive behavior, and sound physical and mental health for all young children.

The contribution of children's self - regulation and classroom quality to children's adaptive behaviors in the kindergarten classroom.

In addition to having the adaptive feature, it will have a variety of media including simulations and animations as well as pre - and post-assessments and behavioral surveys that «measure changes in students» attitudes and behaviors regarding a variety of civic matters.»

A child may be found eligible for special education and related services as a child with an intellectual disability if there is an adverse effect on the child's educational performance due to documented characteristics of intellectual disabilities which are described as a significantly sub average general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period.

The Adaptive School by Robert Garmston and Bruce Wellman is a book that clearly articulates not only the behaviors which need to be built but also provides detailed examples of how you build them.

Adaptive Learning is a mechanism to understand the learner needs, learner behavior, learning outcome and delivering the content that is as per the need of the individual learner.