Sentences with phrase «of learning behaviour»

Dogs who learn to beg for food often fall in to that horrible grey area of learning a behaviour / habit that is, as far as their owners go, OK sometimes and totally not cool at others.

So as neuroscientists continue to discover the inner workings of the brain, as cognitive psychologists continue to look for explanations of learning behaviour and as educators continue to apply research to improve their teaching, this new field will greatly improve the quality and effectiveness of the educational experiences for children.

With many types of learnt behaviours, the first step is to get an immediate response that can be repeated then you can begin to extend the the same behaviour for longer periods of time by introducing a pause.

What these wankers are saying is that they believe in cultural memory - in the heritability of learned behaviours.

Not exact matches

Any woman gunning for a job today has learned — through conditioning, direct experience, observation or a combination of the three — that behaviour that resembles bragging doesn't pay off.

The goal is a system that constantly watches the behaviour of its customers, makes predictions, and learns from its mistakes to refine its own processes.

«Their caution is a learned behaviour from (quite rightly) protecting themselves during the onslaught of the global financial crisis, which rapidly destroyed human and physical capital,» he added.

Somehow i decided that» being good value investor and control the behaviour» is a gift of long practice and learning.

As well as learning from the past about the importance of a healthy diet, we might also reflect upon a point made by one of the contributors to «Sunlight» (a journal of the 1920 - 30s concerned with promoting healthy living): that we have minds as well as bodies, and behaviour depends upon «whether one's mind is fed on treasure or on trash».

I do think Christians would benefit from learning a bit of psychology, and Christian parent would benefit from learning a bit of child psychology, then maybe they could educate themselves better about what is normal behaviour, instead of seeing their child's behaviour as sinful or wicked.

«This is inexcusable and shocking behaviour and although Dame Moira notes that most of the events took place many years ago, and does not think that the Church now would conduct itself in the ways described we can never be complacent, we must learn lessons.»

We may say that instinctive behaviour is behaviour related to a rather well - defined goal, but often demanding a more flexible adaptive type of behaviour, including the possibility of learning from experience, in deciding exactly how that goal shall be reached.

All instinctive and learnt behaviour may be described in terms of hierarchies of sub-skills or subroutines, i.e., behavioural holons.

so if someone is blind to the consequenses of his behaviour and is unable to learn from own mistakes then you should not give him any job, especially when it's paid millions of pounds.

This is something I'm learning with my son - that sometimes when he is «misbehaving» it is because he is feeling insecure or uncertain, and that I should be looking at the root cause of his behaviour rather than attempting to just deal with the behaviour itself.

In the same way that we do not expect a first grader to learn calculus, it is important to understand what age appropriate behaviour is and to shape your expectations of your child and your discipline (teaching) according to what a child can reasonably be expected to understand at any given age.

Learning about the basics of breastfeeding and newborn behaviour, before baby arrives, can help to avoid many common problems.

Specifically, for fathers, higher expectations about their children's educational level, and greater level / frequency of interest and direct involvement in children's learning, education and schools, are associated strongly with better educational outcomes for their children, including: • better exam / test / class results • higher level of educational qualification • greater progress at school • better attitudes towards school (e.g. enjoyment) • higher educational expectations • better behaviour at school (e.g. reduced risk of suspension or expulsion)(for discussion / review of all this research, see Goldman, 2005).

I'll show you how you can learn LOTS of ways to create this crucial emotional bridge before you deal with children behaviour problems.

We don't want to hit our children and gone are the days of spanking, so where are our children then learning this behaviour if not from us?

After a year, you will have tried quite a few different ideas for managing stress, learning about your child and connecting with him / her, and reflecting about your own patterns of behaviour!

Teachers have observed widespread pride and greater confidence among the children of the SHARE dads, with one child much happier and her behaviour calmer, and another better motivated to learn.

Practising Play Therapist who works with Children, Adolescents and Special Needs and as a Counsellor / Psychotherapist for Adults.I have my own private practise and I have experience working with a wide range of learning difficulties, behaviour problems, developmental delays and emotional difficulties.

Sometimes behaviour challenges get in the way of enjoying the time you have to spend with your child or sometimes it just feels difficult to teach your child things that other kids seem to learn naturally.

Introducing discipline is an important way to help them learn what behaviour is acceptable and what isn't but there are different ways of going about it.

Of course we parents worry that if we show warmth and even humour when a child is acting aggressively, he won't learn to govern his behaviour.

Everything else is learned behaviour, including fear of the dark.

Also, research on temperament suggests the importance of education to help child - care workers, teachers and parents realize that children's behaviour and emotions are not solely the result of social learning.

With the support and guidance of parents and caregivers and by interacting with others, children will learn NOT to use physical aggression and to use more socially - acceptable behaviour instead.

In service of this goal, parents learn to observe their child's behaviour in an objective, unemotional manner and to implement appropriate consequences in response to disruptive behaviour.

A variety of studies suggest that fathers» engagement positively impacts their children's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive development.35

I think there are a lot of instinctual things that humans have forgotten to do, or have replaced with learned behaviours over time.

You can make your children learn self - control, ways to get along with others, self - help, and other aspects of socialization, but this is only possible when both parents and teachers are involved continuously in encouraging preferred behaviours, boundary limits, etc..

Whilst we all demonstrate challenging behaviour at times, particularly during adolescence as we develop a sense of self separate to that of our parents, challenging behaviour as a label which leads to punishment is uniquely applied to those with learning disabilities, and is often their ticket into an Assessment Treatment Unit.

The fact that police should even think to advise a woman abused to amend her behaviour — outright victim - blaming — or to suggest an individual «lighten up» or learn not to take things so seriously is outrageous, but sadly typical of a widespread lack of victim support in this area.

Questions were asked about whether other charities had learned of intolerable behaviour from their staff and hushed it up.

This new initiative we learnt has been driven by the tragic case of Fiona Pilkington and her daughter driven to suicide because of anti-social behaviour.

We were shocked to learn of workarounds of the tax system that were considered normal behaviour by big corporations but which appalled the individual taxpayer.

Ministers argue parents have a «vital role to play» in insuring children learn acceptable standards of behaviour for school.

A DfES spokesperson said: «Clearly it is better to prevent bad behaviour from happening in the first place than to punish it when it occurs and the social and emotional aspect of learning programme has reaped huge rewards in primary schools with behaviour showing a marked improvement.»

Seven of eight pigs tested took less than a minute to learn how to use the mirror to find the food (Animal Behaviour, DOI: 10.1016 / j.anbehav.2009.07.027).

However, the identity of an animal's mother did not play a role, suggesting behaviour that leads to isolation is not learned from the mother.

Researchers made compounds of neptunium — which is difficult to work with owing to its high radioactivity — and examined them to learn more about its properties and behaviour.

To find out why and learn more about otter behaviour, Marianne Riedman of Monterey Bay Aquarium and Jim Estes, a marine biologist at the University of California at Santa Cruz, started watching the animals through a telescope from the shore.

A new study by the University of Exeter has shown that persistence and the ability to choose the right behaviour to solve a problem are important aspects of problem solving in the common squirrel when they were learning to unravel challenges in the quest for nourishment.

The copying behaviour of both the new, naïve infants and the migrating males reveals the potency and importance of social learning in these wild primates, extending even to the conformity we know so well in humans.»

Low levels of pesticides can impact the foraging behaviour of bumblebees on wildflowers, changing their floral preferences and hindering their ability to learn the skills needed to extract nectar and pollen, according to a study co-authored by a University of Guelph professor.

«This suggests that males rather may be uniquely exploiting females» interest in food through their gift - giving behaviour,» says co-author Michelle Beyer, who adds that females might also have learnt to ignore chemical signals, because males deceive them about the quality of the food hidden in the silk - wrapped gifts presented to them.

It would appear that learning, memory and behaviour are all affected in this type of syndrome.

In the study, published today in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, all of the squirrels showed clear improvement over successive attempts with the box, becoming more efficient in adjusting their behaviour to adapt to the task.