Sentences with phrase «programmed social behaviors»

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Andrist's research is about how to program robots with proper social gaze behaviors.

In a three - minute summary of his thesis on YouTube, Andrist explains that — so far in his research — conversations between humans and robots have become much more fluid, after the robots were programmed with proper social gaze behavior.

This is not unlike the early days of social media marketing programs where platform capabilities and user behaviors created a perfect storm for connection and interaction.

Repressive use of media Emancipatory use of media Centrally controlled program Decentralized program One transmitter, many receivers Each receiver a potential transmitter Immobilization of isolated Mobilization of the masses individuals Passive consumer behavior Interaction of those involved, feedback Depoliticization A political learning process Production by specialists Collective production Control by property owners or Social control by self - bureaucracy organization

Sometimes the sermon will call for an overt social program, behavior, or action.

Participants in programs get information, encouragement in self - esteem and training in social interaction, but no actual prescriptions for behavior.

Kim Shufan, executive director of the iCan House in Winston - Salem, an organization that offers programs that teach and coach youths and adults with social challenges, cautions that special needs children, especially those on the autism spectrum, may mask their behavior at a doctor's visit.

His research interests are in health policy, organizational change, health behavior during developmental transitions, influence of sports participation on health, social determinants of health, program evaluation, prevention of alcohol attributable harm, physical activity promotion, obesity prevention, and motor vehicle safety.

I offer a variety of services to childcare and preschool programs to help to manage behaviors and encourage positive social and emotional development during the birth to 5 years.

A project designed to assist early care and education programs in meeting the social and emotional needs of children who exhibit challenging behaviors in the classroom.

Research shows that high - quality early childhood programs can yield a 13 percent annual return on investment through better outcomes in education, health, social behaviors and employment — reducing taxpayer costs down the road.

For example, Early Head Start, which provides comprehensive services focusing on early learning experiences, health and nutritional status, social - emotional behavior, early intervention, and parent support, offers increased access to health care, well - child exams, immunizations, and screening tests for children enrolled in the program.

There have been many social and behavior change efforts to engage men in reproductive health program interventions, but evidence regarding the impact on breastfeeding practice is mixed [1, 14].

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

Our unique program addresses common issues like Depression, Anxiety, Substance Abuse, Defiance, Social / Self - Esteem issues and Developmental difficulties.We differ from other schools because we do not use behavior modification in our approach to therapy.

Many parent training programs offered through social service agencies, educational programs and private counselors utilize aspects of behavioral family intervention to treat everything from severely disruptive behavior to mental health issues.

PSI applies many of these same principles in a program it calls «social marketing» to change behavior of audiences in developing countries, particularly those behaviors that spread HIV and AIDS.

Boudet, who was herself a Girl Scout as a child, explained the GLEE program uses principles of social cognitive theory to teach energy - saving behavior.

Wilson promoted a new perspective: Social behaviors were often genetically programmed into species to help them survive, he said, with altruism — self - destructive behavior performed for the benefit of others — bred into their bones.

«There's a fundamental trade - off between the complexity of individual agents and the size of the simulation,» says Jonathan Pfautz, who funds agent - based modeling of social behavior as a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Arlington, Virginia.

One year after completing the program, teens still showed improvements in sexual knowledge, social behavior and problematic sexual behavior.

«In this study, we wanted to determine where in the brain this social behavior deficit arises and where and how increases of the UBE3A gene repress it,» said Anderson, who is also an Associate Professor in the Program in Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School and Director of Autism BrainNET Boston Node.

However, new research by Kelli Canada, assistant professor in the University of Missouri School of Social Work, shows that although mental health court participants older than 50 adhere to treatment programs better than younger adults, they are just as likely to be reincarcerated or relapse into criminal behavior.

«Because of their unique position at the juncture of school, neighborhood, and home, afterschool programs may be particularly important for youth on a path toward school disengagement or risky behaviors,» said study author Elise Cappella, associate professor of applied psychology at NYU Steinhardt and director of NYU's Institute of Human Development and Social Change.

They're creating «a system that allows you to pick a point on one image and look at the same point at another resolution», says Janine Simmons, who heads the NIMH's Affect, Social Behavior and Social Cognition Program, which partially funds Korenberg's project.

Program seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through time.

LA JOLLA, CA — A multi-institutional team headed by Ursula Bellugi, professor and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has been awarded a $ 5.5 million Program Project Grant by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to link social behavior to its underlying neurobiological and molecular genetic basis using Williams syndrome as a model.

Researchers Todd Ahern, a graduate student in the Emory Neuroscience Program, and Larry Young, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory School of Medicine, compared pups raised by single mothers (SM) to pups raised by both parents (BP) to determine the effects of these types of early social environments on adult social behavior.

Within the fields of microbiology and immunology, neurologic diseases, neuropharmacology, behavioral, cognitive and developmental neuroscience, and psychiatric disorders, the center's research programs are seeking ways to: develop vaccines for infectious and noninfectious diseases; understand the basic neurobiology and genetics of social behavior and develop new treatment strategies for improving social functioning in social disorders such as autism; interpret brain activity through imaging; increase understanding of progressive illnesses such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases; unlock the secrets of memory; treat drug addiction; determine how the interaction between genetics and society shape who we are; and advance knowledge about the evolutionary links between biology and behavior.

Mandatory Demand as a Policy Instrument: The Case of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Biofuel Program, Jay Kesan, Timothy Slating, Hsiao - Shan Yang, Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No.

Public health programs, for example, often rely on persuasion techniques identified by social psychologists to encourage people to engage in healthy behaviors while avoiding potentially dangerous ones.

At the time I began looking into children's yoga I was providing behavior consultations and coaching for preschool programs and saw yoga as a useful tool for teaching self - regulation and social - emotional skills to children with disruptive behaviors.

CASEL president Roger P. Weissberg and Joseph Durlak, a Loyola University psychologist, reviewed 300 studies and found that, compared with nonparticipants, students participating in programs aimed at improving the social and emotional learning environment in schools «have significantly better attendance records; their classroom behavior is more constructive and less often disruptive; they like school more; and they have better grade point averages.

Effects of these programs on children's environmental attitudes and social behavior were mixed and didn't show consistent improvement.

But neuroscience has now linked the environment, behavior and brain activity — and that could lead to a stunning overhaul of both educational and social policies, like rethinking Head Start — style programs that have traditionally emphasized early literacy.

More than two decades of research document that well - designed, effectively implemented SEL programs enhance students» social and emotional skills, self - esteem, bonding to school, classroom behavior, and academic achievement; and reduce disruptive classroom behavior, aggression, bullying, and substance use (Durlak et al., 2011; Greenberg et al., 2003; Sklad, Dieskstra, De Ritter, Ben, & Gravesteijn, 2012; Zins et al., 2004).

This program relies on explicit instruction in skills related to personal responsibility, social awareness, self - management, decision making, and goal - directed behavior.

The positive behavior program I implemented in my fourth grade classroom, centers on developing students social action and awareness.

There are a number of research - based SEL programs that enhance students» competence and behavior in developmentally appropriate ways from preschool through high school (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, 2013, 2015).

Research has shown that after - school programs focused on social and emotional development can significantly enhance student self - perceptions, school connectedness, positive social behaviors, school grades, and achievement test scores, while reducing problem behaviors (Durlak et al., 2010).

Effects of a school - based social - emotional competence program: Linking children's goals, attributions, and behavior (Abstract).

Finally, a 2017 meta - analysis of 82 school - based SEL programs found long - term (between 6 months and 18 years) improvements in four areas: SEL skills, attitudes, positive social behavior, and academic performance.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

Follow - up outcomes (6 months to 18 years after students participated in SEL programs) demonstrate SEL's enhancement of positive youth development, including positive increases in SEL skills, attitudes, positive social behavior, and academic performance while finding decreases in conduct problems, emotional distress, and drug use.

Promoting Children's Prosocial Behaviors in School: Impact of the «Roots of Empathy» Program on the Social and Emotional Competence of School - Aged Children (abstract).

This 20 - year randomized controlled trial examined the impact of social and emotional intervention programs (such as social skills training, parent behavior - management training with home visiting, peer coaching, reading tutoring, and classroom social - emotional curricula) for 979 high - risk students in kindergarten.

The social and emotional learning programs also reduced aggression and emotional distress among students, increased helping behaviors in school, and improved positive attitudes toward self and others (Durlak et al., 2011).

Children who received the ME program had improved social behavior and better self - control, were less aggressive and more attentive in class, and showed significant increases in optimism compared to children in the wait - listed control classrooms.

The district is creating a consolidated approach to behavior programs, tiered student support, and trauma - informed practices through the district's use of social - emotional learning curriculum and data.

Furthermore, research indicates that high - quality, evidence - based programs and policies that promote social and emotional skills among students can improve academic achievement as well as positive behavior, physical and mental wellbeing, college and career readiness, and economic productivity.