Sentences with phrase «social reinforcement in»

The oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) has been associated with social behavior and may influence susceptibility to social reinforcement in general and deviant peer influence in particular.

The success of positive social reinforcement in producing desirable behavior is legendary.

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It works very well as a method of social control, for it allows for discrete censorship and the reinforcement of socially enforced orthodoxies well disguised by the rhetoric of neutrality and tolerance in his day, and of diversity and inclusion in ours.

Without this understanding it will remain impossible to devise social change programs (e.g., youth job training, head start) that ghetto families can use fully, in conjunction with family systems therapy, to interrupt the vicious, mutual reinforcement of family and community problems.

However, the extent of this change is significantly modified by a wide range of social and personal variables such as the functions that are being served for the individual by the attitudes in question; the satisfaction the individual derives from existing attitudes; the strength of existing defense mechanisms and group pressures surrounding those attitudes; patterns of reinforcement for similar attitudes in the past; other alternatives available to the viewer; and the current psychological state of the viewer.

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

Brandon attributed the tendency of Facebook users to Like positive content in part to basic reasons why we go to the site — for entertainment, for social reinforcement or for a pick - me - up.

Caffeine consumption has the advantage of having relatively weak (compared to alcohol or cigarettes) social reinforcement, in the sense that one can easily choose a noncaffeinated or decaffeinated beverage in a restaurant or at a party without attracting comment.

A recent study of male and female social drinkers found that men had a greater dopamine release than women in an area of the brain called the ventral striatum, which is strongly associated with pleasure, reinforcement, and addiction formation.

«Occasionally patting yourself on the back for health achievements in social media can propel you to keep them up,» Dr. Saltz says, «especially if you get reinforcement from friends like «Go you!»»

Social reinforcement when norms do not exist: If peoples» behaviour is shaped by the actions of those around them, but it is not the norm for families in a class to engage in home reading, an alternative option for teachers is to share popular opinion as opposed to popular behaviour, or share absolute numbers that suggest popularity (Martin, 2012).

As the teacher helps the needy student, he or she 1) loses control of the class in 10 seconds, as students begin to chit - chat, and 2) offers massive social reinforcement for help - seeking, which soon becomes ingrained as a pattern of learned helplessness (the same students every day).

From a character education perspective, individual plans should be monitored closely so that as students begin to gain control of their emotions and find more appropriate means for communication, reinforcement moves away from extrinsic rewards and towards social rewards, ultimately emphasizing students» intrinsic satisfaction in being a good citizen of the school and classroom.

Dr. Clive Wynne will be discussing all aspects of the research being carried at the Canine Science Collaboratory, including research in social reinforcement, odor discrimination in learning and the effects of odor on behavior, as well as gesture studies Canine cognition, domestic dogs and human gestures, domestic dogs, human speech and more.

PBRC supports the use of positive reinforcement in dog training; we believe that by rewarding correct behavior using treats, toys, and social attention, most dogs will learn quite quickly what it is you want them to do!

Zoos and aquariums demonstrate humane treatment of animals by not only meeting animals» physical needs, but also by providing safe and appropriate social groupings of animals, and by using positive reinforcement methods to train animals as necessary to allow for facilitating medical procedures and for providing mental stimulation believed beneficial to animals in confinement;

In terms of measuring preference, dog social behaviors are highly susceptible to prior patterns of food reinforcement (Bentosela et al., 2008; Elgier et al. 2009), and dogs frequently treat interaction with their owner as an avenue to acquire food (Cook et al., 2014a), even suppressing interest in food under communicative situations (Pongrácz et al., 2013In terms of measuring preference, dog social behaviors are highly susceptible to prior patterns of food reinforcement (Bentosela et al., 2008; Elgier et al. 2009), and dogs frequently treat interaction with their owner as an avenue to acquire food (Cook et al., 2014a), even suppressing interest in food under communicative situations (Pongrácz et al., 2013in food under communicative situations (Pongrácz et al., 2013).

Further, although social reinforcement is a commonly used tool in dog training (Hiby et al., 2004), and many trainers believe it to be effective, it is quite difficult to experimentally isolate social and food reward in a training paradigm to measure their relative contribution to learning.

Indeed, in the post-civil-rights era of the 1970s, whereby black people had achieved the designated outcome of full - citizenship rights through the discourse of social movements, Andrews's use of art and art production as a tool of resistance and reinforcement of the narratives that mattered to «the folks» is significant.

• Track record of providing instructional support within special and general education classrooms as required to meet the students» needs • Skilled in student evaluation and need assessment • Substantial knowledge of and ability to cater for students» age related developmental cognitive, social and psychological needs • Proficient in facilitating the teacher in conducting classroom related activities • Expert in developing and maintaining cooperative working relationships with students and colleague teachers • Effective in devising interactive supportive learning activities to reinforce the lesson being taught • Well versed in filing in for the lead teacher in case of leave or absence and implementing the devised lesson plan effectively • Particularly effective in supervising the children during lunch and playtime, ensuring ample and healthy social interaction among peers • Competent at lesson planning, classroom control, assignment marking, lesson reinforcement and activity facilitation • Profound ability to develop need based individualized educational plans and implement the same in light of pre-determined long term learning objectives for each pupil individually • Proven skills in record keeping, developing individual student progress charts and portfolios along with demonstrated ability to maintain open communication channels with the students» parents and teachers to discuss progress • Track record of providing excellent teacher support in all classroom and lesson planning related activities • Committed to delivery of highest standards of classroom support, maintenance of an interactive atmosphere and provision of specially designed AV aids for special needs students

Iam seeking an occupation in the educational field where Iam able to teach socially acceptable behavior to the students employing techniques such as behavior modification and positive reinforcement; write individualized education plans; work wiyh students to increase motivation; instruct students in academic subjects such as: reading / language atrs, math, social studies and science; observe, evaluate, and prepare reports on...

These studies suggest that social reinforcement, parental psychopathology, family dynamics, and social contagion facilitated by mainstream and social media, all contribute to the development and / or persistence of GD in some vulnerable children.

Home - visitation programs include a «degree of social support that is difficult to provide in most clinical settings; outreach and liaison between the pediatrician, the family, and the community; involvement with socioeconomic issues that directly affect the well - being of the child and family; reinforcement and follow - up of preventive care, peer helper support, as well as encouragement, by the home health visitor who has the advantage of being with the family in its own home — a more accepting, less threatening setting for the family.»

They can enhance developmentally oriented anticipatory guidance with individualized content that meets families» individual needs.42 Home - visiting programs include a «degree of social support that is difficult to provide in most clinical settings; outreach and liaison between the pediatrician, the family, and the community; involvement with socioeconomic issues that directly affect the well - being of the child and family; reinforcement and follow - up of preventive care, peer helper support, as well as encouragement by the home health visitor who has the advantage of being with the family in its own home, a more accepting, less threatening setting for the family.7

The factors that affect children's bonding are the degree of opportunity for active involvement available in the family and classroom, the skills possessed and applied by children during participation in these social groups, and the reinforcements provided to children in response to their behavior in these groups.

Anti-smoking socialisation effects were measured on the parent survey in the following categories: (1) parental self efficacy regarding smoking prevention; (2) parental self disclosure of smoking history and experience with addiction; (3) parental explication of negative consequences for initiation of smoking; (4) parental reinforcement of child's abstinence; (5) effort by parent to counter pro-smoking influence from media; (6) effort by parent to counter pro-smoking influence from peers; (7) parental monitoring of smoking initiation by children and friends; (8) parental effort to reduce child's exposure to tobacco smoke in the home; (9) parental action to establish social contracts against smoking with children.

Behavioral interventions were delivered in group - based recreational settings, and included a point system tied to specific rewards, time out, social reinforcement, modeling, group problem - solving, sports skills, and social skills training.

Participants of this workshop will focus on implementing Lego - based play therapy techniques central to work with empathy skills, social skills, perspective taking, healthy friendships and learn how Legos can be used in connection with play therapy treatment goals and positive behavior reinforcement.

The key treatment objectives of CARES are: (a) to enhance attention to critical facial cues signalling distress in child, parents and others, to improve emotion recognition and labelling; (b) improve emotional understanding by linking emotion to context, and by identifying contexts and situations that elicit child anger and frustration; (c) teach prosocial and empathic behaviour through social stories, parent modelling, and role play; (d) increase emotional labelling and prosocial behaviour through positive reinforcement; (e) and increase child's frustration tolerance through modelling, role - playing, and reinforcing child's use of learned cognitive - behavioural strategies to decrease the incidence of aggressive behaviours.

Individual differences in social aggression: A reinforcement model of socialization in the natural environment

Escalation and reinforcement in mother — child conflict: Social processes associated with the development of physical aggression

Furthermore, coping with social stress ought to constitute a significant proportion of the therapeutic work for disorganized patients in particular, concomitant to the augmentation of positive activities in order to heighten the reinforcement balance.

Individual differences in social aggression: A test of a reinforcement model of socialization in the natural environment

In his RETSO presentation, he described how the positive reinforcement people find on social media causes oxytocin to be released into the brain.

Ethics, social responsibility and fair play are taught first in the home with reinforcement from practical examples in life.