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(2012-12-11)Department: PsychologyChildren consider others’ prior behavior to evaluate whether they are likely to provide accurate information in the future. Prior research has demonstrated that the ability to complete a goal in action or language is viewed ...
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(University of Chicago. Divinity School, 2006-07)
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2005-03-17)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-23)The present study focuses on how gender, age, and stress reactivity are associated with the ways that children cope with cancer. The sample consisted of 336 families; parents and children completed questionnaires near the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014)Objective. Children diagnosed with cancer face numerous sources of stress and are at risk for emotional problems such as anxiety and depression. Parenting behavior and children’s coping are two important factors that may ...
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(2016-05-25)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesThere is an ongoing need for public health information in pediatric speech-language pathology and newly adopted electronic health record procedures in clinics provide an opportunity to address this need. One-year outcomes ...
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(2007-04-14)Department: PsychologyThe present study examined interparental conflict, children’s attributions of interparental conflict, children’s coping responses, and children’s emotional and behavioral symptoms, in a sample of 77 children (age 9-15 years ...
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(2019-03-22)Department: PsychologyOne way to foster early literacy is by engaging and inspiring children’s early interest in reading. Enriching the causal content of children’s books may be one way to address this goal, as causal information has been ...
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(2008-09-05)Department: PsychologyIn this study, preschool children were shown one of three kinds of robots that differed in their similarity to a living thing. We then asked preschool children about the psychological, biological, and mechanical properties ...
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(2006-04-18)Department: PsychologyCHILDREN'S AND ADULTS’ KNOWLEDGE OF SPECIES-GENERAL AND SPECIES-SPECIFIC CHANGES DURING PHYSICAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT GAYATHRI NARASIMHAM Dissertation under the direction of Professor John J. Rieser An integral part ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)Word learning may be best characterized by the ability to recruit information from social others. One question, then, is how children decide to learn words from one person versus another. The present study investigates the ...
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(2007-06-21)Department: PsychologyThe role of children’s attributional style as a partial mediator of the relation between parenting behaviors and children’s depressive symptoms was examined in children and adolescents (grades 2-8). We also examined moderated ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-10-13)
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(2018-03-13)Department: PsychologyThere are conflicting accounts of how context variability affects children's word learning. In some instances, children show learning independent of context variability (e.g., Akhtar, 2005). There may also be cases where ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2009-04)As students begin their school careers, teachers in the early grades (kindergarten and first grade, especially) can use children's literature as a tool to facilitate a feeling of community among the students. Topics such ...
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Children's Literature in Science Instruction: The Use of Children's Literature in 6th Grade Science (Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-08-11)This project will begin by presenting research about the effectiveness of using children's literature in science instruction. This research will be used to develop a unit plan for 6th grade earth and space science which ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-06-15)This essay will explore the professional literature that provides the rationale for using children’s literature in an inquiry-based, primary science curriculum (preschool to grade three). My belief, based on the findings ...
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(2014-08-01)Department: PsychologyThe study examined whether children’s level of metacognitive ability predicted their learning of the skills taught in cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), over and above age. Participants were 225 children 9 -16 years old (M ...
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(2012-07-10)Department: PsychologyHostile attribution bias (HAB) has been shown to predict aggressive behavior, especially towards peers. The current study examined whether a) this relationship is supported within an hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) ...
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(Respiratory Reserarch, 2019-06-10)BackgroundSingle birth cohort studies have been the basis for many discoveries about early life risk factors for childhood asthma but are limited in scope by sample size and characteristics of the local environment and ...