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Kohn, Paul M.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979
Methadone clients scored higher than controls on measures reflecting boredom, desire for change and attraction to physically thrilling activities. Correlations of these measures with length of most recent dependency before treatment, time on program, and time since initial dependency suggest peculiarities of methadone clients antedated involvement…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Drug Addiction, Drug Use, Foreign Countries
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Kohn, Paul M.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979
Determined what kinds of experience seeking are related to drug use using Pearson's Novelty-Experiencing Scale, Pearson's Desire-for-Novelty Scale, and Vando's Reducer-Augmenter Scale. Drug use was most frequent among men attracted to unusual states of consciousness and physically thrilling activities. They were stimulus-intensity reducers, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Drug Abuse, Drug Use, Expectation
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Milovan, Denise L.; Baribeau, Jacinthe; Roth, Robert M.; Stip, Emmanuel – Brain and Cognition, 2004
Event-related potential (ERP) studies have demonstrated impaired auditory sensory processing in patients with schizophrenia, as reflected in abnormal mismatch negativity (MMN). We sought to extend this finding by evaluating MMN in 13 treatment-refractory patients with schizophrenia, and 14 age- and gender-matched healthy controls. Subjects…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Patients, Visual Stimuli, Auditory Perception
Brooks, B. Wayne
One major intent of learning in the outdoors is to integrate intellectual and emotional understanding. In this light, the outdoor education activities suggested in this document may be artificial unless they are incorporated within the child's discovery of his role in the total, natural scheme of things. The introductory section of the document…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Educational Needs, Environment, Facilities
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Hindes, Yvonne; Mather, Jennifer – Exceptionality Education Canada, 2007
Little research has focused on inclusion of students with disabilities at the university level. We asked students and professors at the University of Lethbridge to indicate their acceptance of three levels of inclusion (included in classes, provided with assistance and provided with professorial accommodation) for students with five categories of…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Mainstreaming, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)
Senate Committee of Canada (Ontario). Standing Senate Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. – 1978
Experiences in prenatal life and early childhood that may cause personality disorders or criminal behavior in later life are examined in these proceedings of the Subcommittee on Childhood Experiences as Causes of Criminal Behavior of the Standing Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. This issue, the eighteenth in a series of 19 hearings dating…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Antisocial Behavior, Birth, Early Experience
Dreistadt, Roy – J Psychol, 1970
Describes two educational programs designed to assist disadvantaged adults in personal development and social adjustment. (SB)
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Basic Skills, College Students, Color
New Brunswick Dept. of Education, Fredericton (Canada). – 1991
This kindergarten curriculum guide describes children's learning and development in a play-based environment and the creation of such an environment. The first part of the guide discusses child development. Physical development is considered in terms of sensory awareness, motor skills, creative movement, skilled actions with objects, and the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Emotional Development
Mitchell, Rosella – 1993
This booklet for teachers offers a variety of strategies and examples from real classroom experiences to facilitate the making of connections across subject areas and ways of learning. The approach is based on a vision of education as enabling students to construct knowledge with teachers assisting them in making a wide variety of connections…
Descriptors: Change, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style
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