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Esgi, Necmi – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The aim of this study was to develop a test for assessing individuals' social media addiction; and conducting a reliability and validity study of this scale. Sample for this study was composed of 285 college students between the ages of 18 and 25. Reliability coefficients Cronbach's alpha value was 0.94 and Spearman Brown value was 0.91 for our…
Descriptors: Social Media, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Addictive Behavior
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Barrow, Giles – Pastoral Care in Education, 2015
The author considers the application of transactional analysis (TA) in the field of education. Initially, the focus is on the use of TA in reducing conflict in the classroom and staffroom before offering observations about its broader relevance to contemporary UK schooling. Concepts covered include the egostate model of personality, functional…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Psychotherapy, Conflict
Metcalf, Paul – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study operationalized Bekkers and Wiepking's (2007, 2011) eight theoretical mechanisms that drive private giving, examining them within the context of alumni donor behavior at a selected public university in the southern region of the United States. The purpose of the study was to determine if the theoretical mechanisms that drive private…
Descriptors: Donors, Alumni, Public Colleges, Surveys
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Fields, Lanny; Spear, Jack – Psychological Record, 2012
Joint stimulus control occurs when responding is determined by the correspondence of elements of a complex sample and a complex comparison stimulus. In academic settings, joint stimulus control of behavior would be evidenced by the selection of an accurate description of a complex graph in which each element of a graph corresponded to particular…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Graphs, Behavioral Science Research, Evaluation Methods
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Thompson, Travis – Behavior Analyst, 2012
Joseph V. Brady (1922-2011) created behavior-analytic neuroscience and the analytic framework for understanding how the external and internal neurobiological environments and mechanisms interact. Brady's approach offered synthesis as well as analysis. He embraced Findley's approach to constructing multioperant behavioral repertoires that found…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Ethics, Scientific Research, Behavioral Science Research
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Raykov, Tenko; Lichtenberg, Peter A.; Paulson, Daniel – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
A multiple testing procedure for examining implications of the missing completely at random (MCAR) mechanism in incomplete data sets is discussed. The approach uses the false discovery rate concept and is concerned with testing group differences on a set of variables. The method can be used for ascertaining violations of MCAR and disproving this…
Descriptors: Data, Data Analysis, Older Adults, Intelligence Tests
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Rice, Deanna K.; Kohler, Patty – Education, 2012
From the beginning of time, there has been a pervasive interest in getting some members of the human race to conform to the wishes of other members of the human race. The use of positive as well as not so positive methods have been utilized, researched and espoused upon. The current paper presents a review of the vast literature on the history of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Civil Rights, Behavior Modification, Discipline
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Sy, Jolene R.; Vollmer, Timothy R. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2012
We evaluated the discrimination acquisition of individuals with developmental disabilities under immediate and delayed reinforcement. In Experiment 1, discrimination between two alternatives was examined when reinforcement was immediate or delayed by 20 s, 30 s, or 40 s. In Experiment 2, discrimination between 2 alternatives was compared across an…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Reinforcement, Intervals, Delay of Gratification
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Sprinkle, Evelyn C.; Miguel, Caio F. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2012
The current study assessed the use of standard conditional discrimination (i.e., listener) and textual/tact (i.e., speaker) training in the establishment of equivalence classes containing dictated names, tacts/textual responses, pictures and printed words. Four children (ages 5 to 7 years) diagnosed with autism were taught to select pictures and…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavioral Science Research, Young Children, Naming
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McKerchar, Todd L.; Renda, C. Renee – Psychological Record, 2012
The purpose of this review is to introduce the reader to the concepts of delay and probability discounting as well as the major empirical findings to emerge from research with humans on these concepts. First, we review a seminal discounting study by Rachlin, Raineri, and Cross (1991) as well as an influential extension of this study by Madden,…
Descriptors: Delay of Gratification, Conceptual Tempo, Rewards, Probability
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Worch, Eric A. – American Journal of Play, 2012
Red colobus monkeys are playful primates, making them an important species in which to study animal play. The author examines play behaviors and responses in the species for its play initiation events, age differences in initiating frequency and initiating behavior, and the types of social play that result from specific initiating behaviors. Out…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Animals, Play, Animal Behavior
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Overskeid, Geir – Psychological Record, 2012
Historically, researchers have never quite been able to agree as to the role of emotions, if any, when behavior is selected by its consequences. A brief review of findings from several fields suggests that in contingency-shaped behavior, motivating events, often unconscious, seem needed for reinforcement to select behavior. In rule-governed…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Psychological Patterns, Reinforcement, Emotional Response
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American Psychologist, 2012
Presents a short biography of Kelly D. Brownwell, winner of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology (2012). He won the award for outstanding contributions to our understanding of the etiology and management of obesity and the crisis it poses for the modern world. A seminal thinker in…
Descriptors: Etiology, Psychology, Obesity, Awards
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Kangas, Brian D.; Branch, Marc N. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2012
The effects of cocaine were examined under a titrating-delay matching-to-sample procedure. In this procedure, the delay between sample stimulus offset and comparison stimuli onset adjusts as a function of the subject's performance. Specifically, matches increase the delay and mismatches decrease the delay. Titrated delay values served as the…
Descriptors: Cocaine, Drug Abuse, Animals, Animal Behavior
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Glockner, Andreas; Pachur, Thorsten – Cognition, 2012
In the behavioral sciences, a popular approach to describe and predict behavior is cognitive modeling with adjustable parameters (i.e., which can be fitted to data). Modeling with adjustable parameters allows, among other things, measuring differences between people. At the same time, parameter estimation also bears the risk of overfitting. Are…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Individual Differences, Behavioral Sciences, Cognitive Development
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