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Temperament, Distraction, And Learning In Toddlerhood, Wallace E. Dixon Jr., Brenda J. Salley, Andrea D. Clements Jul 2006

Temperament, Distraction, And Learning In Toddlerhood, Wallace E. Dixon Jr., Brenda J. Salley, Andrea D. Clements

ETSU Faculty Works

The word- and nonword-learning abilities of toddlers were tested under various conditions of environmental distraction, and evaluated with respect to children's temperamental attentional focus. Thirty-nine children and their mothers visited the lab at child age 21-months, where children were exposed to fast-mapping word-learning trials and nonlinguistic sequential learning trials. It was found that both word- and nonword-learning were adversely affected by the presentation of environmental distractions. But it was also found that the effect of the distractions sometimes depended on children's level of attentional focus. Specifically, children high in attentional focus were less affected by environmental distractions than children low …


Set Operators For Superordinate Category Machine Learning, Josita Maouene, Mounir Maouene, Linda Smith Jun 2006

Set Operators For Superordinate Category Machine Learning, Josita Maouene, Mounir Maouene, Linda Smith

Josita C Maouene

No abstract provided.


Body Parts And The First 100 Verbs, Josita Maouene, Shohei Hidaka, Linda Smith Jun 2006

Body Parts And The First 100 Verbs, Josita Maouene, Shohei Hidaka, Linda Smith

Josita C Maouene

No abstract provided.


Body Parts And Early Acquired Verbs : Evidence From Children And Adults, Josita Maouene, Shohei Hidaka, Linda Smith Apr 2006

Body Parts And Early Acquired Verbs : Evidence From Children And Adults, Josita Maouene, Shohei Hidaka, Linda Smith

Josita C Maouene

No abstract provided.


The Developmental Trajectory Of Male Adolescent Alcohol Use, Alicia L. Poleshuk Jan 2006

The Developmental Trajectory Of Male Adolescent Alcohol Use, Alicia L. Poleshuk

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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