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5 math skills your child needs to get ready for kindergarten
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A Mediated Model of Predictors of Treatment Engagement Among Heroin, Cocaine, and Marijuana Users
(2009-01-01)The importance and efficacy of formalized treatment for drug abuse and dependence, combined with high attrition rates in drug treatment settings, emphasize the need for research to help understand what factors influence ... -
Abnormal cholecystokinin mRNA levels in entorhinal cortex of schizophrenics
(Elsevier, 1998-01-05)Limbic cortical regions, including anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), prefrontal cortex (PFC) and entorhinal cortex (ERC), have been implicated in the neuropathology of schizophrenia. Glutamate projection neurons connect ... -
Academic Socialization in the Homes of Black and Latino Preschool Children: Research Findings and Future Directions
(Springer International Publishing, 2018)This chapter provides an overview of what is known about how Black and Latino families prepare their young children for school and what remains to be understood. It provides a synthesis of research presented in this volume, ... -
Alcohol and Erectile Response: The Effects of High Dosage in the Context of Demands to Maximize Sexual Arousal
(American Psychological Association, 2011-08-31)Although drinking is often associated with men's sexual activity, basic questions about alcohol's effects on men's sexual arousal remain unanswered. Inconsistencies in findings from studies examining subjective and ... -
Alcohol Consumption during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Survey of US Adults
(MDPI, 2020-12-09)Emerging but limited evidence suggests that alcohol consumption has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study assessed: (1) whether drinking behaviors changed during the pandemic; and, (2) how those changes were ... -
AMPA receptor binding in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of schizophrenics and controls
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Amphetamine-induced c-fos mRNA expression is altered in rats with neonatal ventral hippocampal damage
(National Institute of Health, 1996-08)To further characterize the mechanisms underlying enhanced dopamine-related behaviors expressed during adulthood in rats with neonatal excitotoxic ventral hippocampal (VH) damage, we studied the expression of c-fos mRNA ... -
An Exploration of Dispositional Mindfulness and the Mechanisms of Pain Processing in Children
(2019-01-01)Cognitive load has been shown to affect subjective pain experiences for adults, however the current study is the first to examine the effect of cognitive load on distraction effectiveness for children. Additionally, ... -
An Exploratory Study of the Experiences and Perspectives of African-American, Latina/o, Asian-American and European-American Psychology Graduate Students: "Is One of These Things Still Not Like the Others?"
(2008-11-06)As the cultural and racial/ethnic landscape of the U.S. continues to change, psychologists from varied cultural backgrounds will be called upon to address issues of equity, diversity, and well-being among the population. ... -
An Online Training Program for Parents of Children with Autism
(2008-08-21)Parents of children with autism sometimes experiment with controversial treatments in the hopes of ameliorating their children's autistic characteristics. When parents do seek training on empirically-based treatments, ... -
An Analysis of the Two-Hit Model of Schizophrenia
(The Undergraduate Research Journal of Psychology at UCLA, 2016-03)The two-hit model, which can be used to describe the causal pathway of schizophrenia, has many strengths and limitations. Although the model can help explain the origins of schizophrenia and may account for the complexity ... -
Analyzing COVID-19 Tweets with Transformer-based Language Models
(AAAI, 2021-05-06)This paper describes a method for using Transformer-based Language Models (TLMs) to understand public opinion from social media posts. In this approach, we train a set of GPT models on several COVID-19 tweet corpora that ... -
Anger-Reactivity and Treatment Adherence among Court-Mandated Partner-Violent Men
(2009-01-01)The primary aims of the present study were twofold: First, to examine the extent to which anger- related cognitions and anger arousal during the Articulated Thoughts During Simulated Situations ( ATSS) cognitive assessment ... -
Antisocial Personality Disorder and Romantic Relationship Functioning in an Epidemiologically-Based Sample
(2009-01-01)The objective of this project was to characterize the romantic relationship functioning of those with Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD). There is a gap in the literature on this topic. An epidemiologically-based, ... -
An application of the matching law to severe problem behavior
(Wiley Online Library, 2002-02)We evaluated problem behavior and appropriate behavior using the matching equation with 4 individuals with developmental disabilities. Descriptive observations were conducted during interactions between the participants ... -
An Application of the Matching Law to Social Dynamics
(Wiley Online Library, 2007-12)Using a procedure similar to the one described by Conger and Killeen (1974), we evaluated levels of attending for 25 college students who participated in either a 20-min (n = 12) or 30-min (n = 13) discussion on juvenile ... -
Asian American and European American emerging adults’ perceived parenting styles and self-regulation ability
(APA PsysNET, 2018-06)Self-regulation refers to one’s ability to manage one’s emotions and behaviors in response to situational demands and is an important ability during emerging adulthood. Parenting styles play a significant role in children’s ... -
ASIAN AMERICAN/EUROPEAN AMERICAN AND LATINO/A/EUROPEAN AMERICAN MULTIRACIAL PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: ACADEMIC BARRIERS, ACADEMIC SUPPORTS, PERCEPTIONS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY, AND EXPERIENCES
(2010-01-01)Demographic trends suggest increasing numbers of multiple racial heritage students attending US campuses and universities, a change reflected within psychology. However, there is little empirical investigation into the ...