Behavioral Theories
Mostrando 25-36 de 43 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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25. Behavioral, electroacoustic and electrophysiological assessment of hearing in autism. / "Avaliação comportamental, eletroacústica e eletrofisiológica da audição em autismo"
INTRODUCTION: Autism is a disorder, which begins in the infancy, and the main characteristics are the presence of an abnormal or impaired development of social interaction and communication, and restrict range of activities and interest. Some theories consider autism as a developmental disorder caused by a central nervous system alteration, and stress the pr
Publicado em: 2006
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26. Financing and investment decisions of firms by overconfident and optimistic managers / Decisões de financiamento e de investimento das empresas sob a ótica de gestores otimistas e excessivamente confiantes
This research empirically investigates the possible impacts of cognitively biased managers on firmsfinancing and investment decisions. Specifically, two cognitive biases that are widely recorded in the behavioral and psychological literature are considered: optimism and overconfidence. The testable hypotheses are derived from a growing body of theories that
Publicado em: 2005
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27. Administrative theories contribution in nursing administration knowledge production: analysis of a periodical / "Contribuição das teorias administrativas na produção do conhecimento sobre administração em enfermagem: análise de um periódico"
The author prescrits the development of Administration, pointing out the most important contributions made by the adm.,nistrative theories that mdke up General Administration Theory. Reflections are made on nurses administrative work, indicating that their actions are still guided by principles of Scientific Administration, the Classical School and the Theor
Publicado em: 2004
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28. A compulsão a linguagem na psicanalise : teoria lacaniana e psicanalise pragmatica
This work is a critical exposition of conceptuallinks manifestedby the Lacanian theory and the pragmatic psychoanalysis, the latter circumscribed to texts of both Marcia Cavell and Jurandir Freire Costa. It is intended to get a panoramic presentation from the conceptual composition and ftom the meaning that the words acquire in the whole of each theoreticalp
Publicado em: 2004
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29. Hume, Mach e Skinner: a explicação do comportamento.
Radical behaviorism was presented as the philosophy of science of human behavior. This has important consequences. One of them has to do with questions regarding scientific explanation. The present essay essentially deals with the following question: what is the model of explanation of radical behaviorism? Some characteristics of the explanation model of beh
Publicado em: 2004
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30. Injury and violence prevention: behavioral science theories, methods, and applications
BMJ Group.
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31. Aging and primary care: an overview of organizational and behavioral issues in the delivery of healthcare services to older Americans.
An overview of (1) key trends shaping the healthcare environment and market; (2) ways in which these environmental trends are reflected in changes in the organization and delivery of healthcare; (3) the implications of environmental and organizational changes for older Americans; and (4) the research issues that can be addressed using organizational and beha
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32. What Is the Role of Theories in the Study of Schizophrenia?
As an epilogue to the themed papers on “Theories of Schizophrenia” in this issue of Schizophrenia Bulletin, this article reviews some basic philosophy of science principles in regard to the role of theories in the evolving state of a natural science discipline. While in early phases inductive and abductive logic are the primary vehicles for organizing ob
Oxford University Press.
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33. Managing Change: An Overview
As increasingly powerful informatics systems are designed, developed, and implemented, they inevitably affect larger, more heterogeneous groups of people and more organizational areas. In turn, the major challenges to system success are often more behavioral than technical. Successfully introducing such systems into complex health care organizations requ
American Medical Informatics Association.
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34. Otoacoustic Emission Theories and Behavioral Estimates of Human Basilar Membrane Motion Are Mutually Consistent
When two pure tones (or primaries) of slightly different frequencies (f1 and f2) are presented to the ear, new frequency components are generated by nonlinear interaction of the primaries within the cochlea. These new components can be recorded in the ear canal as otoacoustic emissions (OAE). The level of the 2f1−f2 OAE component is known as the distortion
Springer-Verlag.
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35. What We Know: Findings That Every Theory of Schizophrenia Should Explain
The article summarizes the process used to distill schizophrenia science into 22 facts. These facts consist of 6 basic facts, 3 etiological facts, 6 pharmacological and treatment facts, 5 pathology facts, and 2 behavioral facts that were critically reviewed by the scholarly community through a special initiative in cooperation with the Schizophrenia Research
Oxford University Press.
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36. A theory for the evolution of other-regard integrating proximate and ultimate perspectives
Although much previous work describes evolutionary mechanisms that promote or stabilize different social behaviors, we still have little understanding of the factors that drive animal behavior proximately. Here we present a modeling approach to answer this question. Our model rests on motivations to achieve objectives as the proximate determinants of behavio
National Academy of Sciences.