Behavioral studies have demonstrated that time perception in adults, children, and nonhuman animals is subject to Weber's Law. More specifically, as with discriminations of other features, it has been found that it is the ratio between two durations rather than their absolute difference that controls the ability of an animal to discriminate them. Here, we show that scalp-recorded event-related ...

This paper proposes four forms of organizational behavior at the intersection of organizational ecology (inertia vs. change) and new institutionalism (normative vs. deviant): innovative (deviant change), reformative (normative change), conservative (normative inertia), and reactionary (deviant inertia) in the order of the life-course of an organizational form. Then, it further identifies decisi...

Title of Document THE FORGOTTEN PEER FOR BLACK ADOLESCENTS Zachary Rowan Master of Arts 2014 Directed by: Associate Professor, Jean McGloin, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice ABSTRACT Efforts to understand peer influence among adolescents have established the robust relationship between having deviant peers and future deviant behavior. Nonetheless, research suggests peer influence ...

Objective: To determine and compare the incidence of early non-psychotic deviant behaviour (i.e. under the age of ten) in Afrikaner patients with bipolar disorder, schizo-affective disorder and schizophrenia. Methods: Patients with bipolar disorder, schizo-affective disorder and schizophrenia were interviewed using a structured questionnaire probing for early deviant childhood behaviour startin...

Behavioral and event-related brain potential (ERP) measures were used to elucidate the neural mechanisms of involuntary engagement of attention by novelty and change in the acoustic environment. The behavioral measures consisted of the reaction time (RT) and performance accuracy (hit rate) in a forced-choice visual RT task where subjects were to discriminate between odd and even numbers. Each v...

BACKGROUND Family planning programmes in developing countries need a better understanding of nurse-patient communication in order to improve the quality of counselling. OBJECTIVES To identify factors in the clinic and in the community that enable nurses and patients to communicate effectively with one another. DESIGN The study explored the personal experiences of nurses and patients who com...

THE remarkable linguistic abilities of human neonates are well documented. Young infants can discriminate phonemes even if they are not used in their native language, an ability which regresses during the first year of life. This ability to discriminate is often studied by repeating a stimulus for several minutes until some behavioural response of the infant habituates, and later examining whet...