The paper examines the suggestive potential of political speeches state leaders. author argues that greatest addresses given at turning points in history demonstrate a programming effect and, consequently, are intended as texts with features. current study proves rhythm is essential feature text. complex phenomenon built on balanced alternation or repetition certain elements (formal and semanti...

The neuropsychological battery used in Fundació ACE (NBACE) is a relatively brief, and easy to administer, test battery that was designed to detect cognitive impairment in the adulthood. The NBACE includes measures of cognitive information processing speed, orientation, attention, verbal learning and memory, language, visuoperception, praxis and executive functions. The aim of the present study...

19 male Es employing a Taffel-type task conducted a verbal conditioning experiment with 60 female Ss. I the Es were led to expect their Ss to show verbal conditioning, and 4 were led to expect no verbal conditioning. 4 the Es in each of these groups were led to feel that it would be desirable if their Ss showed conditioning, and J were led to feel that it would be undesirable. Those Es who (a) ...

This study utilized a modification of Strupp's film method to focus upon the verbal patterns of experienced and novice psychotherapists. Results indicated some striking differences between the 2 groups of S therapists with experts relative to novices using more nonquestions and averaging more words per given statement. These and other differences are discussed with particular reference to sever...

87 The article that follows, “Antecedents and Consequences of Word,” is reprinted with permission from the European Journal of Behavior Analysis. It is one more piece of an on-going longer work. The article especially emphasizes the role of multiple causation in verbal behavior in the converging effects of verbal governance, verbal shaping, attention to verbal stimuli, and the replication of ve...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relation between breastfeeding, use of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)-fortified formula and neuropsychological function in children. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Southampton, UK. SUBJECTS 241 children aged 4 years followed up from birth. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES IQ measured by the Wechsler Pre-School and Primary Scale of Intelligence (3rd edn), visual a...

PURPOSE The goal of this study was to evaluate aspects of the functional distance hypothesis, which predicts that tasks regulated by brain networks in closer anatomic proximity will interfere more with each other than tasks controlled by spatially distant regions. Speech, verbal fluency, and manual motor tasks were examined to ascertain whether right-handed activity would interfere more with sp...

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between semantic knowledge and verbal working memory (VWM) in children with typical development (TD), Down syndrome (DS) autism spectrum disorder (ASD).Descriptive research relational methods were used design research.Children group matched Raven Colored Progressive Matrices Test according their non-verbal intelligence score.The consisted...

This current study explains how verbal humor is constructed in stand-up comedian's discourse on COVID-19 pandemic issue Indonesia. research employed a qualitative approach by applying the content analysis method. The transcription of five comedy audio-video clips concerning Indonesia that were taken from www.youtube.com provided primary data form spoken words. Videos selected based keywords sub...

The authors argue against a purely behavioral definition of praise as verbal reinforcement in favor of the view that praise may serve to undermine, enhance, or have no effect on children's intrinsic motivation, depending on a set of conceptual variables. Provided that praise is perceived as sincere, it is particularly beneficial to motivation when it encourages performance attributions to contr...