Aims: Adequate intake of fruits and vegetables has many positive effects on adolescent health. However, many adolescences do not intake the recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables. This study aimed to determine the predictors of fruit and vegetable intake in first-grade high school female students in Ilam city using Social Cognitive Theory (SCT). Instrument & Methods: The cross-sectional ...

This study aimed to compare social cognition aspects (affective theory of mind, cognitive theory of mind, and emotion recognition) in children with specific learning disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and normal controls. In a causal-comparative study, 42 children with specific learning disorders, 43 children with ADHD, and 45 normal children were selected from primary ...

Language acquisition is a natural developmental process and is unique to Homo sapiens in which a child acquiring his or her mother tongue as a first language.  The simplest theory of language development is that children learn language by imitating adult language. A second possibility is that children acquire language through conditioning. Noam Chomsky put forward innateness hypothesis. Piaget ...

Background: Planning, Attention, Simultaneous –Successive (PASS) theory is a kind of cognitive processing theory that during the past few years has attracted considerable attention. This paper aims to review the theory in children with special needs Conclusion: Findings show the efficiency of this theory in predicting academic achievement and assessment of individuals with specific learni...

Objective: The present study was conducted to compare the affective theory of mind, moral judgment, working memory, and cognitive flexibility in individuals with substance use and normal individuals. Method: The method of the present study was causal-comparative. The statistical population of the study included all men who referred to addiction treatment centers in Tabriz in 2019 as well as nor...

  Background : Our purpose in this research was to evaluate the correlation between skill in chess (international chess rating scale) and severity of depression and anxiety and ten cognitive errors in members of Iranian Chess Federation that have international chess rating scale as well as to study the prevalence of depression and anxiety in the sample.   Methods: 96 persons that had an interna...

Entrepreneurship should be considered one of the necessities of the new millennium, an age known as the information society and the age of globalization. And it has important consequences such as the acquisition of emerging technologies and rapid changes in the field of human exchanges and fierce and brutal competition in the business world. This study examines two models of planned behavioral ...