For decades, there has been evidence that active learning – classroom techniques designed to help students to participate in the learning process – produces better educational outcomes for students at virtually all levels
Date Posted: September 18, 2019
Categories: Child Development
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People whose Instagram accounts are filled with selfies are often thought to be narcissistic. Whether these judgements are true or not has yet to be confirmed, but recent studies have found that individuals have a less positive impression of people ...
Sep 17
Categories: Personality problems
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The researchers documented the different experiences by having the children wear a video camera on their head for 2 hours on one day to see what the class was like from the child’s perspective.
Sep 16
Categories: Child Development
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Therapeutic Evaluation Unit found that current users of fluoroquinolone antibiotics, such as Ciprofloxacin or Cipro, face a 2.4 times greater risk of developing aortic and mitral regurgitation, where the blood backflows into the heart, compared to ...
Sep 14
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Narcissism, often characterized by a sense of grandiosity and excessive self-admiration, is found to be less prominent as an individual matures. However, this does not occur to everyone to the same extent.
Sep 13
Categories: Personality problems
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Anxiousness in mothers during pregnancy may result in the hyperactivity of their unborn child when the child reaches adolescence.
Sep 12
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Pregnancy & ...
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Contrary to common assumption, researchers found that overlapping regions in the premotor and parietal cortices represent the sequences in multiple levels of motor hierarchy, whereas the individual finger movements were uniquely represented in the ...
Sep 11
Categories: Adult psychological development
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Dating might seem to be a good idea for teenagers to develop their sense of self, improve social skills and mature emotionally. However, according to a new study conducted by the University of Georgia, this might not be the case. Staying single ...
Sep 10
Categories: Depression, Relationships & Marriage
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It was already known that genes have a partial role in determining handedness – studies of twins have estimated that 25% of the variation in handedness can be attributed to genes – but which genes these are had not been established in the ...
Sep 9
Categories: Child Development
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Individuals who were troubled by financial or employment issues due to the Great Recession were more likely to show increases in depressive symptoms, anxiety as well as substance use problems.
Sep 7
Categories: Anxiety, Depression
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How does one cope with the loss of their spouse? The answer is to get a pet, according to researchers from Florida State University.
Sep 6
Categories: Grief, Loss, Bereavement
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Simply getting people to consider morally correct decisions can lead them to make more pro-social decisions, such as donating more money or engaging in more environmentally-friendly behaviours.
Sep 5
Categories: Other
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A global study compared 2,062 birds found that in highly variable environments, birds tend to have either larger or smaller brains relative to their body size. It was found that birds with relatively smaller brains tended to use ecological ...
Sep 4
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Engaging in behaviours which are typical of extraverts can allow individuals to feel happier and improves their wellbeing.
Sep 3
Categories: Other
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Research shows that even a brief 30 minute of hypoxia is enough to persistently disrupt the structure and function of the brain region known as the hippocampus, which is important for learning and memory. These findings raise new concerns about the ...
Sep 2
Categories: Child Development
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People who may hear and see things that are not there could have symptoms of psychosis, better known as psychotic disorders. Researchers at the University of Missouri have found neurological markers in the human brain that can be used to detect ...
Aug 31
Categories: Adult psychological development
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