behavior was assessed by the Neonatal Behavior Assessment Scale at 3 days postpartum‚ infant mental and psychomotor development was assessed by the Bayley Scales for Infant Development at 4 and 12 months‚ and child intelligence was assessed by the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence at 6 years. Neonatal general irritability was the predictor of mental development at 12 months. Self-regulation behaviors were
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The Minimum Legal Drinking Age Will Not Solve Binge Drinking In College Students Since 1984‚ the minimum legal drinking age has been twenty-one (Fact Sheets - Age 21). Many people have been debating whether or not that age should be lowered‚ especially people with ties to colleges or students in college. These people believe that if the age were lowered‚ the problem with binge drinking in college students would be solved. Despite what many people may think‚ lowering the drinking age will most
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Jeremy M. Stevens Dr‚ Patricia Ross English 102 17 July 2014 Should We Change Our Drinking Age? Should the United States lower its drinking age to eighteen? Should it remain twenty one? Should it be raised to a higher age? America needs to lower the drinking age to eighteen. With proper education and awareness there would be no problem for our young adults. There would be less problems due to the fact they can legally buy alcohol and drink it. An eighteen year old can serve and die for his
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Alcohol & Alcoholism Vol. 37‚ No. 2‚ pp. 109–120‚ 2002 REVIEW REPORTED LEVELS OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND BINGE DRINKING WITHIN THE UK UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT POPULATION OVER THE LAST 25 YEARS JAN S. GILL Department of Occupational Therapy and Art Therapy‚ Queen Margaret University College‚ Leith‚ Edinburgh EH6 8HX‚ UK (Received 4 July 2001; in revised form 24 August 2001; accepted 28 September 2001) Abstract — Results of a literature review of 18 studies investigating the drinking behaviour
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We have all heard the terms boozing‚ drinking to get drunk‚ sloshed‚ tanked‚ tipsy‚ tooted‚ and hammered. But have you ever really thought about what you were saying when you used these terms. You were saying that all that you did the night before was binge drink. Binge drinking on college campuses is something that has grown to an all time high but who’s to blame? All too often we have heard the horror stories of how kids are getting behind the wheel of a car after a night of binge drinking‚ and
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Citations Peyton Troillett Wechsler‚ H.‚ & Nelson‚ T. F.‚ ScD. (2010). “Will increasing alcohol availability by lowering the minimum legal drinking age decrease drinking and related consequences among youths?” American Journal of Public Health‚ 100(6)‚ 986-92. Print. Blackwell‚ Wiley. "Does the Minimum Drinking Age Affect Traffic Fatalities?" Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 2nd ser. 6 (1987): 180-92. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. "Drinking Age ProCon.org." Drinking Age ProCon.org. ProCon
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young adults ( 18 females‚ 9 males) ages 18-26‚ and 29 elderly adults ( 19 females‚ 1 male) ages 62-90. They completed a series of tests‚ including proxy measures of crystallized intelligence (Mill Hill vocabulary test) and pre-morbid verbal IQ (Wechsler test of adult reading). In addition to these general tests‚ they measured memory span by method of the forward digit span task‚ and working memory by method of the backward digit span. Each participant received a series of belief-desire reasoning
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)‚ a disorder found in around 1 in 68 American children (CDC‚ 2014)‚ appears in early brain development. Children with this illness usually have irregularities in brain parts such as the corpus callosum‚ amygdala and cerebellum. They face challenges in the following main areas: behavioral‚ developmental‚ cognitive and psychological. It is hard for these children to interact and communicate with other people because they often close themselves off and have hard times understanding
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two major types of intelligence test‚ those administered to individuals and thsoe administered to groups. * The two main individual intelligence tests are the: Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test (see Murphy & Davidshofer‚ 2001‚ Chap. 13) Wechsler tests‚ i.e. WISC for children and WAIS for adults (see Murphy & Davidshofer‚ 2001‚ Chap. 13) * These are individual intelligence tests which require one-on-one consultation with the child. The tests involve various verbal and non-verbal
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Intelligence is defined as the capacity for learning‚ reasoning‚ understanding‚ and similar forms of mental activity (Myers‚ David G). For being an easy concept to understand‚ it’s actually very difficult to thoroughly examine with confidence. Intelligence tests have been studied for decades. A few of the hurdles for these tests are reliability and effectiveness on producing a genuine result. It has been transformed into a scientific process. A key scientific process is asking questions to find out
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