Undergraduate researchers examine how background noise can influence experiencing boredom. The findings were presented at the Showcase for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities on March 28. Boredom is a negative emotion associated with mundane tasks. It is two-toned and the result of under or over-stimulating environments. Under-stimulation boredom results in laziness and symptoms of depression, whereas.
Children’s ability to stay on task and control their behavior may not just be based on the internal workings of the brain but on outside factors as well, found researchers from WSU, Doctrina Education Consulting and the University of Tennessee.
Researchers dove into what executive functioning in children looks like by studying how the brain operates more broadly instead of focusing on specific brain regions, which earlier research focused on, said Aaron Buss, co-author on the study and associate professor at the University of Tennessee.
Executive functioning is any process where people utilize control or engage in goal-directed behaviors, like a person’s ability to resist a donut when they are trying to lose weight, Buss said. To measure executive functioning in children, they were tested using various tasks.
Study suggests outside factors may help children develop internal control ANI | Updated: Apr 07, 2021 17:03 IST
Washington [US], April 7 (ANI): The ability to control your own behaviour, known as executive function, might not exist all in your head. In a novel study, researchers are applying the theory of executive function to children and they revealed that the function affects everything from children s readiness for school to social relationships with long-term outcomes for adulthood. The theory, detailed in Perspectives on Psychological Science, draws on dynamic systems theory which originated in mathematics and physics and has been used to describe complex organising phenomena like cloud formation and flying patterns of birds. Now, a research team led by Washington State University human development assistant professor Sammy Perone is applying it to executive function, which has been shown to play a role in everything from children s re
The ability to control your own behaviour, known as executive function, develops with many influences from outside the mind, suggests a new theory.The theory, detailed in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, draws on dynamic .
External factors might help children to develop internal control ANI | Updated: Apr 05, 2021 20:18 IST
Washington [US], April 5 (ANI): The findings of a recent study suggest that the ability to control one s own behavior, known as executive function, might not exist at all in the head. A new theory proposes that it develops with many influences from outside the mind.
The theory, detailed in Perspectives on Psychological Science, draws on dynamic systems theory which originated in mathematics and physics and has been used to describe complex organizing phenomena like cloud formation and flying patterns of birds. Now, a research team led by Washington State University human development assistant professor Sammy Perone is applying it to executive function, which has been shown to play a role in everything from children s readiness for school to their social relationships. Its development is also tied to long-term outcomes for adulthood.