Development of gaze aversion as disengagement from visual information.

Older children, but not younger children, were found to look away more from the face of an interlocutor when answering difficult as opposed to easy questions. Similar results were found in earlier work with adults, who often avert their gaze during cognitively difficult tasks (A. M. Glenberg, J. L. Schroeder, & D. A. Robertson, 1998). Twenty-five 8-year-olds and 26 5-year-olds answered verbal reasoning and arithmetic questions of varying difficulty. The older children increased gaze aversion from the face of the adult questioner in response to both difficult verbal reasoning questions and difficult arithmetic questions. In contrast, younger children (5-year-olds) responded less consistently to cognitive difficulty. It is concluded that adultlike patterns of gaze aversion in response to cognitive difficulty are certainly acquired by 8 years of age. The implications of appropriate gaze aversion for children's management of cognitive processing resources are considered. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Covariance miss-specification and the local influence approach in sensitivity analyses of longitudinal data with drop-outs

Our work examines the performance of proposed local influence diagnostics applied to multivariate normal longitudinal data with drop-outs: these diagnostics prove to be ambiguous as they are sensitive not only to the presence of anomalous records, as intended, but also, unfortunately, to the misspecification of the longitudinal covariance structure of the response. We suggest an unambiguous index for detecting covariance misspecification, and recommend that an analyst use this index first to confirm that the covariance structure is well specified before attempting to interpret the influence diagnostics.     

Effect of brief puppet therapy upon the emotional responses of children undergoing cardiac catheterization.

40 children between ages 3 and 11, admitted to a children's hospital for cardiac catheterization (CC), served as Ss for a study of the effect of this therapy upon the emotional responses of patients hospitalized for this diagnostic procedure. 20 of the Ss were assigned randomly to an experimental group which received puppet therapy before and after CC; 20 were placed in a control group which was not given therapy but otherwise was treated similarly to the experimental group. Children who received therapy were less disturbed during CC (p     

分缝结构的非线性响应分析

本文给出了模拟结构分缝张开和闭合的有限元模型，该模型可以模拟缝面初始压力、抗拉强度的影响，且具有形成方便，适用范围广等优点；文中导出了非线性有限元的计算公式，编制了相应的非线性有限元程序，并对两个块体接触问题和一个分缝拱肋结构的非线性动力响应进行了计算，研究了不同接缝参数、不同初始压力及基座是否设缝对结构非线性响应的影响，给出了有关结论。     

"Defense" against traumatic concepts.

Shows that traumatic responses attached to 1 instance of a concept will impair the identification of the concept even when the traumatized concept is not part of the concept identification task. Such traumatic priming proved detrimental compared with either neutral priming or no priming. Neutral priming proved to facilitate concept identification. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Some characteristics in affiliation motivation.

151 students in Officer Candidate School were given a measure of affiliation motivation. (1) Increased affiliation cues in the environment increase the level of both goal oriented and threat oriented responses. (2) Popularity is unrelated to level of affiliation motivation but does determine the extent to which the S is goal or threat oriented. (3) Those Ss with high internal affiliation motivation are more responsive to external affiliation cues than are Ss with low internal motivation. (4) Those Ss with high affiliation motivation tend to estimate their popularity level more accurately and to estimate it higher than Ss with low affiliation motivation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Successive responses to simultaneous stimulation in elderly patients with memory disorder.

"This study was designed to test the notion that memory disorder, clinically ascertained in elderly persons, may be related to a breakdown in the kind of storage system which has been adduced to explain successive responses to simultaneous stimulation in normal young adults… . The results… support the hypothesis." From Psyc Abstracts 36:04:4FI09I. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

SMA-橡胶支座隔震系统的动力响应研究

利用形状记忆合金（SMA）超弹性滞回特性，提出了一种SMA-橡胶支座，并建立了这种新型隔震支座力学模型。通过一个单自由度SMA-橡胶支座隔震体系动力响应的仿真分析，详细研究了SMA-橡胶支座的动力性态和隔震性能。结果表明，SMA-橡胶支座具有良好的隔震和耗能效果。     

量度及預測隧道鑽機的土傳噪音及震動

在市區進行夜間隧道鑽挖工程所產生的土傳噪音及震動,容易引起投訴。現時的技術難以準確預測噪音及震動的級數,而隧道工程的進度也常因進行隧道鑽挖工程時產生過大的土傳噪音及震動而延誤。本文所提述的新技術,可以更準確地量度及預測鑽機震動強度及土壤傳震的特性@個技術包括測量單位衝擊力及隧道鑽機摩擦力所產生的震動級數鋵嵲珈?80於代,美國政府運輸部門(U.S.DeptofTransportationFederalTransitAdministrative)已研發相關的技術,並將該技術應用於鐵路土傳噪音量度及預測上。本文報告隧道鑽機所產生的土傳噪音及震動級數1/3倍頻帶數值的量度及預測。比較地面震動峰值速度(PPV)、最高(Lmax)噪聲和振動級數按快速和緩慢的時間常數和整體百分比(Percentile)數值列出。     

A conceptual framework for the clinical test situation.

The need to account for the adaptive behavior of the patient in the clinical test situation is discussed with respect to the relative rather than absolute nature of test responses. Adaptation-level (AL) theory is proposed as a framework of reference for adaptive behavior of the patient in the clinical situation, as well as for clinical judgment and prediction. The theory of AL possesses the relativity and operational validity required for dealing with complex clinical phenomena. Implications of the AL model for clinical theory, experimentation, and practice are suggested. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)