This paper presents FearNot!, an innovative anti-bullying intervention for 8-12 year old children, illustrating the potential of Virtual Learning Environments in providing supportive secure experiential learning for challenging social situations. The innovative technological approach taken to FearNot! is br...
2.fear- be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!" dread panic- be overcome by a sudden fear; "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away" ...
In Experiment 1, a punitive maternal parenting style was found to interact with the effect of threat information about a novel animal in 6-9-year-old children. Maternal warmth, neglect, overprotection and accurate monitoring were not found to have a significant effect. Experiment 2 showed that ...
Results of the item analyses indicated that child-completed FSSC-R items could discriminate among the different simple phobias but not social phobia and that parent-completed FSSC-R items could discriminate not only 展开 关键词: Anxiety assessment fears phobia rating-scales parent-child concordance ...
The mechanisms underlying fear memory consolidation, or the conversion of STM to LTM, have also been extensively studied. Findings have shown, for example, that LTM, but not STM, of fear conditioning requires the synthesis of mRNA and new proteins in the LA, as well as the activity of sever...
How these ontogenetic changes affect extinction and stress effects on extinction could have important implications not only for understanding the pathophysiology of stress-related disorders in children and adolescents, but could also inform decisions about how extinction-based CBT treatments can be best ...
FearNot! is a novel software application aimed at the age-group of 8-12 year old students with the aim to influence their attitude towards and knowledge about bullying. It is a virtual learning environment for social and emotional learning that allows for individual interaction with synthetic auto...
Understanding individual differences in each of these phenomena, not only in isolation but also in how they interact, will further strengthen the external validity of the fear conditioning model as a tool with which to study maladaptive fear as it manifests in clinical anxiety. This is a preview...
(CS+), but not another (CS−), was associated with an aversive airblast to the throat (US) during acquisition. The next day, participants were tested for their fear responses to the CS+, CS−, and several generalization stimuli (GS) without the presence of the US. Participants also ...
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