What is Abstinence? Definitions and Examples of Abstinence, to Prevent the Sexual Transmission of the HIV Virus, According to Spanish University Students

Research carried out in several Anglo-Saxon countries shows that many undergraduates identify oral sex and anal sex as examples of abstinent behaviour, while many others consider kissing and masturbation as examples of having sex. The objective of this research was to investigate whether a sample of Spanish students gave similar replies. Seven hundred and fifty undergraduates (92% aged under 26, 67.6% women) produced examples or definitions of the term ‘abstinence’. Spanish students made similar errors to those observed in the Anglo-Saxon samples, in that behaviours that were abstinent from a preventive point of view (masturbating and sex without penetration) were not considered as such, while a number of students reported oral sex as abstinent behaviour. The results suggest that the information on risky and preventive sexual behaviour should cease to use ambiguous or euphemistic expressions and use vocabulary that is clear and comprehensible to everyone

An Introduction to Behaviour Analysis

Behaviour Analysis is a distinct philospophy of science. Individuals new to the approach often find difficulty in understanding the basic principles involved. This presentation, aimed at Final Year undergraduates, is designed to provide an introduction to the principles of operant conditioning (e.g., reinforcement, punishment, and extinction), making clear that these words describe functional, rather than structural, relations.

An Introduction to Verbal Behaviour

Skinner's approach to verbal behaviour (language) is central to behaviour analysis, as a philosophy of science, and, increasingly in application, including interventions for autism and challenging behaviour. This PowerPoint show provides an advanced undergraduate level introduction to the basic concepts of Skinner's functional approach to understanding verbal behaviour.

Individuals, Behaviour Change and the Web

A psychologist's description of the Web as an effective channel for inducing and promoting changes of behaviour in individuals. Demonstrates an experimental system called "LifeGuide".

Molecular basis of circadian behaviour Lecture

For BIOL2040. Originally in Blackboard and uploaded to Edshare for linking in Efolio site.

Gender differences on sexual behaviour and school inputs: evidence from Bogota.

This thesis explores the correlation between school factors and the differentiated results on sexual behaviour between boys and girls in Bogota. A school stratified propensity score matching was performed to match each boy of the sample with the most similar girls in individual, household and school characteristics. A regression analysis was performed to estimate the correlation between the five school factors evaluated with four main outcomes: have had sexual intercourse, condom use in the last sexual intercourse, incidence of teenage childbearing and age at first intercourse. Boys - in relation to girls - begin earlier their sexual life, more of them reported have used condom in their last sexual intercourse and have a lower incidence of teenage childbearing. These differences are correlated with have reported the school as main source of knowledge about reproductive health and contraceptive methods, a larger proportion of teachers with a graduate or postgraduate degree, a larger proportion of teachers with a related pedagogy degree and to the average age of teachers in the school. The results suggest that the content of the message about sex that is delivered to girls at school is not complete or accurate and that the competences of the school teachers in charge of this task should be improved to reach equally boys and girls.

Relationship among children’s perception of parental relationship and parental empathy and prosocial behaviour during childhood

The objective of this work is to study if children’s perception of parental relationship and parental empathy can predict prosocial behaviour during childhood. The sample was composed of 934 Argentine children, aged 9 to 12, of middle socio-economical level. The participants completed Argentine scale of Children Perception of Parental relationship (richaud de Minzi, 2007), an Argentine adaptation of scale of Prosocial Behaviour (Caprara and Pastorelli, 1993) and a questionnaire to measure children’s perception of parental empathy (richaud de Minzi, 2006). structural equations modelling (sEM) analyses were conducted to explore our hypotheses. Six theoretical models fit the data very well. The results showed that parental styles of acceptance and pathological control impact on children prosocial behavior. Children’s perception of parental empathy was positively associated with children prosocial behavior. Finally, parental acceptance and pathological control were associated with children’s perception of parental empathy, but negligent parental behaviour did not.  

Poor people and risky business

We try to explain why economic conflicts and illegal business often take place in poor countries. We use the concept of subsistence level of consumption (d) and assume a regular concave utility function for consumption levels higher than d. For consumption levels lower than d utility is constant and equal to zero. Under this framework poor agents are risk-lovers. This result helps to explain why economic conflicts are more likely to appear in poor economies and why poor agents are more willing to undertake illegal business.

101 essential lists on managing behaviour in the primary school.

Trata sobre la forma de hacer frente a los problemas relacionados con la conducta de los alumnos, tales cómo los comportamientos desafiantes, la intimidación, las rabietas y otros más graves como las drogas, así como sus causas. También, incluye temas sobre el desarrollo de una comunicación eficaz en el aula, el fomento del buen comportamiento de los alumnos, la imposición de sanciones y la utilización de sistemas de recompensa.

Classroom behaviour : a practical guide to effective teaching, behaviour management and colleague support.

Trata el comportamiento difícil dentro y fuera del aula. Explora cómo manejar la conducta, la disciplina de niños desafiantes, estudiantes con trastornos emocionales , la gestión de clases difíciles y el manejo de la ira.

Building better behaviour in the early years.

Manual con recomendaciones, estrategias y soluciones que apoyan a los profesionales de la escuela infantil a desarrollar un entorno donde tanto el personal como los niños puedan trabajar juntos en un ambiente tranquilo y positivo en el que los niños puedan crecer y desarrollarse como estudiantes seguros y con éxito. El manual también incluye estudio de casos de niños de cero a cinco años. Tiene CD-ROM con material fotocopiable.

Guiding the behaviour of children and young people.

El libro ofrece ideas prácticas sobre enfoques positivos en el desarrollo del comportamiento durante la infancia y la adolescencia, facilitando la teoría y los conceptos que tras estas propuestas ayudarán a los lectores a abordar la problemática del comportamiento en edades de 0 a 18 años. Los temas básicos tratados son: teorías, conceptos y su aplicación práctica, la perspectiva desde el lado de los niños y adolescentes, el papel del adulto en el comportamiento de los niños, la importancia del cariño y las relaciones prolongadas, elecciones de comportamiento en un contexto cultural y social, temas clave en la orientación del comportamiento, el valor de la observación y la interpretación, comportamientos que plantean dificultades concretas, cooperación y colaboración entre adultos.

An experimental analysis of obsessive-compulsive checking as avoidance behaviour

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