Psychological Sciences
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Categorization does not promote symmetry in Guinea baboons (Papio papio)
( Springer Verlag , 2016 , Article)Humans have the capacity to use stimuli interchangeably by forming equivalence classes, and this ability seems to be supported by our language system. According to Sidman and Tailby (Conditional discrimination vs. matching ... -
Early writing development: kindergarten teachers' beliefs about emergent writing in Qatari preschool settings
( Routledge , 2016 , Article)Writing often begins during the very early years of childhood; however, some children first learn writing when they begin attending school. Teachers' beliefs about early writing development can influence when and how ... -
Face perception in schizophrenia: A specific deficit
( Routledge , 2016 , Article)Introduction. Patients with schizophrenia have a large-scaled and severe cognitive impairment. This study examines whether a well-established deficit in face recognition in schizophrenia is a part of this general cognitive ... -
Gender and age differences in life satisfaction within a sex-segregated society: Sampling youth in Qatar
( Routledge , 2016 , Article)Recent decades have witnessed a surge of interest in the measures of subjective well-being, including mental and physical health, happiness and life satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to determine if there are ... -
Autism in the Gulf States: Why social robotics is the way forward
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)In this paper, we assess the current situation in the Gulf States with respect to autism awareness and diagnostic facilities, and emphasize the need for epidemiology studies in light of prevalence statistics available for ... -
Restoration methods for cloud multicast virtual networks
( Academic Press , 2017 , Article)Providing reliability guarantees for services hosted in cloud data center networks is a well studied problem that received much attention from the literature in recent years. Yet, the existing literature failed to account ... -
A visual processing advantage for young-adolescent deaf observers: Evidence from face and object matching tasks
( Nature Publishing Group , 2017 , Article)It is unresolved whether the permanent auditory deprivation that deaf people experience leads to the enhanced visual processing of faces. The current study explored this question with a matching task in which observers ... -
Enhancing the performance of post-failure restoration schemes in multi-tenant networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)Failure in the physical network can cause a temporal or permanent unavailability of some resources, which can lead to a quality of service (QoS) degradation and loss of revenue. While much work has been dedicated to the ... -
Effect of professional development on teaching behaviors and efficacy in Qatari educational reforms
( Routledge , 2017 , Article)Qatar is undergoing major educational reform that is shifting its educational policy toward an instructional orientation grounded in constructivism and student-centered instruction. Differences in cultural conceptions of ... -
The psychometric properties of an Arabic version of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) across three Arabic-speaking Middle Eastern countries
( Routledge , 2017 , Article)The nature and extent of the influence of culture on psychopathology have long been studied, with a central emphasis on whether abnormal behavior is etic (universalized) or emic (cultural based). This study aimed to examine ... -
Reading social stories in the community: A promising intervention for promoting children's environmental knowledge and behavior in Jordan
( Routledge , 2017 , Article)Traditionally, education in various forms has been used as a tool to change values and behavior in children regarding the environment. This study reports findings from the We Love Reading Program that utilizes the reading ... -
Mathematics anxiety and cognition: An integrated neural network model
( De Gruyter , 2019 , Article)Many students suffer from anxiety when performing numerical calculations. Mathematics anxiety is a condition that has a negative effect on educational outcomes and future employment prospects. While there are a multitude ... -
Evaluation of children’s educational websites based on the developmental perspective
( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2019 , Article)In this digital era, educational websites have become one of the important learning resources which facilitate children’s learning experiences. Although the use of educational websites in supporting children’s learning has ... -
Getting parents involved in children's play: Qatari parents' perceptions of and engagement with their children's play
( Routledge , 2019 , Article)The study investigates parents' perceptions of and engagement with their children's play in the context of Qatar. Quantitative data were collected using a questionnaire that was administered to parents of children aged 4-7 ... -
Collaboration with Families of Children with Disabilities in Qatar: A Parent's Perspective
( OMICS , 2017 , Article)The purpose of this study was to explore the perspectives of parents of children with disabilities in regard of the components of true collaboration practices in different educational institutions. As well as to solicit ... -
The effect of using flipped classroom strategy on the academic achievement of fourth grade students in Jordan
( Kassel University Press GmbH , 2018 , Article)This study aimed at investigating the effect of flipped classroom strategy on the academic achievement in the subject of science among fourth grade students in Jordan. The study population consists of all fourth grade ... -
Comparative analysis of computer-vision and BLE technology based indoor navigation systems for people with visual impairments
( BioMed Central Ltd. , 2019 , Article)Background: Considerable number of indoor navigation systems has been proposed to augment people with visual impairments (VI) about their surroundings. These systems leverage several technologies, such as computer-vision, ... -
An integrative model of emotion regulation and associations with positive and negative affectivity across four Arabic speaking countries and the USA
( Springer New York LLC , 2018 , Article)The associations between emotion regulation (ER) and positive and negative affectivity have been well investigated. However, previous studies have examined these associations using a variety of individual ER scales with ... -
A comparison of students with and without disabilities on their perception of services in Qatar?s public higher education system
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2018 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess student perceptions of their engagement in tangible and intangible higher education services using the College Student Experiences Questionnaire (CSEQ). Design/methodology/approach: ... -
Feature-by-feature comparison and holistic processing in unfamiliar face matching
( PeerJ Inc. , 2018 , Article)Identity comparisons of photographs of unfamiliar faces are prone to error but imperative for security settings, such as the verification of face identities at passport control. Therefore, finding techniques to improve ...
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