The intervention principles were to improve the communication partners' competence in: (a) recognizing
affective behaviors, (b) attuning to interactive behaviors, (c) sharing meaning for better understanding, (d) sharing emotions and evaluating the adequacy of their own
affective behavior during interaction and communication, and (e) adapting the context to promote affective involvement.
Through a wide variety of activities provided by therapists, physical, cognitive, and
affective behaviors are all being exercised.
This task, designed to measure the engagement of affective and cognitive brain regions in response to a visual stimulus, was chosen because previous research in animals had linked changes in gut flora to changes in
affective behaviors.
It is to them that academic programs entrust the formation of the psychomotor skills and
affective behaviors that will characterize the next generation of practitioners.
Children with autism consistently show difficulty displaying appropriate
affective behaviors (Koegel & Koegel, 1995; Schreibman, 1988).
Such a work environment entails not only
affective behaviors, or specific personality traits of organizational and department leaders, but also more concrete strategies.
The number of noncontingent stimulation game trials needed to elicit 100 social
affective behavior, for all three children combined, was 1,126 (Range = 852 to 10,700), whereas the number of response-contingent stimulation game trials needed to produce the same number of
affective behaviors at the end of the study was 280 (Range = 273 to 287).
Cognitive, physical, and
affective behaviors on fact-based search tasks.
Autoradiographic studies in monkey and human brains have shown a high expression of NK1 receptors in regions important for the regulation of
affective behaviors and the neurochemical response to stress.
Parents rated their children on the ABSD, an instrument that focuses on
affective behaviors and covers the areas of social, communication, domestic responsibility, independence, self-esteem, and recreation interest.
A comparative study by Silberman found that the transient sensory, cognitive and
affective behaviors which constitute the basis of the DSM III-R diagnosis code for affective disorders occur more frequently in the individual with complex partial seizures.
However, a third approach, direct observation and rating of
affective behaviors over substantial time periods might, alone or in combination with the other techniques, enhance our ability to reliably capture a dimension of affective disorder not previously measured.
