The objective of the present study was to examine the effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol on sensorimotor coordination, emotionality, learning and memory in young adult Wistar rats. Most of the recent reports concerning behavioral effects of fetal alcohol exposure refer to the juvenile period of life and very few studies investigated different aspects of behavior simultaneously in the same subjects. In the current study, alcohol was delivered to the pregnant dams by intragastric infusions, throughout gestation days (GD) 7-20, at the dose of 6g /kg maternal body weight /day. This dose resulted in relatively high peak blood alcohol concentration (340 mg/dl) as assessed on GD 20. A pair-fed isocaloric and untreated control groups were included. Prenatal alcohol administration retarded dams&rsquo / weight gain significantly, and had an adverse effect on pups&rsquo / weight at birth but not in adulthood. No between-group differences were observed in the litter size and in the pups&rsquo / mortality. The adult brain weight was neither affected. Pups were subjected to a series of behavioural tests as young adults (at 2.5 months of age). In adulthood, rats prenatally treated with alcohol were not impaired in sensorimotor coordination and/or did not show muscle weakness as assessed by rotarod/accelerod tests. Their behavior in the open field and plus maze suggested alcohol-induced increase in iv anxiety level and some decrease in behavioral flexibility, but hyperactivity was not observed. In cognitive tasks, alcohol treated rats showed slightly slower rate of initial place learning in the water maze. However, memory retention tested after 1 and 10-day delay, reversal learning, rate of extinction of place preference, as well as working memory capacity appeared to be the same in alcohol exposed and control rats. The possible reasons of this negative result are discussed.

abstract: This study re-frames learning disabilities (LD) through the emotion-laden talk of four Latina/o students with LD. The research questions included: 1) What are the emotion-laden talk of Latina/o students about being labeled with LD? 2) What are Latina/o students' emotion-laden talk of the idea of LD? I identified master narratives, the "pre-existent sociocultural forms of interpretation. They are meant to delineate and confine the local interpretation strategies and agency constellations in individual subjects as well as in social institutions," (Bamberg, 2004, p. 287) within the following literatures to inform my research questions and conceptual framework: a) historiography and interdisciplinary literature on LD; b) policy (i.e., Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)), c) the academic and d) social and emotional dimensions of LD; and e) student voice research with students with LD. Interdisciplinary, critical ethnographic and qualitative research methods such as taking into account issues of power, etic and emic perspectives, in-depth interviewing, field notes were used. Total participants included: four students, three parents and three teachers. More specifically, descriptive coding, identification of emotion-laden talk, a thematic analysis, memoing and intersectional and cultural-historical developmental constructs were used to analyze students’ emotion-laden talk. Emotion-laden talk about being labeled with LD included the hegemony of smartness, disability microaggressions, on the trinity of LD: help + teachers + literacy troubles, on being bullied, embarrassment to ask for assistance from others and help as hope. The emotion-laden talk about the idea of LD included LD as double-edge sword, LDness as X, the meaning of LD as resource, trouble with information processing, speech, and silence, the salience of the intersection of disability, ethnicity and language and other markers of difference, struggles due to lack of understanding and LD myths. This study provides a discussion and implications for theory, research, policy, and practice. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Curriculum and Instruction 2016

The thesis, ``Social development in the time of adolescence``, has a theoretic-empirical character. It deals with terms of adolescence, social development, emotionality, identity and socialization in the theoretical part. It also describes individual phases of adolescence, social and psychological features of adolescents. The thesis also gives brief information about characteristics of secondary schools. Practical part deals with questionnaires and personality tests which were fulfilled with the first, the second and the third year students of multi-year gymnasium. Illustration of attitudes to studies and relationship with oneself, authorities and with contemporaries are the main aims of the practical part. The survey deals with cognitive and emotional maturity and with the scale of significance of adolescents as well. It also should point out potential differences between evolution and maturity of boys and girls.

O trabalho teve como objetivo compreender o relacionamento entre a égua e o potro e a influência deste sobre o comportamento social e temperamento do potro, a partir do décimo primeiro dia de vida até após o processo de desmama do potro. Oito díades de éguas e potros da raça Mangalarga Marchador provenientes de um criatório situado na cidade de Amparo/SP foram avaliadas durante três etapas distintas. A primeira foi realizada para caracterizar o comportamento social do grupo de equinos e o relacionamento entre égua e potro durante os três períodos de desenvolvimento do potro (dependência, socialização e independência). Nessa etapa foram registradas: as interações agonísticas das éguas; episódios de mamada dos potros (tentativas e mamadas) e para o par égua e potro foram anotados os comportamentos afiliativos e a relação espacial. Ao final dessa etapa os potros foram classificados em dependentes e independentes e as éguas foram divididas de acordo com sua hierarquia. A segunda etapa constitui-se da avaliação das atividades e relação espacial dos potros durante o processo de desmama, para a caracterização do estresse dos potros. Na terceira etapa a relação social dos potros foi observada na ausência de suas mães, através do registro das interações e da relação espacial dos potros. Durante as três etapas foram aplicados quatro testes de avaliação dos aspectos do temperamento dos animais: teste de reatividade durante o manejo de escovação para a avaliação da reatividade ao manejo; teste de arena para avaliar a emotividade ao isolamento; teste de reatividade perante humano desconhecido e ativo para avaliar a reatividade ao humano; e teste da presença de estímulo sonoro desconhecido para avaliação da emotividade ao estímulo desconhecido. A hierarquia e a experiência da mãe interferiam no cuidado materno de aleitamento (P<0,05), entretanto, não influenciaram o cuidado de proteção (P>0,05). A frequência de permanência dos potros com sua mãe na distância de até 1 metro diminuiu ao longo dos períodos (P<0,05). As éguas não modificaram a frequência dos comportamentos afiliativos com seus potros ao longo dos períodos (P>0,05). As maiores frequências de comportamentos afiliativos dos potros com suas mães foram durante os períodos iniciais do desenvolvimento do potro (dependência e socialização, P<0,05). Potros dependentes apresentaram maior frequência e menor duração das mamadas quando comparado à frequência e duração dos potros independentes (P<0,05). A reatividade ao manejo e a emotividade ao isolamento dos potros foram maiores nos períodos da dependência, da socialização e durante a desmama (P<0,05). A reatividade ao humano e emotividade ao desconhecido apresentaram a tendência de diminuir ao longo dos períodos observados (P<0,05). Os potros dependentes apresentaram maior emotividade ao desconhecido e ao isolamento (P<0,05), além de maior estresse durante a desmama, quando comparado aos potros independentes. Todos os potros normalizaram suas atividades no decorrer do processo da desmama. Na ausência das mães os potros independentes foram os que iniciaram a maioria das interações entre os animais (P<0,05). O relacionamento entre a égua e o potro foi modificado devido às características maternas de hierarquia e experiência, além do nível de independência do potro e do seu temperamento. / The study aimed to understand the relationship between the mare and the foal and the influence of this on the social behavior and foal\'s temperament from the eleventh day of life until after the foal weaning process. Eight dyads of mares and foals Mangalarga Marchador from a farm situated in the city of Amparo/Brazil were evaluated during three different stages. The first stage was performed to characterize the social behavior of horses group and the relationship between mare and foal during the three foal developmental periods (dependency, socialization and independence). At the first stage the aggressive interactions of the mares were registered; episodes of sucking of foals (attempt and bout of sucking); and the pair mare and foal were noted the affiliative behaviors and spatial relationship. At the end of this stage the foals were classified as dependent and independent and mares were divided according to their hierarchy. In the second step we evaluated the activities and spatial relationship of foals during the weaning process, to characterize the stress of foals during this process. In the third stage the social relationship of foals was observed in the absence of their mothers, through the recording of interactions and the spatial relationship of the foals. During the three stages were applied four tests for assessing aspects of animal temper: reactivity test during brushing for evaluation of reactivity handling; arena test to evaluate the emotionality isolation; human reactivity test unknown and active to assess the reactivity to human; and test for the presence of unknown sound stimulus to evaluate the emotionality of the unknown stimulus. The hierarchy and the mother\'s experience interferes with maternal care of lactation (P<0.05), but did not influence the protective care (P>0.05). The frequency of stay of foals with mother at a distance of up to 1 meter decreased over the period (P<0.05). The mares do not change the frequency of affiliative behaviors with their foals (P>0.05). The highest frequency of affiliative behaviors foals with their mothers were during the early periods foal development (dependency and socialization; P<0.05). The dependent foals presented a higher frequency and shorter duration of sucking bouts when compared to the frequency and duration of foals independent (P<0.05). The reactivity handling and emotionality isolation of foals were higher in dependency periods, socialization and during weaning (P<0.05). The reactivity of human and emotionality of the unknown showed a tendency to decrease over the observed periods (P<0.05). The dependent foals showed larger emotionality to the unknown and isolation (P<0.05). The dependent foals showed greater emotionality to the unknown and isolation (P<0.05) as well as increased stress during weaning when compared to independent foals. All foals normalized its activities during the weaning process. After separation independent foals were those who started most interactions between animals (P<0.05). The relationship between the mare and the foal was modified due to maternal characteristics hierarchy and experience, beyond the temperament of foal and independence level of the foal.

Early reports of enhanced behavioral reactivity in isolation-reared rats attributed this syndrome to "isolation stress." In the studies reported here, this "isolation stress syndrome" was reliably obtained in adult rats reared from weaning in individual hanging metal cages. Such isolates showed behavioral and adrenocortical symptoms of profound fear during open-field testing, unlike group-housed controls or littermate isolates reared singly in plastic cages. Animals in hanging metal cages are never touched by human caretakers, whereas rats reared in plastic cages are picked up and put in clean cages twice weekly. Handling hanging-cage isolates twice weekly to model the handling associated with cage changes completely protected against this syndrome. Further, there was no hormonal, neurochemical or anatomical evidence of chronic stress even in hanging-cage isolates. Littermates housed in social groupings (three rats per plastic cage) also froze and defecated in the open field at rates comparable to hanging-cage isolates if they were the first animals to be tested from their social group cage. It is probable that odor cues from familiar cagemates in the open field protected socially reared animals tested subsequently from the same cage from this syndrome. It is concluded that isolates are not chronically stressed, and that rearing effects are the result of a complex interaction between prior handling, social experience and test conditions.

The strategy is closely linked to the history of humanity. Its origin is related to the military arts and has been migrating to other areas of society, locating itself in the organizational field since the second half of the 20th century. Despite the massive presence of the term, especially at managerial levels, there is no consensus on the definition of strategy, much less when it is related to the communication field and the communication planning processes. This article outlines a definition of communication strategy and presents a strategic communica s the prospective and emotional dimension of target audiences. / La estrategia está estrechamente ligada a la historia de la humanidad. Su origen se relaciona con las artes militares y ha ido migrando a otros rubros de la sociedad, ubicándose desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX en el campo organizacional. Pese a la presencia masiva del término, sobre todo a niveles directivos, no hay un consenso sobre la definición de estrategia y mucho menos cuando se relaciona con el rubro comunicacional y con los procesos de planificación en comunicación. Este artículo ensaya una definición de la estrategia en comunicación y presenta un modelo de planificación estratégica de la comunicación, el cual incorpora la prospectiva y la dimensión emocional de los públicos objetivo.

abstract: Mood disorders are highly prevalent, especially in adolescent populations. One potential cause of the widespread nature of these disorders is the formation of stigma around emotionality. Emotion research, while extensive, has not expanded to capture how a parent’s emotion regulation and expression may lead to stigmatized behaviors in their child affecting that child’s mental health into adulthood. The current thesis aimed to investigate the relevance of this novel concept – emotionality stigma – in the relationship between parental emotionality and adult-child mental health. Using social learning theory, parental emotionality was predicted to influence a child’s emotionality into adulthood. Specifically, this thesis investigated if parental emotion over- and under-expression (dysregulation) would influence adult-children to perceive a stigma around emotionality leading to worse mental health, whereas well-regulated parental emotion expression would relate to adult-child emotional intelligence, leading to better mental health. Moreover, it was predicted that these relationships would differ depending on parent and child gender. To examine these ideas, data was collected from 1,136 college and community individuals through a university survey system and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Using a combination of linear regression, PROCESS, and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) models, the results supported the proposed hypotheses. As predicted, parental dysregulation in childhood predicted impaired adult-child mental health, whereas parental regulation in childhood predicted lower levels of adult-child depression and anxiety. Additionally, emotionality stigma and emotional intelligence partially mediated the relationship between parental emotionality and adult-child mental health. Furthermore, results showed interesting gender differences; male participants were more impacted by both maternal and paternal emotionality as compared to female participants. These findings not only build on emotion research, but also have numerous applications in practice including improving parenting classes and family therapy interventions. This study is the first to explore the role of parental emotionality on adult-child mental health through stigma and emotional intelligence. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Psychology 2019

The prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster), a highly social species, offers a unique opportunity to examine the effects of parent-pup separation in a biparental family system similar to humans. We hypothesized that 1) repeated separation from pups affects parental behavior and emotionality in parents, and 2) neonatal parental separation affects emotional and physiological development in pups, and thus induces altered adult parental, emotional, and social behaviors. During postnatal day (PND) 1-10, pups were removed from their parents for 0, 15, or 360 min and housed either individually or with siblings. Unhandled controls experienced only daily lid opening. Tests for parental responsiveness and emotionality were conducted on PND11 for parents and PND90-92 for their offspring. Emotionality tests included the elevated plus maze, open field, and forced swim tests. Starting at PND150, half of each litter was paired with an opposite-sex vole for 24 hours and tested for partner preference. Additionally, behavioral response to stress was measured in all animals 0, 30, or 60 min after exposure to a forced swim. Generally, the behavior of the parents and adult offspring was influenced by daily handling, the length of the separation, and presence of siblings. Parental behaviors in parents did not differ among groups, while their anxiety- and depression-like behaviors were influenced by pup separation. For the adult offspring, separation treatment altered parental behavior, emotionality, partner preference, and stress response. Our results demonstrated that parent-pup separation affects emotional and social behaviors in prairie vole parents and adult offspring.

This diploma thesis aims to describe how public and private television news work with visual emotionality and which aspects of the production process form the main contributors to its in- terpretation. It does so with the help of a quantitative content analysis of the three phases of the news process at the main news programs of Česká televize and TV Nova. The results outline the share of visual emotionality in the news of commercial and public television. At the same time, it also offers a summary of the dramatization means that both media use to interpret visual emotionality in their main news programs.

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