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Cooperation and conversations about the mind: A study of individual differences in 2-year-olds and their siblings
Version of Record online: 23 DEC 2010
2006 The British Psychological Society
British Journal of Developmental Psychology
Special Issue: The role of conversations in children's social, emotional and cognitive development
Volume 24, Issue 1, pages 53–72, March 2006
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Hughes, C., Fujisawa, K. K., Ensor, R., Lecce, S. and Marfleet, R. (2006), Cooperation and conversations about the mind: A study of individual differences in 2-year-olds and their siblings. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 24: 53–72. doi: 10.1348/026151005X82893
Publication History
- Issue online: 23 DEC 2010
- Version of Record online: 23 DEC 2010
- Received 10 December 2004; revised version received 24 October 2005
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Sibling relationships appear important in fostering young children's growing theory-of-mind skills, but the quality of sibling interactions has rarely been investigated directly in relation to children's mental-state awareness (e.g. as indexed by talk about perceptions, desires, feelings, cognitions, i.e. inner state talk; IST). This study explored individual differences in young siblings' IST in relation to (i) child characteristics (verbal ability and theory-of-mind task performance); (ii) family characteristics (sib-ship size; social disadvantage, maternal well-being); and (iii) the quality of the children's play with their siblings (frequencies of pretence and reciprocal play). A socially diverse sample of 111 2-year-olds was filmed at home playing with a sib (mean age =4.92 years; SD=1.67 years); these sessions were coded from video for reciprocal play and then transcribed and coded for IST and pretence. Verbal ability was assessed for both sibs; in addition, 2-year-olds completed theory-of-mind tasks. Age and verbal ability were correlated with frequencies of overall talk, IST, pretence and reciprocal play. (Theory-of-mind scores were also correlated with 2-year-olds' IST, but this relation fell below significance once verbal ability was controlled). Significant independent relations were found between IST and children's quality of play, even when age, verbal ability and overall rates of talk were controlled. Although there were no gender contrasts in mean rates or in the variety of IST, gender differences were found in their correlates: in particular, context effects were significantly more important for girls than for boys. Individual differences in children's IST reflect multiple factors, including the dynamic features of children's reciprocal play.


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I have always been fond of the way of life that the Amish continue to carry on through so many generations. It is a simpler way of life and yet much more difficult than modern day farmers. The work is much harder when it is done by hand and without the convenience of today's technology and equipment.
This farm is in central Wisconsin where a number of Amish communities have sprung up over recent years. In fact, Wisconsin's Amish population is the fourth largest in North America.
Since it is frowned upon by the people to have their photos taken, I had to take one of the horses, barn and machinery alone and create the painting with the family in it from my memories of seeing them working in the fields, their beautiful gardens or their various shops and stores. The children begin helping with small tasks at a very early age and continue to contribute more as they grow. To see the little children all dressed in the same attire as the adults is so charming.
This Amish community is near the city of Portage, Wisconsin. The people have established themselves on many farms in the area and provide all the necessary needs for each other. They have built furniture shops, bakeries, general stores, cheese factories, quilt shops, and buggy shops where they produce the black buggies that are so familiar to us all. Their general stores and bakeries are always filled with neighboring people and visitors to the area. The Amish people are very friendly to everyone they meet or wait on in their shops and will always give a cheerful wave to you whenever you pass them on the road or drive past their front yard.
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- Developer: Take-two Interactive
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- Genre: Action Shooter First-Person
- Release: Sep 8, 1996
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The Grim Reaper Show
Death finally gets his own show and a chance to speak his mind.
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A show about goths and kids trying to be goth.
The trials and tribulations of a superhero kid and his evil twin.
April 1st is April Fools HeHE,
woooh! beat it in 0.2 seconds!
i love this game series, it has an interesting plot-line :)
i beat it in 0.6 seconds lool
It's A Dream...
Whatever happened to Phil at this game is a dream. He's in space, and that alien who sat behind Phil saved him from his dream. In Riddle School 5, when you past that monster guard, you will see a notice. in the end, it's like. They will be waken up if they meet doom in their dreams... So that alien saved Phil.Phil is still alive, but his in space...
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Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
This property does not have elevators.
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You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- A tax is imposed by the city: HRK 3.50 per person, per night
- Resort fee: HRK 7 per person, per night
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Self parking costs HRK 80 per day
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of HRK 225 per person (one way)
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
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Outstanding 4.7 /5 from 14 reviews
Very nice. Would stay again. The room is little small so watch your knees on the corner of the bed. Also we took low pressure showers to help the hot water last longer. Overall, excellent location and value.
Great apartment in a fantastic location. Very warm and endearing hotel manager/owner.
Not only was this apartment very nicely layed out it was also spotless, in a perfect location in rovinj but the owners were the most friendly, accommodating and helpful people we've ever come across. Location is beautiful and will definitely be going back. Best holiday we've had and we've been to lots of places around the world. Mostly 5 star hotels we've stayed in but non compare to the hospitality we received at the Duketis.
If you are looking to stay in the city center this is a perfect location, near the Balbi Gate. This is not a hotel but a house that has been converted to individual rooms. You will be staying in a room in the house but the place has been immaculately remolded and you won't even see your neighbors unless you run into them in the hallways. The staff was always reachable, considerate, and more than willing to make my stay comfortable and enjoyable. My only complaint was since its so centrally located the noise from outside restaurants and shops can be a bit overbearing. But that's my own fault since I was partying until 0600 and then trying to sleep during the day when normal people are up and about..:) You won't need a taxi to get around since you are already in the main square. I arrived from Venice via a ferry and the port is a 5-7 minute walk from the hotel. If you want something quaint and subtle, this is your place. I will be staying again next year for the next Salsa Party!
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The City Council unanimously approved the outsourcing agreement Tuesday night.
Previously, these services were performed by the city's Municipal Operations Department and a few contractors. According to the staff report, Pinnacle was the highest rated among five companies that bid for the project.
Pinnacle's proposed annual cost for the maintenance work was $885,784. The new agreement includes 231.4 acres to be maintained and requires a minimum of 22 contractors to be devoted to the project per day, the report states. The city did not fill the positions of two Parks Division staff members who retired over the last two years, according to the staff report.
Council members approved two other agreements to outsource streetlight electrical repair and sewer video inspections.
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Use VitalSource Bookshelf® to download and access VitalSource eTextbooks on your Android powered phone or tablet. Read your books online or offline, search across your full library, and create notes and highlights to help you study.
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I am editing my review after having used this program for a few months. It seems to work ok on android though not as well as it does on the web browser or ipad. Unfortunately this is my only offer for downloading textbooks. Problems: This app often times can take minutes to load which is pretty unacceptable. Some books seem to render better than others. In comparison to the Amazon Kindle app for reading textbooks this is worse. The syncing between web browser, ipad app, and android app is inconsistent and does not always work.
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The worst delay in navigating anywhere through the books. Highlight and note taking are disabled. Unable to change colors of text and background so bed time reading has severe glare issues. Makes studying much harder than if I could have chosen my own reader to open my e-textbooks. Unfortunately I'm in a captive market and forced to use this software.
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|By Rob Sutherland
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|March 16, 2004 12:00 AM EST
At the end of 2004, Microsoft will stop supporting Windows NT. At that point, anyone using Windows NT will have several choices: follow Microsoft's upgrade path to Windows 2003, continue to use Windows NT without Microsoft support, or switch to Linux.
Switching to Linux is the cheapest, safest alternative, according to such companies as Tramp Trampolines and Polyscientific Enterprise Sdn. Bhd, a distributor of chemical and industrial products. Both of these companies made successful migrations from Windows NT to Linux and are happily using Linux as a desktop today, bringing them cost savings and greater stability.
This article examines the Windows-to-Linux path for organizations using Windows NT as a desktop. We'll look at the first step, taking stock of the current situation, and then look at the choices that have to be made based on that. Then we'll look at the migration process and examine some of the problems and successes organizations have faced in making migrations work. Also covered are some of the recent technologies such as Live CDs and WINE (www.winehq.org), Win4Lin (www.netraverse.com), as well as application equivalents and data conversion tools that make migration less painful, such as Rekall (www.totalrekall.co.uk).
Convincing the BusinessThe first step in any successful migration is to have a solid commitment from the decision makers. Every migration I have ever been involved in has strongly resembled an ungodly combination of a train wreck and a bar fight. It takes a clear plan (fail to plan, plan to fail) and a lot of willpower combined with flexibility to get through to the end while reducing to a minimum the amount of bloodshed along the way. Without real buy-in by the decision makers it's not just difficult, it's impossible.
It's crucial to understand as well that not all the decision makers are in the boardroom - it's best to have a core of active supporters as a core team and a majority who are at least passive supporters of the migration effort. A little education and communication up front will go a long way in reducing the costs of the project and ensuring the active, willing cooperation of your core team. This is the second step in a successful migration. When I say core team, I don't mean the experts that may be brought in to install and train users; I mean users who have bought into the new technologies and are willing to put out the extra effort needed to carry it through. You'll need them.
Identifying the Task at HandThe third step in a successful migration is to take stock of the current state of the shop. You'll need to answer these questions:
- What are our key applications?
- What dependencies do they create?
- Who are our key users?
- How big is the job?
Once you have the answers to these questions you'll be in a position to conduct a systems triage. In a systems triage you divide your key applications into those that can be replaced by functional equivalents, those that cannot be replaced, and those that must be converted in detail. An example of the first group might be a word-processing package - OpenOffice, for example, can replace Microsoft Word.
The second group comprises two categories: applications that are unacceptably expensive to replace because of reengineering or retraining costs, and applications that cannot be replaced because of external requirements. A company may find that the retraining costs for moving people from Adobe Photoshop to the GIMP are unacceptably high, for example. Or they may have a requirement to provide material in certain formats that they cannot modify, such as a supplier whose largest customer stipulates that certain information must be transferred using Access or Excel.
The last group encompasses the "homegrown" components of the desktop system, such as Word macros or Visual Basic utilities, which would need to be rewritten in a new package.
This last group is where most of the migration "gotchas" lurk, and early identification of them is critical. Although zealots on both sides will often try to show that the choice between Windows and Linux is all or nothing, this isn't true in most cases. There is a set of technologies that allow Windows applications to be run on Linux. There are a lot of options here, from WINE, CodeWeavers (www.codeweavers.com), and Win4Lin, which provide a basic environment for executing Windows applications directly within Linux, through to full operating system emulation environments such as VMWare (www.vmware.com).
These technologies are quite solid and when properly applied can give you the best of both worlds. Users use applications, and applications use operating systems, so a solution that gives the users applications that they can work with and the applications a stable, secure operating system may be the best solution - or at least one that gives you a little more breathing space.
Building the New EnvironmentOnce the analysis is done, you'll be in a position to make evaluations that will lead to firm decisions about the specific technologies and packages you'll be using. This is an area where open source stops being an abstract and becomes a serious business advantage. You don't need to buy a pig in a poke - you can get several pigs and make them jump through hoops for a very low cost.
If you take advantage of Linux on bootable CD technologies such as KNOPPIX, you can reduce the cost of testing and evaluation significantly. For example, rather than setting up a test machine or network and moving over a typical set of material, you can simply boot your existing machines with KNOPPIX and try opening your existing Word documents with OpenOffice.
Your core users can try things like switching over to Linux and falling back to Windows when required. There are also a lot of resources for choosing Windows application equivalents on Linux and many articles describing Windows-to-Linux migration in general.
The best guide I've found is the Migration Guide put out by KBSt Publication Service, a 441-page PDF containing a thorough and well-written analysis sure to be useful to anyone looking at this.
The absence of license fees and ready availability of much of the software sharply reduces the cost of doing an incremental migration. The variety among Linux distributions is an advantage here, rather than a liability, because no matter what your existing hardware base is, you'll be able to find a distribution that will run on it. If the one you find can't do what you want, you'll be able to determine the needed upgrades much more exactly than by simply taking a minimum requirements list from a vendor's sales material. On the other hand, if you want to obtain professional services to assist your evaluation, companies such as IBM (www-1.ibm.com/linux) and Racemi (www.racemi.com) offer consulting services in this area.
I haven't found any products designed specifically for assisting desktop migrations; however, two tools I often recommend are OpenOffice and Rekall. OpenOffice's ability to read Word and Excel formats and write a variety of formats make it an ideal replacement for the Windows equivalents, while Rekall allows you to read an Access database via ODBC and write that data to PostgreSQL, MySQL, or a number of other databases. For the vast majority of desktop systems this will allow you to transfer the user data.
In situations where you cannot easily transfer data, you may have to change your approach to looking for an equivalent or compatible software package. For example, Polyscientific Enterprise had a problem with Lotus Smartsheet documents not being readable by OpenOffice, and reassessed their business problem to look for a solution within another package.
You can use one of the methods described previously to run a Windows application on Linux. In any event, when you have decided on the correct mix of application packages, make sure they can work together. Having your core team perform interoperability testing by actually moving real data around and verifying the results is the best way to discover problems. Once again, solutions such as Knoppix can be a real help at this point.
Realizing the MigrationSo, after you've gotten a solid commitment, decided on your migration plan, assembled the core team, and assembled and tested your solution, you're faced with training and supporting your end users. Some suggestions to make this easier:
- Try to do it a few users at a time, or one functional group at a time.
- Evaluate the material available for free from places such as Openoffice.org, and make this material available through an internal Web application such as a forum or a Wiki.
- Set up a Web-based training package such as Moodle (www.moodle.org).
- If you can, make your core team available to help people out.
- Test your chosen architecture and software suite and ensure that it fulfils your functional requirements.
- Test the interoperability of your new solutions with your legacy systems and verify that they work in a production environment before you commit them organization-wide.
- Test your training and documentation setup using typical users with no previous background. Remember that if people can't be brought up to speed on the new solutions in a cost-effective way, it won't work.
- Expect problems. Testing will reduce, but not eliminate, them and you'll have to react quickly while under a great deal of stress
SummaryPeople and commitment are the key to a successful migration. If you have them you can succeed - and if you can take advantage of the open source edge, you can do it for a lot less. Migrations are always a high-stress activity and desktop migration is particularly so because it forces users to cope with more-visible changes than, for example, upgrading an e-mail server. Careful goal definition, planning, solution evaluation, and end-user training are all critical components, as is a dedicated core team and a step-by-step approach. The lower cost, greater interoperability, and greater flexibility of open source technologies, when used properly as part of well-thought-out and coordinated plan, will get you to the end of your migration path with a stable, secure, and lower-cost desktop.
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Christian Lüscher is at the Department of Basic Neurosciences and Clinic of Neurology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Mark A. Ungless is at the Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
The authors review recent research on the molecular mechanisms of addiction and propose a new classification for addictive drugs.
The consumption of a variety of natural and synthetic substances can lead to addiction, which is commonly defined by the loss of control and compulsive consumption despite negative consequences. Although addictive drugs have diverse molecular targets in the brain, they share the common initial effect of increasing the concentration of dopamine released from mesocorticolimbic projections.
In this article, we review recent research that has advanced our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying this increase of dopamine. Based on this research, we propose a new classification for addictive drugs that we believe may help in directing research towards more effective treatment of addiction (see
The Mechanistic Classification of Drugs of Abuse
G, Gi/o-coupled receptors; i, ionotropic receptors/ion channels; T, monoamine transporters
The mesocorticolimbic dopamine system originates in the ventral tegmental area (VTA), which projects most notably to the nucleus accumbens (NAc) and the prefrontal cortex (PFC). It is a defining commonality of all addictive drugs that they increase dopamine concentrations in target structures of the mesocorticolimbic projections [
Moreover, it is important to realize that, once compulsive use has been established, addiction is thought to be largely dopamine-independent. Nonetheless, it is widely accepted that the induction of addiction crucially involves mesocorticolimbic dopamine.
Taken together, these findings suggest that it may be possible to dissociate the hedonic value of a drug from its addictive properties using modern molecular tools. Such experiments, which may have important clinical ramifications, obviously depend on further mechanistic insight regarding drug action. We believe that our classification, based on the molecular and cellular mechanisms through which addictive drugs increase mesocorticolimbic dopamine, will provide the conceptual framework required to facilitate research to resolve these and related issues.
Addictive drugs are a chemically heterogeneous group with very distinct molecular targets. Moreover, an individual drug may have more than one molecular target. Here we will focus on those mechanisms that are directly responsible for the increase in dopamine concentration. We distinguish three groups of addictive drugs: (1) drugs that bind to G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs)—this group includes the opioids, cannabinoids, and γ -hydroxy butyrate (GHB); (2) drugs that interact with ionotropic receptors or ion channels—this group includes nicotine, alcohol, and benzodiazepines; and (3) drugs that target monoamine transporters—this group comprises cocaine, amphetamine, and methylenedioxymetamphetamine (MDMA, ecstasy) (see
GPCRs that are of the Gi/o family inhibit neurons through post-synaptic hyperpolarisation and pre-synaptic regulation of the transmitter release. In the VTA, the action of these drugs is preferentially on the γ -aminobutyric acid (GABA) neurons that act as local inhibitory interneurons. They also inhibit glutamate release [
These strongly increase the release of mesolimbic dopamine by their action on μ-opioid receptors (MORs), which are expressed on inhibitory GABAergic interneurons of the VTA [
Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) binds to type 1 cannabinoid receptors (CB1Rs) in the brain. In the VTA, these receptors are expressed on GABA neurons and on terminals of glutamatergic synapses on dopamine neurons [
This is an increasingly popular club drug that is readily self-administered and induces conditioned place preference (see Glossary) in animal models, and leads to addiction in humans [
This drug targets nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) in the brain. When nicotine binds nAChRs they become cation-permeable and depolarise the cell. Nicotine increases dopamine through a complex interplay of actions at these ionotropic receptors on GABA and dopamine neurons, and glutamatergic inputs to dopamine neurons [
This view is further complicated by two more actions of nicotine. Homomeric a7-containing nAChRs, which are mainly expressed on synaptic terminals of excitatory glutamatergic afferents onto dopamine neurons in the VTA, facilitate glutamate release [
Benzodiazepines (BZD) increase mesocorticolimbic dopamine and can lead to addiction. BZD are positive modulators of the GABAA receptor. When injected into the VTA, the GABAA receptor agonist muscimol seems to inhibit interneurons more efficiently compared to dopamine neurons, which may lead to a net disinhibition of the dopamine neurons [
This drug has a complex pharmacology. No single receptor mediates all of the effects of alcohol [
In the central nervous system, cocaine blocks dopamine, noradrenaline, and serotonin uptake through inhibition of their respective transporters. Blocking of the dopamine transporter (DAT) leads to an increase of dopamine concentrations in the nucleus accumbens. (The firing rate of DA neurons of the VTA actually decreases with cocaine application, which is due to the effects of dopamine on D2 autoreceptors on DA neurons [
These exert their effects by reversing the action of biogenic amine transporters at the plasma membrane [
As for the amphetamines, MDMA causes the release of biogenic amines by reversing the action of their respective transporters. Although MDMA has a preferential affinity for SERTs and therefore increases the extracellular concentration of serotonin, it also strongly increases dopamine [
There are a number of abused drugs about which there is no clear consensus concerning their addictive properties (e.g., hallucinogens and dissociative anaesthetics). For example, LSD, which is widely abused, does not appear to be addictive. Animals will not self-administer hallucinogens, suggesting that they are not rewarding [
The main effect of the NMDA receptor antagonists phencyclidine (PCP) and ketamine are feelings of separation of mind and body and, at higher doses, stupor and coma, which is why they are called dissociative anaesthetics. Based on early assessments, NMDA receptor antagonists have been classified as non-addictive drugs of abuse [
Inhalant abuse is defined by the recreational exposure to chemical vapours, such as nitrates, ketones, and aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons. In some countries it is particularly common among children, and some chemicals do induce addiction [
We have presented a new mechanistic classification system for addictive drugs. There are a number of key features of this system. First, there are three types of mechanism. Second, each addictive drug only activates the dopamine system through a single mechanism (with the possible exception of ethanol, which has multiple molecular targets whose relative contributions to addiction remain elusive). Third, within each type of mechanism the effect on the dopamine system is similar (e.g., Class I drugs all activate dopamine neurons via disinhibition).
Although substantial progress into unravelling the neurobiological bases of addiction has been made, many open questions remain and few effective treatments are currently available. Much current research is therefore aimed at understanding the neuroadaptive changes induced by addictive drugs, such as increased expression of deltaFosB and DARP32 [
Understanding the early phases of the induction of adaptive processes will also be important for the discovery of novel pharmacological treatment strategies. If activation of the dopamine system is indeed crucial for the development of addiction, then an interesting strategy may be to inhibit the mesocorticolimbic DA system (either pharmacologically or through direct stimulation). This idea is further supported by the observation that increases in dopamine play an important role in relapse, particularly drug-induced relapse [
Treatments in use, or at pre-clinical stages of development, are either drug-specific (e.g., vaccines or antagonists that directly block drug action, or agonists for use as drug substitutes) or target a mechanism that is common to several drugs (e.g., medications that reduce craving in multiple forms of addiction) [
Finally, we hope that our strikingly simple mechanistic classification will provide students and clinicians with a useful conceptual framework for understanding a diverse and often complex literature concerning such an important medical issue.
We thank M. Frerking for many helpful comments on an earlier draft.
type 1 cannabinoid receptor
dopamine transporter
γ -aminobutyric acid
γ -hydroxy butyrate
G protein–coupled inwardly rectifying K+
G protein–coupled receptor
μ-opioid receptor
nucleus accumbens
nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
prefrontal cortex
serotonin transporter
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