Sentence examples for adolescent performance from inspiring English sources

Trump's grotesquely adolescent performance of masculinity arrives on the heels of a president deemed by some critics as too feminine to lead.

Preschoolers' performance on delayed gratification tasks correlates with their adolescent performance on tasks designed to measure similar constructs and processing, which parallels the corresponding development of willpower and the fronto-striatal circuit (neural pathways that connect the frontal lobe to other brain regions).

However, we cannot be confident based on the eye data alone that adolescent performance is more sensitive to reward given that a significant age group by incentive-type interaction was not observed.

We hypothesize that the increased activation we observed in putative FEF may reflect an increase in fixation-related neuronal activity that then contributes to the improvements in adolescent performance (correct response rates) by enhancing response preparation.

The New York Times praised her for "one of the toughest, smartest, most credible adolescent performances in recent memory".

Everyone in it is wonderful: Ms. Woodley ("The Secret Life of the American Teenager"), giving one of the toughest, smartest, most credible adolescent performances in recent memory; Nick Krause as her goofy sidekick, Sid; Robert Forster as Elizabeth's permanently enraged father; Beau Bridges as Matt's cousin Hugh.

Mr. Clooney's actorly instincts "have never been keener or more generous," and Ms. Woodley gives "one of the toughest, smartest, most credible adolescent performances in recent memory," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times about this drama directed by Alexander Payne and based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings.

As with many theatrical adolescents, performance was a kind of salvation; Menzel may have been a misfit elsewhere, but warbling "Sunrise, Sunset" with a six-man band behind her the world made sense.

This paper will present the design and findings of an online questionnaire survey of 11 16 year olds' impressions of their school's acoustic environment, and of an experimental study into the effects of typical levels of classroom noise on adolescent's performance on numeracy and cognitive functioning tasks.

We intend to follow-up this pilot with a large and comprehensive investigation of the non-shared environmental influences that impact on adolescent school performance.

Given that memory processing and motivation systems are highly intertwined (Phillips et al., 2008; Wise, 2004), further investigations are required to uncover the exact neural mechanisms by which testicular hormones influence adolescent NOR performance.