Sentence examples for tasks children from inspiring English sources

"A Wrinkle in Time," by Madeleine L'Engle, tasks children with battling evil forces — but, like today's fantasy novels, in an alternate reality.

In a subsequent discussion about "Kid Nation," the coming controversial CBS reality show that tasks children, without parental supervision, to build their own society in the wilderness, Ms. Jones went on and on about her own reliance on her "mama," not really listening to her guests.

On the physical tasks, children performed no better than the chimps or orangutans.

The data showed that while TD children had no problems with both tasks, children with autism recognized what another individual was doing [21], [24], [25], [26], [27], but frequently failed in understanding why that individual was doing it.

This makes sense because in these tasks children perform a tedious and sometimes difficult task with relatively quick presentation times for a sustained period.

In this preliminary investigation, we describe the development and application of an approach for increasing the number of fMRI tasks children complete during neuroimaging.

Across the two tasks, five individual items showed intra-rater reliability less than 0.6 and were excluded from further analysis (i.e., maternal positive control (free play), child positive affect (both tasks), child independence (puzzle), dyad cooperation (puzzle)).

As the number of living witnesses dwindles, we have a sacred task: children today will be the grandparents and great-grandparents of the future.

For the copy task, children were asked to copy another 10 figures presented.

On a four-category judgment task, children's performance was above chance by age 4, with a mean of 64% correct.

Our imaging results indicated that during performance of the 2-back task, children showed evidence for increased transient, but decreased sustained activity, in comparison to adults.