Play it safe or play to learn: mindsets and behavioral self-regulation in kindergarten

Safe and Secure Places to Live, Learn, and Play

Office of Adolescent Health | Website: http://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/TAG Twitter: @TeenHealthGov Email: [email protected] “Schools, neighborhoods, and community settings can foster and support healthy adolescent development across the spectrum, including physical and mental health, social interactions, and cognitive growth. Adolescents also benefit from safe places to congregate, enjoy social, athle...

Self-Play and Using an Expert to Learn to Play Backgammon with Temporal Difference Learning

A promising approach to learn to play board games is to use reinforcement learning algorithms that can learn a game position evaluation function. In this paper we examine and compare three different methods for generating training games: 1) Learning by self-play, 2) Learning by playing against an expert program, and 3) Learning from viewing experts play against each other. Although the third po...

CMAC Models Learn to Play

Traditional reinforcement learning methods require a function approx-imator (FA) for learning value functions in large or continuous state spaces. We describe a novel combination of CMAC-based FAs and adap-tive world models (WMs) estimating transition probabilities and rewards. Simple variants are tested in multiagent soccer environments where they outperform the evolutionary method PIPE which ...

To play or not to play.

Effect of cognitive-behavioral play therapy in the self-esteem and social anxiety of students

Self-esteem and lack of social phobia are considered amongst the components of mental health. These features are more likely to be created during the early years of life like any other mental aspect. Hence, the present research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral play therapy in self-esteem and social anxiety of student. The statistical population included all the stu...