The interrelationship between behavior problems, adaptive behavior and academic achievement was studied in children with IQ’s between 60 and 70. The objective was to increase the insight into the contribution of adaptive behavior and general and autistic behavior problems to academic achievement in children with mental retardation. Children from two levels of education were compared on adaptive...

We examine adaptive behavior in forming and changing utility regulatory systems. Systems with independent regulatory agencies dampen the effects of political and market power, and diminish information asymmetries, which improves sector performance. But creating or adapting the system triggers resistance from those who experience loss and at weakens regulatory effectiveness for some period of ti...

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We consider an oligopolistic market game, in which the players are competing firms in the same market of a homogeneous consumption good. The consumer side is represented by a fixed demand function. The firms decide how much to produce of a perishable consumption good, and they decide upon a number of information signals to be sent into the population in order to attract customers. Due to the mi...

Schlesinger (2003, Adaptive Behavior, 11: 97–107) recently proposed a model of eye movements as a tool for investigating infants’ visual expectations. In the present study, this gazedirection model was evaluated by: (a) generating a set of predictions concerning how infants distribute their attention during possible and impossible events; and (b) testing these predictions in a replication of Ba...