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Direct linkCindy Deanne Plunkett – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Worldwide, 50 million people live with dementia. There is a failure to identify best practices for teaching students to identify the common features of dementia and to determine effective ways to prevent behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. The purpose of this quantitative quasi-experimental study was to examine whether exposure to a…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Dementia, Allied Health Occupations Education, Empathy
The Socioemotional Effects of a Computer-Simulated Animal on Children's Empathy and Humane Attitudes
Peer reviewedTsai, Yueh-Feng Lily; Kaufman, David M. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2009
This study investigated the potential of using a computer-simulated animal in a handheld virtual pet videogame to improve children's empathy and humane attitudes. Also investigated was whether sex differences existed in children's development of empathy and humane attitudes resulting from play, as well as their feelings for a virtual pet. The…
Descriptors: Animals, Empathy, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students
