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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"Cognitive Model"”.
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The developmental continuity of a cognitive model of worry
… apparent that downward extensions of adult models of psychopathology are inadequate (cf. Mash & Dozois, 2002). As a result, investigations in adolescents are essential due to the potential developmental differences and heterotypic continuity in worry between adolescents and adults. These …
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Document retrieval based on a cognitive model of dialogue
… attempts to satisfy the user's needs from a model which it builds of the user's area of interest. This model is a subset of the program's "world model" - a database in the form of a network where the nodes represent concepts since various concepts have various degrees of similarities and …
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The Social Cognitive Model for Computer Training: An Experimental Investigation
… methods were examined in the context of Social Cognitive Learning Theory (Bandura, 1977, 1978). The training methods examined were traditional lecture-based training and behavior modeling. Based on various anomalies found in the Compeau and Higgins study, this paper introduced a moderating …
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Testing A Social-Cognitive Model of Intimate Abusiveness Among Substance Dependent Males
… abusiveness through the application of a social-cognitive model of intimate abusiveness among substance dependent males. Fifty-seven males from an inpatient substance abuse treatment program participated. Subjects completed questionnaires indicating their level of intimate abusiveness. In …
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A Social Cognitive Model of Creatine Use Among Male, Recreational Weight-Lifters
This study investigated social cognitive determinants of creatine supplementation among 171 male, undergraduate, recreational weight-lifters. Participants responded to a packet of questionnaires that assessed their history and rate of creatine use, self-efficacy for improving their workout …
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Misconception Driven Student Analysis Model: Applications of a Cognitive Model in Teaching Computing
… implications of the Misconception-Driven Student Model (MDSM) as a model for developing alternatives to the aforementioned methods. I explore the implications and impact of MDSM with relation to feedback through the following thesis: Authoring feedback using a cognitive student model supports …
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Children's Primary Health Care Services: A Social-Cognitive Model of Sustained High Use
This study tested portions of a social-cognitive model that explained the mechanisms involved in the parent decision-making process that ultimately drive and maintain children's health care use. Eighty-seven primary caretakers of children ages 4 to 9 years completed measures of child health and …
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AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF A COGNITIVE MODEL OF PTSD USING PATH ANALYSIS AND STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING
… tested elements of Ehlers and Clark's (2000) cognitive model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptom maintenance using path analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM). Ehlers and Clark's model suggests that a reciprocal relationship between cognitive appraisals of the traumatic …
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An integrated social cognitive model for the prediction of physical activity participation: Preliminary development and validation
… study proposed and tested an integrated social cognitive model for the prediction of physical activity participation. The model incorporated theoretically relevant and empirically validated constructs from divergent theoretical approaches. Five constructs were selected as important for the …
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The Effect of Alcohol on Attention to Social Threat: A Test of the Avoidance-Coping Cognitive Model
<p>The Avoidance-Coping Cognitive model (Bacon & Ham, 2010) proposed that Socially anxious individuals may be particularly vulnerable to the anxiolytic effects of alcohol through reductions in attention biases to Social threat. Elements of this model and were tested in the present study, in which …
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The relationship between social anxiety and alcohol consumption in college students: Scale development, construct validation, and testing of a social cognitive model
… alcohol use. The following study used a social-cognitive based model to prospectively examine heavy drinking among socially anxious college students. It was hypothesized that alcohol expectancies of social facilitation/anxiety reduction and self-efficacy for avoiding heavy drinking in socially …
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Modelling the behaviour of a process control operator under stress
In this study, a framework to model the effects of stress on a process control operator is proposed. There exists many cognitive models, each of which attempts to model a specific class of human behaviour. One major effect of stress is the cause of errors, both physical and cognitive. In order to …
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Depression, Volition, and Death: The Effect of Depressive Disorders on the Autonomous Choice to Forgo Medical Treatment
Many contemporary models of medical ethics champion patient autonomy to counterbalance historically paternalistic decision-making processes. These models tend to suggest an autonomous agent free from cognitive bias and systematic distortion (e.g., Kantian or Cartesian rational agents). Evidence is …
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Evaluation of the competence and attitudes of primary care physicians towards information technology
… (GP's). The author wanted to give SD's a cognitive model of general medical practice in the hope that this will improve the relevancy of future medical software. This cognitive model is in the form of a set of principles that SD's can keep in mind when developing software for GP's. An …
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A Prospective Investigation of Social-Cognitive Predictors of Physical Activity: Development of a Causal Model
This study tested a model of the relationship between social-cognitive variables and physical activity in a sample of 277 university students using a prospective design. Results of structural equation modeling indicated a good fit of the social-cognitive model to the data. Self-efficacy had the …
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Cognitive modeling analysis of decision-making processes in young adults at-risk and not at-risk for alcohol dependence
… study used the Valence-Expectancy Learning model, a mathematical cognitive model, to dissect young adult performance on the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT). Drinking behavior and monetary incentive were examined as predictors of performance on the IGT. No differences were found among groups when …
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Aesthetic Appreciation of the Natural Environment: Scientific Knowledge & the Extension from Aesthetics to Ethics
… must be better than others. The scientific cognitive model posits that the natural world must be interpreted through an understanding of biological and geological categories, which are provided by scientific knowledge and common sense. While there are clearly merits to this model, it is not …
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Aesthetic Appreciation of the Natural Environment: Scientific Knowledge & the Extension from Aesthetics to Ethics
… must be better than others. The scientific cognitive model posits that the natural world must be interpreted through an understanding of biological and geological categories, which are provided by scientific knowledge and common sense. While there are clearly merits to this model, it is not …
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