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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Cognitive Strategies"”.
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Personality Traits, Cognitive Strategies, and Emotion: Is It Possible to Use Cognitive Strategies to Help Neurotics Feel Better
… close relations between traits, emotions, and cognitive strategies. In Study 1, the extent to which participants naturally engaged in ineffective cognitive strategies significantly predicted negative emotions to a hypothetical negative situation after controlling for neuroticism. Neuroticism …
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The effect of cognitive strategies on endurance performance
… endurance performance. It has been claimed that cognitive strategies can mediate perceived effort and enhance endurance performance (Morgan & Pollock, 1977). These authors have suggested that association, focusing on bodily sensations and race related stimuli, is the most effective strategy for …
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Self-regulated strategy development: a cognitive strategies approach to persuasive writing
… students in this study were introduced to these strategies through small group instruction that took place during the regular school day. Through conferencing with the students, and by comparing the compositions written before the SRSD instruction to compositions written after the instruction, I …
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Tackling the ‘right’ problem: Investigating cognitive strategies used in understanding design problems
… problem spaces. The results characterize the cognitive strategies evident in finding, developing, and refining design problems.</p> <p>This paper presents the results of two studies on the cognitive processes engineers and designers use to explore and define problems. Overall, the results …
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The effects of postural threat on cognitive strategies used to maintain upright stance
… postural threat result from alterations in cognitive strategies. The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of elevated postural threat on cognitive strategies and to determine the relationship between postural control, psychological, and cognitive measures. It was hypothesized …
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Cognitive strategies as a function of effort in elite, average and recreational cyclists
… were two-fold; to develop a cycling-specific cognitive strategy classification system, and to investigate the differential and interactive effects of effort and competitive status, on associative strategy use in cyclists. Subjects consisted of 8 elite, 8 average, and 8 recreational cyclists (n …
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Cognitive strategies and heuristics underlying psychologists’ judgments on the WISE-R verbal scales : a protocol analysis
… by providing additional analysis of specific strategies psychologists used while making scoring decisions. The results of the verbal protocol analysis identified cognitive strategies inherent in the scoring of difficult type responses. The type and frequency of cognitive strategies identified …
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An exploratory study of the use of cognitive strategies by faculty members and their students in associate degree nursing education
… influence toward a more humanistic philosophy, cognitive strategies may be a key that will enable students to intellectually manage their complex environments with the large arrays of information. Cognitive theories, which are concerned with the thinking, perception, and other intellectual …
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An empirical evaluation of the latent structure of cognitive analgesia strategies
Factors influencing the effectiveness of cognitive strategies for analgesia were assessed using a cold pressor pain task with 96 subjects. Subjects rated pain during baseline and post-treatment exposures to the ice water pain stimulus. Between trials, subjects in four groups were trained in the use …
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The cognitive and neural basis of complex decision-making in the primate brain
… at the intersection of comparative psychology, cognitive ethology, and cognitive neuroscience is what cognitive strategies primates use to tackle complex multi-step decisions, and what are the neural underpinnings of the strategies. Traditionally, cognitive experiments come in two broad flavors. …
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Students of Spanish and the Spanish preterit and imperfect verb forms
… the students’ motivations, attitudes, and cognitive strategies concerning the Spanish preterit and imperfect verb forms. It was found that the students felt that these Spanish verb forms are important in Spanish study and that they are a difficult portion of Spanish study. Also, most of the …
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Mobile Books: Effect of Engagement on Students’ Motivation and Cognitive Strategy Use
… read mobile electronic storybooks (eBooks) and cognitive strategies used during eBook reading. Data collection comprised motivation and parent questionnaires, behavioural observation checklists, cognitive strategies rubric, and teacher interviews. Students’ emotional engagement with and …
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Instructional Technology and Self -Directed Learning: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Online Students' Self -Directed Learning Ability and Instructional Technology Competency
… also suggest possible variations in the learning strategies that students with different levels of SDL ability applied for learning IT in an online course. Cognitive learning strategies of metacognitive self-regulation, elaboration, and critical thinking appear as substantial factors in learning …
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Listening comprehension strategies of Arabic-speaking ESL learners
… this investigation was to identify the listening strategies of advanced and intermediate second language listeners in English and to compare the listening strategies of both groups of research participants. A total of 30 Arabic-speaking ESL learners were administered a listening comprehension test …
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The Effect of Age on Visuomotor Learning Processes
… and how well we can predict our movements. Cognitive strategies can also contribute to how quickly adaptation can occur. Age-related declines in sensory acuity and cognitive function, such as strategy use, may explain poorer adaptation in older adults compared to younger adults. The current …
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Exploring Strategies to Prevent Harm from Web Search
… but give limited focus on behavioural and cognitive biases and behaviours of the search and even less attention to interventions designed to address these biases and behaviours. As such, a theoretical framework is proposed, with behavioural and cognitive strategies as a core component of …
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College faculty and staff perceptions of the transition from high school to college for marginalized learners at an open access online university
… Transition Skills, Key Learning Skills, and Key Cognitive Strategies. This qualitative methodology uses narrative inquiry for data analysis. The results of the study focus on the implications for K-12 educators preparing students for the transition from high school to college. The results look to …
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Vicarious Traumatization in Therapists: Contributing Factors, PTSD Symptomatology, and Cognitive Distortions
… social support predict hyperarousal symptoms and cognitive distortions above and beyond the effects of therapists' personal variables. Qualitative results revealed the importance of maintaining a balance between professional and personal support, a holistic attention to body and mind that includes …
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