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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Cognitive approach"”.
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A cognitive approach to spatial patterning in literary narrative
This thesis argues that spatial representation in literary narrative is governed by the order of the visual perceptual system. This study reviews three categories of space - landscapes, indoors and the body - within a data set of novels and argues that each reveals a systematic pattern of …
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A Cognitive Approach to the Ethics of Counseling Psychology
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Women's Sexual Self Schemas: A Cognitive Approach to Women's Sexuality
… one's self views are powerful regulators of both cognitive processing and behavioral responding. Sexual self schemas have been defined as cognitive generalizations about the sexual aspects of the self, that are derived from past experience, manifest in current experience, and that function to …
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Personal Projects and Alcohol Use: An Integrative Social Cognitive Approach
… other endeavors occur, as well as a third social cognitive variable worthy of investigation in alcohol studies. As a technology for studying goal constructs, personal projects (Little, 1983; 1987; 1998) are embodiments of desired attainments an individual is trying to actualize. The present study …
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Implicit Theories of Weight Management: A Social Cognitive Approach to Motivation
Just as scientists develop general conceptual explanations of the phenomena they investigate, individuals also develop intuitive theories about such human characteristics as intelligence, personality, and athletic ability. These theories, unlike scientist's theories, are not explicitly articulated …
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A Social-Cognitive Approach To Marketing Ethics: Institutionalization, Integrity, And Power
… General Theory of Marketing Ethics and Social Cognitive Theory as guides, I find strong support for the potential synergy between individual tendencies and firm characteristics in order to facilitate ethical behavior on the part of marketing employees. In addition to shoring up earlier …
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Entrepreneurship policy for entrepreneurs : a cognitive approach to the entrepreneurial environment
… the maturing field of literature that applies cognitive science to entrepreneurship, this thesis examines what motivates entrepreneurs to start new ventures. I then use this understanding to develop policy options that aim to directly target individuals and foster more entrepreneurship as a …
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Brutus' Ignoble Mind: a Cognitive Approach to the Tragedy of Julius Caesar
Applying cognitive psychological principles of rational-emotive therapy, this thesis analyzes Brutus of William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. An overview of the criticism of the play informs the reader of the major dissenting views about Brutus. Following this is a rational-emotive …
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Condom Use Among U.S. Young Adult Black Women: An Integrated Cognitive Approach
This study examines how cognitive influences such as sexual self-schema, HIV-related stigma, perception of HIV risk and condom sexual self-efficacy influence condom use at last sex among young adult Black women. An integrated theoretical framework consisting of The Health Belief Model, Social …
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An Examination of the Underlying Mechanisms of Customer Incivility: A Cognitive Approach
… this gap, this research examined the customer’s cognitive processes underlying CI. Drawing on cognitive appraisal theory, this research hypothesized that customer anger mediates the relationships between negative service experiences and CI and that confirmation bias, overconfidence, and social …
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Animal names and categorisation in the Hebrew Bible : a textual and cognitive approach
… aspects of their worldview. The discipline of cognitive linguistics, in particular the prototype theory of categories, is used to interpret the various types and levels of animal classification; a theory on spatiality as the main basis for classification is developed, and new light is shed on a …
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Family business efficacy and the role of dynamic capabilities: a social cognitive approach
… The main aim of this study is to apply a socio-cognitive perspective to provide new theoretical and empirical insight into family firm performance. A new Family Business Efficacy (FBE) construct is posited as a distinct form of collective efficacy in family firms and a critical causal factor for …
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A Cognitive Approach to the Problems of Testing and Training Motor-Vehicle Drivers
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A social cognitive approach to influencing adolescent physical activity behavior via social media
… Participants were randomized to either a social cognitive-based condition (i.e., Behavioral group) or an attentional control (i.e., Informational group). Both conditions received access to a study-specific Facebook Group where two daily Wall Posts containing youth-based physical activity …
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Chronic accessibility of virtue-trait inferences : a social-cognitive approach to the moral personality
This study examined the hypothesis that the moral personality is one in which moral knowledge structures are chronically accessible. A spontaneous trait inference cued-recall paradigm was employed. It was expected that those with chronically accessible moral knowledge structures (N = 61) would …
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Causality and Sense of Agency: A Social-Cognitive Approach with Temporal and Spatial Binding
Over a decade of research evidences that the perceived time and space between two events becomes contracted when we believe there is a causal connection between them. The present thesis investigated how such measures of implicit causal beliefs translate to meaningful, social contexts, inspired by …
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Food for thought : a social cognitive approach to assessing children's food environments.
… the process of developing and piloting a Social Cognitive Theory (SCT)-based assessment tool to capture the interaction between environmental and social determinants of child fruit and vegetable (F/V) intake. A three-stage process facilitated development of the 64-item Food For Thought …
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A Conceptual Analysis of Otakar Ševčík’s Method : A Cognitive Approach to Violin Teaching and Learning
… debates in the most fervent way many variable approaches on musical and technical topics. However, even if its educational value is constantly acknowledged, nowadays it is not widely used in music teaching, as it is characterised by many instrumentalists as boring, complex, or difficult to …
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The social cognitive approach to understanding consumers' engagement behavior in online brand communities in South Korea
This study aimed to extend research on social cognitive theory (SCT) to explain consumers' engagement behavior in online brand communities (OBCs). Recently, marketers exploited OBCs, a nontraditional form of marketing communication, to reach their target consumers. In the current study, the SCT …
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A Social Cognitive Approach Towards Understanding The Effects Of Popular Poker Television Shows On College Students
… behavior, and social systems. Using Social Cognitive Theory as a framework of influence, exposure to these shows – ranging from the individual student to the overall college environment – was assessed and evaluated. Results indicated that student gambling is strongly correlated to viewership …
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