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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Mental processes"”.
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Envisioning the Mind: Children's Representations of Mental Processes
Inspired by writings on creativity and by Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, I conducted a series of ten "exercises" -- each of them a guided visualization followed by an opportunity to produce -- with nine- and ten-year-old students. The visualizations, which were designed to …
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Communication of an Actor’s Mental Processes to an Audience
It is held that the actor communicates his mental processes to the audience and that this silent communication is of a subtle nature.
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An analysis of seven fifth grade history workbooks on the basis of mental processes involved
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University
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An analysis of four junior high American history textbooks on the basis of the higher mental processes involved.
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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"The Dualistic Mind And Poetic Form In Wordsworth's ""prelude"""
… most sustained work explicitly concerned with mental processes, Wordsworth posits that the healthy mind operates as if it were two--one analytic, the other holistic--and he speaks of having "two consciousnesses," two interactive faculties that together comprise the mind. Wordsworth's efforts to …
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Words and rules in the brain
… theory (WR) posits that different mental processes underlie regular and irregular past tense formation: regular forms are rule-generated ('add -ed'), whereas irregular forms are retrieved from memory. These mental processes are hypothesized to engage distinct neural mechanisms. The …
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Where is the mind of the media editor? An analysis of editors as intermediaries between technology and the cinematic experience
… is the mind? A typical response to this fundamental question might be to locate the mind within the brain. However an increasing number of positions within Cognitive Philosophy argue that our mental processes extend beyond the boundaries of the brain. Gallagher & Zahavi(2008) have termed these …
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Action scheduling in humanoid conversational agents
… a module in the agent which links the mental processes to the physical actions of the agent. It receives requests from the agent's behavior generating modules and schedules them to be executed at the appropriate time, handling such tasks as speech-to-action synchronization, concurrent …
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Acting on purpose: the reflections of MIT student entrepreneurs
… what is being studied, it hides away the mental processes that create behaviours. Arguably, the people who engage the most directly with systemic change are entrepreneurs. They have to create their own system (a company) and connect it to its wider network (clients, investors, etc.). Most …
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Mental strategies and the perception of effort : implications for the psychological training of marathon runners
… sport induces both peak performance and certain mental strategies or whether the perchance or purposeful adoption of a cognitive strategy enhances performance (Cratty, 1983). In their effort to find a causal relationship, psychologists have endeavoured to understand the mental processes of …
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Interactions in the Mind: Examining Metacognition's Role in Entrepreneurial Performance
<p>To better understand the mental processes that shape entrepreneurial performance, this dissertation examines the moderating effect of metacognitive abilities on the relationship between cognitive style and entrepreneurial alertness on performance at the opportunity identification and planning …
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The empowered body : creative expression as a force for personal transformation
… essential to the concept of psychic growth. The processes of integration and introspection are discussed with reference to the resolution of repressed issues and inner conflicts. The notion of psychic harmony is referred to in correlation to this resolution. The inner and outer states of creative …
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The Effects of Inducing Disbelief in Free Will on Subsequent Cognitive Performance
… in free will influences social behavior and mental processes, its effect on cognitive performance has not yet been examined. Thus, the current study investigated the effects of inducing disbelief in free will on performance on cognitive tasks involving self-regulation, response inhibition, …
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An exploration of work dimensions in the Western Australian public service: A factor analysis of job skills and their contexts
… resembles six dimensions: Information Input, Mental Processes, Work Output, Relationships with Other People, Job Context, and Other Job Characteristics as based on an information processing model by McCormick, Jeanneret, & Mecham (1972). Results indicated that the structure of work fitted …
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Análise da navegação com ECDIS (sistema de apresentação de cartas eletrônicas e informações) utilizando conceitos de engenharia de resiliência
… models were used to understand the participants' mental processes during the task. Results showed that difficulties faced can lead to goal changes, but it is still possible maintain control and thus safety of navigation. The results suggest that the vision for these models can be complete by being …
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Towards an object-relations understanding of the borderline personality
… were then introduced and a division along environmental-intropsychic axes emerged with respect to borderline aetiology. The study concluded with a selective synthesis of this division, which was then applied to two of the author's own case studies. The role of fantasy, and the structuring of …
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An investigation into children's developing mathematical abilities
… and the assumed competencies (internal mental processes) underlying these performances. The data was generated through the use of a repeated measures design. The theory of the methods used to gather the data and to analyse the results is rooted in Vygotsky's (1978) …
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Dynamic Visual Performance Characteristics of Elderly Drivers
… study was to understand how the visual and mental processes work in tandem to affect the overall information processing capability of the individual, especially the older population, in a dynamic visual task such as driving. More specifically, our aim was to understand how the different …
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Symptomatic writings: prefigurations of Freudian theories and models of the mind in the fiction of Sheridan Le Fanu, Wilkie Collins and George Eliot
… fictions. Throughout, I show that unconscious mental processes were discussed decades before Freud.
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“Curiously Alive and Vital”: D.H. Lawrence, Gender and the Body
… as well as of the privileging of the mind and mental processes that this technology encourages. Lawrence offers the “life of the body” as an alternative to mental, mechanical life. For him, the body has a consciousness of its own, and the body’s sensations are as informative as the mind’s …
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