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Showing 1 to 20 of 301 for “"Psychology, Cognitive."”.
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Depression, Volition, and Death: The Effect of Depressive Disorders on the Autonomous Choice to Forgo Medical Treatment
… tend to suggest an autonomous agent free from cognitive bias and systematic distortion (e.g., Kantian or Cartesian rational agents). Evidence is emerging from the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience that fundamentally challenge this cognitive model, demonstrating …
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Innovative Teaching Strategies and Lesson Plans to Support Students with ADHD
… upon interdisciplinary research from educational psychology, cognitive science, and pedagogy to design inclusive research-informed teaching strategies. The cognitive processes underpinning creativity and imagination – such as divergent thinking, mind-wandering, and creative incubation – are …
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Running, Attention Restoration Theory and Environmental Compatibility.
… syntheses of four research areas (environmental psychology, exercise psychology, cognitive neuroscience and neurobiology) is provides a theoretical explanation behind running’s ability to restore directed attention.
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Disembodied performance : abstraction of representation in live theater
… Performance that adapts ideas from affective psychology, cognitive science, and the theatrical tradition to create a framework for thinking about the translation of stage presence. An implementation of a system informed by this methodology is demonstrated. In order to distill the essence of …
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Modeling the Affect of “Aha!" Moments to Detect the Moment of Learning
… human-robot interaction, education, psychology, cognitive sciences, and more.
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Nonresident fathers parenting and child and adolescent development
… <p>Advisor: Dr. Douglas Barnett</p> <p>Major: Psychology</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy, Psychology (Cognitive, Developmental and Social Psychology)</p> <p>This study investigated the statistical relations between nonresident father involvement and various child outcomes over time. …
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An Anscombean Approach to Animal Agency
… despite its widespread acceptance in comparative psychology, cognitive ethology, and the philosophy of animal minds, I argue that it faces serious problems. This thesis divides roughly into two halves corresponding to these respective aims. In the first half I argue against the Standard Approach. …
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Common minds, uncommon thoughts: a philosophical anthropological investigation of uniquely human creative behavior, with an emphasis on artistic ability, religious reflection, and scientific study
… diverse domains (evolutionary and developmental psychology, cognitive anthropology and archeology, neuroscience) within a philosophical anthropological framework, I have presented a cognitive and evolutionary approach to the question of why humans, but not other animals engage in such activities. …
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Boundary -work in United States psychology: A study of three interdisciplinary programs
… three interdisciplinary programs---evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and chaos theory---contributed to changing U.S. psychology's disciplinary boundaries. These interdisciplinary scientists brought about this change through their conceptual, material, and social practices. Psychologists …
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The kinesfield : a study of movement-based interactive and choreographic art
… investigation in the fields of dance, physiology/psychology/cognitive science, philosophy and sociology, plastic arts and cinema. This written document is accompanied by a CD-ROM which serves as an electronic appendix including images, videos and diagrams of the works referenced in the written …
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Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity for Real World Applications
… natural language processing, linguistics, psychology, cognitive sciences and humanities. Even though the state-of-the-art in this field has been striding forward in the last decade, real-world applications of computational linguistic creativity are still uncommon. For comparison, …
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The cognitive and neural basis of complex decision-making in the primate brain
… question 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 …
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Improving user modeling via the integration of learner characteristics and learner behaviors
Three major disciplines: educational psychology, cognitive science and artificial intelligence, were critically surveyed to identify useful variables for learner modeling in order to identify the subset of variables that proved to be useful in modeling individual learners as they interacted with a …
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Examining the mechanism and influential extent of retrieval-induced forgetting
… for this line of research, particularly in cognitive rehabilitation.
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A Bayesian Framework for the Unified Model for Assessing Cognitive Abilities: Blending Theory With Practicality
… psychometric models for formative assessment, or cognitive diagnosis models, as an introduction to the Reparameterized Unified Model (RUM), a statistically identifiable, practical cognitive diagnosis model developed by the author from the Unified Model of DiBello, Stout & Roussos (1995). At the …
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"""How Will They Use It?"" Exploring Competing Theories to Predict the Usage of a Knowledge Management Technology at a Software Development Firm"
The study uses quantitative data generated during the first eighteen months of an intranet implementation at a mid-sized software development firm in the Midwest. Support for contagion theories of adoption was found, although a model which incorporates adaptive structuration and transactive memory …
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An Empirical Investigation of Characteristics of Children's Physical Activity Recall
… this study was to investigate several critical cognitive related factors that may influence the children's physical activity recall based on a cognitive process model. Sixty children from middle schools, ages 12 to 15 years old, were recruited from Korea and asked to recall their physical …
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Cardiorespiratory Influences on Executive Control Function
… fitness are associated with increased cognitive flexibility, evidenced through greater change in action monitoring as a function of task parameters. Thus, cardiorespiratory fitness may be beneficial to cognitive function by selectively increasing the executive control of attention under …
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A Dose -Response Investigation of Patterns and Correlates of Affective Responses to Acute Exercise: The Dual -Mode Hypothesis
… of correlations of these responses with three cognitive (self-efficacy, affect intensity, boredom proneness) and one physiological (percentage of maximal heart rate) variables. The methodology differed from previous studies in three respects: (a) affect was assessed from a dimensional …
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