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The Effects of The Interpersonal Interaction Situation Upon Abstract Thinking Performance in Schizophrenia
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The effect of abstract versus concrete thinking on decision-making in depression
Abstract thinking is characteristic of depressed individuals, as is the tendency to experience difficulties with decision-making. This thesis investigated whether: (i) abstract thinking is associated with decision-making problems, and (ii) inducing a converse more adaptive style of thinking, namely …
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How cognitive complexity affects accounting career paths
… workplace have become increasingly complex. Abstract-thinking individuals are better able to process a wider variety of inputs and presumably better able to function in the complex environments. A stated goal of accounting education has been to attract and retain students who are suited to …
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Literacy Learning Experiences of Four Language Minority Students: The Principles of Importance
… use of strategies, knowledge of vocabulary, and abstract thinking skills all affect the students' reading comprehension and interpretation.
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The Relationship Among Selected Personality, Identity Status, and Academic Achievement Factors Among Black Adolescents
… Black adolescents was related significantly to abstract thinking, affirmation of the values and worth of their Blackness and origins, and being self-oriented as opposed to grouporiented, warm, sensitive, emotionally stable, and vigorous. Those who are more group-oriented rather than …
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Analysis of Scoring Music to Visual Media
… of the visual and auditory, art and commerce, abstract thinking and logistical planning. A composer working with visual media must wear many different hats in the course of creating music. He or she must of course be the composer, but also producer, audio engineer, and performer. The pieces …
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Self-Other Differences in Risky Decision Making: An Analysis of Social Values Theory and Construal-Level Theory
… higher-level mental construal that lends to more abstract thinking. Contrary to construal-level theory (Trope & Liberman, 2010), manipulations of mental construal mindset and temporal distance had no impact on the riskiness of the decision outcome in a low-impact relationship scenario. In line …
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Neuropsychological subgroups of dementia of the Alzheimer's type
… effective in separating the groups overall were Abstract Thinking, Orientation, Recent Memory, Learning Memory and CAMCOG total score. The CAMCOG appeared to offer some utility in identifying demented patients and in further describing their varied neuropsychological strengths and weaknesses. …
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The Game Of Chess: A Conduit To Increase Student Academic Achievement In Pinellas County: A Policy Advocacy Document
… whose minds are entering the cognitive phase of abstract thinking. However, chess is useful among all age groups. Chess has been shown to improve cognitive abilities among educationally low-functioning students, and it has been shown to help students academically when traditional methods have …
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Impact of mindset priming on entrepreneurial intentions after unemployment
… Recent studies in construal level suggest that abstract thinking can reduce risk aversion. Furthermore, mindset theory of action phases research shows that people in an implemental mindset viewed risk factors more positively than people in a deliberative mindset. Based on this premise, this …
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O filme Mary e Max: uma amizade diferente na representação da Síndrome de Asperger
… regarding some subjects regarding learning and thinking. The Asperger subject often builds up abstract thinking while he doesn ́t show a practical daily sense, for this reason his learning process disregards emotional aspects and overvalues intellectual processing, which makes his life point of …
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MuSciQ- A Musical Curriculum for Math
… and operations and 2) both require levels of abstract thinking and symbolic notation. Studies link music and math by examining, for example, how music may play a role in math performance. There are, however, few studies that examine how a musical curriculum may impact not only math …
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A preliminary framework and case studies for product and systems design
… role of the designer must be capable of abstract thinking, have subject matter expertise and possess technical and interpersonal skills, enabling them to take on a leadership role. It then suggests that further professionalization of the field of product and systems design is necessary …
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A Multiple Case Study Analysis of Middle Grades Social Studies Teachers' Instructional Use of Digital Technology with Academically Talented Students at Three High-Performing Middle Schools
… students incorporates the use of complex thinking skills, and encourages the development of interpersonal and leadership skills. One potential tool to achieve these goals is the use of instructional technology. Siegle (2004a, 2005) suggests that it is particularly appropriate to utilize …
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Three Studies Examining the Effects of Psychological Distance on Judgment and Decision Making in Accounting
… auditing tasks that require varying degrees of abstract thinking affect decision-makers' overall mindset and hence their subsequent judgment. Results from the second study have important implications for audit practice as auditors work in environments that require frequent shifts in focus due to …
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Brandvägg. Ord och handling i en yrkesutbildning
… or writ-ing, formal classroom interaction, abstract thinking and generalization. It implies the need for teachers to be able to cope with the linguistic difficulties that might occur in the classrooms when it comes to increase students repertoires with learning from written and abstract …
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STAKEHOLDER VOICES IN INTEGRATING EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION AS A STRATEGIC UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE
… to reflection as “a continual interweaving of thinking and doing” (p. 281). Students are asked to experience the concrete, reflect on their successes and failures, and engage in abstract thinking to develop new knowledge to use in future situations. While facilitators of experiential education …
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Aldo Leopold's political thought : particularizing American environmental dialogue.
… thought, resisting a tendency toward abstract thinking about "the environment" while retaining a holistic perspective. Citizens with different motivations for protecting and preserving nature can understand one another if they possess this notion of land, rooted in scientific …
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Thinking about change in a Thinking School: Conceptualising whole school change in the context of an English secondary school
Abstract Thinking about change in a Thinking School: Conceptualising whole school change in the context of an English secondary school This thesis examines a qualitative case study of whole school change based on the perceived experiences of members of a Staff Drive Team and a Student Drive Team in …
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Cognitive structure: a comparison of two theories and measure of integrative complexity ...
… such measures of intelligence as vocabulary, abstract thinking, and SAT verbal and mathematical scores, (c) Sex differences in the scores may exist, although the pattern is not clear, (d) Other sample characteristics may affect the distribution of scores, e.g. large intelligence differences, …
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