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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"cognitive errors"”.
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Exercise-Related Cognitive Errors: Measurement, Validation, and Process
… exploring the concept of exercise-related cognitive errors. Cognitive errors reflect individuals’ biased evaluations of context-relevant information. Cognitive errors are verbal statement[s] that suggest ways of evaluating information that reflect errors or biases away from the average or …
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Personal Cognition and the Affect Regulation Process: Affect Reactivity, Affect Regulation Ability, and Responses to Cognitive Errors.
… body of research examines relationships between cognitive tendencies and a number of personality and affective: i.e. emotional) traits. While several mechanisms have been suggested to explain these links, the exact reasons for the observed effects remain unclear in a number of circumstances. The …
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Assessing executive function as it relates to self-regulation
Slips of action are cognitive errors that occur during routine tasks in everyday life (Clark, Parakh, Smilek, & Roy, 2012). Minimizing these everyday errors involves executive function, a system of complementary cognitive processes that enable control over thoughts and actions, including attention, …
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Which Events Constitute Criteria A1 of PTSD? The Phenomenology of Psychological Trauma in Youth
… Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms and types of cognitive errors. Information regarding traumas and PTSD symptoms was collected through The Child PTSD Checklist from a sample of youth aged 6 to 17. A coding system was developed for classification of traumatic events. The expression symptom and …
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Bounded Rationality in Real Estate Investment Decisions
… suffer from behavioural biases. They make cognitive errors by processing the available information in a selective and biased manner and rely on additional emotional heuristics to take mental shortcuts. Instead of making optimal decisions, they seek satisfactory solutions. Overall, they can …
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Was the Decision to Invade Iraq and the Failure of Occupation Planning a Case of Groupthink?
… such as ideological agenda setting, and other cognitive errors besides groupthink.
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Walking and talking in multiple sclerosis: an investigation of cognitive-motor dual tasking and clinical research portfolio
… the effects of performing a concurrent cognitive task when walking in MS and determine the effects of task demand on dual-task performance. Eighteen MS participants and 18 healthy controls took part. Participants completed walking and cognitive tasks under single and dual task …
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National security panics : overestimating threats to national security
… The Psychological Perspective argues cognitive errors could cause these overestimations (attribution theory and schema theory/analogical reasoning, tested here). The Domestic Politics Perspective argues oversell, logrolling, electoral politics and/or militarism causes public …
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Virtual Pelvic Surgery Simulator for the Prevention of Surgical Errors
… involve some sort of complications. Surgical errors can be caused by both technical errors and cognitive errors which may happen to even an experienced surgeon. Resident surgeons are more prone to surgical errors as they start their surgical career with less experience and skills. In order to …
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Value versus growth in the Asian equity markets
… by the 'Price' factor, may contain systematic errors and may not reflect the underlying intrinsic valuations of both value and growth' companies. This raises the question whether they are valid ratios for screening value and growth stocks. We therefore analyse a style investment strategy using …
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Cognitive error in the measurement of investment returns
… thesis identifies and quantifies the impact of cognitive errors in certain aspects of investor decision-making. One error is that investors are unaware that the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) is a biased indicator of expected terminal wealth for any dynamic strategy where the amount invested is …
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Towards Developing A Theory of Failure Causality In Operations Management
… types of human error. Results show that human errors serve as significant causal factors in over 70% of all adverse operational events. In addition, events triggered by human error tend to be more severe than events triggered by equipment failures or external phenomena such as storms and power …
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Cognitive Biases in Childhood Anxiety Disorders: Do Interpretive and Judgment Biases Distinguish Anxious Youth from their Non-anxious Peers?
The purpose of this study was to examine cognitive biases in clinically anxious children compared to normal children and to determine if cognitive biases could discriminate anxious youth from non-anxious youth. Two specific cognitive biases were the focus of the present study—interpretive biases …