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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"cognitive theories"”.
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Cognitive theories of depression: applicable across different socioeconomic classes?
Are the cognitive and reality correlates of depression similar across different socioeconomic classes? There is reason to suspect that they are not. Depression in the lower class may be tied more to bad life events than to aberrant cognitions, while depression in the middle and upper classes may …
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Virtual reality-based investigation of four cognitive theories for navigation
… on navigation tasks can be predicted by cognitive theories (Multiple Resource Theory, Stimulus-Central Processing-Response Compatibility Theory, Recoding Mechanism Theory, and Dual Coding Theory). A secondary problem was the determination of the relationship between navigation and spatial …
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Language and logical thinking structures in the normally hearing and deaf
… The implications of the findings for certain cognitive theories and for educational practice are presented.
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An exploratory study of the use of cognitive strategies by faculty members and their students in associate degree nursing education
… influence toward a more humanistic philosophy, cognitive strategies may be a key that will enable students to intellectually manage their complex environments with the large arrays of information. Cognitive theories, which are concerned with the thinking, perception, and other intellectual …
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Bridging Psychometric and Cognitive Models of (General) Intelligence: An Investigation Based on Process Overlap Theory
… One cause of this problem is that traditional theories attempt to explain the robust findings in cognitive ability testing, such as the positive manifold, from two different perspectives: psychometric or cognitive. Both approaches have their own limitations and are sometimes incompatible with …
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Do College Students with Public Speaking Anxiety Show an Attentional Bias Toward Threat?
Cognitive theories postulate that attention toward threatening information and away from neutral cues plays an etiological role in anxiety. The present study examines whether a preconscious attentional bias (AB) toward threatening stimuli exists in individuals with public speaking anxiety. …
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Comparing the Core and MAP Approaches to the Conceptualizations of the Antecedents of Extraversion
… and our approach which was derived from social-cognitive theories proposes multiple causes underlying each trait. Participants completed the MAP inventory, measures of the Big Five, and measures reflecting proposed cores of extraversion. In line with our predictions, results showed that there is …
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Human concept cognition and semantic relations in the unified medical language system: A coherence analysis.
… to offer a potential solution exists in the cognitive paradigm, where knowledge representation practice should involve, or start from, modeling the human conceptual system. This study based on two related cognitive theories: the theory-based approach to concept representation and the …
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The role of attributional style, dysfunctional attitudes, and negative life events on depression in college students
Two major cognitive theories, Beck's cognitive theory (1967) and Seligman's reformulated learned helplessness theory (1978), have dominated depression research over the last fifteen years. Both of these theories propose a diathesis-stress model in which significant life events are imparted by …
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Media Influence On Young Adults Sexual Attitudes And Behaviors
… theoretical framework of cultivation and social cognitive theories. This study used a survey to examine these relationships in young students at a large southeastern university. The researchers targeted freshmen, many in their first semester, for this study to get the best measure of attitudes, …
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Blending cognitive rule-based, process-based, and context-based theories in the development of online grammar instruction
… approaches from tested educational research on cognitive information processing theories, schema theories, and situated cognitive theories in order to determine how language rules are best learned, eight design principles were derived for the instructional environment. A prototype of the …
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The contemporary storyteller in context: a study of storytelling in modern society
… and their work. This thesis draws upon current theories in performance, folklore, literature and cognitive science to understand some manifestations of contemporary storytelling. Literary criticism and folklore, particularly, are beginning to make extensive use of cognitive theories to develop a …
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Restructuring graduate programs to meet students' changing needs
… in graduate education relating to adult learning theories, cognitive theories, online education and structures of graduate programs. The study also examines the future direction of graduate education.</p> <p>The focus of the research involved identifying alumni perceptions of the PR graduate …
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The Interaction between Affect and Meta-cognition in Language Use : The Case of Foreign Language Anxiety.
… an empirical model of interaction between meta-cognitive strategies, affect and language performance. The theoretical part examines the use of concepts of affect and meta-cognition in psychology and linguistics and the existing models of interaction between the two. Cognitive theories of affect …
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Development and validation of the cognitive vulnerability schemas questionnaire for anxious youth
According to cognitive theories of anxiety, anxiogenic schemata are a set of beliefs, rules, and assumptions that influence how those with anxiety make inferences and interpret threat. It is hypothesized that each anxiety disorder has a unique anxiogenic schema. This report describes the …
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Comparing the Cognitive Mechanisms of False Memories with the Misinformation and DRM Paradigms
… memories in both paradigms based on four current cognitive theories of false memories: fuzzy-trace theory, spreading activation/monitoring theory, global matching models, and source of activation confusion (SAC) model. We found no LPC, FN400, or N2 neural differences between the two types of false …
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The role of motivation, self-efficacy, illness representations and family responsibility in relation to diabetes outcomes: perceptions of adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes and their parents.
… type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). To bring the cognitive theories into a social context, family responsibility, and the perceptions of parents and their distress levels were also evaluated. Method 85 adolescents, aged 12-18 years, and 80 parents/carers completed self-report questionnaires. …
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Does mood induction elicit emotion recognition biases? : an empirical study with implications for depression research
… evidence, integrates these approaches. The cognitive neuropsychological model places affective processing biases as central to depression aetiology and treatment-in both biological psychiatry and cognitive psychology. One affective bias, emotion recognition, is central to the tenets of this …
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Applications in Neurorobotics
… motivations are not. On the one hand, theories of neuroscience that require immersion in the real-world can be embedded in mobile agents creating complex patterns of activity believed to be a requirement for understanding higher-order neural function. On the other, the cognitive …
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Experiences of adults from a Black Minority Ethnic (BME) background who have been detained as inpatients under the Mental Health Act (1983).
… This reflects systemic, psychodynamic and cognitive theories of race and has implications for legislation, clinical practice and further research.
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