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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"mental representations"”.
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Adult attachment and mental representations of significant others
According to attachment theory, the infant shapes perceptions on self and significant others based on his or her experience with the primary caregiver. These perceptions include thoughts and beliefs regards the extent to which the self is worthy of love, and the extent to which others are reliable …
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Systems Thinking, Mental Representations, and Unintended Consequence Identification
… perspectives that facilitate decision makers' mental representations of complex environments---improves accountants' thinking about causality (Bell, Peecher, and Solomon 2002). We have relatively little understanding, however, of how ST influences task performance or determinants of task …
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Auditor Mental Representations and Hypothesis Testing of the Control Environment
… thesis, I examine how auditors construct their mental representations and test their hypotheses about the strength of a client’s control environment. With regard to the former, I hypothesize that management’s frame of the control system and auditor’s retrieval of control environment information …
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The role of mental representations of order in mathematical cognition: a developmental approach
… although relatively few developmental studies have considered thecontribution of non-numerical ordering skills, and most have not considered theimportance of ordering skills involving ordinal sequences that are familiar toeven very young children, such as the order of familiar …
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The Beautiful and the Bullshit: Speaker and Listener Mental Representations Influence Bullshit Receptivity
… to obtain visual estimates of people’s mental representations of a “bullshitter” (one who makes bullshit statements) or a “bullshittee” (one who believes bullshit statements). Experiment 2 tested whether participants had lower bullshit receptivity to statements attributed to bullshitters …
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Children's mental representations of attachment: associations with attachment security and parent-child narrative quality
… the antecedents and correlates of children’s mental representations of attachment at 5 years (Attachment Story Completion Task, Bretherton, Ridgeway, & Cassidy, 1990; MacArthur Story Stem Battery, Bretherton, Oppenheim, Buchsbaum, Emde, & the MacArthur Narrative Group, 1990). Predictors …
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Culture and Mental Representations of Power: Implications for Consumers' Information-Processing Strategies, Judgments, and Influence Attempts
… relationship between cultural orientation and mental representations of power goals. We distinguish among cultures that foster associations of power with status-enhancing concerns, those that encourage associations of power with concerns for the welfare of others, and those that do not …
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A Phenomenological Enquiry of Perceived Mental Representations in Thematic Musical Improvisation: Case Studies of Two Professional Pianists
… of two professional music improvisers’ perceived mental representations. The notion of perceived ‘mental representations’ are recognized as having a pedagogical importance in increasing the quality of a musical performance, yet its nature and roles in music learning remain poorly understood. …
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"Spacecraft in miniature" : a tool for the acquisition of mental representations of large, complex 3-D virtual environments
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, February 2002.
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The Metaphysics of Mental Representation
… in terms of the existence and nature of mental representations. Despite the typical characterisation of mental representations in terms of their semantics, RTM is best understood as a metaphysical – more specifically formal ontological – theory whose primary defining feature is …
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Attention and Encoding in Physics Learning and Problem Solving
… presents several studies designed to probe the mental representations that physics experts and novices form when interacting with typical instructional materials, such as diagrams and problem statements. By using recognition tasks and a change detection task, the mental representations of …
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Causativity in Chinese and its representations in English, Japanese and Korean speakers' L2 Chinese grammars.
… An empirical study is conducted to look into the mental representations of these Chinese verbs and constructions in English-, Japanese- and Korean-speaking learners' L2 Chinese grammars. The aim of the research is to find out whether Ll transfer persists in L2 Chinese and whether L2 learners can …
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Experts and novices: Differences in their use of mental representation and metacognition in engineering design
Research shows that mental representation such as analogical reasoning is a fundamental cognitive tool for design problem solving (Daugherty & Mentzer, 2008; Hey, Lensey, Agogino, & Wood, 2008; Lewis, 2008). Not much is known, however, about the way students and professional engineers actively …
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Representaciones mentales de docentes sobre el universo : los modelos cosmológicos que lo explican y aplicación de una estrategia metodológica para promover su evolución
… la cual caracterizamos las representaciones mentales de docentes de ciencias sobre el universo y los elementos que incluyeron en los modelos cosmológicos que lo explican y la otra experimental, donde aplicamos una estrategia metodológica inspirada en los puntos de encuentro de las teorías de …
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Culture and Time Perception: Implications for Mental Representation and Decisions
… as well as the possible influences on mental representation and decisions. Building on prior research on cultural differences in time-related perceptions, two main time perceptions were identified and focused on, namely temporal orientation and the use of time metaphor. The temporal …
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Theories of Perception and Recent Empirical Work
… realism and suggest that perception involves mental representation. I review this literature and the arguments therein, examine the relevant empirical work, and argue that recent empirical work on perception does give us reason to reject naive realism and to favour an indirect realist view …
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Preschool teacher-child relationships: an exploratory study of attachment models over time
… the influence of primary attachment models or mental representations of each individual, on the interactions between teachers and children. Data on the teacher-child interactions were gathered through classroom observations and in depth interviews. Parents of the children were interviewed to …
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Contextual priming effects in the reception and evaluation of news events
… serious news stories fosters assimilation. Experimental results are compared to a theoretical model to test its predictions regarding the effects of juxtaposition in the evaluation of stimuli. Media not only affect the amount and kind of information that individuals get about events, but also how …
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A Possible Self Program for the Foreign Language Class
… frameworks that support the use of mental imagery for possible self enhancement; and articulate and evaluate a pedagogical intervention designed for the foreign language class. This intervention will allow students to explore and develop prominent and vivid mental representations …
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The Mind as a Predictive Modelling Engine: Generative Models, Structural Similarity, and Mental Representation
I outline and defend a theory of mental representation based on three ideas that I extract from the work of the mid-twentieth century philosopher, psychologist, and cybernetician Kenneth Craik: first, an account of mental representation in terms of idealised models that capitalize on structural …
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