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Topics in Social Psychology

people in New Zealand to those of people in Australia and the European Union. They found that New Zealanders had a more positive a...

Intrapersonal Communication and Self-Talk

performance both academically and professionally. This paragraph helps the student begin to explore the concept of self-talk in p...

Advancements Since Gage: How the Brain Supports Cognitive Function

conception that thoughts and reason came from the brain, while emotions came from the heart, or in some cultures, "the gut". Moder...

The Brain and the Future of the Child

early and these structures becomes the foundation from which cognitive development and memory encoding develop. These researchers...

Dementia Alzheimer's Delirium

This essay discusses several issues related to cognition in old age. This includes diseases such as Alzheimer's and dementia, life...

Ambiguous Meanings Long-Term Memory

This essay discusses several issues that have to do with cognition and memory. Attention and Memory are two of the issues, texting...

Erikson and Vygotsky Theories on Life History

stages and Vygotskys social cognition theory indicates how Louises various crises directly associated with each point in her life ...

Learning and the Human Brain

operate a bit differently from each other, with the two main differences being logic resides on the left and creativity is control...

Africa and Cognitive Development

participating in both family and social life in cognitive development (Sternberg and Kaufman, 1998; Sternberg, 2004). The Baoule p...

Poetry, Art, and Music Creativity

conceptions of himself, his fellowmen and his universe" (Fleming, 1974, p. 1). The visages that art can take are many and varied, ...

Overview of Sleep Apnea

symptoms (Zepf, 2003). The "gold standard" for diagnosing sleep apnea is to use polysomnography in a sleep laboratory (Zepf, 2003)...

Society, Communication, and Music

information not only about how human beings communicate, but also how musical communication works within the context of societal f...

Gendered Interpretations and Development of Language Relating to Childhood Cognitive Development

century, psychologists, social theorists and educators have considered the notion of cognitive development and the progression of ...

Rhetoric, Thought, and Language

than just discourse designed to persuade. Since the 1970s, scholars from a variety of academic fields have placed metaphor at the ...

Senior Citizens, Cognition, and Hip Fractures

Roland, 1996). Langjolois, et al (1998) showed that weight loss was a factor in hip fracture in older men and found that lower men...

Perception, Language, Cognition and Consciousness in Classic Indian Philosophy

modification, which dispels ignorance" (Mohanty, 2001). When we cognize we abate ignorance....

Learning Styles and Cognition

the disciplines necessary for training learners in the concepts of sustainable development, which involves knowledge of mathematic...

Corporate social responsibility, cognitive dissonance, and preserving the environment.

Inasmuch as "dissonance theory applies to all situations involving attitude formation and change" (Cognitive Dissonance #2), the m...

The Evolution of Language

a variety of human factors have all served as a focus for study and research in a number of areas. Because language is one of th...

Overview of MDM

same process can be utilized to support memory achievement through the use of techniques that impact the affective state, includin...

Impulse Response, Cognitive Performance, and the Influence of Personality and Alcohol

as how cognition is affected in respect to personality. Embretson & Prenovost (2000) provides a study which examines the structu...

Herbert Blumer and George Herbert Mead's Theories of Sociology

on the most essential points of his sociological theory, only differing in subtle distinctions regarding the importance of interac...

Animal Cognition and Intelligence

Those misgivings largely fell away with Griffins studies into the communication systems of bees. He used that work to prove anima...

Problem Behavior and Social Cognition

In five pages gang socialization and childhood aggression are two of the topics considered in this examination of problem behavior...

Memory and Proactive Interference Triggers

In a paper consisting of ten pages this paper discusses cognition and memory implications of the proactive interference process. ...

Two theories relating to cognitive development: Case and Siegler

state to another, which could be considered the strategies used. In other words, there is something similar to a hierarchy and the...

Styles of Thinking and Social Cognition

In five pages this fictitious case study of a fourteen year old boy examines social cognition in terms of creative and critical ty...

Learning Perspectives of Piaget and Bandura

In five pages Piaget's developmental theory of learning and Bandura's social learning theory are presented, contrasted and compare...

Cognition, Infancy, and the Elderly

The processes of cognition are compared in this paper consisting of eleven pages between babies and senior citizens. Nine sources...

Learning Environments and Their Importance

In twelve pages a literature review of learning environments and their importance is presented in a discussion of such issues as c...