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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...

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...

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...

Learning Styles and Cognition

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

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 ...

Society, Communication, and Music

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

Perception, Language, Cognition and Consciousness in Classic Indian Philosophy

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

Overview of Sleep Apnea

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

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, ...

Visual Neuroscience: Summary Of Two Articles About Perception

the mind does not see the dots for themselves and only perceives the holistic value of the star. The law of closure provides expl...

English Language Teaching And Metacognition

to clarify: if a student asks what a word means, he is using cognition; if the student asks what the best way is to learn and reme...

Memory, Cognition & Media Questions

it seems reasonable to predict that scientists will soon understand much more about the causes of these diseases and also how to p...

Vygotsky's Social Cognition, Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, and Constructivism

plans (Lan et al, 1995); if the instructor tries to teach a child a particular lesson when he or she has not yet reached that leve...

Examining Cognition of Language Theories

and the way we cognitively process speech. Are these processes linked to an inherent modularity? If we look as speech from a Ved...

At Risk African American Male Learning and a Discussion of Cognition and its Cultural Influences

2004). "The majority of reporting states-26 out of the 46 responding to the latest survey-have dropout rates ranging from 4.0% to...

Decision Making, Cognition, and Emotions

self-reproach cause the individual to regret the choice made. Reasoning is another element of decision-making that can be influen...

Education and Social Cognition

cognition indicates that the mind is an active force that "constructs ones reality, selectively encodes information, performs beha...

Age, Declining Cognition, and Frontal Deterioration Hypothesis

from that environment. This involves both thinking and problem solving which in turn results in memory formation and learning. T...

Susan Anderson's Model of Social Cognition Transference

that sensory memories are those which are gathered by ones senses and that a specific sensory memory is generated for each specifi...

Infant Cognition, Habituation and Violation Of Expectation

combination of judgment and awareness; indeed, this aspect is most definitely associate with ecological concern, inasmuch as cogni...

Cognition Theories and Behavioral Disorder Insights

conjunction between visual input and the organisation of complex behavioural patterns. Studies which have compared the higher cogn...

Human Cognition and EEG Neurofeedback Spectrum

In eight pages human cogition is examined within the context of the EEG spectrum with neurofeedback history provided along with th...

Dolphin Cognition

In eleven pages dolphins are considered in terms of their memory capabilities and cognitive skills. Eight sources are cited in th...