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How to Retain Cognitive Abilities as We Age

This research paper presents a discussion of aging and how it affects cognitive function. The realities of cognitive aging are des...

Interventions for Patients

This essay provides information and insight on different psychotherapeutic interventions for different mental illnesses. Psychodyn...

Early Language Acquisition

Cognitive development is about information processing, reasoning, intelligence, memory, and language development. It is about the ...

Developmental Schemas for Children

Piaget is bast known for his stages of cognitive development. His theory is still being used today as well as being researched. Pi...

Festinger and Carlsmith's Seminal Study

Many of us have experienced cognitive dissonance. It happens when we say or do something that is against our personal beliefs. Thi...

Aspects of Cognitive Psychology

strong enough, people will seek and generate information that will help them prepare for a future social setting. They also spend ...

Saving Jews from the Holocaust examined in terms of cognitive dissonance theories.

A paper which considers cognitive dissonance with specific reference to saving Jews from the Nazi Holocaust. The writer takes the ...

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...

Festinger, Sternberg, and Seligman on Human Motivation

In four pages this paper considers human motivation in a discussion of the attribute changing ABCDE method by Seligman, the Triang...

Basis of Cognitive Psychology and Ecological Validity

psychology has paved the way for a paradigm change in science. The same paradigm shift that facilitated psychologys change in foc...

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...

Summer camp activities to aid the cognitive development of children aged between three and seven

completely. As well, within the scope of learning there needs to be some semblance of order. Using guided discovery, educators...

Approaches to Psychology

as cycle speed follows no set pattern and can overlap one another within the maturation process. "In early developmental theories...

Borderline Personality Disorder and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Treatment

to have their first interactions with a person with BPD as a result of emergency room visits following suicidal attempts. The the...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Used in the Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

a result, more diagnoses have been made (Grinage, 2003). It is now something that is also associated with trauma stemming from chi...

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

could impede therapeutic progress (Martin, 2007). Beck decided it was essential to be able to identify and discuss these automati...

Cognitive Learning Theories

information, linking new to old knowledge, schema, and scripts" (NSW HSC Online, n.d.). The major premise in the cognitive schoo...

Various Aspects of Child Development

for instance (Ginn, 2004). Piaget did allow for some flexibility in the age ranges for each stage but there is no flexibility in t...

Processes of Decision Making

and how to physically hurt another human being. The objective of the experiment was to try and determine under what circumstances...

Madness, Nature, and Cognitive Psychology

Erikson believed that environmental changes determine the conflict that arises, and that these stages are sequential in terms of o...

Cognitive Research Similarities and Differences

which additional research will move forward. This (obviously) allows for the researcher to make the best use of all the informatio...

Counseling Sessions and Content Influencing

scenario: a 28-year old man arrives at his counseling session. The first session is the interview during which time, the man expla...

Radical Relativism contra Realism in Philosophy of Science

In a paper of thirteen pages, the writer looks at radical relativism and realism in philosophy of science. Radical relativism is c...

The Interdisciplinary Value of Complex Adaptive Systems

past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...

State of Science, Nursing Ethics

Background/Review of Literature The eight articles/studies that constitute this literature review encompasses several key concept...

Habermas: Universality Of Linguistic Understanding

and aesthetic projects of resistance and revolution, recooperation and universalism all played an integral role within the ultimat...

Is Psychology a Science

are being made in the functions of different parts of the brain, for instance, which give us much greater insight into areas like ...

Relationship between Censoring Science and Public Policy

that the majority of American parents indicated that they wished their children to be exposed to creationism in school. The proble...

Questioning the Unquestionable Science and Our Belief in God

Human nature is to invent explanations for events and occurrences that are intuitively appealing. Example...

21st Century Forensic Science and the CSI Effect

case that no other technological development was as meaningful to the process of criminal justice as that of forensic science. For...