Sentences with phrase «as cognitive psychologist»

Despite admissibility objections, the trial judge permitted Dr. Wolfe as well as cognitive psychologist, Dr. Moore (called by the Appellant) to give evidence on the same issues.

So as neuroscientists continue to discover the inner workings of the brain, as cognitive psychologists continue to look for explanations of learning behaviour and as educators continue to apply research to improve their teaching, this new field will greatly improve the quality and effectiveness of the educational experiences for children.

Not exact matches

The maze manages to be challenging (I'm still stuck on track section 2) yet doable (Laurel has already figured out track section 2), and the cognitive psychologist in me wonders whether the lasting enjoyment of this game relates to the fact that you're so concentrated on the track as you rotate that you rarely look at the big picture — meaning, the maze always seems to look new and different when you approach it.

Cognitive psychologists coined the term in 1960 as they tried to explain the fundamental structure of the human thought process.

«Hearing language is particularly important for understanding others, while other kinds of experience, such as the visual modality, are less important,» says Alison Gopnik, a cognitive psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer.

A subsequent study in 2003 showed such stimulation could improve a cognitive ability psychologists call motor sequence learning — the process of training the brain in the precisely sequenced steps required to interact with the world via means such as listening or executing a movement.

But whether those associations are inborn, something known as the nativist position, or learned is still up for grabs, says Clarissa Thompson, a cognitive developmental psychologist at Kent State University in Ohio who wasn't involved in the study.

As the data from such clever designs mounted, Spelke began to develop her theory of core knowledge, often inspired by or collaborating with colleagues such as noted Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguist Noam Chomsky, French mathematician turned cognitive neuropsychologist Stanislaus Dehaene and Harvard psychologist Susan CareAs the data from such clever designs mounted, Spelke began to develop her theory of core knowledge, often inspired by or collaborating with colleagues such as noted Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguist Noam Chomsky, French mathematician turned cognitive neuropsychologist Stanislaus Dehaene and Harvard psychologist Susan Careas noted Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguist Noam Chomsky, French mathematician turned cognitive neuropsychologist Stanislaus Dehaene and Harvard psychologist Susan Carey.

Krueger remembers a popular debate among social psychologists over which metaphor best drives home the depth of the mind's failings: Should researchers view the mind as a «cognitive miser,» emphasizing our limited resources and reliance on irrelevant clues, or is the mind more accurately depicted as a «totalitarian ego,» pursuing self - esteem at the cost of self - deception?

To arrive at this radical notion, Hauser draws on his own research in social cooperation, neuroscience, and primate behavior, as well as on the musings of philosophers, cognitive psychologists, and most important, the theories of MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, who in the 1950s proposed that all humans are equipped with a universal linguistic grammar, a set of instinctive rules that underlie all languages.

In a 2010 study, cognitive psychologists Melissa Libertus and Elizabeth Brannon, then both at Duke University, found that infants gazed longer at images of black circles when the number of circles changed, compared with when the quantity was always the same, as long as the ratio between the number of circles was always at least 2 - to - 1.

Medical psychologist Jack D. Edinger of Duke University and his colleagues conducted a two - and - a-half-year study of 75 adults suffering from sleep maintenance insomnia in order to assess the efficacy of a form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), as compared with relaxation therapy and placebo therapy.

Co-led by Phil McAleer and Pascal Belin, cognitive psychologists at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom, the researchers created a model voice based on the average acoustical characteristics of the eight voices the 2014 study had rated as most and least trustworthy.

At the ages of six and eight, cognitive and motor development as well as behaviour problems were assessed by psychologists and paediatricians with standard assessments.

«When we think about quality of life for older adults, and improving quality of life, it seems like targeting the individual is only part of the story, and our findings suggests that for older adults, a larger part of individual well - being is defined by our partner's health and cognitive functioning as well,» said UA psychologist David Sbarra, a co-author of the paper, which will be published in Psychology and Aging, a journal of the American Psychological Association.

In a project known as the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, Vanderbilt psychologists David Lubinski, Camilla Benbow, and their colleagues found that, even among a sample of intellectually gifted people, a higher level of cognitive ability in childhood forecasted great accomplishment later in life, both in school and beyond.

In the newest of the centers, the COBRE for Central Nervous System Function, Brown psychologist Dima Amso uses eye tracking and «smart playroom» technology to assess the visual and cognitive development of children as young as just a few months.

Traditionally, cognitive behavioral therapists have helped people process unresolved trauma, but more recently psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers — many working with US military veterans — acknowledge that embodiment practices such as yoga enriched with mindfulness practices can have more impact in alleviating the symptoms that lead to both reactive behaviors and stress related disease.

We learn by seeing and observing models, as psychologists have shown; the fancy scientific term is «social cognitive theory.»

Seminal work by psychologist Aaron Beck, often referred to as the father of cognitive therapy, and his former student, David Burns, uncovered several common thought holes as seen below.

Psychologist and SEL advocate Renee Jain identifies the cognitive distortions known as thought holes, and offers a lesson on how to avoid falling into them.

Dr. Sweller, an educational psychologist who has advanced our knowledge of how instruction is impacted by memory describes this concept as human cognitive architecture, or how we integrate, process, and use knowledge.

As a psychologist trained in cognitive development, I believe that human beings continue to learn in similar ways across the generations — we don't sprout new brains or new minds.

As the respected cognitive psychologist Dan Willingham points out, «children's cognition is fairly variable day to day, even when the same child tries the same task.»

«Genius Means Struggle,» a chapter in my book, brings in psychologists and cognitive scientists on the importance of perseverance when it comes to tackling «difficult» subjects such as math and science.

As I explained last month, Dr. Sweller, an educational psychologist who has extensively researched memory and learning describes perception and memory impacting learning and calls the process human cognitive architecture.

Cognitive psychologists describe the conscious, verbal, slower parts of our mind as our working memory.

Economists Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann concluded that the two tests measure «a common dimension of skills,» and that the scores can be aggregated to form a single national - level indicator of cognitive ability predicting economic growth.6 Psychologist Heiner Rindermann referred to that common dimension as a «g - factor,» standing for general intelligence.

My mind was really opened when I went to Harvard College and had the opportunity to study under individuals — such as psychoanalyst Erik Erikson, sociologist David Riesman, and cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner — who were creating knowledge about human beings.

As he began research for his doctoral thesis (a reinterpretation of the theories of the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget), Stevens found the literature strewn with failed cognitive interventions.

School psychologist — A person licensed by the Board of Psychology to practice school psychology with demonstrated competencies in assessing students» cognitive abilities, academic performance, interpersonal emotional / social functioning and sensory - motor functioning, as well as the understanding of the knowledge, skills, and processes for direct and indirect interventions.

A team of secondary science teachers, science curricular and methods experts, and cognitive psychologists developed the Cornerstone Assessments as a part of the LENS project.

And we should see in Monbiot's appeal to «psychologists and cognitive linguists» precisely the same impulse as the one that drove Stephan Lewandowsky et al to take issue with the structure of climate change deniers» brains, rather than their argument.

«I am a licensed psychologist and a certified school psychologist with experience in providing evidence based treatments such as Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Rational Emotional Behavioral (REBT) and Dialectical Behavioral therapies (DBT) for children, adolescents and adults.

Professional psychologists help patients suffering from psychological disorders that can be classified as abnormal, cognitive, and health related.

As a health psychologist, she assists individuals and their families to cope with the cognitive, emotional, physical and behavioral changes associated with chronic pain, cardiac problems, cancer, insomnia and other medical conditions, as well as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, and other mental health conditions.&raquAs a health psychologist, she assists individuals and their families to cope with the cognitive, emotional, physical and behavioral changes associated with chronic pain, cardiac problems, cancer, insomnia and other medical conditions, as well as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, and other mental health conditions.&raquas well as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, and other mental health conditions.&raquas post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, and other mental health conditions.»

Those who are interested in being specifically a cognitive behavioral psychologist usually have extremely strong opinions on the benefits of this psychological treatment as compared to others.

As a psychologist, my training is an eclectic approach with a focus on using Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Cognitive Behavioral, and Positive Psychotherapies.

As a child psychologist who uses Trauma Focused - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF - CBT) I have found many interventions that can be applied to that model.

He is past editor of Clinical Psychologist, serves and has served as consulting editor on prestigious international journals including Health Psychology, Journal of Anxiety Disorders and the Journal of Traumatic Stress and Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy.

In the early 1990s, Dr. Ludgate was a Research Clinical Psychologist at the University of Oxford in England and served as cognitive therapist in several outcome studies of panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia and hypochondriasis.

Dr. Gleacher is a licensed psychologist who specializes in the treatment of children, adolescents, and adults with anxiety, mood, behavior, and school - related difficulties utilizing cognitive behavioral therapy techniques as well as other evidence - based treatment techniques.»

«I have had 30 + years experience as a Psychologist, Coaching clients in Cognitive / Perceptual Reconstruction at Psychological Associates.