Sentences with phrase «by cognitive psychologists»

Kahneman's views are widely shared by cognitive psychologists.

Research and writings in the 1950s and 1960s by cognitive psychologists provided powerful evidence that early childhood was crucial in the cognitive development of an individual.8 This conclusion led to designing new opportunities to engage children in early learning.

Despite decades of relying on standardized test scores to assess and guide education policy and practice, surprisingly little work has been done to connect these measures of learning with the measures developed over a century of research by cognitive psychologists studying individual differences in cognition.

Results of a new study by cognitive psychologist and speech scientist Alexandra Jesse and her linguistics undergraduate student Michael Bartoli at the University of Massachusetts Amherst should help to settle a long - standing disagreement among cognitive psychologists about the information we use to recognize people speaking to us.

Now, in a study published this past January in Science, a team of researchers at the University of Trento in Italy, led by cognitive psychologist Rosa Rugani, has shown that infants of a different species altogether also prefer to see bigger numbers on the right.

According to a study by cognitive psychologist Lorenza Colzato and Dominique Lippelt at Leiden University meditation can promote both creativity and divergent thinking, two skills needed to write anything well.

The test was designed by a cognitive psychologist to measure a range of skills students may master by the end of 2nd grade.

Research led by cognitive psychologist Professor Stephan Lewandowsky at the University of Western Australia, to be published in the journal Psychological Science, found an important predictor for climate science denialism was a belief in free - market economics.

Not exact matches

«Everything you think is influenced by years of experience and cultural upbringing,» says Art Markman, a cognitive psychologist at University of Texas at Austin and author of Smart Thinking (Perigee Trade, 2012).

Odds are, each of these executives at some point underwent a leadership evaluation — a combination of interviews and psychometric tests, typically conducted by industrial - organizational psychologists, to gauge candidates» behavioural, cognitive and personality traits.

The 2011 study, conducted by a team of psychologists at Columbia, Wisconsin - Madison and Harvard universities, put groups of students through four cognitive and computer - based experiments designed to test recall and word recognition.

Rational - Emotive Therapy (RET) is a cognitive therapy (rather than a behavior therapy) created by psychologist Albert Ellis.

«By age 3 or so, children have the language and cognitive skills to understand consequences,» says Traci B. Pitts, a child psychologist in Reno, Nevada.

Here a good example of a solid critique by Daniel Willingham, renowned cognitive psychologist from UVA:

According to an article in Psychology Today by clinical psychologist and sleep disorder specialist Michael J Breus, a 2011 study showed that bed - sharing does not negatively affect cognitive or behavioral development in young children.

Your visual system helps you make such decisions by warping and stretching the things you look at according to your physical traits or abilities, says Jessica Witt, a cognitive psychologist at Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

Psychologist Anne McLaughlin can't remember exactly how she found out that her work on improving older adults» cognitive function with video games had been featured in Summertime Blues, a 2010 report by senators Tom Coburn (R - OK) and John McCain (R - AZ) about projects that «give taxpayers the blues.»

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 Carey.

A few years ago, cognitive psychologist Axel Cleeremans of the Université Libre de Bruxelles attempted to replicate a classic study by John Bargh of Yale University, in which some participants were primed, without realizing it, with concepts associated with old age.

In a Review published on March 20 in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, psychologists Ike Silver and Alex Shaw consider how our fascination with social status begins around age five, when kids begin to consider how they are viewed by others and behave in ways that cultivate positive reputations.

The study provides a «better understanding of the why and how of sponging» by the Shark Bay dolphins, says Louis Herman, a cognitive psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

Although there is no general theory of cognitive development, the most historically influential theory was developed by Jean Piaget, a Swiss Psychologist (1896 - 1980).

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.

Written by Lynne Murray, a developmental psychologist at the University of Reading, UK, the book promises a detailed account of the psychological development of children from birth to the age of 2, spanning their social, emotional and cognitive development.

The psychology underneath this and other cognitive fallacies is brilliantly illuminated by psychologist Carol Tavris and University of California, Santa Cruz, psychology professor Elliot Aronson in their book Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)(Harcourt, 2007).

«The dream of cognitive neuroscience is going from molecules to behavior by way of the brain,» says Gary Marcus, a psychologist at New York University, and author of Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning.

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.

In another study, using four data sets with sample sizes in the thousands, a team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota psychologist Paul Sackett investigated the relationship between cognitive ability and both academic and work performance.

«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.

This finding agrees with results of large - scale meta - analyses by the University of Iowa industrial psychologist Frank Schmidt demonstrating that general cognitive ability — the psychological trait underlying IQ — is the single best predictor of performance in the workplace.

«The emotional stress caused by the pursuit of perfection and the failure to achieve this goal can evolve into more severe psychological difficulties,» says Monica Ramirez Basco, psychologist and expert in cognitive - behavioral therapy, and the author of Never Good Enough: How To Use Perfectionism to Your Advantage.

A school psychologist by day and a vegan food blogger by night, Ashley is fascinated with the way that diet and lifestyle choices affect physical, cognitive, and emotional wellness.

LA TIMES - June 3 - The study was led by John Cacioppo, a respected social psychologist at the University of Chicago's Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience and scientific advisor to eHarmony.

Lead author of the study John Cacioppo, a psychologist and director of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, explains the findings by saying dating sites may «attract people who are serious about getting married.»

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.

This is the essence of Cognitive Flow - a term coined by psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, in the 1970s.

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.

Bloom's Taxonomy was first edited in 1956 by the American educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom and outlined the following classification of learning objectives according to the cognitive processes involved in the mind of learners.

A cognitive scientist and educational psychologist by training, Emiliano has pioneered and influenced the convergence of technology and education.

By way of background, I'm a developmental psychologist by training and spent the majority of my career designing and evaluating programs intended to enhance the cognitive development of young childreBy way of background, I'm a developmental psychologist by training and spent the majority of my career designing and evaluating programs intended to enhance the cognitive development of young childreby training and spent the majority of my career designing and evaluating programs intended to enhance the cognitive development of young children.

More educators, psychologists, and cognitive neuroscientists are embracing the goal of improving teaching by basing it on evidence.

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.

Today, cognitive and developmental psychologists understand that knowledge is not separable bits and that people (including children) learn by connecting what they already know with what they are trying to learn.

Her diverse body of work has been influenced by both the theories of Jean Piaget — the psychologist best known for his theories of cognitive development — and what Vito Acconci, a prominent influence of Beckman's, once called «the architecture of the self.»

Here's the abstract of the paper, followed by a brief interview with one author, Diana Reiss, a cognitive psychologist at Hunter College who was an adviser on the documentary and has made no secret of her campaign to end cruelty to this species:

This year's question, proposed by the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, is: «What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?»

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.

psychological assessments and provision of brief cognitive behavioural interventions by a psychologist

Psychologists in Ontario are regulated health care professionals who have been registered by the College of Psychologists of Ontario to assess, diagnose and treat a full range of emotional, behavioural, cognitive, and interpersonal problems.