Sentences with phrase «cognitive psychologists over»

The study — published in Scientific Reports — was the first to challenge a growing trend among cognitive psychologists over the past 20 years that has attempted to show that believing in the supernatural is something that comes to us «naturally» or intuitively.

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Similarly, cognitive psychologist Janet Metcalfe of Columbia University found that schizophrenic subjects had trouble knowing how much control they had over their own actions.

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?

«The craft of popular moviemaking is based on hard - won, practice - forged, psychological principles that have evolved over a long time, fitting stories and their presentation to our cognitive and perceptual capacities,» adds Armstrong, who suggests that professional psychologists can learn much from studying the structure of filmmakers» products.

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.

In Darwin's Mind: The Evolutionary Foundations of Heuristics and Biases James Montier in December 2002 writes that a catalogue of biases that cognitive psychologists have built up over the last three decades seem to have stem from one of three roots — self - deception, heuristic simplification (including affect), and social interaction.

For over 25 years, he taught cognitive - behavioural therapy to trainee clinical and counselling psychologists at Rhodes University, and offered intensive workshops to students using expressive therapies including psychodrama, clay sculpture, drawing and dance.

Humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers believes that the use of laboratory experiments by cognitive psychology have low ecological validity and create an artificial environment due to the control over variables.

«I am a New York State licensed psychologist with offices in Kingston and Poughkeepsie, and have been providing a range of psychological services for over 10 years, including individual psychotherapy for adults, neuropsychological assessment and cognitive rehabilitation utilizing evidence - based therapy interventions.