Sentences with phrase «cognitive psychology research»

Recent cognitive psychology research outlines some learning limitations instruction designers should bear in mind.
The QuickSmart approach derives from cognitive psychology research which underscores the benefit of automatic recall of number facts in reducing cognitive load while solving more complex problems.

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Recent research in cognitive psychology and communication studies have called into question many of the assumptions on which modern education has been based.
This is true of developmental as well as cross-cultural psychology, in that the basic research strategy is to search for the influence of broad classes of experience (e.g., culture, SES, age, gender) that influence broad classes of individual outcome (e.g., IQ, personality, cognitive level).
Contemporary research at the interface of developmental psychology, neuroscience and genetics demonstrates that children develop the capacity for emotional regulation, cognitive resourcefulness and overall mental health when caregivers respond to the meaning of behavior rather than the behavior itself.
His research methods included evolutionary biology, developmental psychology, cognitive science, control systems theory and ethology.
We have over 40 years of longitudinal research in developmental psychology showing that safe, secure relationships support development of the capacity for emotional regulation, cognitive resourcefulness and social adaptation.
In the current study, Whitney, along with colleagues John Hinson, WSU professor of psychology, and Hans Van Dongen, director of the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center at WSU Spokane, compared how people with different variations of the DRD2 gene performed on tasks designed to test both their ability to anticipate events and their cognitive flexibility in response to changing circumstances.
Second, a cognitive psychology approach is needed to conduct basic science research on the mental representations and operations that may be uniquely challenged in the investigation of nanomaterials.»
As part of a collaborative effort, clinical researchers Rebecca Ashare, PhD, an assistant professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, and Robert Schnoll, PhD, an associate professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction, are studying the effects of metformin on smokers to see if it attenuates negative mood and cognitive deficits during withdrawal — symptoms known to be associated with the ability to quit.
Jim Monti (right) a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Illinois psychology professor Neal Cohen (left), developed a cognitive task that helps differentiate older adults with very early Alzheimer's disease from those experiencing normal aging.
Notre Dame Associate Professor of Psychology James Brockmole, who specializes in human cognition and how the visual world guides behavior, conducted the research at Notre Dame with Adam Biggs, currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Jessica Witt, associate professor of cognitive psychology at Colorado State UPsychology James Brockmole, who specializes in human cognition and how the visual world guides behavior, conducted the research at Notre Dame with Adam Biggs, currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Jessica Witt, associate professor of cognitive psychology at Colorado State UnCognitive Neuroscience, and Jessica Witt, associate professor of cognitive psychology at Colorado State Uncognitive psychology at Colorado State Upsychology at Colorado State University.
Students interested in doing a Ph.D. and pursuing a research career in the field of MBE typically complete degrees in cognitive neuroscience, psychology, educational psychology, or education — with significant training in the complementary fields mixed in.
However, this new study, published in Cognitive Psychology, demonstrates major flaws in this research supporting the existence of this optimism bias.
Research led by Hannah Foy, a 2nd year PhD student in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, is looking at whether future interventions could prioritise the use of driving simulators to make us safer at the wheel and our roads a safer place to be.
Research in cognitive science and psychology shows that testing, done right, can be an effective way to learn.
Research in cognitive science and psychology shows that testing, done right, can be an exceptionally effective way to learn.
Trained in psycholinguistics and experimental psychology, she has conducted research on a wide variety of topics, including language processing, cross-cultural psychology and individual differences in cognitive styles.
Research in cognitive psychology (as well as a very famous 60 Minutes story) shows that job candidates who are more attractive physically have substantially higher odds of being hired.
To better understand the benefits of a new, family - based cognitive behavioral therapy and how it may work to improve sleep in children with ASD, McCrae and Micah Mazurek, associate professor of health psychology, are conducting a sleep treatment study through the Research Core at the MU Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
«Low - income children are at increased risk for developing cognitive delays, but the specific environmental and biological factors that influence these outcomes are less understood,» explains Melissa L. Sturge - Apple, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, who was part of the research team.
The research, Disguising Superman: How glasses affect unfamiliar face matching, is published in Applied Cognitive Psychology.
That is the paradoxical conclusion of research being presented today, Thursday 1 September 2016, by Dr Ciara Greene from University College Dublin to the annual conference of the British Psychological Society's Cognitive Psychology Section in Barcelona.
Czerwinski earned a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology at Indiana University, Bloomington, and then she jumped immediately to industry, doing human - computer interface research for a series of companies while holding a part - time teaching position at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
«A stream of research in cognitive psychology has shown and claims that people who have faith (i.e., are religious or spiritual) are not as smart as others.
Combining established cognitive psychology with advanced neuroscience, the technique opens up new possibilities for research.
«But this simple reason versus passion model fails to capture that there's a refined way of thinking with emotions, closely related to empathy and compassion,» said Anthony Jack, Director of Research at the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence, associate professor of cognitive science, psychology and philosophy at Case Western Reserve and lead author of the new rResearch at the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence, associate professor of cognitive science, psychology and philosophy at Case Western Reserve and lead author of the new researchresearch.
«This research shows that it is possible to promote psychological well - being in middle childhood through an integrated school - based intervention programme informed by concepts of positive psychology and cognitive behavioural therapy,» said first author Dr Michael Pluess from QMUL's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, who led the research while previously based at University of East London.
Kevin Bath, assistant professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences, has helped to develop a technology that automates the observation of rodent behavior to improve psychology research.
We take a multidisciplinary approach to research that integrates theory and methods from cognitive neuroscience, machine learning, social network analysis, and social psychology.
A Psychology major in my second year at USC, her research interests focus primarily on the cognitive mechanisms that underlie behavior.
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Also in the department of psychology, Geoffrey Woodman studies how electrical signals recorded from the scalp reveal cognitive processes like attention and short - term memory, and he has extended this to research with monkeys so that he can locate the sources of the signals.
NIMH's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Unit, the Delaware Project, and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) conduct the second webinar in a series examining the science - to - service pipeline in psychology and psychiatry.
Michelucci received a joint PhD in cognitive science and mathematical psychology from Indiana University, and has been advising federal research agencies since 2006.
Interest and / or previous experience in research, medical rehabilitation, motor function, cognitive psychology, or neurologic / other disabilities preferred.
Judith S. Beck, PhD, our Feel Great Weight motivation guru is director of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research; associate professor in psychology and psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania; author of The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person.
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Over the course of 27 years at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Kurt Fischer established an internationally known research program that explored how neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology illuminate cognitive and emotional development and learning throughout our lives.
According to the paper, «the team who carried out the research have combined expertise in cognitive psychology, education, professional development of post-16 practitioners, sociology and policy studies (Coffield et al., 2004)».
Concrete outputs will include at least 7 - 8 empirical journal publications disseminating the results of this research to scientific audiences in the fields of cognitive and developmental psychology, and 1 - 2 theoretical review articles communicating the findings to a broader audience within psychology and philosophy.
Research from developmental and cognitive psychology has yielded significant evidence that infants have a basic capacity to respond to numerical information.
Professor Ross Cunnington is a Chief Investigator at the Science of Learning Research Centre (SLRC)-- an Australia - wide collaboration bringing together researchers from the fields of education, neuroscience and cognitive psychology.
Most educators these days are aware that scientific advancements in brain research and imaging technology have changed cognitive psychology and neuroscience forever.
Via the Science of Learning Research Centre (SLRC), future research at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) seeks to bridge the gap between neuroscience, cognitive psychology and edResearch Centre (SLRC), future research at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) seeks to bridge the gap between neuroscience, cognitive psychology and edresearch at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) seeks to bridge the gap between neuroscience, cognitive psychology and edResearch (ACER) seeks to bridge the gap between neuroscience, cognitive psychology and education.
The NCTM standards were a brew of progressivism — a nod to the 1920s when math was supposed to be practical — and constructivism, which was progressivism that adapted research from cognitive psychology to the task of teaching and called it discovery learning.
As I read, I kept feeling grateful to Paul Tough for having done this work — gathering the stories of kids like Keitha Jones, the traumatized Southside Chicago teen who reminded me so much of a handful of kids I've taught; connecting Keitha's experience to research on neurochemistry and infant psychology, and situating these elements in both a socio - economic context and in the landscape of an education world focused on developing children's cognitive (and testable) skills.
He is the director of cognitive - behavioral psychology at the clinical and research program in pediatric psychopharmacology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and an associate clinical professor of psychology in the psychiatry department at Harvard University Medical School.
In 35 U.S. states and at sites around the world, Dr. Wilson has led professional development for more than 60,000 educators and has presented at conferences with the Singapore Teachers» Union, Jamaica Teachers» Union, The Feuerstein Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, Hawker Brownlow Education (Australia), University of Cambridge (Implementation Science Conference), Leiden University, United Arab Emirates, American Educational Research Association, International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education, National Association of School Psychologists, National Association of Federal Education Program Administrators, Title I, Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes, Nova Southeastern University Conference on Global Leadership, Learning, and Research, ASCD, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of Secondary School Principals, Learning Forward, and many others.
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