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in cognitive capacities can hurt your ability to effectively manage your finances.
July 2011 by Charles Rotblut Declines
in cognitive capacities can hurt your ability to effectively manage your finances.
Not exact matches
Essentially, it gives that professional permission to call specific trusted individuals (usually, your powers of attorney and / or a family member), if they have noticed some diminishment
in your physical,
cognitive, mental or psychological
capacity.
Memory is a key component of
cognitive capacity, required for comparing options (alternatives need to be kept
in mind simultaneously), making judgments (you have to remember pros and cons
in order to weigh them), and plotting and executing strategy (you have to remember the steps to form them into an overall plan).
In short, it is the prescription for medical oppression in which people deemed to be without sufficient cognitive capacities become almost the equivalent of the dead and the value of their lives is stripped from them like the medals from a Foreign Legion soldier being kicked out of the corp
In short, it is the prescription for medical oppression
in which people deemed to be without sufficient cognitive capacities become almost the equivalent of the dead and the value of their lives is stripped from them like the medals from a Foreign Legion soldier being kicked out of the corp
in which people deemed to be without sufficient
cognitive capacities become almost the equivalent of the dead and the value of their lives is stripped from them like the medals from a Foreign Legion soldier being kicked out of the corps.
Recently, Singer repeated this assertion
in an interview
in the Journal of Practical Ethics, arguing that people with serious developmental and
cognitive disabilities have less value than animals with higher
capacities, strongly implying that we can treat them accordingly (my emphasis):
Any person who does this I can respect whatever conclusion they reach, it's the people who have always been one thing or another and their
cognitive dissonance and absolute refusal to accept disbelief
in god as an alternative
in any
capacity that I have beef with.
The interpreter's
cognitive presuppositions and his or her spiritual
capacity for understanding the truth of God are fundamental
in the formation of doctrine.
The
capacity we have for maintaining
cognitive dissonance can explain why some of the most intelligent people can believe
in a higher being.
At the core of the view of Human being underlying paideia and the «Athens» model is the view that the characteristic defining human being is the
capacity of reason
in intuitive,
cognitive judgment to apprehend the ultimate principle of being and of value — that is, God.
Very few people
in the West grasp the reality, much less the magnitude, of this threat to what might be called «
cognitive security»: the
capacity of Western populations to see things as they are, including things going on
in our own societies.
Moreover, it is his argument that any truly integrated system — a brain, a computer, the Internet, but also a barometer, a photodiode, a geranium, a sheet of paper — has some calculable Phi value; consciousness is qualitatively the same
in all things, but
in terms of intensity and
capacity it increases along with the complexity, «synergy,» and ordering of
cognitive information
in organized wholes, and along with the richness of the information it integrates
in «holographic» or «crystallized» conceptual structures.
The focus generally has been on the individual as the basic unit of analysis, with human activity explained
in terms of motives, personality, and social and
cognitive traits and
capacities.
Surely when social relationships
in the child's nexus is strong during the day and involves a lot of engagement and contact by reassuring parents, and this positive engagement is extended throughout the night, the child is getting more of that which is already good, therein further reinforcing such personality qualities as self comforting skills, confidence, self - worth, and social -
cognitive engagement skills along with more positive emotional - empathic
capacities altogether.
The Health Belief Model guided the formative research and supported information delivery, while Social
Cognitive Theory was predominately used
in shaping the intervention and
in facilitating understanding of the potential interaction between overestimation of new parents
capacity to cope and underestimation of potential problems.
If psychologists could help people expand their working - memory
capacity or make it function more efficiently, everyone could benefit, from chess masters to learning - disabled children, says Torkel Klingberg, MD, PhD, an assistant
cognitive neuroscience professor at the Karolinska Institute
in Sweden.
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.
Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard staff photographer Understanding similarities
in the
cognitive and moral
capacities of humans with animals can make humans...
Understanding similarities
in the
cognitive and moral
capacities of humans with animals can make humans better conservationists, speakers told journalists at an event organized by AAAS» program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion.
This beneficial effect was accompanied by the preservation of motor
capacities, without any alteration to
cognitive performance, and a reduction
in the incidence of pathologies usually associated with aging, such as cancer or diabetes.
Children's
cognitive development should be considered
in research and practice so that programs are created to match children's abilities and developmental
capacity.
That would be getting close to the number of cells
in a mouse brain,» raising the distant prospect of a human brain organoid with
cognitive and even emotional
capacities, all while sitting
in a lab dish.
They argue that they are complementing traditional computers with
cognitive - computing - like abilities that offer vast savings
in energy, enabling
capacity to grow by leaps and bounds.
«This new evidence illuminates the central role of early experience as infants specify which signals, from an initially broad set, they will continue to link to core
cognitive capacities,» said Danielle R. Perszyk, lead author of the study and a doctoral candidate
in cognitive psychology
in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern.
I lay out what science tells us: rattlesnakes have what we have
in terms of emotional and
cognitive capacities, and then look at rattlesnake natural history through that lens.
Some expectant parents play classical music for their unborn babies, hoping to boost their children's
cognitive capacity later
in life.
Just as individual computers are networked to create concentrated processing and storage
capacity in the field of Cloud Computing, links
in the complex
cognitive processes that take place
in the prefrontal cortex play a key role.
Cognitive symptoms, including deficits
in long - term memory, are known to affect approximately half of individuals with MS.. This study was conducted
in 70 patients with MS, who were evaluated for intellectual enrichment, verbal long - term memory, and working memory
capacity.
The emphasis with robots is on their autonomy,
cognitive capacities, strategy for cooperation and
in the interaction with their human colleagues».
We show that both
capacities become functional between the ages of 3 and 5 years, which provides empirical support for the contention that deep conceptual structures play an important role
in cognitive development.
The use of the touchscreen presents a controlled setting to test
cognitive capacities in animals and has already successfully been used
in a number of species.
The
cognitive control
capacities of the subject get somewhat redirected — we don't quite understand how — toward goals and activities that are violent
in a very specific way.
Outdoor exposure has long been associated with healthier
cognitive functioning
in children, with reduction
in Attention Deficit Disorder symptoms and greater emotional
capacity.
Writing
in the June 2017 issue of Trends
in Cognitive Sciences, Nunez takes on the conventional wisdom in the field right now — a widely accepted view in cognitive neuroscience, child psychology and animal cognition that there is a biologically evolved capacity for number and arithmetic that we share with other
Cognitive Sciences, Nunez takes on the conventional wisdom
in the field right now — a widely accepted view
in cognitive neuroscience, child psychology and animal cognition that there is a biologically evolved capacity for number and arithmetic that we share with other
cognitive neuroscience, child psychology and animal cognition that there is a biologically evolved
capacity for number and arithmetic that we share with other species.
Fish exposed to higher carbon dioxide levels — which are expected to increase
in the oceans for several decades — showed impaired
cognitive function, learning difficulties, slowed visual
capacity and altered sense of smell and sound.
Cognitive functions
in middle aged individuals are related to metabolic disturbances and aerobic
capacity: a cross-sectional study
This offers an unprecedented opportunity for research concerning individual variation and relationships between brain structure and function relative to development and
cognitive capacity in a nonhuman primate.
The former strongly suggests that those same genes are tied to intelligence, and «could be involved
in the amazing
cognitive capacity of dolphins,» McGowen said.
Another studying appearing
in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research found that
cognitive capacity was significantly reduced whenever a smartphone is within reach, even when the phone is off.
The brain can relax and enter a contemplative state
in nature settings which helps to refresh or restore
cognitive capacities.
It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including
cognitive impairment
in children and low productivity
in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year
in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women
in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual
capacity, and improve adult productivity.21
«Given the high content of certain specific polyphenols
in the juice blend, the increased antioxidant protection [
in the body] after consumption of the juice blend, and the anti-inflammatory
capacity in vitro, further research is warranted to evaluate whether juice blend consumption may provide reversal of risk markers
in subjects with conditions such as arthritis, obesity, chronic viral diseases, cardiovascular disease and compromised
cognitive function, as well as other conditions associated with chronic inflammation,» wrote lead author Gitte Jensen from Holger NIS Inc., a contract research laboratory.
Toxins overwhelm our detox
capacity and build up
in fat tissue, affecting endocrine function, fertility and
cognitive function.
This is consistent with reports associating regular exercise with reduced incidence of dementia3 and several cancer types.26 - 28 Potential reasons for improved functional status and survival among regular exercisers may include increased cardiovascular fitness and improved aerobic
capacity and organ reserve,29 - 31 increases
in skeletal mass and metabolic adaptations of muscle with decreased frailty,29 - 31 lower levels of circulating inflammatory markers, 32 improved response to vaccinations, 33 and improved higher - order
cognitive functions.34
The driver of the camper turns out to be a young man (Paul Dano) with the
cognitive capacity of a 10 - year - old, and the detective
in charge of the investigation (Jake Gyllenhaal) quickly rules him out as a suspect.
Do schools that succeed
in raising test scores do so by improving their students» underlying
cognitive capacities?
Cognitive Load Theory suggests that learners can absorb and retain information effectively only if it is provided
in such a way that it does not «overload» their mental
capacity.
You can include
capacities like content mastery, critical thinking and problem solving, creativity and innovation, civic literacy, and other
cognitive capacities necessary for success
in the 21st century.
So the idea of a number of relatively independent
cognitive capacities is not
in itself daunting.
«Texts can be redesigned to offer engaging content, as well as critical information without overloading the
cognitive capacities of those young children who acquire literacy
in school,» Hiebert said.