Sentences with phrase «in cognitive psychology»

Recent research in cognitive psychology and communication studies have called into question many of the assumptions on which modern education has been based.
However, this new study, published in Cognitive Psychology, demonstrates major flaws in this research supporting the existence of this optimism bias.
Planning is key for any dissertation writing and it is no different when studying for your PhD in cognitive psychology or PhD health psychology.
It's a decades - old question in cognitive psychology: Does the brain process an imagined object the same way it does a real one?
Cognitive load is defined in cognitive psychology as the extent of mental effort used in working memory.
For almost four decades, we have investigated emerging research in cognitive psychology and educational neuroscience and have attempted to translate the findings into practical classroom applications.
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.
Since receiving his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from CMU, Cavanagh worked on aspects of memory and now focuses on how the visual perception system constructs our three - dimensional world.
Luk obtained her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from York University, Canada in 2008.
Currently, he is based at the University of Bristol UK, the chair in cognitive psychology at the School of Experimental Psychology, focusing on the public's understanding of science and why people often embrace beliefs sharply at odds with scientific evidence.
A version of this article appears in print on August 2, 2012, on Page A19 of the New York edition with the headline: George A. Miller, a Pioneer in Cognitive Psychology, Is Dead at 92.
Philosophical materialism enjoys a large body of empirical support in cognitive psychology precisely because the agenda of the psychology is motivated by the very concepts the philosophy endeavors to explain.
Kuhn, a postdoctoral research fellow in cognitive psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, has a courtly Southern accent, like one of the aristocratic characters in Gone With the Wind.
«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.
said Klatzky, an expert in cognitive psychology and haptic perception.
He was especially intrigued at how events at the synapse may explain phenomena in cognitive psychology, a field of psychology that concerns itself with perception, attention, memory, language, and other processes that underlie complex behaviour.
«Chunking» has been a concept in cognitive psychology since the mid-1950s.
Since I have a professional background in cognitive psychology, behavior therapies, task analysis, and research marketing bundled with an obsession with neuroscience, I explored the interplay between various aspects of nutrition and behavior.
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)».
Adaptive learning has been with us for a while, with its history of adaptive learning rooted in cognitive psychology, beginning with the work of behaviorist B.F. Skinner in the 1950s, and continuing through the artificial intelligence movement of the 1970s.
Dr. Miller completed his Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in cognitive psychology and a postdoctoral fellowship at Haskins Laboratories in reading research.
She brings together theories and methods in cognitive psychology, epistemology, pedagogy and sociology of knowledge to explore how experts, teachers and K - 16 students advance interdisciplinary understanding of topics of global significance from globalization to climate change and migration.
«Establish a framework for trust,» says Schreiner, who holds a master's degree in cognitive psychology and is director - user experiences practices for Strategy Analytics, a provider of analysis and insights to the auto industry and others.
It begins peaceably enough, as Smith meanders past the trailers of Burning Man in broad sunlight, bouncing his beachball and mostly ignored by others, like an experiment in cognitive psychology.
Exemplifying avant - garde artistic practices of the era, his works reflect his interest in cognitive psychology, identity construction and existential questions of human existence.
During his time at the University of Toronto, he worked as a researcher in cognitive psychology, and had his work published in the peer - reviewed journal, Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Social schema theory builds on and uses terminology from schema theory in cognitive psychology, which describes how ideas or «concepts» are represented in the brain and how they are categorized.
Magda Osman, lecturer in cognitive psychology at Queen Mary, University of London, and author of Controlling Uncertainty, provides insights.
The group's findings were published in Cognitive Psychology in an article titled «Evolution of word meanings through metaphorical mapping: Systematicity over the past millennium.»
In addition to her musical pursuits, Kamala has been a voice actor on Comedy Central's Superjail and Cartoon Network's Golden Age, and holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the New School for Social Research.
She received her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Yale University in 1989.
«In this case, «education» became an issue of equality and allowing everyone access to education,» said Li, who worked with Benjamin Schloss, a graduate student in cognitive psychology, and Jake Follmer, a graduate student in educational psychology.
He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.A. cum laude from the University of California at San Diego, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, Chair in Cognitive Psychology and member of the Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol, said: «We can understand the implications of uncertainty, and in the case of the climate system, it is very clear that greater uncertainty will make things even worse.
«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.
In cognitive psychology, assessing others» thoughts and feelings through nonverbal cues is called person perception.
[1] This fallacy is the philosophical / rhetorical application of the multiple comparisons problem (in statistics) and apophenia (in cognitive psychology).
In cognitive psychology and also in «narrative psychotherapy,» there has been a lot of work on the importance of storytelling.
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.
The most tantalizing result of Cohn's study (recently published in Cognitive Psychology) emerged when he showed subjects panels arranged so that they had a narrative arc but didn't add up to a meaningful story.
A small minority of youngsters jump quickly from always failing to always passing these tests, the scientists report October 20 in Cognitive Psychology.
In cognitive psychology, cognitive load refers to the total amount of mental effort being used in the working memory.
Christine Burnham received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Arizona, where her research focused on the cognitive processes that support reading ability and word recognition.
Lawrence M. Schoen holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, with a special focus in psycholinguistics.
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