Sentences with phrase «like cognitive psychology»

Some of Dr. Willingham's misunderstanding may be the inevitable result of the wide gap that often separates clinical studies and frontline experience from research in a field like cognitive psychology.

«Within a very mature field like cognitive psychology, you're not going to see that.

Not exact matches

«By understanding how the brain attempts to implement cognitive flexibility in a neurodevelopmental disorder like autism, we can better understand the nature of the disorder,» said Dina R. Dajani, Ph.D. student of psychology in the UM College of Arts & Sciences and first author of the study.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

Willingham, a professor of cognitive psychology and author of Why Don't Students Like School?

Mounting evidence from fields like neuroscience and cognitive psychology, as well as studies on such topics as school turnaround implementation, shows that an academically challenging yet supportive and safe learning environment boosts both children's learning and coping abilities.

Although principles from cognitive science such as «Know your students» sometimes sound like bubbe psychology — that is, commonsense wisdom that your grandmother has always known — that doesn't make these principles easy to master, he writes.

My guest is cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia and author of «Why Don't Students Like School?»

My guest today is cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia and author of «Why Don't Students Like School?»

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.

The interesting phenomena in the climate debate is not «cognitive dissonance», but the emergence of academic disciplines like climate change psychology.

Legal writing professors are leaders in advancing interdisciplinary collaborations, particularly in areas like rhetoric, persuasion, and cognitive psychology.

Self - regulation, like many topics in psychology, is really an umbrella term referring to emotional regulation, effortful cognitive willpower, behavioral regulation and sometimes even mindfulness.

My education as a social worker was primarily psychodynamic, but like many therapists, I've explored a variety of methods: Gestalt therapy; self - psychology; emotive, cognitive, and behavioral approaches; couples therapy; and others.

A student who would like to become a cognitive behavioral psychologist starts by either completing a Ph.D or a Psy.D in psychology.