Sentences with phrase «of cognitive strategies»
Second, it would be interesting to develop the findings regarding performance by examining variables that are at the same time strongly associated with performance and in a non-ambivalent way to emotion regulation, such as the way students process information (superficial versus in - depth), the way students regulate their learning (self - regulation versus external guidance) and the kind of cognitive strategies used (i.e. among a list of problem - solving heuristics)(Pekrun, 2006).
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Many strategies for teaching self - regulated behaviors relate specifically to Shulman's notion of PCK, in that they involve the use of cognitive strategies such as modeling, analogies, and metaphors to aid in understanding the content - related material.
Most children are not naturally metacognitive, but all students, from struggling learners to high performers, can benefit from being taught how and when to use a variety of cognitive strategies to monitor and improve their learning.
The results underscore the efficacy of a cognitive strategies reading / writing intervention for mainstreamed ELs in the secondary grades.
This study reports year 1 findings from a multi-site cluster randomized controlled trial of a cognitive strategies approach to teaching text - based analytical writing for mainstreamed Latino English Language learners (ELLs) in 9 middle schools and 6 high schools.
Such frameworks emphasize the merits of a cognitive strategies approach that supports these learners» English language development.
A Randomized Experiment of a Cognitive Strategies Approach to Text - Based Analytical Writing for Mainstreamed Latino English Language Learners in Grades 6 - 12.
When struggling students learn how to «drive their brains» through the use of cognitive strategies, they're more likely to be able to learn and think at higher levels.
Other practices include cooperative learning, extended dialogues to develop language and thinking skills, explicit teaching of cognitive strategies, and the use of technology to enhance instruction.
The overlap of the cognitive strategies of imagined and attempted movement has important implications.
As we explore in this issue, they're systematic — the product of cognitive strategies that help us evade danger, find food, and perform other feats essential for survival.
In this article, the authors describe Math Scene Investigator, an example of a cognitive strategy suitable for teaching word problem solving to primary - level students with mathematics difficulties and learning disabilities.
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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).
«The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation — each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.»
People who have achieved a high degree of cognitive sophistication in one domain may make use of relatively simple cognitive strategies in other areas or may resort to such strategies when taken out of contexts with which they are familiar.
That strategy took on added plausibility and popularity because the contemporary movement of Romanticism was also insisting on the cognitive value of intuitive feelings.
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).
With a caring, supportive, strengths - based focus, and a touch of humor, Colleen uses a variety of approaches and interventions such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Play Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness and Harm Reduction Strategies in order to help clients achieve their goals, feel empowered and realize their full potential.
Wenzel A. Basic Strategies of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
Parents today look for strategies that will help their child build skills in all areas of development - cognitive, physical, moral, language, social and emotional domains.
The health risks associated with formula feeding for premature infants include increased incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis, 5 delayed brainstem maturation, 6 decreased scoring on cognitive and developmental tests,7 - 10 and decreased visual development.11, 12 Thus, human - milk feeding of premature infants is desirable, and effective strategies to increase breastfeeding rates in this population are needed.
As a parent of a NYC public school student and a preschooler attending an early childhood program, I look forward to parent - teacher conferences as one of many vehicles that provides feedback on my children's development, their strengths and weaknesses, and strategies I can employ at home to support their cognitive and social - emotional growth.
This is an effective strategy, concentrating limited cognitive resources on specific items of interest, rather than diluting resources over the entire space.
«These findings help reinforce a strategy whereby individuals may be able to improve their emotional functioning — their mood, their anxiety, their experience of depression — not only by directly addressing those phenomena, but also by indirectly improving their general cognitive functioning,» said Ahmad Hariri, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke.
It also plays a role in emotion regulation, and well - established types of psychotherapy, including cognitive behavioral therapy, engage this region of the brain by equipping patients with strategies to reframe or re-evaluate their emotions.
The study results revealed that participants of all ages reported less craving when they used the cognitive strategy of imagining the visual aspects of the food, amounting to a 16 % reduction in craving.
Having them imagine the visual aspects of the food, a cognitive strategy that redirects attention, allowed the researchers to assess how participants regulated their responses to the food.
«If children as young as 6 can learn to use a cognitive strategy after just a few minutes of training, that has huge implications for interventions.»
Genome - Seeking Stone Tools By this time — more than 100,000 years ago — Neanderthals and modern humans had advanced cognitive abilities, indicated by the complexity of their tools and hunting strategies.
In the paper, she redefines healthy cognitive aging as a result of learning strategies and habits that are developed throughout our life.
«Future molecular genetics work holds strong promise for developing therapeutic strategies to prevent the spread of pathology at stages of Alzheimer's preceding cognitive decline,» Schmitz said.
Questionnaires also measured levels of cognitive intrusion and identified coping strategies in which participants engaged in the seven days following the stressful event.
«If we address hearing loss and we treat it well with things like hearing aids and counseling strategies, can we actually reduce the risk of cognitive decline and dementia?»
The CBT used in this case combined cognitive therapy, such as teaching subjects to think about sleep in a more constructive way, with strategies to improve their sleep habitsnamely getting out of bed at the same time each day and eliminating napping.
Now we need to investigate whether these structural changes correlate with reduced cognitive function and whether neuroprotective strategies might be able to stop the progression of brain volume loss.
«Despite many years of active involvement in both formal and informal learning activities, students do not necessarily employ activities that best foster learning — even though, as our results indicate, those strategies are in their «toolbox» of effective learning strategies,» said co-author Elizabeth Bjork, PhD, professor of cognitive psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The paper, «Social Learning Strategies in Networked Groups,» appeared in the December issue of Cognitive Science.
By identifying these factors early on, the research team hopes to have a better chance of providing effective cognitive strategies to help risk - seeking adolescents regulate their emotions and avoid risk - taking behavior and substance abuse.
«Physical activity is extremely helpful for stroke survivors for a number of reasons, and our findings suggest that this may also be a good strategy to promote cognitive recovery after stroke» said lead author Lauren E. Oberlin, a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh.
«Current treatment guidelines emphasize interventions that reduce short - term mortality, but with little information on strategies to minimize physical disability, cognitive impairment or health deterioration after sepsis,» said senior author Derek Angus, M.D., M.P.H., the Dr. Mitchell P. Fink Professor and chair of Pitt's Department of Critical Care Medicine.
Preliminary research has suggested that, «if the target is to improve older adults» cognitive control, reasoning, and higher - order cognitive skills, and stave off dementia and Alzheimer's as long as possible, then maybe strategy games are the way to go,» said Chandramallika Basak, assistant professor at the Center for Vital Longevity and School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas.
«The results of this study are exciting because this technology has the potential to improve pre-diction of psychosis and ultimately help us prevent psychosis by helping researchers develop re-mediation and training strategies that target the cognitive deficits that may underlie language dis - turbance,» said the study's first author, Cheryl Corcoran, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Program Leader in Psychosis Risk, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
«Knowing that MS patients tend to adopt this cognitive strategy, along with their nearly constant state of emotional stress, is important,» he concludes.
Delgado and Jacobs thought that the squirrels — just one of which can bury up to 10,000 nuts annually, many of which they do go back and find — might be using a cognitive strategy known as chunking.
The findings provide fundamental new knowledge about how memory works, Zeithamova said, and eventually could lead to new strategies in educational settings that help students to consolidate new information with previously learned material to build stronger cognitive maps of various topics.
«We believe that these severe responses are connected to a type of emotional / general cognitive strategy used by MS patients, possibly emerging as a mechanism to cope with their medical condition and the many challenges that are associated with it,» says Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht, a neurologist and researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Our study, along with prior studies, supports the notion that «cognitive reserve» resulting from early - life and lifelong education and cognitive stimulation may be a potent strategy for the primary prevention of dementia in both high - and low - income countries around the world.21 However, it should be noted that the relationships among education, brain biology, and cognitive function are complex and likely multidirectional; for instance, a number of recent population - based studies have shown genetic links with level of educational attainment, 22,23 and with the risk for cognitive decline in later life.24 Higher levels of educational attainment are also associated with health behaviors (eg, physical activity, diet, and smoking), more cognitively - complex occupations, and better access to health care, all of which may play a role in decreasing lifetime dementia risk.
Participants were randomly placed into one of two cognitive training groups: strategy - based training or knowledge - based training.
In addition to her expert skill as a clinician, Dr. Frontera also has many research interests including identifying biomarkers and predictors of early brain injury and vasospasm / delayed cerebral ischemia after subarachnoid hemorrhage and their impact on outcome; determining the efficacy of therapeutic strategies and developing guidelines for the management of patients with intracranial hemorrhage; evaluating the cost, length of stay, quality of life, functional and cognitive outcomes in a broader population of intracranial hemorrhage patients; developing guidelines for the integration of palliative care into the intensive care unit setting; and evaluating the relationship of Zika virus infection, Guillain - Barre, and other neurologic disorders.
This treatment incorporates the traditional principles of cognitive therapy with the philosophy of the newer coping strategies offered in mindfulness meditation.