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    Stress and Cognitive Functions

    Consider the work of an air traffic controller or an emergency room physician. Both jobs require alertness, quick thinking, and sound judgment in the making of a constant stream of life-or-death decisions. This process occurs with every worker's shift, day after day. Imagine the impact of such an ongoing responsibility on cognit

    Validity of data interpretations

    I will be doing a study on Cooperative Learning in the educational field of psychology. I need help with describing at least two possible factors that might threaten the validity of data interpretations. How might the strategies resolve this challenge and why might each strategy be effective?

    Preventing Groupthink

    You have agreed to lead a group of students who will advise the university president on a matter of great concern to students. More specifically, the president has asked you to come up with a way to encourage students to complete their undergraduate degrees in less than five years. A lot rides on what you advise the university p

    Scholar-Practitioner Model at a Top College University

    1. How does this model below titled Scholar-Practitioner Model apply to my future work in becoming a Board Certified Behavioral Analyst? Be sure to discuss both parts of the Scholar-Practitioner Model as well as becoming future a Board Certified Behavioral Analyst. 2). Discuss how a practitioner can further enhance his/her s

    Decision-Making

    Humans make a plethora of decisions on a daily basis. Some are involuntary biological decisions, whereas others are the result of conscious effort. Describe how humans make both logical and risky decisions. (3 references needed).

    Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders

    Professor is very detailed and strict when it comes to APA formatting, citations and references. Thanks Diagnosis of elderly clients may pose multiple challenges. Coupled with other symptoms from age and/or medical conditions, psychologists may encounter complications in making an accurate, differential diagnosis between cogn

    Effects of Aging on Cognitive Development

    Effects of Aging on Cognitive Development Create a news release for your community to discuss the effects of aging on cognitive development. Address the following: 1) Evaluate the effects of aging on cognitive development. 2) Provide two examples of scholarly research that support the points in your news release.

    Application of Learning Principles

    How useful is affective creativity in resolving recurrent daily interpersonal (social) issues? Why? Is affective creativity more important than cognitive learning or rational thinking in solving this type of problem? Why or why not?

    Development of Negative Schemas and CBT

    The development of negative schemas and the internalized bad self-phenomenon are often the root cause of many disorders. This is why CBT is used for less severe disorders in which the client can easily access the precocious with the help of the therapist. Is this true why or why not?

    Confirmation Bias is briefly discussed.

    Is the affect of the media on biases diluted considerably due to a phenomenon known as confirmation bias (see: http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/23/confirmation-bias/)? In other words, are society's biases and stereotypes pretty well set by other forces and the media, then, simply plays to those pre-set perceptions, or does t

    Cognitive Psychology Sub Field

    Please help me to select an area of cognitive psychology that Include a bibliography with at least five references that you intend to use.

    Does Cognitive Dissonance Explain Why Behavior Can Change Attitude?

    Prepare an analysis of Issue 5: Does Cognitive Dissonance Explain Why Behavior Can Change Attitudes? as presented by Nier (2010). As a part of your analysis, address the following items: 1) Define consonant and dissonant cognitions 2) Analyze the influence that consonant and dissonant cognitions have on attitudes and beha

    The Role of Cognitive and Affective Factors

    Attitudes, beliefs, and emotions have a strong influence on the formation and maintenance of attitudes you hold toward objects, issues, or people. Classical conditioning, as applied to attitude formation and maintenance, holds that an attitude can form through association between an initially neutral attitude object and another

    Cognitive Roots of an Attitude

    A brief description of an attitude you currently hold that was formed through affective or cognitive influences. Describe or explain how the attitude was formed. Describe any cultural or environmental factors that may have influenced the formation of the attitude. Support your response with some of the following refer

    Elements of the Court System and Forensic Psychology

    The element of court system includes types of courts and proceedings, personnel involved, types of adjudicative processes etc. I was asked to write three pages on the following: • Describe the three elements of the court system you selected and the individuals connected with each. • Then analyze and explain the relations

    Discussing Different Models for Processing Information

    1) Compare and contrast Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin's information processing model of memory with Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch's working memory model. 2) How and why did Baddeley revise this model? 3) Briefly explain the difference between retroactive and proactive interference and illustrate with a personal

    Cognitive Psychology: Scholastic and Associationism

    Scholastic and associationism are two of the major roots of modern cognitive psychology being seen as the development of models of the mind. The Middle Ages refers to a division of European history from approximately the fall of the Roman Empire in the 15th century to the beginning of the Renaissance in the 15th century, during

    Cognitive Psychology: Viewpoints of Reality

    Rationalist, empiricist, scholastic, and associationism are some of the major roots of modern cognitive psychology being seen as the development of models of the mind. 1) Briefly discuss rationalist, empiricist, scholastic, and associationist models of cognitive psychology as well as it attributive philosophers. 2) In compa

    Collaborative language-based therapy models

    I need help with comparing two therapy models (collaborative language-based therapy models, experiential approaches, cognitive-behavioral therapy models) by noting their similarities and differences as well as examples of circumstances of the models being used, and their strengths and limitations in those circumstances.

    Endopsychic Conflicts

    Briefly explain Sigmund Freud's Endopsychic Conflicts within the psyche and how does it relates to the three parts of the personality: such as the id, ego, and superego?

    Psychological and traumatic effect on cognitive functions

    I am writing an assignment concerning the psychological and traumatic effect on cognitive functions of an individual who has suffered a stroke. The cognitive areas I am addressing are perception, attention, and short-term memory. Can someone help me with some information? Also, can medication or other types of strategies help w

    Evolution of Cognitive Psychology

    Explain the evolution of cognitive psychology as a discipline. Define cognition: - Explain the interdisciplinary perspective as it relates to cognitive psychology. - Describe the emergence of cognitive psychology as a discipline. - Assess the effects of the decline of behaviorism on the discipline of cognitive ps

    Psychology of Learning

    What does it mean when a behavior is classified as a conditioned response? What are some examples of conditioned emotional responses that you have observed in yourself or a friend? How were they conditioned?

    Adolescent Cognitive Processes

    Could you please help me get started on an assignment by discussing the following questions?: Describe some of an adolescent's cognitive processes. Where do adolescents (teenagers) fall in Piaget's stages of cognitive development.

    Cognitive Coaching is debated.

    Consider the effect of cognitive coaching on the current climate of education an its use in supporting teacher leadership.