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This paper examines two instructional approaches to student learning: cognitive coaching brain-based learning. The discusses the complexity of the wide range of skills used in the learning process and looks at how research based approaches can be applied to a classroom setting.

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"This paper examines the topic of the utilization of two research-based instructional approaches- cognitive teaching and brain-based learning- to enhance student learning. First, to provide a background introduction on the different types of learning, Bloom's Taxonomy and metacognition were represented. This discussion highlighted the wide range of skills in order of their complexity, which are employed in the learning process. Second, cognitive coaching was discussed by highlighting the process of its implementation and its concept of five mind states. By using a three-step process that involves planning observations and reflections cognitive coaching..."

Tags:Cognitive, Coaching

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The paper asserts that center-based services represent the means by which schools can become optimally pro-active in preparing students so that all learning will be accelerated, streamlined, and efficient. The paper examines center-based early education childhood interventions that involve the enhancement of cognitive and language competencies and of the general educational process. The paper maintains that children need more from us than just intellectual development; it is our job to prepare them with life skills that are hardly taught in the traditional educational curriculum.

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"The role of the educational institution in its most proactive sense needs to be expanded to consider not only the standard school year curriculums for educating children, but offering tools and programs which will most effectively equip children with succeeding in the environment that constitutes the normal curriculum of elementary years and beyond. In effect, we refer to preparing children even for kindergarten, and the cultural and organizational notion of the educational environment that is ubiquitous to all American children in preparation for the society that is of course ubiquitous to all of us as adults. Center-based services represent the means by which the schools can become optimally pro-active in preparing students so that all learning will be accelerated, streamlined, and efficient."

Tags:interventions, cognitive, language, competencies, social, skills, curriculum

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The paper relates that cognitive therapy uses cognitive and performance-based interventions to produce changes in feeling, thinking, and behavior (Kendall, 1991; Kendall & Panichelli-Mindel, 1995). The paper explains that this type of therapy is concerned with both the external environment of the individual, and his or her internal processing of the world and is thought to be the most broadly and widely endorsed form of counseling interventions available (Smith & Smith, 2004).

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"Cognitive therapy uses cognitive and performance-based interventions to produce changes in feeling, thinking, and behavior (Kendall, 1991; Kendall & Panichelli-Mindel, 1995). This type of therapy is concerned with both the external environment of the individual, and his or her internal processing of the world and is thought to be the most broadly and widely endorsed form of counseling interventions available (Smith & Smith, 2004)."

Tags:cognitive, theory, bandura

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This paper provides a cognitive assessment of Sally, a nursing home patient in her mid-eighties, along the lines of David Burns' cognitive distortions.According to the paper, diagnosis is based on all five axis of DSM IV. This paper describes Sally as in her mid eighties and experiencing bouts of depression and anger. She frequently lashes out verbally at the nurses complaining about her condition and circumstances. At other times, Sally is placid and pleasant.

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"Sally is a patient at a nursing home for the elderly. She is now in her mid eighties and experiences bouts of depression and anger. She frequently lashes out verbally at the nurses complaining about her condition and circumstances. At other times, Sally is placid and pleasant. The following discussion provides a cognitive assessment of Sally along the lines of David Burns' cognitive distortions. Diagnosis is based on all five axis of DSM IV. Cognitive Assessment..."

Tags:dsm iv, cognitive distortions, david burns

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This paper examines some of the controversy in the field of cognitive psychology. Although it is a discipline based on behavior, critics feel it is not a true science. The author puts particular emphasis on B.F. Skinner's critique of the field. Opinions in favor of cognitive psychology are also presented.

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"Psychology has been traditionally one of the most criticized fields with regard to its scientific bases; the "continued focus on conceptually vague mentalistic constructs" make the field a difficult one to define, much less evaluate (Schlinger 123). The concept of cognitive psychology, the study of the mental processes which underlie and shape behavior, is a shadowy and shifting one to grasp, since each generation (and often, several factions within those groups) seem to create new or varied methods of said evaluation"

Tags:Skinner, cognitive, psychology, behavior

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This paper focuses on a particular case study and examines what the mental and cognitive concerns are, based on crystallized and fluid memory research and the course textbook. The paper also focuses on what the optimal living situation would be for the subject, and how they could potentially thrive.

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"There are cognitive, intellectual and functioning concerns for someone of "very old age," specifically Sylvia, the case study in question. Sylvia is a 78-year-old Catholic Latina from a middle class background. She is a mother and has a daughter and a son. She is currently living with her daughter and son in law who is unmarried with a baby. Thus, there are four generations living under one roof in Sylvia's household, which is a beneficial situation for both Sylvia and her kin. There are many cognitive concerns found in old age. These include behavioral slowing, which impairs motor responses; reaction time, problem..."

Tags:cognitive, age, geronotology

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This paper critiques a study to determine clinical efficacy of cognitive-behavioral group therapy (CBGT) to treat irritable bowel syndrome (IRB) in hospital-based outpatients. The paper discusses patient selection, variables and results.

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"The purpose of the study was to determine clinical efficacy of cognitive-behavioral group therapy (CBGT) to treat irritable bowel syndrome (IRB) in hospital-based outpatient patients. An experimental study with IBS patients referred by physicians was conducted. Patients were randomly assigned to CBGT or SMTC treatment groups..."

Tags:CBGT, IRB, patients, hospital, cognitive-heavioral, group therapy

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This paper is a summary and comment on an article by Aronson called "The Rationalizing Animal", concerning Feistinger's theory of cognitive dissonance, how dissonance develops, how dissonance is resolved through rationalization, the lengths to which the individual will go to resolve dissonance It also discusses how dissonance is involved in the operation of conscience.

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"Aronson (1973) examines the concept of rationalization from the point of view of a psychologist examining human behavior and why people believe things that make little sense, suggesting that they may be rationalizing in order to reconcile different ideas they may hold at the same time. The author refers to the theory of cognitive dissonance offered by Feistinger in 1957, a theory that describes and predicts such rationalizing behavior. We receive messages from our surroundings all the time that may challenge our assumptions, our beliefs, or our behaviors, and we may continue behaviors that counter these messages even if we believe the message as well. Aronson notes that the more the individual is committed to a course of action, the more he or she will resist any information that threatens to change that course. This creates cognitive dissonance, and the individual will seek to reduce that dissonance through rationalization."

Tags:cognitive, dissonance, article

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The paper provides an introduction favouring task-based ESL teaching for its cognitive process of integration that also hastens functionality. The paper makes a reference to different reasons the model is favoured and its particular suitability for students needing English for professional or other practical reasons.

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"This paper introduces what is called the Task-based approach to second language learning that has been adopted by teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL) in various settings. It is clear that this set of methods can be a joy to the teacher of ESL who can use creativity in deciding what tasks to assign or those from which particular students will gain. Creativity is also promised in tasks meant to review or reinforce in experiential ventures lettings students see how to use taught materials in practical ways. Brindley's discussion of outcome-based assessment in ESL..."

Tags:tesl, experiential, task based ped

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In this article, the writer notes that the main hypothesis of the study, "Does Cognitive Function in Older Adults with Hearing Impairment Improve by Hearing Aid Use?", can be stated as follows: while hearing aids show significant results in terms of auditory improvement, there is no proof to suggest a related improvement or increase in cognitive ability as a result of the application of a hearing aid. The writer explains that the study refers to cognitive functions such as memory, attention, executive functioning, and processing speed. The writer also explains that it should be noted at the outset that this hypothesis presupposes a connection, albeit based on prior research sources, between hearing or hearing enhancements and cognitive functioning. Thus, this is an aspect that forms part of the critique in this analysis of the paper. The writer points out that it is also suggested that the methodology used to ascertain cognitive correlation is to some extent not adequate in terms of the complexity of determining quantitatively a definite link between hearing aids and improved cognition.

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"The methodology used in this study was comparatively simple and conventionally straight-forward. In essence a relatively small number or participants were used in this study - which is also a point of contention with regard to the results and conclusion of this research. In total there were fifty-six participants (mean age 0/72.5) who were fitted with hearing aids were compared with 46 control participants (mean age 0/74.5) with an equivalent impairment, but who were not fitted with a hearing aid. The study took cognizance of a number of variables and factors that could influence the results of the experiment. These included neurocognitive tests after 12 months. However, it is also possible that these tests in terms of personality and individual psychological components were not sufficient. This aspect is possibly one of the reasons why the study did not return the expected correlation between hearing aids and cognitive improvement."

Tags:memory, attention, cognition, sensory, organ