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Communication Process
by: rika, 8 pagesCommunication is the process of sharing our ideas, thoughts, and feelings with other people and having those ideas, thoughts, and feelings understood by the people we are talking with. When we ...
Cognition and the We b: Moving from Theory to Web Design
by: shinta, 30 pagesThe links from basic cognitive theory to applied web design practice are not as strong as we would like to see. This chapter outlines some areas in which the two disciplines complement each ...
Cognitive Theories of Consciousness
by: shinta, 25 pagesIn the present chapter, we first overview the precursors that allowed the development of cognitive theories of consciousness, and in particular we consider the notions of attention, ...
Attention, Automaticity, and Levels of Representation in Number Processing
by: shinta, 13 pagesParticipants performed same-difïerent judgments for pairs of numerals in 2 conditions: numerical matching (responding "same" to pairs such as 2-TWO), or physical matching (responding ...
Looking for Ms. Right: Allocating Attention to Facilitate Mate Choice Decisions
by: shinta, 14 pagesThrough various signals, the human body provides information that may be used by receivers to make decisions about mate value. Here, we investigate whether there exists a complementary psychological ...
The functional design of depression's influence on attention: A preliminary test of alternative control-process mechanisms
by: shinta, 21 pagesSubstantial evidence indicates that depression focuses attention on the problems that caused the episode, so much that it interferes with the ability to focus on other things. We hypothesized that ...
High Status Men (But Not Women) Capture the Eye of the Beholder
by: shinta, 14 pagesTwo studies tested the hypothesis that people attend preferentially to high status men (but not women). Participants overestimated the frequency of high status men in rapidly presented arrays ...
School Readiness and Later Achievement
by: shinta, 20 pagesUsing 6 longitudinal data sets, the authors estimate links between three key elements of school readiness—school-entry academic, attention, and socioemotional skills—and later ...
Failure to Control Prepotent Pathways in Early Stage Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type: Evidence From Dichotic Listening
by: shinta, 9 pagesThe authors examined the right ear advantage in a dichotic listening task in healthy aging and very mild and mild stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Subjects were simultaneously presented 3 ...
Attentional mechanisms in the generation of sympathy
by: shinta, 10 pagesEmpathic responses, such as sympathy towards others, are a key ingredient in the decision to provide help to those in need. The determinants of empathic responses are usually thought to be the ...
