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Saving Jews from the Holocaust examined in terms of cognitive dissonance theories.

A paper which considers cognitive dissonance with specific reference to saving Jews from the Nazi Holocaust. The writer takes the ...

Two theories relating to cognitive development: Case and Siegler

state to another, which could be considered the strategies used. In other words, there is something similar to a hierarchy and the...

Festinger, Sternberg, and Seligman on Human Motivation

In four pages this paper considers human motivation in a discussion of the attribute changing ABCDE method by Seligman, the Triang...

Basis of Cognitive Psychology and Ecological Validity

psychology has paved the way for a paradigm change in science. The same paradigm shift that facilitated psychologys change in foc...

How to Retain Cognitive Abilities as We Age

This research paper presents a discussion of aging and how it affects cognitive function. The realities of cognitive aging are des...

Interventions for Patients

This essay provides information and insight on different psychotherapeutic interventions for different mental illnesses. Psychodyn...

Early Language Acquisition

Cognitive development is about information processing, reasoning, intelligence, memory, and language development. It is about the ...

Developmental Schemas for Children

Piaget is bast known for his stages of cognitive development. His theory is still being used today as well as being researched. Pi...

Festinger and Carlsmith's Seminal Study

Many of us have experienced cognitive dissonance. It happens when we say or do something that is against our personal beliefs. Thi...

Bruner Piaget Vygotsky

steps (Bandura, 1999). His theory went against the prevalent theories of the day. One of the best known cognitive theorists is Je...

Cognitive Therapy and Personality Disorder

hopelessness; he feels he is not good enough and not worthy. (2) affectivity (i.e., the range, intensity, liability, and appropri...

Persuasive Argument Theories

are still being paid less than men for the same job and it is also true that men have been taught more negotiating skills than wom...

Educators and Cognitive Coaching

sufferers of anxiety become familiar with the cognitive processes that support their anxious behaviors, they can actively work to ...

Madness, Nature, and Cognitive Psychology

Erikson believed that environmental changes determine the conflict that arises, and that these stages are sequential in terms of o...

Counseling Sessions and Content Influencing

scenario: a 28-year old man arrives at his counseling session. The first session is the interview during which time, the man expla...

Various Aspects of Child Development

for instance (Ginn, 2004). Piaget did allow for some flexibility in the age ranges for each stage but there is no flexibility in t...

Processes of Decision Making

and how to physically hurt another human being. The objective of the experiment was to try and determine under what circumstances...

Corporate social responsibility, cognitive dissonance, and preserving the environment.

Inasmuch as "dissonance theory applies to all situations involving attitude formation and change" (Cognitive Dissonance #2), the m...

Approaches to Psychology

as cycle speed follows no set pattern and can overlap one another within the maturation process. "In early developmental theories...

Cognitive Research Similarities and Differences

which additional research will move forward. This (obviously) allows for the researcher to make the best use of all the informatio...

Summer camp activities to aid the cognitive development of children aged between three and seven

completely. As well, within the scope of learning there needs to be some semblance of order. Using guided discovery, educators...

Borderline Personality Disorder and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Treatment

to have their first interactions with a person with BPD as a result of emergency room visits following suicidal attempts. The the...

The Interdisciplinary Value of Complex Adaptive Systems

past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...

Radical Relativism contra Realism in Philosophy of Science

In a paper of thirteen pages, the writer looks at radical relativism and realism in philosophy of science. Radical relativism is c...

State of Science, Nursing Ethics

Background/Review of Literature The eight articles/studies that constitute this literature review encompasses several key concept...

Habermas: Universality Of Linguistic Understanding

and aesthetic projects of resistance and revolution, recooperation and universalism all played an integral role within the ultimat...

Science Fiction Shakespeare

possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...

Day-Age Theory of Creation

While this fact does not indicate that the author of Genesis intentionally used the word "yom" to indicate the passage of billions...

If Shakespeare Wrote Science Fiction, Ariel Would Use a Transporter

machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...

Science Education

researcher then used a purposeful sampling to select "typical case teachers who could be observed in their classroom setting. Usi...