Essays Tagged: "cognitive abilities"
Jensen's, Gardner's, and Sternberg's theories of applications in measurement of general mental ability in the workplace.
tracted in a hierarchical factor analysis from a large battery of diverse tests of an assortment of cognitive abilities. Spearman thought of g as "mental energy" that could be applied to mental tasks ... which have in common the measurement in milliseconds of how quickly a subject completes "elementary cognitive tasks."Jensen (1998) believes these measurements (especially reaction time, or RT) are cat ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
Is dyslexia a specific form of language impairment?
erized by difficulties in reading and/or spelling which are unexpected in relation to age and other cognitive abilities" (Bonte et al 2004). Currently there is a vast array of research focusing on try ... years, this states that dyslexia is a form of language impairment which is "exclusively caused by a cognitive deficit that is specific to the representation and processing of speech sounds, this cogni ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Childrens' Complexity in Drawing
have been drawn by younger children and the pictures will become more involved or complex as their cognitive abilities develop.B) Scale:1 Point:1. Any number of fingers2. Feet3. Arms and legs as stic ... hat the body is more three dimensional. As children age their motor skills develop as well as their cognitive ability which in turns improve their ability to be able to draw pictures which as easier t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Parental Loss: The Effects on Teens
onal groups in the mourning paradigm (because their very selves are still developing) teens possess cognitive abilities that children do not. Their thought processes can be likened more to an "underde ... tive adolescence" (p. 39). Putting outside influences aside adolescence have to deal with physical, cognitive, emotional and if religious, spiritual problems as well. Physical and cognitive problems c ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Parental loss: Effects on teens
onal groups in the mourning paradigm (because their very selves are still developing) teens possess cognitive abilities that children do not. Their thought processes can be likened more to an underdev ... mative adolescence" (39). Putting outside influences aside, adolescents have to deal with physical, cognitive, emotional and if religious, spiritual problems as well. Physical and cognitive problems c ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Rite of Passage
another developmental psychologist thought that this stage of development was due to an increase in cognitive abilities which can create conflict as the teenager now had the ability to reason, dispute ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
The effects of sleep deprivation on the cognitive abilities of perception, judgment, reasoning and memory retention.
f the characteristics of the human body, and activities that are performed by the body, such as the cognitive abilities of humans: planning, judgment, perception, reasoning, and memory. These changes ... mics and overall school performance.First, to analyze the effects that sleep deprivation has on the cognitive and abilities of the human body, one must first possess an understanding of how sleep func ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Leadership and Emotional intelligence
p.Evaluating Emotional IntelligenceCapabilities are grouped into three categories: technical skill; cognitive abilities; emotional intelligence that are proved to be twice as important as the others f ... ng to some survey data, Emotional Intelligence may contribute as much as 80% of a person's success. Cognitive ability or what we call Intelligence Quotient(I. Q.) is only about 20%. Nowadays, high-qua ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Neurological Sonata: The neurology of music. A creative research essay for a Biology/Neurology course at the University of Chicago. (May be used for any mental, neurology, psychology course!)
brings out predictable responses across cultures and among people of broadly changeable musical or cognitive abilities. Even infants and people who cannot distinguish pitch enjoy musics emotional e ... wever, in other studies the musical tongue may also exceed more fundamental communication barriers. Cognitive psychologist Pam Heaton of Goldsmiths, University of London, and her research team [4] pla ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
Traumatic Brain Injuries
more commonly, brain injuries. These TBIs can cause some pretty serious brain damage, a decrease in cognitive abilities, and the lessening of emotional self-regulation. Cognitive abilities include the ... ng smoothly, etc. Another common problem is that when these patients become aware of their impaired cognitive functioning, they become angry and depression sets in. Depression is a mental disorder typ ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
How Might Homosexual Parenting Affect A Child's Development
kely to be homosexual. Furthermore, children raised in same-sex environments show no differences in cognitive abilities, behavior, general emotional development, or such specific areas of emotional de ... l relationships".Third, in general, children raised in same-sex environments show no differences in cognitive abilities, behavior, general emotional development, or such specific areas of emotional de ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Communication and Gender
ct, if none on the psychological traits and abilities tested. The psychological traits tested were "cognitive abilities, verbal and nonverbal communication, aggression, leadership, self-esteem, moral ... d Women: No Big Difference, 2005) Media depictions of men and women as having essentially different cognitive skills have fueled this debate, regardless of the lack of proof. The truth is that men and ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
IQ test
ology of insight, it is clear that a person's natural environment has a large deal to do with their cognitive abilities. Is the lightweight flickering? Is the decorate on the partitions an unsettling ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology