Essays Tagged: "cognitive process"
Metonymy in Language and Thought; the concept of metonymy in cognitive linguistics
Metonymy1) What is metonymy?Working definition:Metonymy is a cognitive process in which one conceptual entity, the vehicle, provides mental access to another con ... vehicle, provides mental access to another conceptual entity, the target, within the same idealised cognitive model (ICM). (Zoltán Kövecses; Metaphor; Oxford University Press 2002)Metonymy ... ler like in The Mercedes has arrived for whatever name the driver has4) How to choose a vehicle4.1) Cognitive principles- Human experiencehuman over non-human (like in the producer for product metonym ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics
Prejudice and Aggression
oup of people based on their gender, nationality, race, religion, bodily appearance. Though it is a cognitive process to categorize different objects, and generalize to speed up the cognitive retrieva ... individual can be considered as unique.In conclusion prejudice is a negative subject but because of cognitive categorizing it is in everybody.What are the causes of aggression and what consequences do ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
"Remember the Titans"
own as TC Williams High School. The town and the football team come together to illustrate a social cognitive process. Everything is perceived, remembered, and interpreted by the talented football tea ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Organizational trends MGT/331
ccording to (Wikipedia encyclopedia, Decision making section, pa.1) decision making is defined as a cognitive process of selecting a course of action from several alternatives. Every decision results ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Decision Making Model Analysis
"Decision making is the cognitive process leading to the selection of a course of action among alternatives. Every decision- ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making
Decision-making models; APA Style Format
ate to the real world scenarios.Decision-Making is defined by the website freedictionary.com as the cognitive process of reaching a decision; "a good executive must be good at decision making". Experi ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making
The Automaticity of motor behaviour
e is no thought process to this, rather the body just does the required motor skill without obvious cognitive process. This is termed as automaticity, yet why and how does this happen?Automaticity has ... s through in order to achieve automaticity in a motor skill (1967). The first stage is known as the cognitive stage. They theorized that the first stage is 'marked by a large number of errors in perfo ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
Describe one process theory of motivation- why is it a process theory? What are the features and how does it apply to the workplace?
Process theories stress the differences in people's needs and focus on the cognitive processes that create these differences. What all process theories have in common is an em ... differences. What all process theories have in common is an emphasis on the role of an individual's cognitive processes in determining his or her level of motivation.One major process theory, equity t ... his or her level of motivation.One major process theory, equity theory, assumes that one important cognitive process involves people looking around and observing what effect other people are putting ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Vigilant Decision making model
Decision Making Model AnalysisThe definition of decision making according to Wikipedia is "the cognitive process of selecting a course of action from among multiple alternatives" (2006, ¶ 1) ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making
Kohlberg's stages of moral development
hin themselves thought a hierarchy system of stages.The lower the stage the "less developed" is the cognitive process of reasoning morality.At the Conventional level, the individual perceives the main ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
Thinking and Decision Making Paper
learning is the critical thinking process. The college of nursing defines critical thinking as, "A cognitive process based on reflective thought and a tolerance for ambiguity which has the following ... I am using creative thinking.Convergent ThinkingConvergent thinking is the type of thinking that is cognitive processing of information around a common point, in an attempt to bring thought from diffe ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Intuition: Cognitive Process or Irrational Phenome
ally a phenomenon, which is a limited "gift" to a certain group of people, or is it perhaps a rapid cognitive process, which may be learnt by anyone? There are two forms of intuition: empirical intuit ... le to explain how.Crisis situations are another example of when intuition, or "instincts" are used. Cognitive psychologist Gary Klein once noted about firefighters that, "Their minds move so rapidly w ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Compare And Contrast How The Novels Explore Sanity
le, Septimus is unable to extract pleasure from a passing moment. This seemingly mundane and normal cognitive process does not appear to be present in the psyche of Septimus. This can be contrasted to ... ;¨ (Pg153 Mrs Dalloway).An arguably sane character possessing ¡¥normal¡¦ cognitive would perceive light as light. Septimus however perceives light in a somewhat queer manner ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet
Marketing Research
t. There are no papers or research done in the area of the nature of the referents. Also the was no cognitive process on determining weather or not there had been pressures caused by the norms of soci ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Framing Effects The Media
rting out of frames of reference” (Chong 1993).Framing is a psychological characteristic and a cognitive process which allows us to receive and organize information in patterns, that resemble cog ... y in the continuous way of information. Framing contributes a notional link between theorization of cognitive views of individual relationship with information and with information production.Making t ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Cognition and Emotion
gnition and emotion in ways that challenge the simple division of labor into separate emotional and cognitive domains. In the context of psychology and the mind, general dichotomization alluded to emo ... ral dichotomization alluded to emotion and cognition in terms of subcortical-emotional and cortical-cognitive areas of the brain is especially now seen as simplified, thus breaking down quite fast whe ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Sensation & Perception
Human Development Focusing On Aggression among Adolescents
hough the response may be out of proportion to the threat.Studies examining the relations of social cognitive patterns to reactive and proactive aggression have supported the validity of the distincti ... ent to others (Dodge & Cole, 1987; Dodge et al., 1990). In contrast, speculation about a social cognitive process associated with proactive aggression has focused on human development for aggressi ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness
Framing Media
or sorting out of frames of reference" (Chong 1993).Framing is a psychological characteristic and a cognitive process which allows us to receive and organize information in patterns, that resemble cog ... y in the continuous way of information. Framing contributes a notional link between theorization of cognitive views of individual relationship with information and with information production.Making t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies