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Description:: Language is a hallmark of human cognition—a rich and flexible method of representing the world around us. As such, language provides an invaluable resource to human infants: a way of gaining insight into the representations that guide adult cognition. In this dissertation, I explore how language influences infants’ cognition as...
Keyword:: categorization, development, language, infant, learning, and cognition
Subject:: Cognitive psychology
Creator:: LaTourrette, Alexander Scott
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 01/21/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_732252 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15046

Description:: People evidence behaviors that engender hope for future behavior change, but also evidence this hope when there is no reason to believe that any behavior change will occur. For example, prior research suggests that temporal factors make people susceptible to change their minds over time, and a confluence of cognitive...
Keyword:: cognitive heuristic, temporal cognition, cognitive bias, luck, cognition, and decision-making
Subject:: Cognitive psychology, Behavioral sciences, and Behavioral psychology
Creator:: Salomon-Amend, Meghan Maureen
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_668035 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14710

Description:: Researchers have long recognized that schools are powerful environments for shaping students' worldview and identity. The structured content, activities, and resultant culture of schools profoundly impact the way in which students learn to make sense of the world around them. In the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community this function of schooling is...
Keyword:: worldview, Jewish Studies, socialization, activity, and cognition
Subject:: Education and Social Policy - Learning Sciences
Creator:: Moshe Krakowski
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/06/2018
Date Modified:: 09/06/2018
Date Created:: 2008-04-24
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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