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Life Stress and Adjustment: Effects of Cognitive Content and Cognitive Organization

Individual differences of cognitive organization and content were investigated as they relate to adaptation to remote, recent, and immediate life stress. Outside the field of stress, prior researchers have implicated cognitive organization with adjustment and cognitive content with specific psychopathology. As for behavioral adaptation to life stress, cognitive organization was viewed as a major factor in emotional vulnerability and adjustment, and cognitive content as a major factor in the moo… more

Date: May 1985

Creator: Hickox, Sherrie Danene

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Cognitive Engagement in Later Life: Descriptive and Explanatory Findings

Findings on the relationship between engagement in lifestyle and cognitive functioning are not consistent; some authors report that engagement in lifestyle predicts an individual's cognitive functioning; while other report that an individual's cognitive functioning predicts the type and level of engagement an individual participates in. The current study will use longitudinal data (N = 235) to investigate the bidirectional relationship between engagement (engaged lifestyle activities) and cogni… more

Date: December 2016

Creator: Abdullah, Bashir

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Insomnia and Cognitive Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Daytime cognitive performance and sleep/wake cycles are strongly interrelated, and cognitive dysfunction has been extensively investigated in relation to insomnia. However, methods and outcomes vary widely by study, making comparison difficult without more systematic evaluation. Review of the literature reveals discrepant findings for the relationship between both subjective and objective measures of cognitive performance and insomnia. The current meta-analysis included 42 studies investigating… more

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Date: May 2019

Creator: Pinkston, Sophie Wardle

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Judgment of Contingency and the Cognitive Functioning of Clinical Depressives

Twenty-four psychiatric staff, 24 clinically depressed inpatients, and 24 nondepresssed schizophrenic patients at a state psychiatric facility completed five tasks under either reward or punishment conditions. Each task consisted of 30 trials of pressing or not pressing a button to make a light appear. Monetary reinforcement was contingent on light onset for the final ten trials of each task. Cash incentives for judgment of control accuracy were added for Tasks 3, 4, and 5. Cognitive function… more

Date: August 1990

Creator: Cobbs, David Lee

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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The Effect of Cognitive Style on Auditor Internal Control Evaluation

The present auditing environment involves increasing audit costs and potential legal liability. Increasing audit costs mandate methods to make the audit more efficient, while the credibility of audited financial statements depends on audit effectiveness. Internal accounting control evaluation impacts both the efficiency and effectiveness of the audit process since this judgment establishes a basis for determining the timing, nature and amount of auditing procedures to be performed. Results of p… more

Date: August 1985

Creator: Moffeit, Katherine S. (Katherine Southerland)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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The Aronson Cognitive Residual Evaluation Scale (ACRES): an Evaluation of Reliability with the Elderly

The Aronson Cognitive Residual Evaluation Scale (ACRES) is a new, relatively short neuropsychological test which attempts to measure residual cognitive skills. This study evaluated the ACRES test-retest reliability over a one to twelve month interval. The Trail Making Test (TMT) was included as a validation measure. Subjects were 58 males and females, aged 68 to 94, living in a retirement center or in the community. The ACRES exhibited moderate to strong reliability correlations and the TMT dem… more

Date: August 1990

Creator: Marcontell, Deborah K. (Deborah Kay)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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An Experimental Study of Teachers' Verbal and Nonverbal Immediacy, Student Motivation, and Cognitive Learning in Video Instruction

This study used an experimental design and a direct test of recall to provide data about teacher immediacy and student cognitive learning. Four hypotheses and a research question addressed two research problems: first, how verbal and nonverbal immediacy function together and/or separately to enhance learning; and second, how immediacy affects cognitive learning in relation to student motivation. These questions were examined in the context of video instruction to provide insight into distance l… more

Date: May 2000

Creator: Witt, Paul L.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Comparative Effectiveness of Paired Versus Individual Learning of Cognitive Skills Using Computer-Based Instruction

This study examined the comparative effectiveness of learning of cognitive skills when instruction is presented through computer-based instruction using student-to-computer ratios of one-to-one and two-to-one. Effectiveness was gauged through scores on posttests administered subsequent to completion of each of nine computer-based lessons and on a single composite test score.

Date: December 1991

Creator: Seebo, Elane K. (Elane Kelly)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Cognitive Complexity in Group Performance and Satisfaction

In this study, a comparison was made between the various levels of group cognitive complexity and its relationship to task performance and task satisfaction. The goal of this research is to answer the general question, "Should decision-making groups consist of individuals who are similar in the way they differentiate and/or integrate various stimuli in order to increase performance and satisfaction?" The preceding research problem was analyzed in a laboratory setting using a 2 X 2 factorial des… more

Date: December 1996

Creator: Mayer, Bradley Wayne

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Domain Specific Cognitive Effects of Sickle Cell Disease in Children

Multiple contributors to neurocognitive impairment in individuals with sickle cell disease have been identified. Research indicates that a history of cerebrovascular accidents, such as silent infarcts and strokes are associated with greater cognitive decline among children with sickle cell disease. Additionally, disease effects such as hemoglobin and hematocrit levels significantly effect cognitive performance among this population and should be taken into consideration when examining neurocogn… more

Date: December 2021

Creator: Carroll, Bridgette

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Sleep Disorders in Inpatient Vietnam Combat Veterans

This study evaluated the efficacy of a cognitive behavioral treatment for insomnia among inpatients who met the diagnostic criteria for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The cognitive behavioral treatment consisted of progressive relaxation, stimulus control, and thought stopping with cognitive restructuring.

Date: August 1983

Creator: Walker, Ann L. (Ann Lois)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Associations Between Neuromotor and Neurocognitive Functioning in Adults with Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Individuals diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) exhibit patterns of cognitive deficits in (1) attention (Lees-Roitman, Cornblatt, Bergman, Obuchowski, Mitropoulou, Keefe, Silverman, & Siever, 1997), (2) memory (Bergman, Harvey, Lees-Roitman, Mohs, Margerm, Silverman, & Siever, 1998), (3) executive functioning (Cadenhead, Perry, Shafer, & Braff, 1999), and recently (4) neuromotor functioning (Neumann & Walker, 1999), similar to individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Fur… more

Date: May 2004

Creator: Reynolds, Felicia D.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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IDHEAS – A NEW APPROACH FOR HUMAN RELIABILITY ANALYSIS

This paper describes a method, IDHEAS (Integrated Decision-Tree Human Event Analysis System) that has been developed jointly by the US NRC and EPRI as an improved approach to Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) that is based on an understanding of the cognitive mechanisms and performance influencing factors (PIFs) that affect operator responses. The paper describes the various elements of the method, namely the performance of a detailed cognitive task analysis that is documented in a crew response… more

Date: September 1, 2013

Creator: Parry, G. W.; Forester, J.A; Dang, V.N.; Hendrickson, S. M. L.; Presley, M.; Lois, E. et al.

Item Type: Article

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Children's Cognitive and Moral Reasoning: Expressive Versus Receptive Cognitive Skills

Past research has shown that there are differences between children's ability to express verbally moral judgment or social cognitive principles (cognitive-expression) and their ability to understand and utilize these principles when making evaluations about others (cognitive-reception). This study investigated these differences.

Date: December 1986

Creator: Parker, Deborah A. (Deborah Ann)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Applying Cognitive Load Theory to the Design of Online Learning.

The purpose of the study was to investigate the application of cognitive load theory to the design of online instruction. Students in three different courses (N = 146) were measured on both learning performance and perceptions of mental effort to see if there were any statistically significant differences. The study utilized a quasi-experimental posttest-only control group design contrasting modified and unmodified instructional lessons. Both groups were given a posttest to measure knowledge ga… more

Date: May 2007

Creator: Burkes, Kate M. Erland

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Bridging Human Reliability Analysis and Psychology, Part 2: A Cognitive Framework to Support HRA

This is the second of two papers that discuss the literature review conducted as part of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) effort to develop a hybrid human reliability analysis (HRA) method in response to Staff Requirements Memorandum (SRM) SRM-M061020. This review was conducted with the goal of strengthening the technical basis within psychology, cognitive science and human factors for the hybrid HRA method being proposed. An overview of the literature review approach and high-level… more

Date: June 1, 2012

Creator: Whaley, April M.; Hendrickson, Stacey M. L.; Boring, Ronald L. & Xing, Jing

Item Type: Article

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Bridging Human Reliability Analysis and Psychology, Part 1: The Psychological Literature Review for the IDHEAS Method

In response to Staff Requirements Memorandum (SRM) SRM-M061020, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is sponsoring work to update the technical basis underlying human reliability analysis (HRA) in an effort to improve the robustness of HRA. The ultimate goal of this work is to develop a hybrid of existing methods addressing limitations of current HRA models and in particular issues related to intra- and inter-method variabilities and results. This hybrid method is now known as the Integ… more

Date: June 1, 2012

Creator: Whaley, April M.; Hendrickson, Stacey M. L.; Boring, Ronald L.; Joe, Jeffrey C.; Blanc, Katya L. Le & Xing, Jing

Item Type: Article

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"How Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance?": Cognitive Poetics and William Butler Yeats's Poetry

Cognitive poetics, the recently developed field of literary theory which utilizes principles from cognitive science and cognitive linguistics to examine literature, is applied in this study to an exploration of the poetry of William Butler Yeats. The theoretical foundation for this approach is embodiment theory, the concept from cognitive linguistics that language is an embodied phenomenon and that meaning and meaning construction are bodily processes grounded in our sensorimotor experiences. A… more

Date: May 2017

Creator: Pagel, Amber Noelle

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Relaxation and Cognitive Therapy: Effects upon Patients' Abilities to Cope with a Stressful Medical Procedure

This investigation evaluated the efficacy of relaxation training and cognitive therapy separately and in combination in enhancing the coping skills of patients during epidural steroid injections. Subjects consisted of 80 back pain patients. They were randomly assigned to four groups to receive either relaxation training, cognitive therapy, relaxation and cognitive therapy, or attention control treatment. All subjects were provided preparatory information describing the procedure for the epidura… more

Date: August 1990

Creator: Catalanello, Michael S.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Interactions of Presentation Formats and Decision-Maker Characteristics upon Multiple Decision-Making Tasks: an Experiment Using Multiple Cognitive Assessments

Information systems research tends to ignore individual differences in users. This laboratory experiment sought to illuminate contributions of decision-makers' cognitive processes to decision outcome as reflected in four hypothesis sets: the impact of imagery preference and presentation format upon (HI) recall accuracy and upon hemispheric activation during (H2) encoding and (H3) recall, and (H4) to examine the relationship between hemispheric activation differences and accuracy differences. Po… more

Date: December 1994

Creator: Henson, Kerry L. (Kerry Lynn)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Detecting Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: a Validation Study of Selected Screening Instruments

The present study investigated the criterion-based validity of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), the Cognitive Capacity Screening Examination (CCSE), and the Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Examination (NCSE) in a sample of older adults with suspected cognitive impairment. As cognitive screening tests, the MMSE, CCSE, and NCSE should predict performance relative to a more thorough testing procedure. In the present study, performance on the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Batter… more

Date: May 1993

Creator: McBride-Houtz, Patricia (Patricia Ann)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Treatment of Acne Vulgaris by Biofeedback-Assisted Cue-Controlled Relaxation and Guided Cognitive Imagery

The primary purpose of the present study is to demonstrate that acne vulgaris can be reduced by psychological treatment. A cognitive-behavioral adjunctive intervention involving biofeedback-assisted relaxation and cognitive imagery procedures for the treatment of acne vulgaris was investigated in this study with 30 patients, already receiving traditional dermatological treatment, as participants. A three-group design was used which consisted of a treatment (relaxation-imagery), a rational behav… more

Date: May 1981

Creator: Brown, Barry W.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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The Effects of Cognitive Styles on Summarization of Expository Text

The study investigated the relationship among three cognitive styles and summarization abilities. Both summarization products and processes were examined. Summarizing products were scored and a canonical correlation analysis was performed to determine their relationship with three cognitive styles. Summarizing processes were examined by videotaping students as they provided think aloud protocols. Their processes were recorded on composing style sheets and analyzed qualitatively. Subjects were s… more

Date: August 1988

Creator: Mast, Cynda Overton

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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A Mid-Layer Model for Human Reliability Analysis: Understanding the Cognitive Causes of Human Failure Events

The Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES) is sponsoring work in response to a Staff Requirements Memorandum (SRM) directing an effort to establish a single human reliability analysis (HRA) method for the agency or guidance for the use of multiple methods. As part of this effort an attempt to develop a comprehensive HRA qualitative approach is being pursued. This paper presents a draft of the method’s middle layer, a part of the qualitative analysis phase that links failure mechanisms to p… more

Date: June 1, 2010

Creator: Hendrickson, Stacey M. L.; Whaley, April M.; Boring, Ronald L.; Chang, James Y. H.; Shen, Song-Hua; Mosleh, Ali et al.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department