Cognitive Control and Language Processing: Key Concepts and Theories
Cognitive Control and Language Processing
Key Concepts
Cognitive Control
Also known as executive function, cognitive control refers to the goal-directed cognitive processes responsible for directing attention and supervising behavioral responses to stimuli.
Constraint-Based Approach
The main competitor to the garden path theory, this approach claims that multiple interpretations of an ambiguous structure are simultaneously evaluated against a broad range of information sources (or constraints) that can
Read MoreInterpretive Social Science (ISS): An Overview and Critique
.Interpretive Social Science (ISS)
Opposition to Positivism Max Weber (1864-1920)
Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) According to Dilthey: 2 types of science:
Naturwissenschaft (rests on Erklärung, abstract explanation) Geisteswissenschaft (rests on Verstehen, empathetic understanding of everyday lived experience of people in historical settings) Interpretive Social Science (ISS) Weber embraces Verstehen argued that social science should study social action with a purpose Argued that we must learn
Understanding Child Development: Language, Attachment, and Morality
The Intention to Speak
It’s amazing how a child begins to understand sentences, pronounce words, and how rapidly their language, initially so basic, evolves and grows into something so complex. For Piaget, language is part of overall development, a semiotic/representative capacity. In the beginning, the child’s speech is egocentric, not cooperative, reflecting their intellectual self-centeredness, but this will fade with age, becoming more cooperative and social. Piaget observed children talking
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The Development of Vygotsky’s Model
The relationship between learning and development is crucial for understanding the educational implications of many current theories in evolutionary psychology. Vygotsky, through his socio-cultural learning model, addressed this issue from a perspective very different from Piaget’s. He found that learning, which always occurs in specific cultural contexts, is the essential engine of development. Thus, Vygotsky conceives of humans as a social rather than biological
Read More7 Intelligences & Emotional Competencies for a Happy & Competitive Life
Emotional Competencies for a Happy & Competitive Life
Self-Awareness
The ability to recognize and understand your own emotional states, feelings, and traits, as well as their effect on others. This develops through self-confidence and the capacity to awaken bright and full of humor.
Self-Regulation
The ability to control impulses and redirect negative emotional states. It involves the ability to suspend judgments and think before acting. Competencies that are measured and developed in this category
Read MoreSchool Social Climate and Its Impact on Students and Teachers
School Social Climate
A student who completes their schooling lives six to eight hours a day for 12 years in school.
Concept of School Social Climate
The concept of school social climate is similar to organizational climate.
Definition of Organizational Climate
… Perceptions shared by members of an organization for the work, the physical environment in which it occurs, relationships that take place around him and the various regulations affecting the formal work (Dario Rodriguez, 2004).
… The set
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