will be examining how the cartoon show SpongeBob SquarePants‚ negatively affects children’s ability to perform executive functions. Studies show that children who watch SpongeBob SquarePants have slower levels in memory‚ which can affect their cognitive ability as opposed to children who watch educational TV shows like PBS’ kids‚ Caillou. The issue here is that shows like SpongeBob SquarePants are much too fast paced and fantastical for children to obtain executive functioning skills from watching
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In this essay I am going to explore two of the major approaches to Psychology‚ Cognitive theories and Behaviourist theories. I will discuss in some detail the two approaches‚ state how they compare and illustrate the similarities and the differences between them. John Watson‚ one of the founders of Behaviourism‚ based his theories on the principles of learning outlined by Pavlov who suggested the theory known as Classical Conditioning; he trained dogs to salivate whenever he rang a bell
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Outline & evaluate the cognitive interview. (12 marks) The cognitive interview was devised by psychologists in order to eliminate the effects of misleading questions and misleading information. The process consists of first reporting everything the witness can remember‚ even information they believe to be unimportant. Then the witness is asked to mentally instate their experience‚ where they mentally use their sense to recall information. After this the witness is asked to change the order in
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Evolution of Cognitive Psychology as a Discipline Evolution of Cognitive Psychology as a Discipline This paper will cover cognition and what it means; this paper will also look at interdisciplinary perspective as it relates to cognitive psychology. Then the paper will describe the emergence of cognitive psychology as a discipline. And last the paper will assess the effects of the decline of behaviorism on the discipline of
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Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a psychotherapeutic approach that addresses dysfunctional emotions‚ behaviours‚ and cognitions through a goal-oriented‚ systematic process. The name refers to behaviour therapy‚ cognitive therapy‚ and to therapy based upon a combination of basic behavioural and cognitive research. CBT was primarily developed through an integration of behaviour therapy (first popularized by Edward Thorndike) with cognitive therapy (developed by Aaron Beckand and Albert Ellis)
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Three Theories of Cognitive Development The Swiss psychologist and philosopher Jean Piaget (1896-1980) is well-known for his work towards the cognitive sciences. Arguably one of his most important contributions involves his theory of cognitive development. In this theory‚ thinking progresses through four distinct stages between infancy and adulthood. Similar in scope to Piaget’s theory is Information Processing‚ in which human thinking is based on both mental hardware and mental software (Kail
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Alcoholism - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy- Critical Thinking Report Introduction The focus of this report is to find out about the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in treating alcoholism. First of all‚ before we begin writing about all the facts and opinions about this treatment lets define what alcoholism is. Many people get confused about alcoholism being a ‘weakness’ of a character‚ however it is more considered as a
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Hambrick Psychology 101 Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development Jean Piaget is a Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. Piaget believed that children play an active role in the growth of intelligence. He regarded children as philosophers who perceive the world as he or she experiences it (ICELS). Therefore in Piaget’s most prominent work‚ his theory on the four stages of cognitive development‚ much of his inspiration came from
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Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Theory The Cognitive Development Theory was first identified by Jean Piaget. Jean Piaget was born on August 9‚ 1896 in Neuchâtel‚ Switzerland. Piaget became well known by the many papers he published throughout his late teen years. Once graduating from the University of Neuchâtel‚ he received his Ph.D. in natural science and published two philosophical essay concerning adolescence. These two essays later became the general orientation for the first publication of the Cognitive
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A new cognitive-behavioural theory has been designed in order to supplement the former model‚ hence why it is called the extended cognitive-behavioural model of bulimia (Fairburn et al.‚ 2003). It has to be emphasised that this model is aimed at supplementing the former model rather than replacing it. This model assumes that in certain patients‚ one or more of four additional maintaining processes interact with the core mechanisms‚ thereby making them more resistant to change in treatment. As can
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