cognitive schema

collocation in English

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cognitive
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈkɒɡ.nə.tɪv/
us
/ˈkɑːɡ.nə.t̬ɪv/
connected with thinking or conscious ...
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schema
noun[C]
uk
/ˈskiː.mə/
us
/ˈskiː.mə/
a drawing that represents an idea or theory and makes it easier ...
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Thecognitiveschemahad a ritual value as a symbol of competence.
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In sum, supernatural agents are readily conjured up because natural selection has trip-wiredcognitiveschemafor agency detection in the face of uncertainty.
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Thecognitiveschemaapproach regards the concept of climate as an individual perception and cognitive representation of the work environment.
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In psychopathology, there are several perspectives from which the origins of cognitive vulnerabilities can be examined, includingcognitiveschemamodels, hopelessness models, and attachment theory.
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Two in particular have received substantial patronage: thecognitiveschemaapproach and the shared perception approach.
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In addition, we assessed children's social cognitive schemas for aggression - whether they anticipated hostility in their peer environment.
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The cognitive schemas are lacking, the level of affect is too high, and the traumatic experiences may become split off from conscious control.
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The focus of this article is on the application of cognitive schemas in the study of legal processes.
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The victim was unable to process the meaning of the traumatic information because it could not be assimilated into existing cognitive schemas.
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Current cognitive theories propose that depression develops as a result of the interaction between dysfunctional cognitive schemata and environmental stressors.
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On-line cognitions are distinguished from secondary or latent mental structures such as inactive beliefs, attitudes, cognitive schemas, and values.
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It is accepted in contemporary science that perception is mediated by our pre-conceptions in the form of cognitive schemata or mental maps based on accumulated knowledge of our environment.
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Biases in information processing result from systematic distortions in cognitive schemata that have been strengthened by perceptual sensitivity and memory biases for information congruent with the schema.
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Pretext allows us to mark what is relevant (owing to our cognitive schemata).
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The personality structures are referred to as cognitive schemas, whichin combinationsinform a person how to behave in a certain situation.
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Communicology is related to psychology in its focus on cognitive schemas associated with language use.
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Users have constructed web related cognitive schemata for different tasks on the web.
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It is the process of fitting new information into pre-existing cognitive schemas.
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