cognitive structure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcognitiveandstructure
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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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structure
noun
uk/ˈstrʌk.tʃər/us/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in ...
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Do self-attributes form acognitivestructure?
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We are dealing with acognitivestructureof a very long duration.
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Both are brought about by our mind'scognitivestructure, which has been fashioned by natural evolution.
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This interpretation posits a differentcognitivestructurefor each of phonological awareness and reading.
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Such theories underplay or disregardcognitivestructureand its causal role.
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In light of this approach, one might ask what would happen if thiscognitivestructureis disrupted.
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Note that all of these notions are based on the assumption that endstatecognitivestructureis experience-sensitive.
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It does imply that social functions are not evolutionarily responsible for thecognitivestructureand cultural recurrence of religion.
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Each of these investigators agree that the self is multifaceted, rather than a monolithic, unitarycognitivestructure.
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As such, we view a concept as a hierarchically positionedcognitivestructureto which properties can be ascribed and in which membership can be asserted.
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Furthermore, a grammar is a ' real, individual, psychological entity ' (27), a 'cognitivestructure in a speaker's mind that contains her knowledge about her language ' (26).
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He proposes that the emulator is acognitivestructurethat represents the body as it moves and acts within the environment.
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In all cases, however, the assumption is that language structure is nothing other than a special form ofcognitivestructuresymbolized for purposes of communication.
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Obviously these phenomena still remain counter-intuitive, but at least they can no longer be explained as illusory by-products of ourcognitivestructure.
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Normative beliefs are the second type ofcognitivestructurethat function to guide one's evaluation and selection of behavioral response options.
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Such an emotion memory will likely amplify the newly activated emotion and contribute to the formation of strong affective -cognitivestructureand more elaborate emotion memory.
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Some patterns of thiscognitivestructurehave become entrenched over historical time to enable speakers to communicate quickly and efficiently about recurrent event types from particular communicative perspectives.
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The overall conclusion from these various studies is that bilingualism is one of the experiences capable of influencing cognitive function and, to some extent,cognitivestructure.
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For the historian remote from the charisma andcognitivestructurethrough which individuals understood the procedures and values of their social world it is much more difficult.
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Emotion labeling (matching a feeling with a word or symbolizing an emotion in consciousness) represents a simple but rather basic affective -cognitivestructureor emotion - cognition connection.
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In addition, the study confirms that scientific principles regarding regional vulnerability of a developingcognitivestructureelucidated in animals can be appropriately applied to human development as well.
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We assume that sets of form-function relations are selected with respect to a temporarycognitivestructure or mental model that serves as an interface between linguistic and nonlinguistic knowledge.
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Intuitively, it seems justified and not overly problematic to call a light flash or a single keypress an event that is presumably represented by a single, coherentcognitivestructure.
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It consists of all thecognitivestructurein the individual's mind that is associated with a given concept.
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These convictions led him to reflect on the differences between pragmatism and positivism, and on thecognitivestructureof value experiences.
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