cognitive adaptation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcognitiveandadaptation
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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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adaptation
noun
uk/ˌæd.əpˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ˌæd.əpˈteɪ.ʃən/
the process of changing to suit ...
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Adjustment to threatening events: a theory ofcognitiveadaptation.
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This process ofcognitiveadaptationis clearly related to the representation of a normal life-course.
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Adjustment to threatening events : a theory ofcognitiveadaptation.
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First, there is the issue of how we test claims about the evolutionary context of acognitiveadaptation.
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We might see our imperfect implementation of demon rationality as an evolutionary artifact, the byproduct of other adapted systems, or as itself acognitiveadaptation.
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The model proposed here emphasises howcognitiveadaptationis specifically relevant to understanding how older people attempt to deal with loss in the light of limited possibilities for substituting.
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Still, it seems useful to integrate cognitive adaptations explicitly with processes of substitution, as we have suggested in this paper.
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They include cognitive adaptations to detect cheaters, paired with behavioral propensities to punish those who violate principles of reciprocity, including third-party violators.
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Their position leaves unexplained how an important set of behavioral and cognitive adaptations for social interaction could have emerged.
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Humans possess a set of behavioral and cognitive adaptations for social exchange, premised fundamentally on reciprocity.
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Widely accepted examples in humans of functionally specialised cognitive adaptations include language learning and face perception.
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Cognitiveadaptationstates that when someone faces a threatening event, their readjustment centers around finding meaning in their experience, gaining control over the situation, and boosting one's self-esteem.
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The claim is not that all specialized cognitive adaptations are devoid of learning, but that many are subject to their own specialized form of learning.
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Behavioral and cognitive adaptations for social exchange must therefore be those which enabled and enable the establishment and persistence of reciprocal relations.
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In other words, organisms have emotional, motivational and cognitive adaptations that generally increased inclusive fitness in the past but may not do so in the present.
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