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Modularity in language: exploring cognitive separation and integration

Whether language is modular is a debate for a lot of people. The two schools of thought say that (a) language is modular in that it is separate from other cognitive processes, and (b) language is non-modular in that it is a product of various cognitive processes (Robinson-Riegler & Robinson,…

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Reducing university costs without eliminating humanities departments

To reign in university expenditures, it was tentatively proposed that the school eliminate its humanities and social science-related departments in their entirety. However, there are a number of problems with this radical proposal.

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Human facial recognition mechanisms and cognitive categorization processes

In humans, the recognition of facial characteristics that differentiate individuals from one another was profoundly important during our evolutionary development (Robinson-Riegler, 177; 181).

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Strengths and weaknesses of feminist and reality therapy

Both reality and feminist therapies focus on change -- either change in general, or fostering personal change to bring about a more positive social reality for women.

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The distinction between episodic and semantic memory

Robinson-Reigler and Robinson-Reigler (2008) summarize Tulving when they note that there are two different kinds of long-term memory: episodic an semantic. Episodic memory refers to those events that one has personally experienced.

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The retrieval process and memory accessibility in cognition

The third step in the process of remembering, the retrieval process occurs to the way in which people are able to get back the memories that they have already encoded and stores.

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Parental divorce and its effects on children's well-being

According to the Centers for Disease Control, in 2005, there were 2,230,000 marriages, in America. The marriage rate, in the United States, was 7.5 per 1,000 total population. However, the divorce rate, that same year, was 3.6 per 1,000 total population ("Marriage & divorce," 2009).

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Cognitive restructuring therapies for treating post-rape trauma and PTSD

The purpose of this paper will be to discuss and describe successful cognitive restructuring methods, cognitive coping styles and other effective types of therapy which help victims cope with post rape fear and anxiety symptoms, including ways to overcome the underlying fear that rape victims might…

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Group entitativity, cohesion, and intergroup prejudice reduction

Group processes are often dependent upon a group's entitativity. This term refers to the group's unity and cooperation in terms of various factors. These factors are connected to the variety of reasons why group members would choose to belong to a certain group.

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Why sales is an ideal first job for recent graduates

Persuading the next generation of workers to persuade: Why a sales job is an ideal first job for a recent graduate "Sell, sell, sell." From the moment a student leaves his or her university, a young graduate is faced with the need to constantly sell him or herself -- like it or not!

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