Introduction: Noise is an environmental stressor and can cause or exacerbate mental disorders along with other stressors, and even affect the individual performance in certain conditions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the combined effects of noise and smoking on cognitive performance of the workers in an automotive industry. Methods: This is a descriptive-analytical study with cross-se...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the impact of pharmacists' perceptions of errors in dispensing, errors in communication, delays in prescription processing, efficiency and physical mobility in the pharmacy by practice setting and sociotechnical factors (i.e. pharmacy design, drive through pick-up window services and automated dispensing systems). SETTING Community pharmacy practice in the USA. ...

The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) is a measure of analytical reasoning that cues an intuitive but incorrect response must be rejected for successful performance to attained. CRT yields two types errors: Intuitive errors, which are attributed Type 1 processes; and non-intuitive result from poor numeracy skills or deficient reasoning. Past research shows participants who commit the highest numb...

Cognitive flexibility is an integral part in adaptive behavior such as learning, and can be seen as one explaining factor in performance in various tasks. In this study, we explore the possibilities of a dynamic psychological test that can be administered online to assess cognitive flexibility and apply the test across a student population that is learning to program. While our results imply th...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between childhood abuse, assault, cognitive distortion, and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in a clinical adolescent sample. The sample included one hundred eighty-five psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents and their parents. Adolescent participants were predominantly female (71.4%), Caucasian (84%), and of non-Hispanic ethnicity (9.2...

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effect of cognitive errors avoidance teaching through narrative therapy on depression and dysfunctional attitude of elementary girl students. This project was an experimental study with pretest-posttest-follow up (1 month) design. To measure depression and dysfunctional attitude, Depression Self-Rating Scale (DSRS) was used and to evalu...