Within the past decade many writers and researchers have recognized the importance of including psychological characteristics in managerial decision models. Cognitive styles have been singled out for research attention to determine their importance in information use and the acceptance of the recommendations made by management scientists. Despite the evidence that cognitive styles influence inf...

Analysis of results of design protocols of novice and expert designers, although based on a limited number of designers, has shown that there are differences in the balance of cognitive actions between them. In this paper, we investigate the possible reasons for this imbalance in cognitive activity between the novice and expert designers in the rate of information processing driven by their rel...

Mindset theory (Gollwitzer, 1990) proposes that deliberative mindsets are marked by more openminded processing of information, whereas implemental mindsets are characterized by more closed-minded processing. Accordingly, deliberative and implemental mindsets should differ in selective processing of incidental information when performing a central task. In three experiments, participants in deli...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine (a) if depressive symptoms in partners of long-term breast cancer survivors (BCSs) could be predicted by social cognitive processing theory and (b) if partners of younger and older BCSs were differentially affected by the cancer experience.
. DESIGN A cross-sectional, descriptive study using self-report questionnaires.
. SETTING Indiana University in Blooming...

Video games are not just an important cultural artifact of youth culture but have considerable cognitive worth. Centered within an information processing theory and mediating processes’ framework, the empirical qualitative study investigated, via stimulated recall methods, the thinking skills and strategies of five teenagers while playing an action-adventure video game. Sixteen types and 600 in...

T. S. Braver and colleagues (e.g., T. S. Braver, J. D. Cohen, & D. M. Barch, 2002) have provided a theory of cognitive control that focuses on the role of context processing. According to their theory, an underlying context-processing mechanism is responsible for the cognitive control functions of attention, inhibition, and working memory. In the present study, the authors examined whether T. S...

Penelitian ini ingin mengungkapkan apakah bimbingan kelompok berpengaruh terhadap pengambilan keputusan karir siswa SMA Nurul Ikhlas. Diantara tugas perkembangan remaja adalah mengenai karir. Banyak ditemukan di Ikhlas yang belum mampu menentukan pilihan karirnya. Keterbatasan informasi, dan kebimbangan dalam menjadi antara faktor penyebab terjadina fenonema ini. menggunakan metode eksperimen o...

in recent years social psychologists have concerned themselves with the ways people classify information about others, store them in their memories, and judge others on. such studies on the process of social cognition have three aspects: structure, process, and causes: i.e. (i) the structure of the social knowledge, (ii) the process of thinking about others, the performance of cognitive categor...