Extending a literature review, the paper gives an overview of inhibiting and facilitating factors associated with the use of information and communications technology (ICT) of older adults. The paper takes the position that there is no prototypical “elderly user” but that there is a wide heterogeneity of personal characteristics such as cognitive and motivational states and experiences in old a...

The article represents the concept of cultural and artistic model ecological competence mathematics teacher. work used a system methods approaches, among which innovative, ecological, competence, systemic, anthropological, cultural, axiological, aesthetic, artistic, epistemological were defining ones. developed "Cultural-artistic teacher" contains 4 components - cognitive, activity, personal-ps...

This study contrasted the moderating effects of deriving integrative meaning (a primary appraisal process) with the use of specific, cognitive-behavioral strategies (a secondary appraisal process) in confronting stressors involving harm or loss. Eighty young adults and eighty older participants with varying levels of chronic illness were assessed. Open-ended responses to recalled experiences wi...

Purpose Reflective abilities are seen as helpful in improving patient-centered care and personal professional development and are therefore advocated especially in integrative care education, since integrative medicine involves personalized care. The aim of our study is twofold: To present (1) a qualitative evaluation of clinical students on a newly developed clinical reflective practice (CRP) ...

This paper presents an integrative approach to understanding of the inner experience of suicidal persons in terms of hemispheric asymmetry. The right hemisphere is involved in formation of polysemantic context. Polysemantic context is determined by multiple interconnections among its elements, while each concrete element bears the stamp of the whole context. Left hemisphere functioning leads to...

Interpersonal trust is an essential ingredient of many social relationships but how stable is it actually, and how is it controlled? There is evidence that the degree of trust into others might be rather volatile and can be affected by manipulations like drawing attention to personal interdependence or independence. Here we investigated whether the degree of interpersonal trust can be biased by...

One approach to bridging the historic divide between ”symbolic” and ”subsymbolic” AI is to incorporate a subsymbolic system and a symbolic system into a synergetic integrative cognitive architecture. Here we consider various issues related to incorporating (subsymbolic) compositional spatiotemporal deep learning networks (CSDLNs, a term introduced to denote the category including HTM, DeSTIN an...

Depression becomes more prevalent as individuals progress from childhood to adulthood. Thus, empirically supported and popular cognitive vulnerability theories to explain depression in adulthood have begun to be tested in younger age groups, particularly adolescence, a time of significant cognitive development. Beck's cognitive theory and the response style theory are well known, empirically su...

This study started to characterise the cognitive processes by which physical effects on the senses are transformed into quantitative judgments about conceptualised aspects of a food. Using words provided by assessors, discriminations of a shortbread biscuit's fracturing patterns during eating from each assessor's internal norm were measured for the initial steps of denting, biting and crushing ...

The clinical case presented herein addresses the following 2 key issues: (1) the meaning and consequences of bypassing a major symptom or syndrome in a patient’s treatment to facilitate development and growth in other dimensions of her life that were being hindered due to their interrelations with the symptom; and (2) the therapeutic impact of incorporating strategic, cognitive, and behavioral ...