Essays about: "Situated Cognition"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words Situated Cognition.

  1. 1. A phenomenographic study embracing the "wickedness" of education as sustainable development: Mapping the qualitatively different ways in which South-East European immigrants in Sweden understand the concept of Sustainable Development

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

    Author : Martina Lazarevska; [2022-11-25]
    Keywords : Sustainable Development; Education for Sustainable Development; Education as Sustainable Development; phenomenography; wicked problems’’;

    Abstract : Aim: This research is situated in education as sustainable development. It, therefore, aims to embrace the ‘‘wickedness’’ of sustainable development by allowing for qualitatively different ways of understanding to emerge from the participants’ descriptions. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Never Ending Shower : planning ability, intellectual disability and cognitive artifacts

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Lovisa Rönmark; [2014]
    Keywords : planning ability; intellectual disability; cognitive artifacts; situated cognition;

    Abstract : Persons with intellectual disability have been found to perform more poorly on tasks, demanding the use of executive functions like planning, than their peers. This study investigated difficulties with planning, and how problems with planning ability can be supported by using cognitive artifacts to help performance on activities in everyday life, for adolescents with intellectual disability. READ MORE

  4. 3. Exploring the concept of feedback with perspectives from psychology and cognitive science

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Interaktiva och kognitiva system; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Hongzhan Hu; [2014]
    Keywords : direct feedback; ecological psychology; perceptual cycle; Embodied Cognition; Cognitive Systems Engineering; Distributed Cognition; Situated Cognition;

    Abstract : This study explores the concept of feedback from various perspectives in psychology and cognitive science. Specifically, the theories of ecological psychology, situated and Distributed Cognition, Cognitive Systems Engineering and Embodied cognition are investigated and compared. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Never Ending Shower : planning ability, intellectual disability and cognitive artifacts

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Lovisa Rönmark; [2014]
    Keywords : planning ability; intellectual disability; cognitive artifacts; situated cognition;

    Abstract : Persons with intellectual disability have been found to perform more poorly on tasks, demanding the use of executive functions like planning, than their peers. This study investigated difficulties with planning, and how problems with planning ability can be supported by using cognitive artifacts to help performance on activities in everyday life, for adolescents with intellectual disability. READ MORE

  6. 5. Memory, aging and external memory aids : Two traditions of cognitive research and their implications for a successful development of memory augmentation

    University essay from Filosofiska fakulteten; Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Mattias Kristiansson; [2011]
    Keywords : Memory processes; cognitive decline; distributed cognition; situated cognition; external memory aids;

    Abstract : The topic of this thesis is how the decline of cognitive abilities and memory functioning in elder people can be assisted by external memory aids. This issue was approached through a combination of methods. READ MORE