Essays about: "cognitive schemas"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words cognitive schemas.
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1. Image schemas, mimetic schemas, and the development of Swedish children’s gestures
University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitiv semiotik; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskapAbstract : Language and gesture are two semiotic systems that work together in close integration during communication. One issue in particular, that of image schemas, has been studied in relation to gestures, though most often in adult gesture and communication (Williams, forthcoming; Cienki, 2013; Mittelberg, 2006, 2018). READ MORE
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2. Teaching the Holocaust with survivor testimonies. : Survivor testimonies and the absence of victims’ voices in Uruguayan and Argentinian syllabi and textbooks on the Holocaust.
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : The aim of this research is to analyse whether the educational materials available to teachers of history at secondary level in Uruguay and Argentina, are appropriate for the objective of teaching the Holocaust through the emotional engagement of students with the content. More specifically, I argue that witness testimonies, when they are included in the materials and used as providers of meaning and insight, in complement to the historian narratives and not merely as decoration, have the potential to produce effective and durable learning through emotional engagement. READ MORE
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3. Changing for the Better, One Activity at the Time : A Multiple Case Study of the Motivators of Business Model Innovation for Sustainability
University essay from Umeå universitet/FöretagsekonomiAbstract : In recent years the world has witnessed an increased attention to matters concerning sustainable development; consumers today put higher pressure on organizations to change their old unsustainable practices for newer, more sustainable ones. Within scholarly business literature, the concept of business models has gained more traction over the past two decades, however there is still some disparity in the views of what a business model really is. READ MORE
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4. Attribution and judgment : examining the relation between attributing capacities and moral judgments about killing animals
University essay from Psykologiska institutionenAbstract : A new operationalization was used to model a schema-based approach to moral judgment, as well as compare it to predictions based on the Social Intuitionist Model. Judgments were made about the moral wrongness of killing different animals. At Time 1, only moral judgments were made. READ MORE
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5. Narratives of Desistance : A Social Cognitive Approach
University essay from Sociologiska institutionenAbstract : In this thesis I have investigated the process of self-schematic transformation that has been argued that offenders undergo in order to desist from crime. In this thesis I have used narrative interviews with twelve desisting offenders consisting of five non-violent offenders and seven violent offenders. READ MORE
