Cognitive Psychology borrows heavily from the works of Alfred Adler, Albert Ellis, and Aaron Beck. In fact, it is founded on Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology. Freud had insisted that sexual impulses were the chief factor in formation of normal and neurotic personality something that made him part ways with Adler who went ahead and formed a new approach that became the basis for all cognitive psychologies. Behaviorism formed the basis of the works of most American psychologists from 1920s through to the 1950s. However, during the WWII, there were breakthroughs with regard to communications research and information processing approaches. New concepts and theories were initiated about signal processing and communication (Schacter, 1987). These impacted psychologists of the WWII era. One notable personality during this period was Shannon who came up with Information Theory. The theory postulated that information was communicated by sending signals through myriad stages and that human perception and memory is also conceptualized in a similar manner (Schacter, 1987). When sensory information enters the receptors, it is fed to perceptual analyzers whose out put are in put to memory systems. This is how information processing is initiated. Information Theory postulated that cognition is the flow of information within an organism an idea that to date dominates the realms of cognitive psychology. Donald Broadbent's Perception and Communication theory postulated that information from perceptual system first went through a filter which passed only information to which people were attending...
Introduction Dudgeon and Walker (2015) note that “the discipline of psychology in Australia has a history of domination over Indigenous Australians that is still evident today” (p. 276). This claim gets to the heart of the concept of colonization and its role in the application of psychology, particularly with respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia—i.e., Indigenous Australians. However, as Australia today is more than the sum of
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Nature of the ProblemPurpose of the ProjectBackground and Significance of the Problem Brain Development Specific Activities to engage students Data-Driven Instruction Community Component of Education Research QuestionsDefinition of TermsMethodology and Procedures Discussion & ImplicationsConclusions & Application ntroduction The goal of present-day educational reformers is to produce students with "higher-order skills" who are able to think independently about the unfamiliar problems they will encounter in the information age, who have become "problem solvers" and have "learned how to learn,
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