Another approach to identifying conditions under which social facilitation of cognition in older adults occurs is in examining contextual variables that influence memory performance. For example, Cynthia Adams argues that memory performance is influenced when the task approximates a real — world learning and social memory experience (Adams et al., 2002). In this case, what […]
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Collaborative Cognition
There has been a recent focus in the social cognition and aging literature to examine cognition in social contexts, that is, how cognition works when we are interacting with others. This can be seen in work on the benefits and costs of collaborative cognition on cognitive performance (e. g., memory and problem solving) (Dixon, 1999; […]
Social Situations and Social Competence
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What is the social facilitation of cognitive functioning? • What is collaborative cognition, and does it facilitate memory in older adults? • How does the social context influence memory performance in older adults? B randon and Stephanie’s granddaughter asked them what happened when they first met. Stephanie recalled that they met at […]
How Much Control Do You Have over Your Cognitive Functioning?
As you progress through college, you are concerned with your grade-point average, how much you will learn relative to your profession of choice, and your performance on exams. The more control you perceive that you have over the situation, the more confident you feel. There are two types of control attributions you can make. You […]
Sexual Character
Unitary Models and Sex Difference Research The most common conception of the psychology of gender is that women and men as groups have, different traits: different temperam&nls,,rehar. ac. t£rs_. outlooks and opinions, abilities, even whole structures of personality, t here is no accepted term for this concept; I will call it (rexuaTcHaracter’J The analogy is […]
WOMEN AS EMOTION MANAGERS
Middle-class American women, tradition suggests, feel emotion more than men do. The definitions of “emotional” and “cogitation” in the Random House Dictionary of the English Language reflect a deeply rooted cultural idea. Yet women are also thought to command “feminine wiles,” to have the capacity to premeditate a sigh, an outburst of tears, or a […]
Control Strategies
The research just reviewed primarily examined control-related beliefs such as the belief that control is in one’s own hands or in the hands of others. However, a number of theoretical approaches and empirical work have examined control-related strategies. For example, Brandtstadter (1999) proposes that the preservation and stabilization of a positive view of the self […]
Choking the teocher
A 17-year-old Michigan high school student attempted to choke a male teacher.16 Afterward, teachers got no additional protection. Two months later, a 14-year-old attempted to choke a female teacher — in the same school. The school immediately withdrew all female teachers from the school, reducing the staff from twenty-one to nine. Now here’s the rub. […]
Women and Peace-making. in Somaliland
Compiled by the editors from an original paper byZeynab Mohammed Hassan with additional informationprovided through interviews with Noreen Michael Mariano,Shukri Hariir Ismail and Amina Yusuf Background War affected the north west of Somalia from the early 1980s. The armed struggle against the Siad Barre regime ended in 1991 when the dictator was forced from power […]
POSTFEMINISM AND POPULAR. CULTURE
Representations and resistance INTRODUCTION Many popular cultural forms and practices have a claim to be representatively postmodern even though they may be forms and practices which never passed through any recognisable modernist phase. Popular culture has been defined as ‘a site of struggle’ where many of these issues and meanings are determined and debated. However, […]