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Lamberth, Cosima. "Introspection." Thesis, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för jazz, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-2189.
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Giustina, Anna. "Primitive introspection." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEE033/document.
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Cette thèse se concentre sur un phénomène introspectif que j’appelle introspection primitive. L’introspection primitive est un type d’introspection d’états phénoménaux qui est non classificatoire : quand on introspecte primitivement, on ne reconnaît pas l’état phénoménal introspecté comme un exemple de type d’expérience précédemment rencontrée. Je défends principalement trois thèses sur l’introspection primitive. Premièrement, elle existe : il y a un phénomène mental qui a les caractéristiques que j’attribue à l’introspection primitive et un tel phénomène est un processus introspectif réel. Deuxièmement, sa nature est plus adéquatement expliquée par une version de la théorie de l’accointance – ce que j’appelle la théorie de l’intégration. Troisièmement, elle a une valeur épistémique : elle permet au sujet d’acquérir une connaissance de ses états phénoménaux. Cette connaissance est un type de connaissance sui generis : la connaissance par accointance. La connaissance par accointance a une propriété épistémique spéciale qui est, pourrait-on dire, analogue à l’infaillibilité : elle donne au sujet un saisi complet et parfait de la phénoménologie de son expérienceThis dissertation focuses on an introspective phenomenon that I call primitive introspection. Primitive introspection is a non-classificatory kind of phenomenal-state introspection: it is a kind of phenomenal-state introspection that does not involve recognizing the introspected phenomenal state as an instance of any experience type. I defend three main claims about primitive introspection. First, it exists: there is a mental phenomenon that has the features I attribute to primitive introspection and such a phenomenon is a fullfledged introspective process. Second, its nature is best accounted for by a version of the acquaintance theory—what I call the integration account. Third, it has a distinct epistemic value: it provides the subject with knowledge of their phenomenal states. Such knowledge is a sui generis kind of knowledge: knowledge by acquaintance. Knowledge by acquaintance displays a distinctive epistemic property which is somewhat analogous to infallibility: it provides the subject with a complete and perfect grasp of the phenomenology of their experience
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Orihuela, Diana. "Locked In: Introspection." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/186.
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My work began with an exploration of paralysis. Before starting this project, the subject of immobility was already a source of aversion and discomfort to me. At one point in my life I discovered that it was possible for one’s body to ossify and become completely immobile. This disease is called Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva, it is extremely rare, but still caused me many nightmares as a child. Because being trapped, petrified, or immobile had become a source of distress and obsession during my life, and a few prior projects had explored this concept, I decided to further investigate the topic.
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Campbell, Christina K. "Introspection within the organic /." Online version of thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11623.
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Monti, Fred G. "Cityscapes : solitude and introspection /." Online version of thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11959.
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Smeltz, Jeremy M. Valerius Andrew J. "Sensor failure detection through introspection." Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion-image.exe/07Jun%5FSmeltz.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2007.Thesis Advisor(s): Craig Martell, Kevin Squire. "June 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-40). Also available in print.
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Valerius, Andrew J., and Jeremy M. Smeltz. "Sensor failure detection through introspection." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/3518.
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The advancement of robot technology holds many opportunities for military applications. One area of research being done is simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). SLAM uses a robot's sensors to generate a map of the area while maintaining its current position within that map. SLAM research is built upon the assumption that all of the sensors are working correctly. Since field conditions are likely to cause erratic sensor function due to damage or inclement weather conditions, this assumption must be addressed. The goal of our research is to discover methods of effectively performing self-diagnostic checks on robots to detect failures and malfunctions in sensors. There has been little work in the area of error detection in sensors, and what little work has been done has limited applications. This thesis will perform a series of experiments using a variety of different error detection techniques. It is our hope that the methods developed will prove to be applicable to a variety of real world systems.
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Reyes, Gabriel. "Introspection of complex cognitive processes." Thesis, Paris 6, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA066566/document.
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Au cours de la dernière décennie, un grand effort a été réalisé en sciences cognitives afin de comprendre comment les individus accèdent à leurs propres produits cognitifs. Cette thèse étudie les contenus mentaux qui sont accessibles par l´introspection. Le premier projet étudie la possibilité d´accéder de manière introspective à des processus cognitifs complexes, dans le contexte d´une tâche de recherche visuelle. Le second projet approfondit les résultats du premier projet. Dans cette étude, nous avons mis en place un stimulus préconscient pour altérer le processus de recherche visuelle. Tout de suite après, nous avons réuni des rapports introspectifs dans l´objectif d´évaluer le degré de sensibilité des participants afin de détecter cette altération. Les résultats des deux projets convergent vers trois idées principales : 1) l´introspection est capable d´accéder à des processus cognitifs ; 2) l´introspection est perméable à différentes sources d´information sous-jacentes à la tâche expérimentale ; 3) Telles sources d’information sont possible d’être contrôlées expérimentalement. Le troisième projet étend les résultats obtenus dans le projet 1 et 2 à un autre domaine cognitif : la mémoire de travail. L´étude montre que l´introspection peut accéder avec succès à la nature du processus cognitif déployé. Le quatrième projet étudie un facteur individuel qui peut altérer la précision d´un rapport introspectif : la réactivité biologique au stress. Les résultats ont indiqué que les individus à haute réactivité au stress ont un pauvre accès introspectif. La présente thèse constitue une première approche à l´architecture fonctionnelle du rapport introspectifIn the last decade, there has been a huge effort in cognitive science devoted to the understanding of how individuals access their own cognitive productions. This thesis investigates which mental contents are accessible by introspection. Four experimental projects were developed. The first project investigates the possibility to introspectively access and discriminate complex cognitive processes in the context of a visual search paradigm (serial searches vs. parallel searches). The second project refines the results of the first project. We used a pre-conscious visual cue to alter a visual search, and collected introspective data showing that participants were sensitive to this alteration. The results in both projects converge on three main ideas: 1) introspection is capable of accessing complex cognitive processes; 2) introspection is permeable to different sources of information underlying the experimental task; 3) the focus of introspection can be experimentally controlled during a simple cognitive task. The third project extends the results evidenced in projects 1 and 2 to another domain: working memory. The study shows that introspection can successfully access the type of cognitive process engaged during memory recovery (serial access to information vs. parallel access). Lastly, the fourth project investigates an individual factor that might alter the precision of introspective reports: biological reactivity to stress. Results indicated that individuals with high reactivity to stress have a poorer introspective access of their mental states. The present thesis presents a first systematic account of the functional architecture of introspective report
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Palmer, Marcus S. "History, humor, and introspection experiencing "Argentinidad" /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2007. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1442853.
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Lin, Sammy. "Towards virtual machine integrity using introspection /." Online version of thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/10648.
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Hagen, Ole Johan. "Towards an ontology and ethics of introspection." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.444200.
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Storey, Peter. "Investigating construct validity through test-taker introspection." Thesis, University of Reading, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297537.
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Freed, Samuel. "A role for introspection in AI research." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/66141/.
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The main thesis is that introspection is recommended for the development of anthropic AI. Human-like AI, distinct from rational AI, would suit robots for care for the elderly and for other tasks that require interaction with naïve humans. “Anthropic AI” is a sub-type of human-like AI, aiming for the pre-cultured, universal intelligence that is available to healthy humans regardless of time and civilisation. This is contrasted with western, modern, well-trained and adult intelligence that is often the focus of AI. Anthropic AI would pick up local cultures and habits, ignoring optimality. Introspection is recommended for the AI developer, as a source of ideas for designing an artificial mind, in the context of technology rather than science. Existing notions of introspection are analysed, and the aspiration for “clean” or “good” introspection is exposed as a mirage. Nonetheless, introspection is shown to be a legitimate source of ideas for AI using considerations of the contexts of discovery vs. justification. Moreover, introspection is shown to be a positively plausible basis for ideas for AI since if a teacher uses introspection to extract mental skills from themselves to transmit them to a student, an AI developer can also use introspection to uncover the human skills that they want to transfer to a computer. Methods and pitfalls of this approach are detailed, including the common error of polluting one's introspection with highly-educated notions such as mathematical methods. Examples are coded and run, showing promising learning behaviour. This is interpreted as a compromise between Classic AI and Dreyfus's tradition. So far AI practitioners have largely ignored the subjective, while the Phenomenologists have not written code – this thesis bridges that gap. One of the examples is shown to have Gadamerian characteristics, as recommended by (Winograd & Flores, 1986). This serves also as a response to Dreyfus's more recent publications critiquing AI (Dreyfus, 2007, 2012).
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De, vlieger Bertille. "Introspection des émotions et connaissance de soi." Thesis, Lille 3, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LIL3H036/document.
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Cette thèse s'interroge sur la connaissance de soi émotionnelle, sur sa place ainsi que sa participation à la connaissance de soi, sur la valeur qu'elle a pour les individus ordinaires et sur la manière dont les individus ordinaires peuvent l'obtenir. L'examen de la nature des émotions et de la valeur que les individus accordent à la connaissance de leurs émotions, qui est effectué dans cette thèse, met en avant l'importance de l'acquisition de la connaissance de soi émotionnelle, ainsi que le lien que cette dernière est communément entendue entretenir avec le bonheur. Si l'acquisition de cette connaissance apparaît comme primordiale, elle n'en est pas pour autant facile. Elle requiert le déploiement d'un certain nombre de capacités cognitives, ainsi qu'un effort cognitif important, notamment au cours de l'utilisation de l'introspection. En effet, cette thèse discute exclusivement de l'accès introspectif à la connaissance de soi émotionnelle, et laisse de côté les autres formes d'accès à la connaissance de soi. Je m'interroge donc dans ce travail, sur la portée pratique mais aussi morale de l'utilisation de l'introspection au regard des émotions, en proposant une défense du processus introspectif comme d'un processus capable de permettre à un individu ordinaire de détecter, d'identifier et d'interpréter ses propres émotions. Cette thèse est donc axée autour de deux arguments principaux. Le premier de ces aruments octroie à la connaissance de soi émotionnelle, une place fondamentale au sein de la forme de connaissance de soi qui importe aux individus ordinaires. Le second défend l'idée selon laquelle l'introspection offre un accès à cette connaissance émotionnelle, notamment par le biais de l'appréhension qu'elle permet de la phénoménologie des émotions, et que cet accès a une fiabilité minimale et donc une valeur épistémique, même faible, ainsi qu'une valeur morale et intrinsèqueThis thesis examines emotional self-knowledge, its place as well as its participation in self-knowledge, the value it has for ordinary individuals and how ordinary individuals can obtain it. The examination of the nature of the emotions and the value that individuals place on the knowledge of their emotions, which is carried out in this thesis, highlights the importance of the acquisition of emotional-selfknowledge, as well as the link thet the latter is commonly heard to maintain with happiness. If the acquisition of this knowledge appears to be essential, it is not easy. It requires the unfurling of a number of cognitive abilities, as well as a significant cognitive effort, especially during the use of introspection. Indeed, this thesis exclusively discusses introspective access to emotional self-knowledge, and set aside other forms of access to self-knowledge. In this woek, I therefore question the practical but also moral scope of the use of introspection with regard to emotions, proposing a defense of the introspective process as a process capable of allowing an ordinary individual to detect, to identify and interpret one's own emotions. This thesis is therefore organized around two main arguments. The first of these arguments gives emotional self-knowledge a fundamental place in the form of self-knowledge that matters to ordinary people. The second defends the idea that introspection offers access ti this emotional knowledge, notably through the apprehension that its allows of the phenomenology of emotions, and that this access has a minimum reliability and therefore an epistemic value - even a weak one - as well as a moral and intrinsic value
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Oberst, Michael Karl. "Counterfactual policy introspection using structural causal models." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124128.
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This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019
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Inspired by a growing interest in applying reinforcement learning (RL) to healthcare, we introduce a procedure for performing qualitative introspection and `debugging' of models and policies. In particular, we make use of counterfactual trajectories, which describe the implicit belief (of a model) of 'what would have happened' if a policy had been applied. These serve to decompose model-based estimates of reward into specific claims about specific trajectories, a useful tool for 'debugging' of models and policies, especially when side information is available for domain experts to review alongside the counterfactual claims. More specically, we give a general procedure (using structural causal models) to generate counterfactuals based on an existing model of the environment, including common models used in model-based RL. We apply our procedure to a pair of synthetic applications to build intuition, and conclude with an application on real healthcare data, introspecting a policy for sepsis management learned in the recently published work of Komorowski et al. (2018).
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S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Gervais, Renaud. "Interaction and introspection with tangible augmented objects." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BORD0286/document.
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La plupart des métiers du travail de l’information requièrent maintenant de passer la majeure partie de nos journée devant un écran. Ceci s’ajoute au temps déjà consacré à ce médium dans nos temps libres pour le divertissement et la communication, que ce soit en utilisant des téléphones intelligents, tablettes ou ordinateurs. Alors que les avancées technologiques dans le domaine des écrans tactiles nous ont permis d’interagir avec ces appareils de manière plus expressive, par exemple en utilisant nos doigts pour interagir directement avec le contenu numérique, ce que nous voyons et manipulons sur écran reste “intouchable” ; nos doigts ne pouvant pénétrer la surface de l’écran pour toucher le contenu numérique qui se trouve derrière. Pour que l’interaction avec le monde numérique soit écologique dans le futur, elle doit mettre à profit l’ensemble des différentes capacités de l’humain au lieu de ne se concentrer que sur certaines d’entre elles (comme le toucher et la vision), laissant les autres sens s’atrophier. Une façon de considérer le problème est d’utiliser le monde réel physique comme support pour le monde numérique, permettant d’imaginer un futur où les objets du quotidien auront de riches et expressives fonctions numériques, tout en étant ancrés dans le monde réel. La réalité augmentée spatiale est une modalité permettant d’aller dans cette direction. Cette thèse s’intéresse principalement à deux aspects en lien avec ces objets tangibles augmentés. Dans un premier temps, nous soulevons la question de comment interagir avec du contenu numérique lorsqu’il est supporté par des objets physiques. Comme point de départ de notre investigation, nous avons étudié différentes modalités qui utilisent des dispositifs d’entrée/sortie typiquement retrouvés dans un environnement de bureau. Cette approche est justifiée par le désir d’utiliser au maximum l’expérience que les utilisateurs ont déjà acquise avec leurs outils numériques tout en se dirigeant vers un espace d’interaction comprenant des éléments physiques. Dans un second temps, nous sommes allés au delà du thème de l’interaction avec le contenu numérique pour se questionner sur le potentiel des objets tangibles augmentés comme support pour un médium plus humain. Nous avons investigué comment ces artéfacts augmentés, combinés à différents capteurs physiologiques, pourraient permettre d’améliorer notre conscience des processus internes de notre corps et de notre esprit, pour éventuellement favoriser l’introspection. Cette partie a pris la forme de deux projets où un avatar tangible a été proposé pour laisser les utilisateurs explorer et personnaliser le retour d’information sur leurs propres états internes en temps réelMost of our waking hours are now spent staring at a screen. While the advances in touch screens have enabled a more expressive interaction space with our devices, by using our fingers to interact with digital content, what we see and manipulate on screen is still being kept away from us, locked behind a glassy surface. The range of capabilities of the human senses is much richer than what screens can currently offer. In order to be sustainable in the future, interaction with the digital world should leverage these human capabilities instead of letting them atrophy. One way to provide richer interaction and visualization modalities is to rely on the physical world itself as a host for digital content. Spatial Augmented Reality provides a technical mean towards this idea, by using projectors to shed digitally controlled light onto real-world objects to augment them and their environment with features and content. This paves the way to a future where everyday objects will be embedded with rich and expressive capabilities, while still being anchored in the real world. In this thesis, we are interested in two main aspects related to these tangible augmented objects. In a first time, we are raising the question on how to interact with digital content when it is hosted on physical objects. As a basis for our investigation, we studied interaction modalities that leverage traditional input and output devices found in a typical desktop environment. Our rationale for this approach is to leverage the experience of users with traditional digital tools – tools which researchers and developers spent decades to make simpler and more efficient to use – while at the same time steering towards a physically enriched interaction space. In a second time, we go beyond theinteraction with the digital content of augmented objects and reflect on their potential as a humane medium support. We investigate how these augmented artifacts, combined with physiological computing, can be used to raise our awareness of the processes of our own bodies and minds and, eventually, foster introspection activities. This took the form of two different projects where we used tangible avatars to let users explore and customize real-time physiological feedback of their own inner states
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Singh, Hermanpreet. "Introspective C++." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35846.
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Introspection has become a significant language feature to enable new component technologies.
It enables such capabilities as runtime component discovery, new levels of component flexibility and change tolerance, dynamic reconfiguration and system self healing. Three levels of introspection are discussed: simple type identification, structural introspection, and behavioral introspection
The C++ programming language offers type identification, but neither structural or behavioral introspection. Through its use and combination of several language features, C++ has provided a flexible system for achieving some of the features of introspection without explicitly providing it. Features such as templates, operator overloading, polymorphism, and multiple inheritance have allowed software systems in C++ to build flexible components that tolerate change and support dynamic reconfiguration and self healing. The template system in particular has recently been shown to be more capable than expected, being Turing complete in its own right.
Despite their existing capabilities, the language features have their limits and would benefit from an introspective mechanism. Unlike traditional introspective systems that execute solely at run-time, Introspective C++ has chosen a compile-time approach that tightly integrates with the template mechanism. This approach enables interaction with the other language mechanisms during the compilation, enabling the resolution of many introspective questions before the compiled program is ever run. Furthermore, the mechanism can serve as a base for developing run-time introspective systems.Master of Science
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Thompson, David Robert Martin. "Valuation uncertainty and imperfect introspection in second-price auctions." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32362.
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In auction theory, agents are typically presumed to have perfect knowledge of their valuations. In practice, though, they may face barriers to this knowledge due to transaction costs or bounded rationality. Modeling and analyzing such settings has been the focus of much recent work, though a canonical model of such domains has not yet emerged. We begin by proposing a taxonomy of auction models with valuation uncertainty and showing how it categorizes previous work. We then restrict ourselves to single-good sealed-bid auctions, in which agents have (uncertain) independent private values and can introspect about their own (but not others') valuations through possibly costly and imperfect queries. We investigate second-price auctions, performing equilibrium analysis for cases with both discrete and continuous valuation distributions. We identify cases where every equilibrium involves either randomized or asymmetric introspection. We contrast the revenue properties of different equilibria, discuss steps the seller can take to improve revenue, and identify a form of revenue equivalence across mechanisms.Science, Faculty of
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Strickland, April A. "The conservative mind a focus on introspection and worldview /." Click here to access dissertation, 2008. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/spring2008/april_a_strickland/Strickland_April_A_200801_ms.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Georgia Southern University, 2007."A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Science." Under the direction of Willliam D. McIntosh. ETD. Electronic version approved: May 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-40).
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Barthonnet, Marie-Christine. "La scène féminine des Frères Machado : introspection d'une collaboration." Angers, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010ANGE0017.
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Cette thèse porte sur les procédures collaboratives mises en oeuvre par l'institution dramaturgique des poètes Manuel et Antonio Machado dans la conception de la galerie de leurs personnages féminins. Leur binôme a toujours fonctionné selon une dualité qui ne signifie pas une contradiction, mais une complémentarité, une ambivalence plutôt qu'un conflit. Ce concept permet à la fois de structurer une représentation de leur participation individuelle et consensuelle, et de donner corps au mouvement discursif du cheminement spéculatif de la démarche dans une perspective propre à mettre en lumière les propriétés synergiques de leurs stratégies de production. L'étude privilégie les facteurs prééminents entrant dans la genèse de l'élaboration de leur configuration féminine, en s'appuyant sur une approche génotypique qui s'attache à leur protohistoire familiale et leur substrat culturel andalou. Après avoir défini le cadre scénarique inscrit dans "l'Age d'Argent", elle se concentre, en s'étayant sur des sondages quantitatifs, sur la spécificité de leurs modes opératoires. Des projections graphiques développent à travers un paradigme systémique la notion de dualité comme fondement de leur production, comme clef de voûte de l'exposition du schéma binaire de l'anatomie interne des personnages féminins et comme définition de la relation bipolarisée les liant entre eux, le tout s'insérant dans une structuration qui tend vers une modélisation d'une pièce à l'autre. Novateur par sa nature et ses procédés d'analyse et de recherche, ce travail livre sa part de contribution à la dissection de l'écriture gémellée de la dénomination "Frères Machado"This thesis deals with the collaborative proceedings that the dramaturgic entity formes by the poets Manuel and Antonio Machado carried out in designing their female characters. Their binomial always worked in accordance with a duality which is no opposition but synergy, ambivalence rather than conflict. This design allows us to build a representation of their individual and consensual participation, and to shape the discursive movement of the speculative progression process of our reasoning in a relevant angle for highlighting the synergic properties of their writing strategies. This study focuses on prevalent factors in the genesis of designing the feminine configuration, relying on a genotypic approach linked to their family's protohistory and Andalusian cultural substratum. After defining the storytelling frame included in "the Silver Age", it focuses on the specificities of their modus operandi, supported by quantitative surveys. Graphic showings illustrate through a systemic paradigm the notion of duality as the cornerstone of their production, as the keystone of the exposition of a binary pattern of the inner anatomy of the female characters and as the definition of the bipolar relation linking them together, all this being enclosed in a structuring process tending to the establishment of a pattern from a play to another. Innovative by its nature and analysis processes, this work delivers its part in the dissection of the twin writing under the appellation "Machado Brothers"
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Grimes, Jennifer. "INTROVERSION AND AUTISM: A CONCEPTUAL EXPLORATION OF THE PLACEMENT OF INTROVERSION ON THE AUTISM SPECTRUM." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3319.
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The conceptualization of the personality construct of introversion has been problematic since the term s inception due to the complexity and seemingly self-contradictory nature of the collection of attributes of which it is comprised. To advance the understanding of introversion, I propose that it is a continuous segment of the non-clinical part of the autism spectrum, and that it is not the same as the inverse of extraversion. When introversion and autism are placed on the same continuum, the nature of the relationship of the traits becomes more apparent, and new possibilities are available for exploration of both autism and introversion. This review of literature traces the origins and development of the concept of introversion and places it on the autism spectrum, demonstrating the apparent synonymous nature of the traits despite varying degrees of severity in expression. The current factorial structure of introversion demonstrates how autistic features interact to produce the personality dimension. Other factors, including genetic predisposition, relationships to the clinical and non-clinical symptoms of schizophrenia spectrum expression, and neurological findings that support the correlation will be considered. Finally, suggestions for future research and possible theoretical and empirical implications and applications are explored.M.A.
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Lim, Doris. "Twenty-Four Self-Portraits." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2087.
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These are twenty-four exercises in personal writing that observe an anonymous self in the apartment, who is writing, or reading, or looking at mundane things. The exercises are collected in four sections registering different iterations in self-recognition, as the anonymous, closely observed, changes from a shared commonplace to the particular and personal state. The exercises use prose paragraphs, lineation, and figures as a private methodology into the problem of writing: learning to see the self, thinking on the page, as a thing made from words.
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Oden, Chelsea. "Reflection and Introspection in the Film Scores of Thomas Newman." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20483.
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The most transformative moments in life cause us to look both backward (reflection) and inward (introspection). Likewise, reflective and introspective moments in film often align with important plot points. Separating music and dialogue from the rhythms of the image, these moments suspend time, creating a distinct temporality for the character(s) and the viewer to observe the past and the present in juxtaposition. The music of film composer Thomas Newman brings to life some of the most beautiful reflective and introspective moments in cinema. In this thesis, I approach Newman’s understudied, but highly successful film scores from narrative, musical, and audiovisual perspectives. Recognizing time as a linear common denominator between the multimedia elements of film, I examine case study scenes in Little Women (1994), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), and American Beauty (1999). Additionally, I present Kofi Agawu’s method of generative analysis as a tool well-suited to Newman’s unique harmonic language.
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Bak, Dillon William. "Problems for Introspection as a Basis for Reasoning about the Self." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/84933.
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Through introspection we may gain insight into phenomenology and thereby learn about our own mental lives. One aspect of our phenomenology that we might wish to introspect is our experience of selfhood. In particular, Galen Strawson views phenomenology as particularly useful for reasoning about the self. He expresses this in what he calls the Equivalence Thesis, which states that there are selves if and only if there is something that has properties attributed to the self in every instance of self-experience, where self-experience refers to a phenomenological experience of selfhood. In order to arrive at a phenomenological characterization, any set of properties that characterizes the self via the Equivalence Thesis, one must examine the phenomenology of self-experience through introspection. The Equivalence Thesis can run into difficulties in at least two ways with respect to its reliance on introspection. If introspection is unreliable then the Equivalence Thesis fails as we cannot accurately examine our phenomenology. While some of the consequences of such unreliability will be explored this will not be the main focus. Instead I call into question whether or not introspection provides the information that Strawson says it does. The Equivalence Thesis depends on the ability of introspection to provide us with information about so called mental elements, which give structure to our overall phenomenology. However, this is implausible. When we introspect we can learn directly about the kind of experience we are having, but it will not allow us to form an acceptable phenomenological characterization.Master of Arts
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Quintero, Monroy Christian G. "Introspection on control-grounded capabilities. An agent inspired approach for control." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7741.
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Introspecció sobre la dinàmica dels agents té un important impacte en decisions individuals i cooperatives en entorns multi-agent. Introspecció, una habilitat cognitiva provinent de la metàfora "agent", permet que els agents siguin conscients de les seves capacitats per a realitzar correctament les tasques. Aquesta introspecció, principalment sobre capacitats relacionades amb la dinàmica, proporciona als agents un raonament adequat per a assolir compromisos segurs en sistemes cooperatius. Per a tal fi, les capacitats garanteixen una representació adequada i explícita de tal dinàmica. Aquest enfocament canvia i millora la manera com els agents poden coordinar-se per a portar a terme tasques i com gestionar les seves interaccions i compromisos en entorns cooperatius. L'enfocament s'ha comprovat en escenaris on la coordinació és important, beneficiosa i necessària. Els resultats i les conclusions són presentats ressaltant els avantatges de la introspecció en la millora del rendiment dels sistemes multi-agent en tasques coordinades i assignació de tasques.Introspective reasoning on physical agents' dynamics will have an important impact on both individual and cooperative decisions in multi-agent environments. Introspection, a cognitive ability coming from the agent metaphor, allows agents to be aware of their capabilities to perform correctly the tasks proposed by other agents. Introspection, mainly on capabilities related to dynamics, provides agents a reliable reasoning for achieving sure commitments in cooperative systems. To that end, control-grounded capabilities guarantee an appropriate and explicit agent-oriented representation of the physical agents' dynamics.
This approach changes and improves the way how agents can coordinate with each other to perform the proposed tasks and how they manage their interactions and commitments in cooperative environments. The approach is tested on several scenarios where coordination is relevant, beneficial and necessary. Experimental results and conclusions emphasizing the advantages of introspection in the improvement of multi-agent performance in coordinated tasks and task allocation problems are presented.
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Villalba, Daniella. "The Effect of Introspection and Verbalization on the Confidence-Accuracy Correlation." FIU Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/555.
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The present study examined the effect of introspection and verbalization on the confidence-accuracy correlation. Recent research has likened the process of eyewitness confidence assessment to a process of attitude formation. Following this analogy, it was hypothesized that introspection would strengthen, while verbalization would weaken, the confidence-accuracy correlation. Participants viewed a mock crime, made a lineup identification and either introspected or verbalized reasons for their identification (or did neither) before assessing their confidence. Results revealed that while introspection failed to significantly improve the confidence-accuracy correlation, verbalization decreased the correlation. These findings provide further theoretical support for the conceptualization of eyewitness confidence formation as analogous to attitude formation. In addition, these findings suggest that there are other mechanisms that can have a detrimental influence on the confidence-accuracy correlation. On the basis of these findings it is recommended that eyewitnesses refrain from verbalizing information about their lineup identification prior to providing their confidence.
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Keramatian, Kamyar. "Modulation of rostrolateral prefrontal cortex during cognitive introspection using real-time fmri." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/10175.
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The main purpose of this study was to examine the ability of healthy individuals to gain control over RLPFC activation by making use of feedback provided to them in real-time about the level of activation in their RLPFC. It was hypothesized that RLPFC is involved in introspective evaluation of thought processes. It was also hypothesized that healthy volunteers could achieve improved modulation of their RLPFC activation by using real-time fMRI feedback from that region. Seven healthy volunteers completed a pre-training session, four to six training sessions, and a post-training session. Subjects were instructed to turn their attention toward their own thoughts in order to up-regulate, and turn their attention toward external sensations to down-regulate the target brain region. During the training sessions, subjects received feedback about their level of activation in bilateral RLPFC, while no feedback was provided during the pre- and post-training sessions. Group analysis of individual sessions revealed enhanced left RLPFC activation throughout the feedback training. In addition, direct comparison of post-training versus pre-training sessions resulted in a significant cluster of activation in left RLPFC. These findings are consistent with the hypothesized role of RLPFC in introspective evaluation of thought processes. They also demonstrate the feasibility of using real-time fMRI feedback training to achieve enhanced modulation of higher cognitive regions such as RLPFC. Finally, the findings underscore important limitations of real-time fMRI studies including global signal modulation and potential undesirable effects of feedback on task performance. Future studies will need to address these limitations.
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Ghonsooly, Behzad. "Introspection as a method of identifying and describing competence in reading skills." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2138.
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Reading comprehension in English as a second language in the context of Iranian education system is not unproblematic. Hardly any studies have been attempted to investigate reading strategies and processes employed by novice and skilled readers through an on-line method of reading skills research in this context. The present study was thus undertaken to address the present need by employing think-aloud methodology to compare novice and skilled reading strategies. Therefore, a qualitative approach was taken to elicit as much information as possible for the purpose of identifying and describing competence in reading skills. The main research question addressed in this study deals with comparing strategy use of a group of novice second language EST readers studying academic English in Iran with another group of skilled second language EST readers from the same ethnic population but studying at the highest academic levels outside their mother land, viz. in Scotland. Several hypotheses were formed following a preliminary pilot study which included the following: a) there was a positive relationship between the number of strategies used by readers of each group and their performance on the TOEFL test; b) there are common areas in the readers' use of comprehension strategies which make the individual difference hypothesis in reading comprehension a debatable issue; c) the readers tend to follow an interactive approach to reading comprehension. Using an interactive model of reading seven categories of strategies were identified and classified. Non-significant correlation was obtained between number of strategies and language proficiency scores. Using a human information processing system, each reader's protocol was subjected to a detailed stage by stage analysis which supported the notion of the individual difference in reading comprehension. The readers also applied an interactive reading process to text comprehension.
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Culot, Catherine. "In the Mood for Introspection: Contribution of emotional states to metacognitive performance." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/318965.
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Research over decades has demonstrated that emotions interact with various cognitive functions. In contrast with first-order cognition, studies exploring the influence of emotions on metacognition (i.e. the ability to reflect on and control our own cognitive processes) are still very sparse. The present thesis investigated how several emotional states influence metacognitive performance. We have considered different emotions (such as happiness, anxiety or depression) and different metacognitive measures (such as subjective difficulty, overall confidence or metacognitive efficiency). Altogether, our results provide evidence that emotional states can specifically influence the way individuals evaluate their own decisions, which exist independently of their first-order performance. Furthermore, our findings suggest that different emotions each exert a different impact on metacognition. For instance, inducing a sad mood reduces overall confidence, while induced anxiety leads to a decrease in metacognitive efficiency. However, predicting how an emotion will influence metacognition remains very difficult, as this seems to depend on many parameters.Doctorat en Sciences psychologiques et de l'éducation
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Hirst, Nathan W. "The implications of virtual machine introspection for digital forensics on nonquiescent virtual machines." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/5688.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.The use of virtualized servers is on the rise. This results in a need for better forensic analysis capabilities for these virtualized environments. One of the answers to that has been the development of virtual machine introspection tools. Virtual machine introspection is a relatively new technique that has some important implications for digital forensics. Since it is performed outside of the virtual machine, it can help to alleviate the observer effect that is often encountered when performing a live analysis. This thesis tests how these tools can work in a nonquiescent environment and shows that the tools tested are able to produce reliable results.
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Bilovich, Avri. "Beyond introspection : an exploration of the correspondence between directly and indirectly elicited preferences." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2018. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/106381/.
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This thesis aims to explore the limits of introspection, concentrating on the methodological aspect of preference elicitation. I use the comparison between direct and indirect elicitation methods, as well as their use in predicting choices, to explore when people are able to self-report their preferences. Three distinct contexts are used: the purchasing of habitual grocery products, the preferences of ethical consumers, and the political preferences of urban Pakistanis towards the USA. The unreliability of direct elicitation methods, and the superiority of indirect methods in predicting choices that are uncovered in the first study are echoed in the context of ethical consumers. Indeed, even these more deliberative consumers, who reported an increased preference for ethical attributes, are shown to not be able to correctly report the drivers of their decisions. Conversely, the results of the third study indicated that urban Pakistani’s preferences towards the USA were introspectively accessible: both types of elicitation methods were aligned in their results and were robust to short term attempts to change them. This thesis contributes to the debate on the limits of introspection in several ways. Firstly, I demonstrate the inaccessibility of preferences for often experienced and purchased goods, even for more deliberative and attribute-conscious shoppers such as ethical consumers. I also demonstrate that unlike these preferences, political attitudes are more introspectively accessible. The work also presents a number of practical outcomes, such as the usability of lexicographic choice models with directly elicited preferences, as well as the plurality of ethical consumers’ concerns. Finally, the robustness of political attitudes in Pakistan to actual pro-American advertisements indicate the need for a change of strategy in promoting the USA’s positive impact in the country.
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Javaid, Salman. "Analysis and Detection of Heap-based Malwares Using Introspection in a Virtualized Environment." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1875.
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Malware detection and analysis is a major part of computer security. There is an arm race between security experts and malware developers to develop various techniques to secure computer systems and to find ways to circumvent these security methods. In recent years process heap-based attacks have increased significantly. These attacks exploit the system under attack via the heap, typically by using a heap spraying attack. The main drawback with existing techniques is that they either consume too many resources or are complicated to implement. Our work in this thesis focuses on new methods which offloads process heap analysis for guest Virtual Machines (VM) to the privileged domain using Virtual Machine Introspection (VMI) in a Cloud environment. VMI provides us with a seamless, non-intrusive and invisible (to malwares) way of observing the memory and state of VMs without raising red flags for the malwares.
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Duvillard, Jean. ""L'introspection gestuée" - La place des gestes et micro-gestes professionnels dans la formation initiale et continue des métiers de l'enseignement." Thesis, Lyon 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LYO10191/document.
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Depuis une trentaine d'années la recherche et la littérature scientifique en éducation ont mis en évidence l'importance de l'analyse des pratiques dans la formation des enseignants et des formateurs. La question des gestes professionnels est aujourd'hui une des problématiques de la formation des enseignants. En prenant appui sur des approches théoriques variées et complémentaires, comme l'anthropologie, la sémiotique et l'ergonomie cognitive notre recherche et notre objet d'étude se concentrent sur l'identification de « microgestes professionnels » qui sont « en (je) eux » dans la mise en pratique et la dynamique de gestes professionnels. Elle tente de mesurer et d'évaluer l'importance d'une prise de conscience réflexive incarnée - l'introspection gestuée - de ces micro gestes dans l'appropriation et/ou la mise en oeuvre des gestes professionnels par des novices et des experts dans des disciplines et des ordres d'enseignement (1er- 2e degré) différents. Une bonne part des difficultés rencontrées par les enseignants résident dans la nonmaîtrise de certains « micro-gestes d'action » vécus dans leur communication didactique et pédagogique. A partir de deux gestes professionnels celui de (S') observer et celui de « (Se) mettre en scène » (Alin, 2010), nous avons mis en évidence cinq micro-gestes qui interagissent constamment entre les protagonistes de la scène du cours. Ce sont : la posture gestuée, la voix, le regard, l'usage du mot, et le positionnement tactique (le placement/déplacement). Sur le plan méthodologique notre protocole de recueil de données s'appuie sur la captation vidéo de situations professionnelles suivie d'entretiens d'auto confrontation. Cette approche qualitative relève à la fois de l'analyse du travail et de l'analyse du discours (langage verbal et non verbal). Les traces enregistrées sont exploitées et analysées avec comme cadre théorique principal, l'approche sémiotique de Ch. S. Peirce. C'est notre expérience de direction de chef de choeur et de chef d'orchestre qui nous a interrogé sur le sens des actes posés, dans ce qu'ils ont de plus infime et signifiant. L'enseignant comme concepteur crée et innove mais il est aussi un interprète. Comme le musicien, il doit savoir interpréter la partition qu'il a créée ou bien qu'il a empruntée, grâce à l'usage de micro-gestes précis, incarnés dans des actions gestuées et situées. La prise de conscience et la prise en compte des gestes professionnels et des micro-gestes qui en constituent la dynamique nous apparaît comme pouvant être un des appuis forts de la formation initiale et continue dans la construction de l'expertise pédagogique des enseignants et/ou des formateursFor the last thirty years research and scientific literature on education have focused the importance of analysing best practises in teacher training, from the point of view of both teachers and trainers. Today the subject of professional gestures has become one of the most important issues in effective teacher training. This study used data from varied theoretical and complementary approaches such as anthropology, semiotics, cognitive ergonomics and our research aims at identifying vibrant “professional micro gestures” which are to be put into practise. It tries to measure and assess the importance of the awareness of these micro gestures referred to as -introspection on gestures- in the appropriation and the implementation of professional gestures by both novice teachers and experts in different subjects and teaching primary and secondary levels. Most of the difficulties that teachers have to deal with are due to the fact that they don’t control certain “action micro gestures” experienced in their communication both didactic and educational. From two professional gestures: ‘Observing’ and ‘Acting’, we have highlighted 5 micro-gestures constantly interacting with the protagonists of the classroom. They are posture, voice, eye contact, speech and use of space and moving. The method that we used to collect data for our research is based on recordings of professional situations followed by self assessment interviews and feedback. This qualitative approach deals with the analysis of both the work and the speech (verbal and non verbal
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Bastian, Mikaël. "Dynamics and monitoring of mind-wandering." Thesis, Paris, Ecole normale supérieure, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ENSU0022/document.
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Les pensées humaines changent constamment : on regarde, on se souvient, on prévoit... Mais comment les gens accèdent-ils à cette succession de leur propres pensées ? Cette thèse a étudié l’introspection de la dynamique des pensées en capitalisant sur le phénomène saillant et surprenant de la rêverie éveillée (Chapitre 1). Les rêveries sont ces pensées spontanées à propos de nos préoccupations personnelles. Je décris d’abord comment des fluctuations lentes permettent de prédire ces épisodes de rêverie (Ch. 2, 3). Mais ces dynamiques pourraient aussi déterminer le contenu et l’introspection des pensées. En effet, les patients avec des troubles de l’attention (TDAH) rapportent plus de pensées “vides” : ce qui pourrait venir de troubles de la dynamique et/ou de l’introspection de leurs pensées (Ch. 4). Par ailleurs, deux expériences et une étude sur smartphone suggèrent que le langage intérieur facilite la conscience de la rêverie (Ch. 5). Le langage contribue aux capacités de contrôle : les pensées verbales pourraient donc être plus stables et plus vives. Finalement, je suggère que la détection des pensées n’est pas un accès direct à des éléments bien définis. Il s’agirait plutôt d’un mécanisme décisionnel ajustable, qui s’applique à des variables internes continues et dynamiques, comme dans la perception où une décision s’applique à des variables externes (Ch. 6). En somme, ces études jettent une lumière nouvelle sur l’introspection humaine et retrouvent des intuitions anciennes (Ch. 7). En effet, nos données appuient une proposition philosophique faite il y a 125 ans par William James, un des pères fondateurs de la psychologie scientifique : nos pensées sont un flux continu, et détecter la rêverie dépend aussi des dynamiques de ce fluxHumans’ conscious experience is always changing: now seeing, now remembering, now planning. Yet, how people notice the unfolding of their own thoughts remains unclear. The present thesis studied the dynamics and introspective monitoring of thoughts, by capitalizing on the salient and often unnoticed phenomenon of mind-wandering (Chapter 1). Mind-wandering is the rise of thoughts about personal concerns. Against the idea that this rise is unpredictable, I first describe the characteristics of slow rhythms that predict mind-wandering occurrences during goal-directed tasks (Ch. 2, 3). Interestingly, these dynamics may determine thought content and introspection. Indeed, patients with Attention deficits (ADHD), who would likely experience alterations in both the dynamics and introspection of mind-wandering, report more “empty thoughts” (Ch. 4). Also, two experiments and a study using smartphones suggest that inner speech facilitates awareness of mind-wandering (Ch. 5). Inner speech contributes to monitoring capacities, thus verbal thoughts could be better sustained in time, increasing their vividness. Finally, I suggest that the detection of inner thoughts is not a direct access to clear-cut elements, but rather an adjustable decision mechanism applied to internal continuous and dynamic variables, similar to what happens in perception (Ch. 6). In sum, these studies shed a new light on human’s introspection and confirm old insights (Ch. 7). Indeed, they provide empirical support to a philosophical claim made 125 years ago by William James, one of the fathers of scientific psychology: we experience a continuous stream of thought, and detecting mind-wandering may depend on these dynamics
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Beenfeldt, Christian. "Introspection and the scientific study of the mental : a philosophical analysis of major obstacles." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.543717.
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Campbell, Christoffer. "Boosting Through Structured Introspection : Exploring Decision-Making in Relation to the COVID-19 Pandemic." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-166404.
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This thesis explores boosting to improve decision-making in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic using a structured introspection. Structured introspection is an intervention where individuals are prompted with and are asked to estimate the importance of a set of attributes relevant to the decision in order to limit the prevalence of potential cognitive biases. To test the intervention, 281 participants divided into an intervention and control group answered an online survey with a dilemma about COVID-19. The dilemma was whether Sweden should shut down the economy or keep it open during the COVID-19 pandemic. The intervention group was asked to rate how important the attributes “saving lives”, “saving the economy”, “concern for the health of the elderly and risk groups”, and “concern for the quality of life and well-being of all citizens” should be for their decision. The control group was only prompted with the question and asked to think carefully. All participants were asked a set of control variables such as risk perception for self and others and emotions when thinking about COVID-19. The results did not show a significant influence on choice on decisions based on the intervention. They did however show a significant correlation with choice on risk perception as well as a correlation between choice on the dependent variable and the attributes in the intervention group. The conclusion of the thesis is that structured introspection may not be suitable on a contemporary issue affecting participants directly, as they may already have strong opinions about the issue. Further and broader research needs to be conducted to determine in which circumstances this boost can be effective.
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Robinson, Corey 1990. "Depiction through Evocation, Representation, and Introspection: An Examination of David Maslanka's Unaccompanied Marimba Solos." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248403/.
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The primary purpose of this study is to provide connections between a formal motivic analysis and the programmatic content of David Maslanka's three works for unaccompanied marimba: Variations on Lost Love (1977), My Lady White (1980), and A Solemn Music (2013). A comparison of the compositional process of each of these works is proposed through terms of Maslanka's use of depiction. Depiction is the action or result of representing through drawing, painting, or other art form, in this case, music. In each work for unaccompanied marimba, Maslanka uses this process of depiction in a unique way. The depictive mediums are categorized as evocative, representative, and introspective and these distinct approaches to depiction lead to three drastically different musical works. The different methods of depicting source materials are the distinguishing characteristics that separate these three works for solo marimba. This document includes a motivic analysis and comparisons of compositional devices used in these three works. A brief overview of Maslanka's life and works as well as a listing of all of his works that feature percussion instruments are also included.
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Kammerer, François. "Le problème de l’expérience consciente : une tentative de dissolution." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040162.
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L’expérience consciente pose un problème au physicalisme métaphysique. Il semble en effet difficile de comprendre comment une chose purement physique, telle que le cerveau, peut avoir des expériences conscientes. La stratégie des concepts phénoménaux constitue la voie actuellement la plus suivie par ceux qui désirent répondre à cette difficulté et défendre le physicalisme métaphysique. Elle consiste à rendre compte de nos intuitions anti-physicalistes concernant la conscience dans un cadre purement physicaliste, par une théorie de nos concepts d’expériences conscientes. Ce travail de thèse consiste en une présentation et en une discussion critique de cette stratégie. Ce travail montre que les différentes versions actuelles de cette stratégie échouent toutes à rendre compte de nos intuitions anti-physicalistes, parce qu’elles ne parviennent pas à rendre compte du caractère cognitivement substantiel de notre saisie de la conscience, et parce qu’elles manquent d’expliquer la robustesse conceptuelle de ces intuitions. Ce travail de thèse propose également une nouvelle théorie des concepts phénoménaux qui résout ces difficultés. Cette théorie analyse les concepts phénoménaux comme des concepts dotés d’un contenu cognitif substantiel, en vertu duquel ces concepts caractérisent les expériences conscientes comme des états mentaux situés dans une relation épistémologique particulièrement intime à l’égard du sujet dont ce sont les expériences. Cette théorie permet de dissoudre le problème métaphysique de la conscience d’une manière satisfaisanteConscious experience constitutes a problem for physicalism. Indeed, it seems difficult to understand how something purely physical (such as the brain) can have conscious experiences. The phenomenal concept strategy is perhaps the most popular strategy for those who want to address this problem and defend physicalism. This strategy tries to account for our anti-physicalist intuitions regarding consciousness from within a purely physicalist framework, by way of a theory of our concepts of conscious experiences. This dissertation consists firstly in a presentation and a critical discussion of current versions of the phenomenal concept strategy. It tries to show that the various theories belonging to this strategy (broadly construed) all fail to give a satisfying account of anti-physicalist intuitions regarding consciousness; first, because they cannot give an account of our cognitively substantial grasp of consciousness (a grasp which is at the basis of our anti-physicalist intuitions); second, because they cannot explain the conceptual robustness of those intuitions. This dissertation also seeks to put forth a new theory of phenomenal concepts, one able to address those difficulties. This new theory describes phenomenal concepts as concepts that possess substantial cognitive content, in virtue of which they characterize conscious experiences as mental states which stand in a particularly intimate epistemological relation with the subject who has them. I argue that this theory manages to solve the various difficulties encountered by other theories of phenomenal concepts, thus allowing us to dissolve the metaphysical problem of consciousness in a satisfying way
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Essebro, Nina. "The Ark - an urban, vertical monastery for non-believers." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-173730.
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Climate change and rapidly changing labour markets call for societies to increase their level of resilience. Parallelly, mental illness is tormenting Swedes in increasing numbers. How can society become more resilient unless its inhabitants are? Research have shown that individuals need time for introspection as well as to be part of a group, to obtain balance. People in groups tend to spontaneously form rituals with the function of explaining society, forming rules and bonds and give people a sense of meaning. Social infrastructure is a mean to make people come together, form rituals and develop their social capital - something that increase resilience both on an individual and social level. Architecture at its best can be said to point at, or promote, a desired lifestyle. Because of that, every major shift in society tends to bring about new forms of living. This project is a kind of urban, vertical monastery for non-believers as a way to explore future living. The idea is to find a new example of living and working that can help set a new norm, better adapted to the needs of the 21st century. A housing solution that work as social infrastructure, where individualism and collectiveness can meet. An important part of the project is exploring how small individual space can be when well dimensioned common space and function is offered at the same time. Small individual space help, or force, people to become minimalists due to lack of storage capacity. But minimalism is not just owning few things, it can also be low-key activism. By using yourself as an example you become a sort of activist resisting the consumption society and at the same time advocating for environmental sustainability. Minimalism can also be seen as a religion, a way to ritualize your daily life, to make sense of an increasingly scary world in lack of other belief systems to fall back on.
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Galvani, Eve Antoinette. "Acquaintance and the Formation of Negative Phenomenal Belief." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73666.
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This paper argues that Gertler’s (2012) account of acquaintance is inadequate because it cannot perform the explanatory role that it’s supposed to perform. My argument builds from two central claims. First, I argue that our judgments about phenomenal absences have the special features that acquaintance is supposed to explain. Second, I argue that Gertler’s take on acquaintance does not allow us to be acquainted with phenomenal absences. This suggests a general methodological lesson: when developing an account of the epistemology of acquaintance, we should make sure that we are capturing all of the relevant sorts of cases.Master of Arts
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Bechiri, Fadila. "Introspection des traditions monothéistes. Arcanes de la psychologie hermétique : Analyse des représentants - Représentations de l'archétype." Paris 7, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA070003.
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La traçabilité du dieu national sumérien transcenda par les effets spéciaux (don, pouvoir) de la vision prophétique la réalisation d'une nouvelle conscience, celle du dieu unique, universelle. La conviction de la "Personnalité de Dieu", être vivant, l'emporta sur la magie. Aucune découverte n'a égalé cette identification inspirée du moi et de l'acte avec la "volonté de dieu". Celle-ci cultiva un plant dans un champ de liberté individuelle et spirituelle dans l'essence de l'arbre des "fils d'Abraham". C'est-à-dire le monothéisme incarné par le Judai͏̈sme, le Christianisme, l'Islam s'exaltant dans la substance épanouie du "livre révélé", propre à l'espèce de la nature de leur être et sous-jacente aux productions sociales, économiques et politiques. Les arcanes de la religion, soit verbe, magie, rituels, cultes, prophéties, visions, numinosum, mythes, symboles, seraient les représentants-représentations du concept du divin. La question scientifique aurait pour objet le monothéisme articulé par les représentants-représentations de l'archétype, d'où l'analyse du sujet de cet objet, révélé par l'herméneutique dialectique devinant l'arcane de son mystère, dévoilée par la saisie d'idée de son schéma morphologiqueThe trace of the national Sumerian god, transcended the prophetic vision, through special effects (gift, power), along with the realisation of a new conscience, that of a unique and universal god. No other discovery ever equalled that identification, inspired by the "true self" and the act of the "god's will". This discovery cultivated a plant in a field of individual and spiritual freedom, within the essence of the tree of the "Abraham's sons". This means, that monotheism, incarnated by Judaism, Christianity and Islam developed in the blooming substance of the "revealed book", peculiar to the specie of the nature of their being and underlying to any social, economical and political productions. Are the arcane of religion, whether verb, magic, rituals, cults, prophecies, visions, "numinosum", myths, symbols, the representatives-representations of concept of the divine. The scientific question's "object" would be Monotheism, articulated by the representatives-representations of the archetype, leading to the analysis of the "subject" of this object, revealed by the hermeneutic dialectic, suggesting the arcane of its mystery, unveiled by the idea's capture of its morphological scheme
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Pitois-Pallares, Véronique. "Sous le signe du je : pratiques introspectives dans le roman mexicain (2000-2010)." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015MON30081/document.
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À partir d’un corpus constitué de neuf romans mexicains publiés entre 2000 et 2010 par Guillermo Arreola, Mario Bellatin, Patricia Laurent Kullick, Guadalupe Nettel, Cristina Rivera Garza et Jorge Volpi, ce travail explore les spécificités et les convergences de l’écriture fictionnelle à la première personne à l’aube du XXIe siècle. Qu’il s’agisse de récits ouvertement romanesques, prétendument autobiographiques ou autofictionnels, ils s’éloignent tous du modèle canonique de l’autobiographie et transgressent la frontière entre le référentiel et la fiction. Cette thèse cherche à mettre en évidence les caractéristiques les plus significatives de ces écritures qui accordent une large place à l’introspection, que le je narrateur se livre à l’exercice mémoriel de la convocation de souvenirs d’enfance ou qu’il s’interroge sur son identité et sa relation au monde et à l’altérité. Dans quelle mesure ces romans reflètent-ils les questionnements et les inquiétudes contemporaines sur l’écriture du je ? Quels regards, concordants ou divergents, posent-ils sur le sujet lorsque celui-ci est au centre de l’énonciation et de l’univers narratif ?Dans un premier temps, ce travail propose une partie rétrospective qui s’attache à rappeler les écueils et les principales évolutions qu’ont connus les écritures du je depuis l’avènement de l’autobiographie traditionnelle basée sur le modèle rousseauiste. L’époque contemporaine s’emploie à trouver des alternatives à ce modèle canonique, au point d’abandonner bien souvent l’exigence d’authenticité référentielle.La seconde partie s’attache en effet à observer les nombreuses failles de la mémoire des différents narrateurs. Il en résulte une absence de pacte autobiographique au profit de textes qui revendiquent la place capitale de l’invention dans l’écriture de soi. L’opposition entre fiction et authenticité se fissure : l’activité mémorielle passe en partie par une (ré)invention de soi et, ce faisant, n’en est que plus « authentique ».Il apparaît également une récurrence du thème du double en tant qu’alter ego intérieur, lorsque les narrateurs subissent métamorphoses ou dédoublements. Ce devenir autre est parfois synonyme de dissolution menaçante du sujet ou signe, au contraire, d’une revendication de sa nature changeante, évolutive et inconstante, essentiellement schizo.Enfin, ce travail s’intéresse au rôle déterminant de l’altérité à la fois dans le processus de construction identitaire subjective et dans sa mise en récit. Le je se configure à travers les rapports qu’il tisse avec l’autre. Cela vaut tant pour les protagonistes que pour les romans, qui étendent les pratiques introspectives et autoréflexives au texte lui-même, faisant la part belle à la métatextualité et à la transtextualité.À travers l’étude de la thématique introspective, cette thèse s’interroge en somme sur le regard que posent ces représentants de la jeune génération de la littérature mexicaine sur la place du sujet dans un monde désenchanté ou désarticulé, et sur les possibilités de renouveau de l’écriture créativeBased on a corpus that includes nine Mexican novels, published between 2000 and 2010 by Guillermo Arreola, Mario Bellatin, Patricia Laurent Kullick, Guadalupe Nettel, Cristina Rivera Garza and Jorge Volpi, this work investigates the specificities and convergences of fictional writing in first person at the beginning of the 21st century. Whether the tales happen to be frankly fictional, supposedly autobiographical or autofictional, they all get away from the canonical example of autobiography and they infringe the border between authenticity and fiction. This thesis seeks to evidence the most significant characteristics of these writings which grant much importance to introspection, when the first-person narrator seeks into childhood memories or wonders about the own identity and relationship towards the around world and alterity. How do these novels reflect the contemporary concerns about the writing of the self? Which converging or diverging looks do they take at the self, as it is the main figure of narrative enunciation and universe?This work opens with a retrospective chapter about the main changes and pitfalls that the self-narratives have encountered since the success of traditional autobiography, based on Rousseau’s example. The past decades have been looking for alternatives to this canonical example and many writers often get away from the absolute requirement of authenticity.The second part endeavours to observe the many breaches in the narrators’ memory. In result, the autobiographical pact disappears in favour of texts which claim the prime importance of invention in the self-writing. Opposition between fiction and authenticity seems to be cracking apart: memorial activity includes a process of self-(re)invention which does not make it less “real”, quite the opposite.It is also clear that the topic of the double as an inside alter ego is recurrent, when the narrators go through metamorphosis and split personalities. This becoming other may be a synonym of a threatening dissolution of the self or, on the contrary, a sign of a claim of its changing, inconstant and essentially schizo nature.Finally, this work focuses on the determining role of alterity both in the process of identity and subjective construction, and in the story of it. The self gets to build itself up through the relationships with otherness. This stands both for the characters and for the novels, in which the introspective and auto-reflexive practices extend to the text itself, meaning a solid presence of metatextuality and transtextuality.By studying the introspective topic, this thesis actually wonders about the look these young Mexican writers take at the place of the self in a disillusioned or dislocated world, and at the possibilities of a renewal for the creative writing
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Klemperer, Peter Friedrich. "Efficient Hypervisor Based Malware Detection." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2014. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/466.
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Recent years have seen an uptick in master boot record (MBR) based rootkits that load before the Windows operating system and subvert the operating system’s own procedures. As such, MBR rootkits are difficult to counter with operating system-based antivirus software that runs at the same privilege-level as the rookits. Hypervisors operate at a higher privilege level than the guests they manage, creating a high-ground position in the host. This high-ground position can be exploited to perform security checks on the virtual machine guests where the checking software is isolated from guest-based viruses. The efficient introspection system described in this thesis targets existing virtualized systems to improve security with real-time, concurrent memory introspection capabilities. Efficient introspection decouples memory introspection from virtual machine guest execution, establishes coherent and consistent memory views between the host and running guest, while maintaining normal guest operation. Existing introspection systems have provided one or two of these properties but not all three at once. This thesis presents a new concurrent-computing approach – high-performance memory snapshotting – to accelerating hypervisor based introspection of virtual machine guest memory that combines all three elements to improve performance and security. Memory snapshots create a coherent and consistent memory view of the guest that can be shared with the independently running introspection application. Three memory snapshotting mechanisms are presented and evaluated for their impact on normal guest operation. Existing introspection systems and security protection techniques that were previously dismissed as too slow are now be enabled by efficient introspection. This thesis explains why existing introspection systems are inadequate, describes how existing system performance can be improved, evaluates an efficient introspection prototype on both applications and microbenchmarks, and discusses two potential security applications that are enabled by efficient introspection. These applications point to efficient introspection’s utility for supporting useful security applications.
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Abugattas, Escalante Juan Andres. "Beliefs in an Opaque Brain." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71688.
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Peter Carruther's Interpretive Sensory-Access (ISA) theory of self-knowledge is an interesting account of the opaqueness of our own minds that draws upon a wide range of theories from cognitive science and philosophy. In the present paper, I argue that the theory's assumptions support the conclusion that the available perceptual evidence massively underdetermines all of an agent's second-order beliefs about her own beliefs. Such a result is far more negative than the ISA's well-known pessimism regarding self-knowledge. Furthermore, I also argue that, from the same assumptions, it is possible to build an argument to the effect that cognitive scientists trying to determine an agents' true behavior-causing attitude face similar underdetermination problems. Toward the end of the paper, I suggest that the theory's problems arise from a conflation of two different ways in which terms denoting propositional attitudes, such as 'belief', are used in its formulation. Distinguishing between the two usages of these terms, in turn, leads to a further distinction between two different senses in which we can talk about the 'opaqueness' of our own minds.Master of Arts
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Odou, Natasha Julia. "An empirical examination of the relationship between self-compassion and rumination." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151629.
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Litty, Lionel. "Architectural Introspection and Applications." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/24817.
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Widespread adoption of virtualization has resulted in an increased interest in Virtual Machine (VM) introspection. To perform useful analysis of the introspected VMs, hypervisors must deal with the semantic gap between the low-level information available to them and the high-level OS abstractions they need. To bridge this gap, systems have proposed making assumptions derived from the operating system source code or symbol information. As a consequence, the resulting systems create a tight coupling between the hypervisor and the operating systems run by the introspected VMs. This coupling is undesirable because any change to the internals of the operating system can render the output of the introspection system meaningless. In particular, malicious software can evade detection by making modifications to the introspected OS that break these assumptions.
Instead, in this thesis, we introduce Architectural Introspection, a new introspection approach that does not require information about the internals of the introspected VMs. Our approach restricts itself to leveraging constraints placed on the VM by the hardware and the external environment. To interact with both of these, the VM must use externally specified interfaces that are both stable and not linked with a specific version of an operating system. Therefore, systems that rely on architectural introspection are more versatile and more robust than previous approaches to VM introspection.
To illustrate the increased versatility and robustness of architectural introspection, we describe two systems, Patagonix and P2, that can be used to detect rootkits and unpatched software, respectively. We also detail Attestation Contracts, a new approach to attestation that relies on architectural introspection to improve on existing attestation approaches. We show that because these systems do not make assumptions about the operating systems used by the introspected VMs, they can be used to monitor both Windows and Linux based VMs. We emphasize that this ability to decouple the hypervisor from the introspected VMs is particularly useful in the emerging cloud computing paradigm, where the virtualization infrastructure and the VMs are managed by different entities. Finally, we show that these approaches can be implemented with low overhead, making them practical for real world deployment.
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HO, MING-YUN, and 何明紜. "Life, Mystery, and Introspection." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/h2n6z2.
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The series “Life, Mystery, and Introspection” is aimed at portraying my observation of the human behaviors and objects on one hand, and my understanding of the spiritual connotations on the other. I try to express the conditions imperative to human being’s social existence via animals’ characteristics. Through the animal’s behaviors, characteristics, and other external phenomena, I try to express my feelings toward the social and ecological phenomena. After interpreting my personal experiences, I metaphorically express my thoughts about the social phenomena. As one’s feeling is abstract, I try to express the abstract feelings via imageries, which consists the very core of my exploration in creation. The series “Life, Mystery, and Introspection” is further divided into four subcategories: “Transformation of living experience,” “Close-up depiction,” “Conceptualization of form,” and “Meaning of metaphor.” In these works I express my personal reinterpretations via animal forms. This method lays the foundation for this series of work.
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Estrela, João Vasco Bispo. "Android Security by Introspection." Master's thesis, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/125657.
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Estrela, João Vasco Bispo. "Android Security by Introspection." Dissertação, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/125657.
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Yang, Luxin. "Exploring summary writing by introspection." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11936.
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In the past twenty years, there has been an emerging body of research on
summary writing of university students. Few of these studies, however, have investigated
how university students process course-related summary tasks. The present study
explored the writing processes and strategies that first-year graduate students experienced
in doing course-related summary tasks at a Canadian university.
Six first-year MBA students participated in the study: three Chinese ESL students
and three NES students. Each participant wrote a course-related summary task while
thinking aloud. In addition to the think-aloud protocols, retrospective interviews,
questionnaires, written drafts and grade reports on the final products were collected to
compare the summary writing processes and strategies of the participating ESL and NES
students.
Three major findings emerged from the data analyses. First, similarities were
found between the two groups. That is, both the ESL and NES graduate students were
found to have devoted similar amount of attention to the writing processes of planning,
composing, editing and commenting. Moving recursively rather than in a linear order,
the participants planned carefully and referred to the source texts and lecture notes
frequently for structure, themes and terminology. Second, the six participants were found
to have displayed personal preferences to some specific writing strategies such as
reading, commenting on the source texts and use of fist language as they planned what to
write. Third, the study also found similarities across the ESL and NES groups. For
example, two students, one ESL and one NES, were found to refer to the source texts
frequently. Another pair of ESL and NES students was found to edit the texts more than
the others. A third group, two ESL and one NES students, was found to use the reading
strategy more frequently than the other participants.
This study contributes to our understanding of the processes and challenges some
first-year graduate students face when doing course-related summary tasks. It calls for
and suggests appropriate curriculum and pedagogical methods to help students, especially
second language writers, in dealing with the challenges in writing summaries and
becoming confident learners in the academia.