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Carper, Teresa. "THE EFFECTS OF PSYCHOEDUCATION ON THOUGHT-ACTION FUSION, THOUGHT SUPPRESSION, MAGICAL THINKING, AND RESPONSIBILITY." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3718.

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Thought-action fusion (TAF) is the phenomenon whereby one has difficulty separating cognitions, particularly those that are intrusive and disturbing, from their corresponding behaviors. Recent work has suggested that TAF is malleable and amenable to change. The current study examined the effects of three different psychoeducational interventions on thought-action fusion, anxiety, thought suppression, magical thinking, and responsibility cognitions. Assessments were conducted both immediately following the interventions and after a two-week period. Results indicated that individuals who receive

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Martin, Gwen A. ""Thinking the truth"." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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May, J. "The cognitive analysis of flexible thinking." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.377321.

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Keyton, Michael M. (Michael Murray). "The Development and Interpretation of Several Symbolic Models of Thought." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331860/.

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Philosophical and physiological investigations define thought to be the result of thinking. psychological Inquiry has mainly focused on discovery of the mechanisms and topology of thought. Philosophical Inquiry either has explored the mind-body problem or has analyzed the linguistics of the expression of a thought. However, neither has Investigated adequately phenomenal characteristics of thought Itself, the Intermediary between the production and the expression of a thought. The use of thought to analyze phenomenal characteristics of thought engenders a paradox. If the expression of thought

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Moir, Philip. "Training continuing educators for divergent thinking /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7698.

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Schuller, Sarah Anne. "Thinking food: the human connection in thought and act." Thesis, Boston University, 1998. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27762.

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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.<br>PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.<br>2031-01-02

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Ngan, Man-fong Ophelia, and 顏文芳. "Do local and international school students in Hong Kong have different thinking styles?" Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/198882.

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This study had two objectives. The first objective was to investigate whether or not local and international school students in Hong Kong have different thinking styles. The second objective was to examine the predictive power of socialization variables for thinking styles among students in secondary schools. Three hundred and two students from three schools in Hong Kong responded to the Thinking Styles Inventory – Revised II based on Sternberg’s theory of mental style government, and a survey on two groups of socialization variables: student characteristic and school environment. The student

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Farber, Kathleen S. "Thought and knowledge : a neurophysiological view /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487331541709041.

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Korab-Karpowicz, Wlodzimierz Julian. "The Presocratic thinkers in the thought of Martin Heidegger." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313569.

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Carper, Teresa Lynn. "The effects of psychoeducation on thought-action fusion, thought supression [sic], magical thinking, and responsibility." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002691.

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Tan, Li-hua. "Primary school students' thinking processes when posing mathematical word problems." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B23425155.

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Kinghorn, Eugene John. "The visually impaired child: A thinking and thought stylization program." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186636.

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Programs that specifically teach thinking for children with visual impairment(s) in the public school and are not bound to any specific subject or content area prove to be a rare commodity. The majority of the research literature for the visually impaired, addresses approaches for intellectual assessment, the dispellment of discrimination towards this population or functional living and mobility training issues. A program which takes into account what children with visual impairments can do with their available, or untapped senses, for training in thinking and thought stylization is sorely nee

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Jaworski, Michael Dean. "Thought Without Language: an Interpretationist Approach to the Thinking Mind." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1276576639.

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Schrader, Margaret Anne. "Thought style analysis: A method for analyzing patterns of thinking." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185280.

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Increasing demands for improving thinking in all facets of society determined the need for this study. Thinkers must be able to improve the quality of their thinking to succeed in a rapidly changing, highly technological world. This study examined thought style as a way of patterning thought, resulting in different qualities. The purpose of this study was to develop a means for thinkers to recognize and select alternative thought styles, by examining steps in the stylization process. Most educational programs to improve thinking do not focus on thinkers' thought patterns. A model is necessary

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Whaling, Thomas Francis. "Being Thought and Thinking Being in Hegel's Science of Logic." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/491192.

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Philosophy<br>Ph.D.<br>My aim in this dissertation is to explain Hegel’s motivation for, and the doctrine of, the identity of the identity and difference of thought and being and argue that while thought and being differ, their nature is identical. This identity is used to explain Hegel’s claim that what is real is rational and what is rational is real. The aim of this dissertation is squarely placed within ontology, and my interest is in the structure of being as opposed to metaphysical contents. Within this structure, I argue, Hegel shows us the irreversible method of that which comes to be

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Chittleborough, Philip. "Psychological perspectives on the perception, appraisal, and production of everyday arguments /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phc5441.pdf.

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Akan, Şule Özkan. "Teacher' perceptions of constraints on improving student thinking in high schools." Ankara : METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/683631/index.pdf.

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Metzler, Theodore Albert. "A model of interacting visual and verbal components in human thought /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487329662144542.

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Leaf, Caroline. "The mind-mapping approach a model and framework for geodesic learning /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 1997. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05042010-115145.

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Boyd, Roger F. "Modes of thought in secondary school art." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36645/1/36645_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.

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There is an emphasis in current school education on the teaching of thinking skills, yet there has been little research into the modes of thought that are appropriate for secondary school Art students. A range of qualitative methods were used in this study of eminent professional artists and secondary school Art students. Interviews and observation were used to examine the ways artists and students think in going about the art process of finding ideas, conceptualising or developing those ideas and resolving those ideas in the production of artworks. Eight modes of thought, each with numerous

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Runnion, Brett Matthew. "Evidence for unconscious thought in complex decisions the result of a methodological artifact or of an active thought process /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/runnion/RunnionB0509.pdf.

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Previous research has suggested that a period of unconscious thought can result in judgments that are equal or superior to those of conscious thought (Dijksterhuis, 2004). The existence of unconscious thought as a decision-making process is controversial. In fact, it has been suggested that unconscious thought is not a process rather the evidence supporting it is the result of a methodological artifact (Lassiter et al., in press) that only occurs when participants can retrieve online judgments. This thesis attempts to resolve this controversy. Participants received information describing 4 car

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Paul, William James, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Education. "Teacher stories in thought and action." Thesis, Lethbridge, AB : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 1989, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/22.

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The primary purpose of this study was to investigate a biographical approach to understanding how we, as teachers and co-researchers, think and act; and how we have come to think and act the way we do in our classrooms. The term autobiographic praxis was central to the study as a specific conceptualization of a teacher's knowledge. Until this study, autobiographic praxis existed as a biographical conceptualization of a teacher's personal, practical and professional knowledge based. This study used the work of Butt and Raymond who, with two teachers, Lloyd and Glenda, working as co-researchers

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Hannula, Markku. "Affect in mathematical thinking and learning /." Turku : University of Turku, 2004. http://kirjasto2.utu.fi/julkaisupalvelut/b/annaalit/B273.html.

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Mandrigin, Alisa. "Concept of self : thinking of oneself as a subject of thought." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7863.

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We can think about ourselves in a variety of ways, but only some of the thoughts that we entertain about ourselves will be thoughts which we know concern ourselves. I call these first-person thoughts, and the component of such thoughts that picks out the object about which one is thinking—oneself—the self-concept. In this thesis I am concerned with providing an account of the content of the self-concept. The challenge is to provide an account that meets two conditions on first-person thought. The account must show how we are aware of ourselves when we entertain first-person thoughts, so that w

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CARNE, PEDRO HENRIQUE PASSOS. "COGNITIVE APPROACH TO SINGULAR THOUGHT AND THE CASE OF NUMERICAL THINKING." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2015. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=26851@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>FUNDAÇÃO DE APOIO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO<br>BOLSA NOTA 10<br>A presente tese tem como objetivo discutir o fenômeno do pensamento singular. Mais precisamente, meu propósito é o de investigar criticamente os fundamentos da tese que afirma existirem pensamentos singulares sobre números naturais. Para desenvolver tal investigação, aborda-se, por um lado, o papel desempenhado pelos pensamentos singulares em n

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Ab, Kadir Mohammad Akshir. "Rethinking Thinking Schools, Learning Nation: teachers’ and students’ perspectives of critical thinking in Singaporean education." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/7022.

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One of the key thrusts in Singapore’s Thinking Schools, Learning Nation (TSLN) educational vision, launched in 1997, is the emphasis on critical thinking in schools. This entails pedagogical changes and challenges for teachers, especially, in terms of their knowledge, dispositions and practices of critical thinking, which are argued to be fundamental in fulfilling the TSLN thrust. Although TSLN is now 10 years into its implementation, to date, there has been little research undertaken to determine the efficacy of the implementation of the critical thinking policy thrust through the perspective

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Avenant, Carina. "Thinking style preferences in communication pathology." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2001. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03192007-100706.

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Grosvenor, Peter Christopher. "A Medieval future : the social, economic and aesthetic thought of A.J. Penty (1875-1937)." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285151.

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This thesis is a comprehensive account and analysis of the contribution of architect and author A. J. Penty to British social criticism and aesthetic theory. The central argument is that Penty has been neglected in scholarship as the result of an historical misclassification. In the existing literature he is presented as a marginal figure in the history of English guild socialism, a movement his first book did much to inspire. He was, in fact, in conflict with fundamental aspects of the guild socialist movement as it developed. Considered in totality, Penty's views were those of a reactionary

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Palmer, Vivian Julian. "Decision making improvement by effectively utilising activity-based costing and activity-based management tools." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1152.

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The aim of this study was to suggest ways to effectively utilise Activity-Based Costing and Activity-Based Managment within Eskom Transmission Southern Grid to improve decision making towards improved business and financial performance. The ultimate purpose was to assist managers and staff to implement ABC and ABM effectively for improved business and financial performance. The focus was on the following objective: To suggest ways to effectively utilise ABC & ABM within Eskom Transmission Southern Grid as to improve decision making and business financial performance. Given the selection of man

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Lam, Chun-hung, and 林振雄. "Learning experience of "six-step reframing" in neuro-linguistic programming and its possible influences on thinking styles." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/210158.

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This is a multiple-case study about 16 university students’ (hereafter called participants) learning experience of “six-step reframing” in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and an exploration about whether the practice of such reframing (hereafter called the Practice) could be used to enhance the participants’ Type I thinking styles. Each participant was treated as a case on his/her own. The researcher met each voluntary participant individually on three occasions. First, each participant was given a pre-test of thinking styles, a NLP workshop, the first NLP “six-step reframing” practice,

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Ten, Eyck Laura Lea. "Effects of directed thinking on exercise and cardiovascular fitness." Fort Worth, Tex. : Texas Christian University, 2006. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-11132006-141900/unrestricted/teneyck.pdf.

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Fan, Jieqiong, and 范洁琼. "Thinking styles' socialization and their roles in student development." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/196455.

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Three of the major controversial issues in the field of intellectual styles are: 1) whether or not styles can be changed; 2) whether or not styles are value-laden; 3) whether styles are distinct from or they are part of personality traits. The main purpose of this research was to address these three issues by 1) exploring the socialization process of students’ thinking styles through tracing the change of thinking styles over one year and examining the competing influence of students’ perceived parenting styles, perceived learning environment, and personality traits on their thinking styles; a

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Wielgus, Margot D. "Critical-Reflective Thinking: A Phenomenology." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/philosophy_etds/6.

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This dissertation formulates and describes a type of thinking called critical-reflective thinking. Examples of critical-reflective thinking appear in the works of many major Western philosophical figures, including the main thinkers considered here, Plato, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and Henry David Thoreau. Although this list of thinkers is eclectic, these philosophers come together in describing a common phenomenon, although they do not thematically designate or explain it. Their works illustrate a type of thinking in which people are invited by prompting events to consider their presup

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Robinson, Keith Alan. "Michel Foucault : topologies of thought : thinking-otherwise between knowledge, power and self." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1995. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4269/.

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If something new has appeared in philosophy and that "this work is as beautiful as those it challenges" we shall see that it all takes place in a new dimension, "which we might call a diagonal dimension, a sort of distribution of points, groups or figures that no longer simply act as an abstract framework but actually exist in space". The spaces that constitute this immanent dimension are topological or as Foucault says - "heterotopological". We shall designate these heterotopologies: Knowledge, Power and Self. Although these sites are irreducible to each other they seep into and 'capture' eac

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Flamm, Aneka. "When Thinking It Means Doing It Prefactual Thought In Self-handicapping Behavior /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2006. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-26768.

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Yoder, Marcel Stefane. "The effects of an experimental research methods chapter on introductory psychology students' ability to evaluate scientific claims." Virtual Press, 1995. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/941714.

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The lack of the teaching of scientific critical thinking is seen as a major problem in the American educational system by many current educators, theorists, and researchers. Using Introductory Psychology students as subjects, the present study attempted to improve these skills by teaching students using new research method materials as part of classroom instruction. The students were measured with a test developed for the study. The new materials were found to improve students' scientific critical thinking ability over students in courses not using the new materials. These materials can be hel

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Baek, Kwang Ho. "Idea generation techniques : an analysis of three idea generating techniques." Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1100445.

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This experiment was designed to give further understanding of the underlying factors which influence group idea generation. The first objective of this study was to compare the impact of using computer technology and traditional technologies for creating ideas. The effectiveness of three idea generating techniques, original brainstorming, nominal group technique, and electronic brainstorming were considered. It was, however, hypothesized that electronic brainstorming would outperform the nominal group technique and original brainstorming regardless of the length of time provided.The second obj

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Serbu, Gabriel. "Towards a “Weak Poetics”: J. M. Coetzee’s Literary Thinking." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668770.

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This study is aimed at exploring the meaning of literary thinking as revealed in J. M. Coetzee’s approach to fictional writing. Unlike other prominent figures in contemporary literature, Coetzee has constantly captured the attention of the philosophical community, mainly because of the nonconciliatory rapprochement between literature and philosophy that his fiction elicits. Coetzee’s “novelistic” engagement with philosophy suggests a mode of thinking that finds its fragile legitimacy in the tentative embedding of textuality in history within the context of a self-conscious appropriation of a h

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Keller, Jill Leslie. "Conversational implicature and higher-order thinking in instructional conversations." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185982.

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Results from curriculum enactment and sociolinguistic research have indicated that lessons are composed of information exchanges consisting of mostly facts and procedures that place little cognitive demand on students. Scholars from these areas have ascribed the characteristics of the school, teacher, student, management and task demands, or linguistic, and/or social context as explanations for those observations. They have not made a direct connection between how teachers and students decide who takes responsibility for providing the intellectual content of lessons and how that decision affec

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Venter, Dalene. "Three-dimensional thinking in radiography." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1564.

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Dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Master of Technology: Radiography in the Faculty of Health and Wellness Sciences, 2008<br>Introduction Research to date has not been able to agree whether spatial abilities can be developed by practice. According to some researchers spatial ability is an inherited cognitive ability, compared to spatial skills that are task specific and can be acquired through formal training. It is commonly assumed that radiographers require general cognitive spatial abilities to interpret complex radiographic images. This research was con

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Hallard, Robert. "The role of metacognition in suicidal thinking and rumination." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-role-of-metacognition-in-suicidal-thinking-and-rumination(8f6bc18d-84be-40b2-8bf3-ff9b81d7d6a3).html.

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The Self-Regulatory Executive Function (S-REF) model (Wells & Matthew, 2015) states that psychological disorder results from an unhelpful thinking style called the Cognitive Attentional Syndrome (CAS). The CAS incorporates worry/rumination, threat monitoring and unhelpful thought control strategies and is controlled by erroneous metacognitive beliefs. The contribution of the S-REF model to the understating of rumination (paper one) and suicidal ideation (paper two) is evaluated within this thesis. Rumination is one component of the CAS. According to the S-REF model, its execution is guided by

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Chan, Chun-kit. "Automatic thoughts of depressed patients in Hong Kong : an exploratory study /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43895372.

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Givens, Karolyn Whittlesey. "Facilitating the cognitive growth of baccalaureate nursing students : using writing strategies for thinking and cognitive development /." This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08252008-162801/.

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Crawford, Michael Sean. "The nature of commonsense psychological explanation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:db4cf477-2203-4f06-a8f4-b56f65840366.

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This thesis is concerned with two kinds of 'singular' psychological phenomena. The first is the commonsense psychological explanation of action directed upon particular things and stuffs. The second is the nature of (visual) perceptual demonstrative thought. The two topics are brought together in an account of psychological explanation I call 'de re psychological explanation'. The primary aim of the thesis is to articulate and defend this account. The main thesis I seek to establish is that an adequate psychological explanation of an agent's action upon an object requires a relational or de re

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Cohen, Ezra Benjamin. "Reason in action : a realist account." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2018. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/74540/.

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This thesis argues against the Humean theory of practical reasons, criticising its foundations in philosophical and moral psychology. It develops a realist account of value-based reasons, underpinned by a distinctive cognitivist moral psychology, and a non-causalist account of the rational explanation of action. Contemporary Humeans reject Hume's own theory of thought, but this leaves the Humean theory of practical reasons without justification for a conception of desire as non-cognitive and not open to fundamental rational evaluation. Two possible strategies for filling this justificatory gap

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Mittie, Shanna Kaye. "When mental context moderates effects of directed thinking on intentions to perform self-beneficial behaviors." Fort Worth, Tex. : Texas Christian University, 2009. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-04232009-114144/unrestricted/Mittie.pdf.

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Hopkins, Philip Everette. "Thinking the Greeks more Greek-like : an hermeneutic analysis of understanding in early Greek thought /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Yip, Din-yan. "The nature of formal reasoning and the effects of training programmes in facilitating the development of formal reasoning in adolescents /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B14473161.

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Fleming, Michael Neil. "The linguistic U-turn in the philosophy of thought." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0013/NQ38886.pdf.

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Sluiter, Kristen Marie. "Engaging all students in higher-order thinking." Online pdf file accessible through the World Wide Web, 2007. http://archives.evergreen.edu/masterstheses/Accession89-10MIT/Sluiter_K%20MITthesis%202007.pdf.

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