Goals (Latest Articles)

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Recurrent seizures induce a reversible impairment in a spatial hidden goal task.

30 Aug 2009 A major question concerning the learning and memory deficits characteristic of epilepsy is the relative importance of the initial insult that leads to recurrent, unprovoked seizures versus the seizures themselves. A related issue is whether ...
rec_pub_19235227-recurrent-seizures-induce-reversible-impairment-spatial-hidden-goal.htm

Model of therapeutic and non-therapeutic responses to patient aggression.

30 Aug 2009 The primary purpose of this qualitative meta-synthesis was to explicate a framework of therapeutic nursing management of patient aggression in psychiatric settings. Findings from 15 qualitative research reports were placed into an electronic matrix, ...
rec_pub_19657866-model-therapeutic-non-therapeutic-responses-patient-aggression.htm

Down or up? Explaining positive and negative emotions in parents of children with Down's syndrome: Goals, cognitive coping, and resources.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Some studies find that parents of children with Down's syndrome may experience symptoms of depression, while other studies find that parents adapt well. This study aimed to clarify this variability in adaptive strength by investigating a ...
rec_pub_19681002-down-explaining-positive-negative-emotions-parents-children-s.htm

Qualitative exploration of a client-centered, goal-directed approach to community-based occupational therapy for adults with traumatic brain injury.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVES: We explored the clinical application of goal-directed therapy in community-based rehabilitation from the perspective of clients with traumatic brain injury (TBI), their significant others, and their treating occupational therapists. ...
rec_pub_19785255-qualitative-exploration-client-centered-goal-directed-approach.htm

Motivated comprehension regulation: vigilant versus eager metacognitive control.

30 Aug 2009 The more accurately people assess their comprehension, the more likely they are to engage in study behaviors that precisely target gaps in their learning. However, comprehension regulation involves more than knowing when to implement a new study ...
rec_pub_19679858-motivated-comprehension-regulation-vigilant-versus-eager.htm

Visual adaptation to goal-directed hand actions.

30 Aug 2009 Prolonged exposure to visual stimuli, or adaptation, often results in an adaptation "aftereffect" which can profoundly distort our perception of subsequent visual stimuli. This technique has been commonly used to investigate mechanisms underlying ...
rec_pub_18855549-visual-adaptation-goal-directed-hand-actions.htm

Developmental emergence and functionality of Sehnsucht (life longings): the sample case of involuntary childlessness in middle-aged women.

30 Aug 2009 Sehnsucht (life longings), the intense desire for optimal (utopian) states of life that are remote or unattainable, was recently introduced into life-span psychology as a concept of self-regulation (P. B. Baltes, 2008; S. Scheibe, A. M. Freund, & P. ...
rec_pub_19739919-developmental-emergence-functionality-sehnsucht-life-longings-sample.htm

Self-perception and psychological well-being: the benefits of foreseeing a worse future.

30 Aug 2009 This study examined whether having a negative expectation of the future may protect well-being in old age. Participants were 200 adults age 60 years or older who rated their current and future selves in the physical and social domains at 2 time ...
rec_pub_19739918-self-perception-psychological-benefits-foreseeing-worse-future.htm

Automaticity of cognitive control: goal priming in response-inhibition paradigms.

30 Aug 2009 Response inhibition is a hallmark of cognitive control. An executive system inhibits responses by activating a stop goal when a stop signal is presented. The authors asked whether the stop goal could be primed by task-irrelevant information in ...
rec_pub_19686032-automaticity-cognitive-control-goal-priming-response-inhibition.htm

Attributing study effort to data-driven and goal-driven effects: implications for metacognitive judgments.

30 Aug 2009 In self-paced learning, when the regulation of effort is goal driven (e.g., allocated to different items according to their relative importance), judgments of learning (JOLs) increase with study time. When it is data driven (i.e., determined by the ...
rec_pub_19686026-attributing-study-effort-data-driven-goal-driven-effects-implications.htm

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