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Applying cognitive psychology based instructional design principles in mathematics teaching and learning: introduction KU Leuven
This special issue comprises contributions that address the breadth of current lines of recent research from cognitive psychology that appear promising for positively impacting students’ learning of mathematics. More specifically, we included contributions (a) that refer to cognitive psychology based principles and techniques, such as explanatory questioning, worked examples, metacognitive training, exemplification, refutational texts, multiple ...
Our neoliberal fantasies? A preliminary test of research trends in leading journals in work and organizational psychology Ghent University
Conditioning is more than association formation : on the different ways in which conditioning research is valuable for clinical psychology Ghent University
Cognitively-oriented clinical psychologists sometimes think of conditioning as the formation of associations in memory. From this perspective, conditioning research is important because it reveals the conditions under which potentially pathogenic associations are formed and can be changed. In this paper, I point out that it is also possible and useful to think of conditioning in ways that do not refer to associations. First, based on the idea ...
Optimizing Performative Skills in Social Interaction: Insights From Embodied Cognition, Music Education, and Sport Psychology KU Leuven
Embodied approaches to cognition conceive of mental life as emerging from the ongoing relationship between neural and extra-neural resources. The latter include, first and foremost, our entire body, but also the activity patterns enacted within a contingent milieu, cultural norms, social factors, and the features of the environment that can be used to enhance our cognitive capacities (e.g., tools, devices, etc.). Recent work in music education ...
Mirror neuron, mirror neuron in the brain, who's the cleverest of them all? From the Attraction of Psychology to the Discovery of the Social Vrije Universiteit Brussel
It is a rather safe statement to claim that the social dimensions of the scientific process are accepted in a fair share of studies in the philosophy of science. Examples such as multiple discoveries - a phenomenon that requires the social for a full understanding - or the collaborative efforts in terms of research groups and institutions (such as this research community itself) that are not reducible to a summation of individuals' ...
An interdisciplinary focus on the concept of causation : what philosophy can learn from psychology Ghent University
Why Plato needs psychology : proposal for a theoretical framework underpinning research on the cognitive transfer effects of studying classical languages Ghent University
Psychology is one of the seven hub sciences, which involves great responsibility for psychologists but also great opportunities for both psychologists and other scholars; that was the theme of the 17th European Congress of Psychology organized by the Slovenian Psychologists’ Association. This article contains a detailed example of how psychology functions as a hub science today. The research topic finds its origin in the seemingly unrelated ...
Pain psychology in the 21st century: lessons learned and moving forward KU Leuven
Background and aims In the spring of 2019, Professor Steven J. Linton, the founder of the Center for Health and Medical Psychology (CHAMP) at Örebro University, Sweden, formally retired. As a tribute to his scholarly work covering decades of influence and inspiration to the field of pain psychology, the research center organized a topical conference titled "Pain in the 21st century: Where do we come from and where are we going?", which resulted ...