Sökning: "Situated Cognition"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 uppsatser innehållade orden Situated Cognition.
1. A phenomenographic study embracing the "wickedness" of education as sustainable development: Mapping the qualitatively different ways in which South-East European immigrants in Sweden understand the concept of Sustainable Development
Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogikSammanfattning : Aim: This research is situated in education as sustainable development. It, therefore, aims to embrace the ‘‘wickedness’’ of sustainable development by allowing for qualitatively different ways of understanding to emerge from the participants’ descriptions. LÄS MER
2. The Never Ending Shower : planning ability, intellectual disability and cognitive artifacts
Master-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakultetenSammanfattning : Persons with intellectual disability have been found to perform more poorly on tasks, demanding the use of executive functions like planning, than their peers. This study investigated difficulties with planning, and how problems with planning ability can be supported by using cognitive artifacts to help performance on activities in everyday life, for adolescents with intellectual disability. LÄS MER
3. Exploring the concept of feedback with perspectives from psychology and cognitive science
Kandidat-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Interaktiva och kognitiva system; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakultetenSammanfattning : This study explores the concept of feedback from various perspectives in psychology and cognitive science. Specifically, the theories of ecological psychology, situated and Distributed Cognition, Cognitive Systems Engineering and Embodied cognition are investigated and compared. LÄS MER
4. The Never Ending Shower : planning ability, intellectual disability and cognitive artifacts
Master-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakultetenSammanfattning : Persons with intellectual disability have been found to perform more poorly on tasks, demanding the use of executive functions like planning, than their peers. This study investigated difficulties with planning, and how problems with planning ability can be supported by using cognitive artifacts to help performance on activities in everyday life, for adolescents with intellectual disability. LÄS MER
5. Memory, aging and external memory aids : Two traditions of cognitive research and their implications for a successful development of memory augmentation
Master-uppsats, Filosofiska fakulteten; Institutionen för datavetenskapSammanfattning : The topic of this thesis is how the decline of cognitive abilities and memory functioning in elder people can be assisted by external memory aids. This issue was approached through a combination of methods. LÄS MER