Questions tagged [training]
For questions regarding building a competency in a particular area, or the act of helping others attain such a competency.
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Are orgnizations like European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP) or European Family Therapy Association (EFTA) genuine? [closed]
My sibling mentioned me about her idea of pursuing a additional post-university training for obtaining an EAP and EFTA compliant certificate for psychotherapy.
I raised a question regarding the ...
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Would a diagnosis from a layman be legitimate if it follows the definition of the disorder?
Assuming a layman with no formal training (person A) says "person B has disorder X". A should not make such diagnosis because they don't have the training. But if A does that because it fits the ...
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Training adults on how to react to social cues.
I was researching social cues and stumbled upon this article, which concludes that:
results suggest that implicit learning is context-dependent and can be influenced by the cue type, e.g., social ...
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If demyelination doesn't typically occur, what happens when a musician doesn't practice for a month?
In "The Talent Code," the author makes this statement:
What's the simplest way to diminish the skills of a superstar talent? The answer: don't let them practice for a month. Causing skill to ...
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"Raise your game" studies
Let's say I play a game or sport against somebody stronger than me. I might plausibly feel a need to raise my game. Are there any empirical academic studies which test whether such a phenomenon exists?...
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Does training affect the tactile oblique effect?
In the visual sciences it is known that the oblique effect can be reduced by means of training. The oblique effect is observed when testing subjects psychophysically with a grating acuity task (e.g., ...
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DSM and references to ICD
I am still studying and where I extensively use the DSM whilst writing essays etc. for my coursework, a question has arisen with regard to referencing the International Statistical Classification of ...
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Apart from sleep, does the brain needs rest?
I am a graduate student in CS, and naturally, I take several breaks a day from studying, but I feel that most of those breaks are habit-influenced and that I do not absolutely need to get off my seat ...
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Why do we train the threshold as a weight in neural networks?
Why do we train the threshold as a weight?
I understand the process of how to do it (the bias and augmented weight vector) but do not get the importance or practical applications of doing so.
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Do 10.000 hours of practice make you an expert?
With his book "Outliers" Malcolm Gladwell has widely popularized the idea that the requirement to become an expert in any field is largely to invest at least 10.000 hours of deliberate practice.
What ...
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Can creativity be taught?
I have heard of classes that teach 'creativity'. To me, the whole concept is absurd. I approached a student of the aforementioned class and asked him why he chose to learn creativity. He stated that ...
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How to gamify a mentoring activity? [closed]
I am working on an app where we are aiming to develop peer to peer training. How could we gamify the learning process to make it more fun?
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Can we increase our higher order thinking (HOT) skills by practicing inductive reasoning?
I previously asked about the conceptual links between higher order thinking and inductive reasoning. This question focuses on the potential for improving higher order thinking through practicing ...
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What is the upper bound on rate of learning in young adults?
I was wondering how a normal adult in their 20s could best structure their life to make best use of their capacity to learn. I am no expert in cognitive science, so I assume just a really common ...
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What is the effect of imagining doing an exercise on muscle growth?
I recently read a study by Yue, G et al. (1992) which I found incredibly interesting. I have no background in physiology and I was hoping that someone who does can clear things up.
If I understood it ...
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Does cognitive training enhance dopamine release?
Joe Hardy reports on a study by Backman et al (2011) in Science, where from the authors report:
Updating of working memory has been associated with striato-frontal
brain regions and phasic ...
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How can I use gamification to encourage people to complete workplace training?
I am looking for ways to improve the likelihood people will perform mundane but required workplace training. I am looking into gamification techniques.
My organisation requires that employees ...
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What is the optimal length of a training session?
When a practice session is too long, there will presumably be a point where no further significant gains can be made without a break. At what point will this be?
Update: This question was originally ...
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What are the considerations for using wide-reaching messages and training over individual-focused efforts for changing behavior?
In most places that I've worked, when some sort of problem arose or corrective action needs to be taken, one of the first responses is to send mass emails at an organization or team level and set up ...
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How does task difficulty schedule affect the rate and efficiency of perceptual learning?
In perceptual learning (line length/orientation discrimination, visual target detection, tone frequency discrimination, etc), when training people or animals to perform a task better, is there an ...