Objectives: This study intended to examine the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on moderating maladaptive schemas and affective control in students suffering from learning disabilities. Methods: This experimental research was conducted using pretest-posttest and a control group. The population included all the female students who  were studying in the Koohdasht's mid...

Sexual self-schemas are cognitive generalizations regarding sexual aspects of the self that represent a core component of one's sexuality. We contend that individual differences in the sexual self-view represent an important cognitive diathesis for predicting sexual difficulty or dysfunction. We illustrate the role of sexual self-schemas on sexual behavior and responsiveness in healthy female a...

metaphor is a subject that has attracted the attention of theorists from different sciences of eloquency, linguistics, philosophy and etc. cognitive school is one of the schools which pays a specific attention to metaphor. cognitive semantics is a branch steming from cognitive school that defines any kinds of cognition and dectaving of       abstract concepts in the from of more concrete concep...

Embodied cognition has emphasised the importance of sensorimotor processes for concept formation. According to this theory, image schemas are suggested to be a cognitive representation of certain basic spatial relationships. At the same time, the shape of objects is essential for categorisation and understanding. While information on both shapes and image schemas are primarily obtained through ...

Although treatment of BPD is complicated, CBT therapists can learn schema therapy (ST) principles and strategies used as an additional tool in the therapy. ST originally began as an extension of Beck’s cognitive therapy model and has developed into an unique integrative treatment for the personality disorders. According to the ST principles, schemas provide in-depth understanding of personality...

the semantic network of the preposition 'ba' in persian: a cognitive study as one of the widely used prepositions in persian, 'ba' (i.e. with) may also function as an adjective particle or affix. this paper studies various meanings of preposition 'ba' within a cognitive lexical semantics framework. it aims to show that the various meanings of this preposition do not emerge randomly. drawing the...

according to modern religious studies, religions are rooted in certain metaphorical representations, so they are metaphorical in nature. this article aims to show, first, how conceptual metaphors employ image schemas to make our language meaningful, and then to assert that image-schematic structure of religious expressions, by which religious metaphors conceptualize abstract meanings, is the ba...

Image schemas are recognised as a fundamental ingredient in human cognition and creative thought. They have been studied extensively in areas such as cognitive linguistics. However, the very notion of image schemas is still ill-defined, with varying terminology and definitions throughout the literature. For the purpose of formalising image schemas in order to exploit their role in computational...

CONTEXT Cognitive load theory aims to develop instructional design guidelines based on a model of human cognitive architecture. The architecture assumes a limited working memory and an unlimited long-term memory holding cognitive schemas; expertise exclusively comes from knowledge stored as schemas in long-term memory. Learning is described as the construction and automation of such schemas. Th...