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5 Oct 2026
Perspectives on iced coffee
While this is an unusual blog title, the "Should you bring an iced coffee to a job interview?" debate that went viral online last week, gives an opportunity to look at two different perspectives on what...
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The cognitive approach
We have received questions from teachers about the differences between the cognitive approach and the learning and cognition context. You have also wanted to check how questions may be framed, and what...
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Dear Laura, dear John, Since on this page you investigate the role of schema in people with eating disorders - can schema theory only be used as a cognitive explanation for mental health disorders or could it actually be used as a model?...
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Hi John, I think we are on the same page here, as I was asking about explanations of behaviour rather than research design :-) Thanks for the APA definition!
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I would teach students that reductionism is about how behavior is explained, not which psychological approach is being used. According to the APA, the definition of reductionism is: a strategy of explaining a phenomenon by treating it as something...
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Site authorDear Elizabeth, The Transdiagnostic model is really the only model that I could find. Part of that is the overestimation of weight, which can be explained by schema. Schema alone is not a model for anorexia. The question about cognitive...
Cognitive models: Anorexia