Cognitive psychology

Summary In Dan Kahneman’s an Israeli-American psychologist notable for his work on behavioural economics, stated in his book, “Thinking Fast and Slow,” that the brain has two systems. These systems are referred to as System 1 “The Fast Thinker” and System 2, “The Slow Thinker”. System 1 operates automatically, intuitively, involuntary, and with little or no effort. System 2 however, operates slowly. It requires slowing down to deliberate, solve problems, reason, complete complex computations,…

What are the main factors of eyewitness inaccuracies? Eyewitness accounts are one way that police, judges, and many authorities in power use in order to find perpetrators and convict them. However many of the times people are wrongly convicted because the victim or witness was positive that they had seen the suspect there or that they were the one’s committing the crime. Of course there are many ways such as DNA, video proof, finger prints in order to determine if a person truly is guilty and…

the Organized Mind. Levitin has education from music cognition, cognitive neuroscience of music, and cognitive psychology. Based on this, Levitin is well researched and as a result, readers are persuaded to believe his information when he presents them in each novel, specifically This Is Your Brain On Music. Not only is Levitin well informed in those fields, but he is also a neuroscientist, musician, record producer, writer and cognitive psychologist. Any individual who knows about Levitin and…

judgments in eyewitness identification." Law and Human Behavior 35 (5): 364-380. Accessed September 14, 2016. doi: 10.1007/s10979-010-9245-1. This peer-viewed report, published in the Law and Human Behavior journal, the official journal for the American Psychology-Law Society compares the two decision-making models of judgement, relative and absolute using the WITNESS model (a computerised memory and decision-making model that produces eyewitness response probabilities) in simultaneous and…

is Stupid Except You primarily focuses on memory and learning, but at the same time, points out the flaws that humans make when it comes to cognitive capability. The blog posts infer that we as humans are sometimes over-confident in ourselves and tend to underestimate others at the same time… But why?? Everybody is Stupid Except you, by Nate Kornell…

Perception Imagine driving down the road and what seems to be coming towards you is a giant black puddle. The puddle keeps transforming in to different shapes as the sun reflects different levels of brightness on the road. You look around and see that it is not raining and you wonder why you would be seeing a puddle. As your car gets even nearer to the puddle suddenly the puddle disappears and all you see is the hot black pavement. This is when you realize that you were not seeing a puddle at…

performances by detecting the targets faster and more accurately. Posner’s location cueing paradigm has been used to study this phenomenon scientifically and it has become one of the most important topics of research in cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, and cognitive neuroscience. In this paradigm cue is used to orient the attention covertly where the target is likely to appear. The present paper is an endeavor to systematically define covert orienting, focus on its historical…

For many years, psychologists, scientists and behavior annalists have lived with the controversy of whether Distributed practice or Massed practice produces better learning. Many discoveries about the mind from cognitive scientist prove that there are certain techniques that improve the memory more than others. A group of rookie scientists decided to ask Dr. Sean Kang which is an assistant Professor and also Director of “Cognition and Education Lab located at Dartmouth College, about which is…

Music plays an important role in people’s daily life. Previous studies suggest that music positively affects people’s cognitive performance especially working memory. Many college students read, do homework or prepare for exams while listening to music. Background music is an important environmental factor in our learning context that may have impact on our attention span and later recall of information. However, whether background music serves as a distractor or enhancer on memory remain an…

Cognitive psychology is the study of human mental processes that occur within the mind. It looks at such internal processes such as, memory, perception and attention. It came about in the 1950’s as a result of the behaviourist approach being flawed; internal mental processes cannot be observed. Therefore, from this an alternative method of looking at the physiological side of the brain had to emerge. Cognitive neuroscience was then born to identify the neural mechanisms, which are responsible…