We all know that cognition, simply put, is a combination of mental abilities and methods relating to subjects such as learning and memory. Have you ever caught yourself wondering how you remember something? Did you have to use repetition? Encoding? Cognition uses our existing knowledge to form new knowledge and can be used in terms of personal attitudes as well as psychological functions. Everybody 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
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In cognitive science, recall simply refers to the retrieval of events or other information from the past, which is stored in long term memory. Memory is malleable, meaning it changes over time as new information is being put in. Elizabeth Loftus demonstrated this when she tested eye witness accounts of car accidents. In Kornell’s post called “Eyewitness Recognition Can Fail When Recall Succeeds: Even an eyewitness with a vivid memory of a crime can make mistakes in a lineup”, he explains that even eye witnesses who has good recall of a particular event can fail at recognition. So we essentially store and retrieve different information when recalling than we do for recognizing. Even if a person on a jury were to have vivid recall of a crime, or flashbulb memory, they could basically still pick the wrong perpetrator in a lineup. Eyewitnesses are not always so reliable. Kornell explains recall and recognition in an easy to understand way; just like we learned in class, he makes it very clear that recall and recognition are pulled out of long term memory in very different ways. Retrieval is another topic discussed in Kornell’s blog. In the past, we have discussed retrieval from long term memory and things we can do to make things easier to remember, and recall better. Kornell’s post called “Study Better: The benefits of cumulative exams”, explores the idea of spacing effects and repetition in helping one retain information. Kornell
In cognitive science, recall simply refers to the retrieval of events or other information from the past, which is stored in long term memory. Memory is malleable, meaning it changes over time as new information is being put in. Elizabeth Loftus demonstrated this when she tested eye witness accounts of car accidents. In Kornell’s post called “Eyewitness Recognition Can Fail When Recall Succeeds: Even an eyewitness with a vivid memory of a crime can make mistakes in a lineup”, he explains that even eye witnesses who has good recall of a particular event can fail at recognition. So we essentially store and retrieve different information when recalling than we do for recognizing. Even if a person on a jury were to have vivid recall of a crime, or flashbulb memory, they could basically still pick the wrong perpetrator in a lineup. Eyewitnesses are not always so reliable. Kornell explains recall and recognition in an easy to understand way; just like we learned in class, he makes it very clear that recall and recognition are pulled out of long term memory in very different ways. Retrieval is another topic discussed in Kornell’s blog. In the past, we have discussed retrieval from long term memory and things we can do to make things easier to remember, and recall better. Kornell’s post called “Study Better: The benefits of cumulative exams”, explores the idea of spacing effects and repetition in helping one retain information. Kornell