Cognition

relation between human cognition and culture as a result of active participation of agent with its capability of perspective taking towards itself, others through intersubjectivity, and environment. This implies that cultural learning is partly individual since an active agent, direct her attention to something out of herself and participates actively in her enculturation that is mostly ignored…

study of cognition had in the emergence of psychology as a laboratory discipline. The study of cognition had an effect in psychology emerging as a laboratory discipline by trying to identify the core factors in cognitive psychology. For example Transcranial Magnetic, which is used to decrease or increase certain parts of the brain. This process is used in laboratory settings to understand what happens when one part of the brain is increased or decreased. By wanting to understand cognition…

Analysis Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking In this paper we will be discussing the book Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking. We will cover the theory of adaptive unconscious and how small slicing and rapid cognition plays a role in our decision making and intuition. Author Malcolm Gladwell uses different studies to explain how these process can help with decision making and how one can improve adaptive conscious. We will also cover my thoughts on this book and how it…

presented, it is clear that even though animals and humans live distinctly different lives, their minds work in very similar ways to ours and there is not much difference between the two. The theories that will be discussed are meta-cognition, future-oriented cognition, theory of mind and the ability to ignore irrelevant stimuli as well as…

decision-making process on moral judgements, that is judgements made on actions or characters that draw on values integral to our identity (Haidt, 2001), is the focus of this essay. The relationship between individual yet stable traits such as Need for Cognition (NFC) and Trait Anger (TA) and making utilitarian moral judgements will be focused on to explore the balance obtained between Rationalist and Social Intuitionist theories of moral psychology. The crux of the debate…

between brain and behavior extraordinarily difficult, and so these relations remain largely speculative, although ultimately testable. Establishing such links between brain and cognition is the principal goal of cognitive neuroscience. In a nutshell, therefore it is important to note that the changes in the brain and the cognition are very connected and changes in one has effects on the other. It is not right to conclude that cognitive decline…

Introduction Treatment models based in cognitive behavioral theory have been regarded generally as effective treatment for trauma. The bases of cognitive behavioral therapy is to address and redevelop the cognitions of an individual who has experienced trauma that in turn influences their behavior. As such, the following evaluation examines the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy interventions as best practice for recover with sexual assault survivors diagnosed with posttraumatic stress…

there are also psychological things that go on. (Darn that psychology sneaking its way into everything, it obviously never goes on break.) Although psychology is used every minute of every day i 'm only going to talk about 5 concepts, persuasion, cognition, emotion, personality, and the self. So sit back and get ready to eat some turkey. The first concept i`m going to talk about is persuasion and the techniques that are used along with it. The foot-in-the-door technique is when someone asks a…

that appears to be smart or intelligent is said to possess knowledge. But what exactly is knowledge? Epistemology, also known as the theory of knowledge is by definition the science of cognition. The definition of cognition is the act or process of knowing; perception. The author Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, dissects cognition into two parts being cognitive acts and cognitive results. The author then goes further in depth and defines cognitive acts as certain mental activities such as perception,…

aggressive behavior more pleasurable, so when dissonance arrives, they already have a high self-esteem (Alvarado & Ramirez, 2014). The major point I took from the second article is that, after leaving the clinic to quit smoking, smokers added cognitive cognitions to make there self less aware of the major health risk of smoking, and lowered their perception of the dangers of smoking, to justify their relapse (Gibbons et al; n.d.). These results together support my understanding of dissonance by…