Cognitive dissonance

After reflecting back on your presentation there were a few things that stuck in my mind. The first one was when you asked our class to say why we were here, there was another question (not on the recording), and wrote them on the chalk board. The reason I think it stuck in my mind was because of how you were able to relate your presentation back to those words and why they were important. Despite our answers they were able to relate to your story in one way or another. One of the words was…

Awareness and understanding of one’s own thinking process can provide vast advantages for every student 's learning. This high order thinking which involves active control over the cognitive processes engaged in learning was given the label “Metacognition” by an American Developmental Psychologist known as John Flavell (Baker, 2009). Research supports the notion that metacognition when improved can result in increased learning and academic achievement of students (Fouche & Lamport, 2011). In…

Throughout the first semester of my first year as a college student, I have learned a lot. The change from high school to college was definitely an interesting experience. I have become more independent as the weeks went by. I have had to solve issues I never thought I would’ve come across. We have had the chance to get a taste of various disciplines: Christian, communism, music, culture, and psychology. It was a way for us to view the world from different angles. The first thing we started the…

the humanistic perspective. The humanistic perspective involves the free will. This affects me because if I don’t come to work willingly then I won’t be as effective in helping my patients as I could be. The third perspective is the cognitive perspective. The cognitive perspective is all about how you deal with problems. The way that I handle delivering bad news to my patients is how I will use this perspective in my future career. The behavioral perspective explains how our environment…

The cognitive connectionism theory can be used to describe Amanda’s language development. In this theory “language is learned, not innate. It relies on generic cognitive information-processing and pattern-recognition mechanisms” (Wolf-Nelson, 2010, p.61). In this theory children use cognitive abilities such as attention, perception, working memory and retrieval to receive information form their environment and construct language competence by using information processes and language. In this…

Inga’s cognitive process takes place inside of her brain. Otto’s cognitive process includes phenomena external to his physical body. Specifically, it includes a notebook. Clark and Chalmers argue that, though the mental cognition of Inga and Otto differ in various ways, the function between the two is the same. Given that function defines mental cognition, and since the function between the cognitive processes of Inga and Otto are the same, Clark and Chalmers believe Inga and Otto’s cognitive…

Mechanization, naturalism, and humanitarian reform are also considered modern intellectual developments that paved the way for psychology as a system of ideas (King et al., 2009). Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) produced the first map of the mind which became to be known as phrenology. This was the first attempt to map brain functions, although modern brain imaging technology has debunked his theories as being inaccurate and overly simplified. Naturalism asserts that all phenomenon are…

The pupils of intelligent people (with intelligence being defined by exam scores) dilated far less in response to a cognitive task than those of a lower intelligence. This was deemed to be due to a much more efficient use of brainpower. Scientists have since used pupillometry in order to assess absolutely everything from sleepiness to schizophrenia and even sexual interest…

twenty minutes and refresher courses as opposed to continuous duration courses, as the benefits of mental rehearsal has been found to decline and stagnate over time. Specific variables considering both the musician and tasks, such as manner of task, cognitive or physical, as well as the level of expertise of the musician, must be taken into consideration. Overall mental rehearsal may be a benefit to musicians, though considerations must be made both regarding strategy of use and its relevance to…

matter if it is in a positive or a negative way. For social development will be activities that include his classmates, he will able to interact and resolve the conflicts for himself without the necessity that his caregiver will be there. In his cognitive development will be activities that represent a challenge to him because he has already the necessary tools and knowledge to go ahead. His learning skills are fine because as a caregiver, we already know how the way he learns…