Cognitive dissonance

This quote intrigued me because the two had just met and Holmes was quite rude to her. This foreshadows how they treat each other later on in the story. Their relationship is going to be full of mockery of each other but yet full of love and support for one another. This reminds me of something I would say to my sister or something my dad would say to me. Their relationship could either resemble one of father and daughter or one of sister and brother. This quote surprised me because as I kept…

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…

the writer of many blogs about sports. His blogs are about how doing exercise will help us with our Cognitive Development, and how to keep our brain young and healthy. Bergland in his blog “Physical Activity is the No. 1 Way to Keep Your Brain Young” (Bergland, 2015). It would be important to understand how our brain need physical activity to keep young strong and if also improve our Cognitive ability. Christopher Bergland is a three time ironman champion, 24 hour treadmill distance world…

The Distraction Over the years nature has become less relevant to the people. It has been pushed to the back of their minds and forgotten about. What do fill their minds are the technological advances of society. Berry sees this in himself; he sees how his life is being taken over by the society. To free his mind he went off into the woods where he took the time to escape his normal everyday life. He valued his time in solitude and it changed his mind set after the couple days he was there. He…

Theories within the visual rhetoric field are immense. Most research steers within the scientific realm, and centers on the brain and how it controls peoples’ perceptions of images. For example, in Visual Imagery and Perception, Bertolo focuses on the cognitive processes that control the flow of “form, motion, and colour,” exploring the question of how all of the individual features within images are processed, whether they are binded together or processed separately (174). He later relates…

of the brain and mind has ushered in a host of new disciplines, set to unveil some of the mysterious processes of the brain. Cognitive science, in particular, is an interdisciplinary area of study - combining psychology, anthropology, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, and philosophy – that focuses on the mind. A subdivision of cognitive science, called the cognitive science of religion, explores the connection between religious experience and the mind. As Christians, we must…

present study explores the interaction between anxiety-inducing stimuli and cognitive task performance. (#) college-aged, participants were randomly assigned to one of four groups, one with a visual timer, an auditory timer, both, or a control group with no timer. Participants were instructed to complete 30 anagrams in five minutes. It was predicted that the auditory and visual timers would significantly impair cognitive performance and the participants in the experimental groups would…

The four stages are: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. Piaget noted that all people pass through these same four stages in exactly the same order and that individuals may go through long periods of transitions between stages (Beins 2012). A person may show characteristics of one stage in one situation, but characteristics of higher or lower stage in other situations. Therefore these stages are only general guidelines, not labels for all children of a…

beliefs largely determine how we interpret events” (p. 346). Therefore what someone may find stressful someone else may not. According to the text “the cognitive approaches offer specific strategies to clients for challenging and changing self-defeating cognition and for developing sound thinking that leads to less stressful living” (p. 346). The cognitive approach offers a different way of thinking. For individuals to view there stress in a different way. I feel that we are our own worst enemy,…

It has become common today to dismiss the idea that the internet is diminishing our train of thought. In discussions of the internet, one controversial issue has been about how the internet affects how we learn, think and even how we act. On the one hand, critics like Kevin Kelly would agree that it simply gives us information faster without the delay of reading. On the other hand, Nicholas Carr, Marshall McLuhan, and Stanley Kubrick would contend that it is making us simple minded. Although I…