Cognitive neuropsychology

Interpersonal Communication Assignment 1: Essay A+ = Situations are perceptively explained. Appropriate theories are defined well and applied accurately to the situations discussed. Analysis shows abstract thinking and insight. Clear evidence and specific examples given that show that the student has drawn original conclusions from their reflections. Self-evaluation shows that the student has extracted and internalised the personal significance of their reflections. Includes a wide range…

Cognitive dissonance is a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. This leads to discomfort which leads to the changing of one 's attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors to reduce discomfort and restore balance. For example pre-marital sex. Being raised with Christian values but wanting to have sex even though it 's morally wrong. People tend to seek consistency in their life. So when they come to a problem, such as sex before marriage, they stumble upon an inconsistency…

under the supervision of his parents and the puppy caregiver. Although this video is eight minutes long, the part that I observed ran from 3:29-6:24. He interacts verbally and physically with the puppies. The adults are facilitating learning and cognitive development through their body language, speech and interactions with the child (textbook, p 155). My video is found at the link attached: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2luLTiygQM. I will be evaluating this video from Vygotsky’s (and…

Cognitive dissonance (Festinger, 1957) is an uncomfortable feeling created by a situation that involves conflicting behaviors or ideas. In the example given in class (Festinger, L., Riecken, H. W., & Schachter, S., 1956) aliens would come and rescue a group of “Seekers” from a flood on December 21,1954 at midnight. When the aliens did not come, this created cognitive dissonance. They believed that aliens were coming; aliens did not show up. There are five ways to bring back cognitive…

Education should aim to emphasis the freedom of the learner to explore different ways of developing their uniqueness and lead them to a greater understanding of themselves. In my personal philosophy of education, I believe that an individual should be learning in all aspects of life and therefore education should aim to provide direction for them to think critical and have self-knowledge. I believe that if individuals are equipped with the type of knowledge which allows them to think about…

hanging out you realize that she’s nice, considerate, really funny, and likes a lot of the same things you do. This has now caused me some discomfort or inconsistency to my precious ideas that I had, better known as Cognitive Dissonance. For this situation, a way that I reduced cognitive dissonance was be to acquiring new information that outweighs the dissonant beliefs. After hanging out with the girl, I was able to freely like her because in my head she wasn’t the nasty, boyfriend stealer but…

The article is about Cognitive science and the value of understanding how children learn. The article highlights that the educational theories used in schools for student learning are outdated. There are supposedly enormous amounts of scientific research that disprove the current theories in practice today. The science that calls out educational policies used widely today is called cognitive science. Cognitive science is known as the science of learning and studies how the mind works. In the…

examines some of the various aspects of adolescence, including substance use and abuse, sexual behaviors, alienation, and body image, from the viewpoint of four predominant adolescent developmental theories. These theories are the “biological, the cognitive, the psychosexual and the social approaches” (Dolgin, 2011, p. 27). Issues of Adolescence and Predominant Psychological Theories Bernstein, et al., succinctly state in their text Psychology, that “the biological approach to psychology…

The cause of failure and fear in our life is due to lack of confidence. When we loose our confidence, we can’t control our emotion and we afraid for making something wrong. There are many merit that we can obtain from boosting our self confidence which is one of the strongest pillar of success. Keeping ourselves nice and pretty helps us boost our confidence. If we are confidence we can perform better and will be street out. Having a confidence means self believe and increase the faith on…

In “Can Computers Think?” John Searle claims that by definition, computers cannot think, nor will they ever, no matter how much technology manages to advance in the future. Searle defends his claim by providing an outline and an interesting thought experiment. His work begins by simply introducing the prevailing views concerning artificial intelligence during the time period. Many individuals thought of human brains and digital computers as analogous due to something known as the Turing Test.…