Cognitive neuropsychology

Anchoring is a cognitive bias referring to the fact that individuals choosing numeric values are influenced by momentarily present information, without being aware of it. It describes the common tendency to rely on the first piece of information offered when making decisions. Anchors can be eternally provided or self generated. The broad idea of anchoring can be seen through a quality seen in goslings. Dan Ariely’s describes in his book, Predictable Irrationality, that, “goslings, upon breaking out…

The study of the mind and behavior, also known as Psychology, is important to understanding human actions and thought processes that guide their daily lives and are critical in establishing relationships on both personal and professional levels. Psychology contains a wide range of focal points in assessing the mind and behavior, but for the purpose of this essay, I will be looking into one of the most recent areas of study, the use of technology (specifically apps) in learning and communication…

Belief Perseverance and how it Affects us in Today’s Society Ayesha Rawlins Florida International University Belief Perseverance and how it Affects us in Today’s Society Many people may not be familiar with the term belief perseverance or confirmation bias, but we all experience these phenomena without even realizing it. Belief perseverance refers to the biasness towards information that agrees with our personal values even though they have been discredited or proven false. There has been…

Cognitive Control Advantages in Elderly Bilinguals: Uncovering the Truth By: Sara Quinn-Hogan Cognitive control refers to the management of cognitive processes such as task flexibility, working memory, reasoning, planning, and problem solving. Some interesting findings have been reported suggesting that bilinguals have an advantage in cognitive control over monolinguals, and that this advantage persists into old age and might even slow cognitive decline. Since the population is aging and over…

“You can’t escape who you are; no matter how much you hate her face, her voice and her body. You can’t change her; so, you beat her. You must embrace her.” These are quotes from Suzanna’s dairy that summarizes the consistent vigorous battle individual’s with eating disorders fight daily. When hearing Suzanna read excerpts from her dairy, I begin to in vision prisoners. Individuals trapped behind bars and in shackles. They hate the shackles and bars that confide them; yet for some, freedom is…

Early visual experience is essential for the maturation of visual functions. For example, behavioral studies have demonstrated that visual acuity is low at the time of eye opening and visual experience is indispensable for its developmental improvement (Maurer et al., 1999; Prusky et al., 2000; Kang et al., 2013). Visual cortical neurons selectively respond with a higher rate of action potentials to particular features of visual stimuli (Hubel, 1982), which is considered to be a fundamental…

In 1995, Henry Roediger and Kathleen McDermott wanted to look at false recall and false recognition. Also, Roediger and McDermott wanted to know if they could get the same or similar results of Deese’s experiment, which he conducted in 1959 (Deese, 1959 as cited in Roediger & McDermott, 1995). So, Roediger and McDermott conducted two experiments that essentially replicated Deese’s study (Deese, 1959 as cited in Roediger & McDermott, 1995). In their first experiment, Roediger and McDermott used a…

Why is Psychology Hard? (Newer version) By Fox Rice Psychology can be very difficult to learn about whether people realize it or not. Mainly because the topics that are related to psychology can be broad and also relate to concepts that are both biological and social. In order for us to understand this subject, we must gain knowledge on it and the best way to do that is studying. There are a variety of ways that a person can study and some people have the same study habits. However, most study…

Provide an example of cognitive dissonance from your own life. There have been many situations in my life that falls under the theory of cognitive dissonance, but I will narrow my example down to when I use to smoke marijuana. A cognitive dissonance is the discomfort that is caused when two cognitions (beliefs, attitudes) conflict, or when our behavior conflicts with our attitudes (Aronson, Wilson, Akert, Sommers, 2013, p.158). For some people smoking marijuana not produce discomfort, but for me…

experience Does you kid or friend get bad grades it probably because they are in school. If they learned outside they would probably pay more attention. Today I will talk about how kids learn more outside than inside. First I am going to talk how kids learn less with technology than with. Second I will talk about why teachers don’t have to worry about kids not doing what the are supposed to be doing. Third I will talk about why kids should learn outside. Studies show that kids that learn…