Cognitive psychology

What is Mild Cognitive Impairment? Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a condition that causes cognitive changes that are serious enough to be noticed by those with MCI and people who they regularly associate with but isn't severe as to interrupt daily life. The condition is broken down into two categories: amnestic MCI and nonamnestic MCI. With amnestic MCI, the person forgets appointments, special dates, conversations and recent events that they normally would remember. Those with nonamnestic…

Stroop Effect Report My science fair project focuses on the Stroop Effect and how to eliminate it. Information on this subject is extremely limited but I will try my best to answer the research questions that I have put forth. HISTORY The Stroop effect was named after a man called John Ridley stroop. He discovered this phenomenon in the 1930’s. He had people try to name the color in which a word was printed, meaning that if you had the word “blue” printed in red ink, you would say “red”. Stroop…

Also known as the bottleneck method early selection restrict the flow of information (Goldstein, 2011, p. 84). The late selection commonly referred to as cocktail party effect states that someone can be in a crowded room with lots of chatter and can hear their name with ease (Goldstein, 2011, p. 85). This is because their name is something of importance and has been something is not a word that had been filtered (Goldstein, 2011, p. 85). Even though this did go against the early selection, which…

Broadbent's, Treisman's, and Deutsch and Deutsch Models of Attention are all bottleneck models because they predict we cannot consciously attend to all of our sensory input at the same time. Kahneman however states that we are able to attend to more than one input at a time and is more concerned with capacity. Broadbent started with his work with air traffic controllers during the war, where a number of competing messages from departing and incoming aircraft were arriving continuously, all…

Language Log 2 Language is a very complex mechanism, there are a lot of different aspects that go into learning about language. Since language is so complex, many different researchers have differing views on how language is developed. I believe that because language is so complex, researchers study different aspects of language and find their own perspectives. Although, many of these perspectives lack important aspect of actual language development. In order to understand why language theories…

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…

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…

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…

Memory and personal identity are an integral part of our lives. These characteristics and traits assist us in the way we make decisions and approach situations. Memory in relation to personal identity is a topic that has been studied by several Philosophers. The question of whether or not memory presupposes identity is a circular one, and therefore makes this question important. To study this, I looked at Parfits theory of Psychological continuity, and how it was seen as problematic due to its…

2007) the effect on cognitive processing by encountering prejudice is being studied. The research that has been done before hand by the authors shows us that even though it is very unlikely that someone would experience obvious prejudice, but many people that belong to minority groups experience prejudice that is implied in different ways that occurs daily. As we know contemporary forms for prejudice are often ambiguous, people that are effected by prejudice may experience cognitive deficiency…