Cognitive psychology

Stereotypes have many ways of being formed. They are sometimes used to save time. A research about cognitive psychology has shown that people stereotype because once they have categorized the individual it satisfies the need of having to consider information about each individual of the group. A member of a group might act a certain different way than the rest…

was considered the father of cognitive psychology after writing his book Cognitive Psychology. “From a cognitive process, fear is fear is related not only to a biological preparation or stimulus response association but also to the attributions regarding the safety and danger of the stimulus; the perception of control over the situation and the attribution made about the bodily alarm signal that the stimulus elicits,” (Arntz, 1995, p. 919). According to the cognitive model, those with social…

In Cognitive Psychology, the study of decision-making places emphasis on how individuals make judgments that involve choices between various courses of action (Goldstein, 2011). Specifically, there are a variety of factors that influence and impact the way people make decisions. In this article both CogLab experiments discuss the “framing effects,” which has to do with the way choices are “framed” and as a result, how decisions are influenced (Goldstein, 2011, pp. 380-385). Decision-making…

My Neuropsychological Journal Emotional Functioning As someone who was diagnosed with PTSD three years ago, and has experienced symptoms for the past five years, I have experienced various deficits in emotional functioning. Reflecting back, my emotional functioning has varied over time. For instance, before I started treatment, my emotional functioning was quite poor. I was unable to regulate emotion and was constantly in a flight or flight mode. For example, in high school and my…

Humans process all information through a general, three-step process: encoding, storing, and retrieval (Weseley & McEntarffer, 2007). There are various models that provide an explanation of how the human memory works, such as the three box model and the levels of processing model (Weseley & McEntarffer, 2007). According to the three box model, also known as the information-processing model developed by Atkinson and Shiffrin in 1968, newly perceived information is encoded through a set of stores:…

In many researches found on early age deaf children with early exposure birth to kindergarten to accessible language is important. Interaction with fluent signers leads the child to develop the language and levels of skills to achieve academically. The most important interacting with young children and beginning singers like parents, parents, or adult should sign slow and clearly to young children with use short sentences and not too many sentence or the child would overload child’s memory…

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Observation 2 of a Preschooler’s Cognitive and Language Development I observed a 43 month-old child whose name is Maddy and her birthdate is 3/30/12. I observed Maddy at the Child Development Lab (CDL) on October 15, 2015, from 9:20-10:30 a.m. The child wore a light brown shirt and jeans. She has blonde hair, brown eyes, and is Caucasian. She seems to be average height and weight compared to the other children in the classroom. I used a running record type of observation.…

Introduction Lord Stanhope’s letter illustrates the longstanding concerns about multitasking. Even the earliest education journals studied the issue of distractibility and spreading attention too thinly (Bailey, 1889; Denio, 1897; Henderson, Crews, & Barlow, 1945; Poyntz, 1933). With digital technology, not only has the issue persisted, there are concerns that the impact on learning is even greater than before (Bowman, Levine, Waite, & Gendron, 2010; Fox, Rosen, & Crawford, 2009; Levine, Waite,…

The article, “The Digit Span Backwards Task: Verbal and Visual Cognitive Strategies in Working Memory Assessment”, by Hilbert, Sven, Tristan T. Nakagawa, Patricia Puci, Alexandra Zech, and Markus Buhner, aims at investigating the differences in performance between visualizers and verbalizers cognitive strategies by using digit span backwards. The digit span backwards has been used for many decades to assess the working memory capacity. The concept of working memory initiates the way we are able…