Cognitive science

Have you ever just wanted to just go and say something as simple as, “Hi,” to someone you would love to meet? Most people have seen, the person they want to meet the most on TV and I know for a fact, I have. Some people might want to meet Justin Bieber, or Russell Wilson, But i would love to meet Kobe Bryant, Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, and Aaron Rodgers. If I had a chance to meet three people in the world, I would have to choose Kobe Bryant, Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, and…

What I hear and I forget. What I see and I remember. What I do and I know. The completion of this course has approached and I walk away with the capability to apply the left bucket, the textbook and syllabus, with the right bucket, real life application, classroom examples and group projects. I walked away with a one hybrid bucket of skills, knowledge and life experience. The first day of class I walked into a high task and low relationship without even knowing. The first task asked from the…

In Steven Pinker’s “Mind over Mass Media” he tries to argue that new forms of media are not detrimental to learning but in fact promote higher intellect. Through his short argumentative essay Pinker addresses his audience in a more opinionated way without almost any use of facts. At first glance, his essay sounds convincing but when it is broken down and analyzed Pinker’s whole point seems weak. First the reader should consider the context of Pinker’s essay, how and what he is trying to…

During senior year, I have thoroughly enjoyed taking Psychology AP and delving into the many intriguing topics that make up the course. The subject matter of this course is very interesting to me compared to some of my other classes like biology. I also believe that your teaching style has helped me learn the content well due to the topical outlines and entertaining lectures. Compared to other courses in which the teacher merely lectures in an organized fashion, this class has been very…

Mary Cover Jones was a behaviorist. She worked with Dr. Watson. Dr. Watson conducted a study of fear on a famous experiment called Little Albert. Dr. Watson researched how a person can be conditioned to fear. Mary Cover Jones attended a lecture where Dr. Watson talked about conditioning and Little Albert. Jones approached Watson and asked him about “eliminating fears” through conditioning. Dr. Watson gave her his go ahead to move forward with her idea. The idea was that Mary Cover Jones will…

Picking Up the Pieces Picking Up the Pieces is the film being produced to document my life. As I sit here thinking about what music I would like to use for the soundtrack, I start to think about all of the things that I have been through in my 40 years of life. All of those hurdles that I have had to climb over and the songs start to flow through my mind. So many songs to choose from, but as I narrow them down to the top four, I feel that I can set the mood of how I have picked up the pieces of…

when psychology was a new field, experimentation was in short supply if not non-existent all together and struggling to surface as a science worth studying. Behaviorism was thought to turn psychology into a natural science. However behaviorism only focused on the external (environmental influences) disregarding the internal response when studying behavior. The Cognitive revolution was focused on the internal cause of behavior (brain and mind). This revolution in psychology became the end of…

Annotated Bibliographies for Module 2 Driscoll, M. (2005). Psychology of Learning for Instruction (3rd ed.) (pp. 71-77). Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon. Driscoll introduces the human information processing system by stating that it is very similar to the way a computer processes and stores information. The reader is introduced to three stages of information processing: sensory memory (which functions to hold information in memory very briefly), working memory (the stage in which further processing…

and Georgia State University to guide my own degree path. Basic pre-requisites in the sciences are available at Alabama, as well as a wide variety of elective courses dealing with my depth-study, including Neuroethics, Neuroanthropology, and special topics in things like desire, attraction, psychadelics and ASC. Core courses include an introductory neurobiology course, a behavioral neuroscience course, a cognitive neuroscience course, and a laboratory. I used various departments to supplement…

Cognitive Psychology is a branch of Psychology that is related to the scientific study of mental function and mind , including learning, perception, attention, reasoning, learning, language, decision making and conceptual development. The modern study of cognition is based on this premise that a brain can be also understood as any complex computer systam. Aaron Beck is generally regarded as the father of cognitive therapy. Beck has worked mainly with depression diagnoses. Cognitive Therapy has…