Cognitive science

The pupils of intelligent people (with intelligence being defined by exam scores) dilated far less in response to a cognitive task than those of a lower intelligence. This was deemed to be due to a much more efficient use of brainpower. Scientists have since used pupillometry in order to assess absolutely everything from sleepiness to schizophrenia and even sexual interest…

Stanovich’s The Robot’s Rebellion delves deep into the world of evolutionary psychology, stating how modern society is stuck in a technologically run programme of sorts where we are all but robots stuck in a world revolved around our most primal cognitive abilities. In the introductory pages of this novel, Stanovich draws our attention to four notable theorists, among them, philosopher Daniel Dennett who refers to the implications that modern evolutionary theory will have on the twenty-first…

Bruer, the former president of the James S. McDonnell Foundation, who think that the bridging of neuroscience and education is misguided. Bruer proposes that other sciences like cognitive psychology would better inform education (15). Reinforcing Bruer’s claim is Daniel T. Willingham, a current Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. Willingham states that there are “three problems that significantly reduce the…

The Limit of Reason Studies are regularly done to understand the minds of individuals. All the knowledge gathered on brain mechanics and functions can be attributed to studies. Although what a person may know about a subject or object is a fact, facts cannot always be proven to be true in the mind of a person. Sometimes people acquire what they think is a fact and refuse to admit it is a fallacy. For example, researchers get a group of students that have opposing views on capital punishment.…

The cognitive connectionism theory can be used to describe Amanda’s language development. In this theory “language is learned, not innate. It relies on generic cognitive information-processing and pattern-recognition mechanisms” (Wolf-Nelson, 2010, p.61). In this theory children use cognitive abilities such as attention, perception, working memory and retrieval to receive information form their environment and construct language competence by using information processes and language. In this…

I am currently a Psychology major in the School of Cognitive Sciences, and I chose this major as it has a wealth of applicable skills, that once I graduate, I can find a job/career without major difficulty. With psychology, the intentions, expectations, and behaviors of people are better understood, are can at least be better anticipated, and that will be a great asset in my future careers. Apart from that, I have learned a multitude of information regarding motivation and "memory techniques"…

Every person in this world has different attitudes towards learning. There is someone who wants to study for his or her own benefit and there are some people who use learning as a reason to fulfill desire such as gaining a title and money. Learning for external benefit is totally against the Chinese teaching, especially when it comes to Confucius. Confucius is well known as one of the most influential Chinese philosophers and teachers. His teachings are focusing on the social relationship such…

This quote intrigued me because the two had just met and Holmes was quite rude to her. This foreshadows how they treat each other later on in the story. Their relationship is going to be full of mockery of each other but yet full of love and support for one another. This reminds me of something I would say to my sister or something my dad would say to me. Their relationship could either resemble one of father and daughter or one of sister and brother. This quote surprised me because as I kept…

The Distraction Over the years nature has become less relevant to the people. It has been pushed to the back of their minds and forgotten about. What do fill their minds are the technological advances of society. Berry sees this in himself; he sees how his life is being taken over by the society. To free his mind he went off into the woods where he took the time to escape his normal everyday life. He valued his time in solitude and it changed his mind set after the couple days he was there. He…

beliefs largely determine how we interpret events” (p. 346). Therefore what someone may find stressful someone else may not. According to the text “the cognitive approaches offer specific strategies to clients for challenging and changing self-defeating cognition and for developing sound thinking that leads to less stressful living” (p. 346). The cognitive approach offers a different way of thinking. For individuals to view there stress in a different way. I feel that we are our own worst enemy,…