Cognitive science

I Believe Happy mind, happy life is a saying to live by. Once you push the negative out of your life and think positive and happy, life will be so much better for yourself and others around you. I believe once you have a happy mind, you have a happy life. At the end of my sophomore year, I was stressing about every little thing you could think of to stress about. Summer was right around the corner, finals were starting, softball was starting, I was trying to manage a job that I so badly wanted…

Self Portrait According to the Meriam-Webster dictionary website, liberal education can be defined as, “education based on the liberal arts and intended to bring about the improvement, discipline, or free development of the mind or spirit” (2016). Throughout IS 101, deeper insight of what that definition truly means and the characteristics of being liberally educated were discussed and talked about. The IS 101 Reader was the main source of this information and was supplemented by a few other…

Walking in English 1101 at 11:30 am for the first time thinking, “this class is going to be easy. It’s just like repeating high school English all over again.” My mindset at the time didn’t know that it was a lot more I needed to learn to improve my writing, reading, and thinking skills. I didn’t think that college composition was going to be difficult, because in high school English was easy. I thought I was going to walk out the class at the end of the semester with an easy A. However, ever…

Brittany Serkus Relationship between Media Multitasking and Executive Function in Early Adolescents Georgian Court University Relationship between Media Multitasking and Executive Function in Early Adolescents The recent development of media technologies has made great changes to the way individuals consume media content. With convenient access to the media, individuals are more likely to overuse these technological services, resulting in increased media saturation. Having access…

The modern technology allows the researcher to know more about the cognitive processes. Neuron-imaging techniques allow the researchers to learn about the brain structure and functions. This will help them to understand the difference and the relationship between cognitive process and behavior. There are different types of brain imaging technologies: PET- Positron Emission Topography, MRI- Magnetic Resonance Imaging, frMri- functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging EEG: Electroencephalogram and CAT-…

the right hemisphere is set to be reactive (Gazzaniga, 2005). As a result of this, other criticisms of the study have determined the procedure to be invasive and time consuming, especially now when there are other methods that can evaluate these cognitive abilities, such as neuroimaging…

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…

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…

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…