Embodied cognition

Tick, tock, tick, tock. Time is fleeting by. Minutes, maybe hours, have passed since I first read the question they want me to answer- Are there any significant experiences you have had, or accomplishments you have realized, that helped you to define you as a person? The question took its toll on me. It made me think hard. It made me reminisce every happening in my life. Tick, tock, tick, tock. Time is fleeting by. Minutes have passed since I typed down my first paragraph for this essay. Just a…

Structuralism Structuralism was the foremost school of thought in the history of psychology. Structuralism seeks to understand the structure, that is, the configuration of components of the mind and its perceptions by analyzing those perceptions into their constituent components e.g. affection, attention, memory, sensation and so on. Structuralists were interested in deconstructing the mind into its elementary components and how those elementary components work together to create the mind.…

Control can be a very fickle thing and often people seem to be dragged through life with no say on where they are going. When people attempt to regain the control that has slipped through their fingers, it can prove much more difficult than one would expect. Two authors who capture this in their writing are James Reaney and W. D. Valgardson, with their stories “The Box-Social” and “Celebration”. In the story “The Box-Social” a young woman named Sylvia is preparing a box for her small, rural…

2.7 Dual task: association among cognitive training, transfer training and psycho-motor training (Reuter et al. 2012) The goal of this study was to assess whether a multi-modal cognitive rehabilitation, in association with a motor programme could have a better therapeutic outcome than a purely cognitive treatment. Three types of treatment were compared: A. Cognitive training; B. Cognitive training, transfer training; C. Cognitive training, transfer training, pyschomotor and resistance training.…

David McClelland was an American Psychologist who developed the Theory of Needs, also commonly known as Achievement Theory of Motivation. The Theory of Needs explains the process of motivation by breaking down what needs are and how they have to be approached and addressed. His theory of needs revolves around three important aspects: Achievement Power Affiliation Need for Achievement The need for achievement is the urge to achieve something in what you do. If you are a Project…

What is homeostasis? Many may say it is a state of balance or sometimes a state of equilibrium. But those two things are not the only meaning of homeostasis, hence homeostasis can refer to the approach of an individual’s mortal parts including its capability of cultivating a stabile atmosphere which is fundamental to its continuance. For example, “temperature regulation and oxygen consumption” Schulkin (2002). Therefore, homeostasis is mandatory to human cells by reason of them being systematic…

All of us are humans and people call each other as humans because we can talk and think. We are different than animals. So what? But what I see, sometimes animals are more humans than we are. It is not right. We still need respect others. We need to care about people like about our relatives, friends. We need to be more humane! As members of the Church or as Americans, people can proud of the fact that the Church or the nation have been willing to accept and include people from many different…

The Milgram experiment on obedience to power figures was an arrangement of social brain research experiments directed by Yale University analyst Stanley Milgram. They measured the ability of study members to comply with a power figure who trained them to perform acts clashing with their individual heart. Milgram initially portrayed his examination in 1963 in an article distributed in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology and later talked about his discoveries in more noteworthy…

When a large corporations seek to hire new employees they use an intricate series of interviews and profiling to bring together the right candidates for the position. Employers look at several aspects such as job qualifications, special skills, and personality to find the best candidates. Employers tend to weigh heavily on qualifications and skill, however personality seems to be the deciding factor for most. The dictionary defines personality as a collection of emotional and behavioral traits…

In Dweck 's article, “Transforming student’s motivation to learn” she describes how different people have different types of mindsets. There are two type of mindsets, fixed mindset and growth mindset. Fixed mindset think they are limited to what they can do and they always pretend to look good. They work under the limits and they never think outside the box. Growth mindset is what people think about themselves or what they are capable of doing. They see themselves as smart or hard worker . They…