Levels-of-processing effect

The basis of decision-making can be understood by studying the cognitive heuristics that accompany mental processing, thought, and ability to assess a situation. However, how can we examine the effects of decision-making when we skip the analyzing process – rather, how can we judge the effectiveness of following our gut in quick decisions? “Heuristics is the unconscious, or quick decisions that humans make due to integrated social norms, or mental short-cuts” (Pearl, Judea, 1983, p. 48). The use…

(Reynolds, 1974) and soaking or germinating the seeds before cooking (Iyer et al.,1980; Jood et al., 1985). Traditional processing practices have been followed for many years to convert grain legumes in to the more acceptable forms. Such processes not only improve the digestibility and palatability of legumes but also help to remove some anti-nutritional factors. Household processing of pulses has been known to improve nutritional quality of the legumes by increasing protein digestibility…

Summary This diagnostic assessment was requested by TR and her tutors in order to establish her current cognitive profile and to make recommendations for reasonable adjustments and exam access arrangements, as appropriate, for her GCSE English and Level 4 Sports Massage courses. It was also an opportunity to provide her with a current assessment of her learning needs and to establish a starting point for support. By examining the evidence from all parts of the assessment, the test results and my…

focuses on mental processes including how people think, perceive, remember and learn. Cognitive processing refers to the operations of the brain while process information. A psychologist that had contributed to this psychological field is John Ridley Stroop. In 1935, he has investigated and developed the theory of the Stroop Effect, which is a study that investigates interference in reaction time. Human reaction is the measurement of time between presentation of a sensory stimulus and the…

Sensory processing is the ability to neurologically organize information our body picks up from the environment around us. Sensory information is received from the peripheral nervous system, which consist of sensations from the skin, muscles and our senses, which then transmitted to the brain. The information is then integrated and the individual has an adaptive response. An individual is composed of eight senses, which are tactile, olfactory, gustatory, visual, auditory, vestibular,…

about marijuana use will engage in more systematic processing of anti-drug messages than those who feel less ambivalent” (p.136). The last two hypothesizes tested were “Adolescents at higher risk of marijuana use will engage in more systematic processing of anti-drug messages than those at lower risk” and “Ambivalence and risk will interact to influence adolescents’ processing of anti-drug messages, such that the effect of ambivalence on processing will be more pronounced among adolescents at…

The Effects of Context on Perceptions of Ambiguous Stimuli Introduction Perception can be defined as the process where the brain interprets the sensations it receives (Wortman & Loftus, 1992). The task of perception is to extract sensory inputs from the environment and organise them into meaningful percepts, which is what is perceived (Zimbardo & Weber, 1994). The perceptual set theory states that perception is an active process involving interpretation, selection and inference (Allport, 1955)…

Emotional processing and processing information are linked to specific areas within the brain. Cognitive neuroscience has had advances that show the processing of emotional information and the network that carries it through cortical and subcortical regions. Some of the networks required for emotional processing are also involved in attentional processing and attentional processes. Attention and emotion are correlated this way. Emotional processing studies recently began considering the…

This study differed from related research as it was the first to look at the role mood plays in two levels of processing, global and local. Global processing refers to paying attention to an image as a whole while local processing refers to focusing on the details of an image. Participants included 108 college students (56 men, 51 women, 1 participant who did not indicate their sex) in Experiment 1 and 69 college…

Individuals with OCD’s concern about a harmful event is significantly reduced when they do not have direct responsibility for the event (Ashbaugh, Gelfand and Radomsky, 2006). Mancni et al. (2008) proposed the link between responsibility and guilt is due to the concern around having violated a moral norm and the guilt associated with this. In fact, the association between responsibility and behaviours similar to those associated with OCD has been broadly reported in the literature. Induction of…