Situated cognition

Is having knowledge and intelligence a curse or a blessing? It can be argued that intelligence can cause problems and in return fix problems. Intelligence and knowledge are a curse and a blessing at the same time. Intelligence and knowledge can make someone feel unjustly superior and they can even begin to “play God.” Power can easily go to a person’s head. They have different effects on a person, and they can cause suffering and happiness, depending on the situation. However, intelligence and…

Connotative meaning is the non-literal and associative meaning that a word or phrase has in addition to its central meaning. This part of meaning shows people's emotions and attitudes towards what the word or phrase refers to. For example, the denotative meaning of the word "child" could be as 'a young human being', but it can be associated with, e.g. affectionate, amusing, lovable, sweet, and grubby (Richards and Schmidt, 2010: 118).…

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 become the…

Emotion is a complex, subjective experience accompanied by biological and behavioral changes. Emotion involves feeling, thinking and activation of the nervous system, physiological change and behavioral changes such as facial expressions. It will have a direct effect on personality and attitude. As a part of my job I had an opportunity to travel and meet different kinds of people of all ages. I had to go to the interior villages of Andhra Pradesh when I was working for Mobile Dental Hospital.…

INTRODUCTION: I. How many of you know what exactly culture shock is? Or what are its stages? II. Culture shock is the emotional confusion and anxiety that someone experiences when living in a different country that has different culture from his own. In some way, anyone who travels and lives in a foreign country will experience culture shock. Culture shock is not the same in effecting people, it can affect someone more than another one. And it can be caused by a lot of things like: The…

Rationality as is meant in literal terms is the quality of being based on or in accordance with reason or logic. This accounts to be one of the most important steps in bringing solutions to almost all of the crucial problems our modern society is facing these days. We need to take some revolutionary approach in the quality of thinking employed by both decision makers and by each of us in our daily affairs. Swami Vivekananda is often named as the rational thinker of Modern India. He firmly…

The human kind is a unique specie. Humans are versatile through which plays a part in human’s lives. Us human’s have the ability to recognize and register events and to be able analyse those conditions to be able to help us survive. Through learning the humankind has over generation been able to form an ability, the ability to reason. Through this it has enriched us humans to be able to use our senses and emotions in order to make better decisions and helping us to develop further. Through…

In this essay I will be discussing J.B. Watson’s theory. This involves looking at Watson’s view of psychology being the “control and prediction of behavior” (Crain, 1992, p.157). Watson then being a behaviourist will further be explored to see how this impacts his focus in his studies. It also involves looking at the three innate emotions that Watson said that he could condition into people. This will then lead to exploring how Watson uses the emotion of fear to then condition Little Albert to…

Comparative Study "Physiognomy" refers to to the study of a person's character or personality from his or her outer appearance; mainly using the face. The word comes from the Greek “physis” meaning "nature" and “gnomon” meaning "judge" or "interpreter”. Studies into the science reveal that human kind have evolved an impulsive ability to make judgements of people based on their appearance. What began as a survival skill, assessing efficiently if the person before us friend or foe, has…

Many studies that have been conducted show that different colors have the ability to pass meanings to an individual and also potential to influence individual’s perception through the color priming effect. This usually occurs when exposure to a single color stimulus affect the way individuals respond to other stimuli. This is to say that exposure to a particular color can influence the way we react emotionally either positively or negatively. Numerous attempts have been done for years to…