Situated cognition

Finding Freedom in the Forest Living in a world that is brainwashed, Equality is trying to find his way beyond the city. When Equality finds himself in the forest that the Council warned them so much about, he learns that the forest is in fact not dangerous at all, but instead finds himself in the forest. The forest represents an opportunity for growth, change and freedom. With everything that Equality experiences in the forest, it might just change his view on the life that the Council…

Our findings contradict the results of a number of earlier studies, however, which found that phonological short-term memory capacity plays a more important role in the case of less proficient speakers and its effect diminishes with the development of L2 competence (e.g. Cheung, 1996; Speciale et al., 2004; Masoura and Gathercole, 2005). The explanation for this contradiction might lie in the different nature of learning processes of the two groups of students. For students to reach a solid…

"Implicit memory is shown when performing on a task is enabled in the absence of conscious remembrance; explicit memory is unmasked when the performance on a task requires conscious memory of previous occurrences (Graf and Schacter, 1985 in Anderson, 2015) and conveyed in typical tests of cued and free recall and recognition. Event memory loss after an injury is called anterograde amnesia which involves the extended hippocampal complex and the thalamus which helps form new memories (Salnaitis,…

One of the most important mindsets to have before stepping out on the field hockey field, or any field for that matter, is to understand what it is to persevere. To understand what it means to persevere is to understand that you can find the strength to pick yourself up in the last two minutes of the game, put in your best work, and score the winning goal as the buzzer sounds. I always strive to persevere with every minute left in the game and I carry that same mindset off the field.…

The Musical catalyst Music has many influences on the human mind and body. Music can lower or raise your blood pressure and heart rate. Music can put thoughts and images in your mind and induce feelings and emotion. Your mood can also be altered according to the music you listen to. Although not all music has an effect on you most harmonics can . I think with the right parameters of songs, music could aid learning in numerable ways. First, there are many ways in which music can affect our…

Neuroplasticity refers to changes in the neural circuitry at the level of synaptic transmission, and is the mechanism underlying learning, memory and behavioural response modification1,2. These changes are induced rapidly by stress in certain brain regions such as the neocortex3, the hippocampus4 and the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus1. Being part of the stress-coping mechanism, neuroplasticity contributes to stress-induced behaviour and neuroendocrine adaptation1,5. Study has…

On October 31th, 1631 a very terrifying day occurred. Well, this is the day my friend Amos and I decided to visit The Ghost Island. It all started when it was a hot and sunny morning. I just finished my breakfast and was thinking about going somewhere awesome with my friends. After I sat there for about two minutes I went outside to check the mail. As usual, it was all junk so I threw them all away. As I was throwing them out something caught my eye, it was a brochure. It was black and orange…

information about their world to outsides but they shared less specific one. This action served for self-protection. Discussion on degree of sharing as Chatman discussed in the world of retired women may improve this finding. Research on homeless situated in three different states (Hersberger, 2003) showed that insufficient economic resources did not necessary go in hand with information poverty. Explanation for this was social capital and interpersonal networks that served as relevant…

Have you ever experienced the feeling before an important interview which will affect your whole life? It happened to my family on an autumn day in October 2010. When my brothers and I were woken up by the first sunshine of the day, we knew that we would face it, which we had been waiting for ten years. Mixed feelings showed on my family members’ faces: worry, anxiety and happiness because we were going to have the immigrant interview to America. I still remembered our appointment was set at…

Nagel believes that conscious experience exists in many different forms of animal life; although, he is not sure that it exists in lower animals or what would count as evidence for consciousness (421). The fact that an organism has conscious experience at all, for Nagel, means that there is something that it is like to be that organism, in other words—what it is like for the organism. This "what it is like" he calls this the "subjective character" of experience. This subjective character of…