Situated cognition

The New Brain by Richard Restak is book generically discussing the human brain and its functional development. Restak is a neurosurgeon and popular science writer focuses on new technology for examining the physiology of the brain. He discusses things such as MRI and how it allows us to monitor and control a wide range of activities than was formerly possible before. It is an interesting read however I was not keen on it. To me personally reads more like a series of unconnected, popular media…

“Is google making us stupid?” asked the technology writer Nicholas Carr in one of his articles. Since the mid-1980s, when people started to use computers at their homes, the debate of whether computers are making people smarter stupid or started become popular in society. In addition, with the internet becoming publicly available starting 1991, the debate of this topic had significantly risen over time. Following that time period, websites such as AOL, Hotmail, or Netscape for emails and Yahoo,…

The most important points in chapters nine and ten are learning how intelligence and language are described and measured within the different age ranges of infant, child, adolescence, and adulthood. There are many different theories regarding intelligence and the types of intelligence. Whereas language is discussed in correlation to the nature versus nurture debate comparing universal grammar, environment and how nature and nurture work together. Intelligence in regard to infants according…

Comparing and contrasting the success profiles have decreased and improved a lot in good ways. I’ve met some of the goal’s that I want to reach and improved on some of the things I wanted to improve on and decreases on the things I wanted to at the same time. The purpose of a success profile is to see how you are personally in many ways and to show you what you need to work on or what you are pretty good in with your emotions and how you show yourself off to people or how you handle yourself in…

What is your sentiment when you evoke your memory of your childhood? Do you remember how happy your were when you got your delicate gift on Christmas Day? Do you remember your friends saw you in envy when you showed them your big lunch that your parents prepared for you? I have a lot of precious memory that I will never forget about my childhood because it’s sweet and joyous. However, there were some children who had very tough childhood. They experienced many obstacles and had to overcome…

“Memory creates a hallucination of the past, Desire creates a hallucination of the future.” - Jaggi Vasudev. Seeing memories are events that have happened in relative time, but seeing the future will guide you on what might take place in your life. Jonas is being taught to be the receiver of memory. The giver is sharing memories with him so the community doesn’t get them. He has hallucinations of the past. Near the end, Jonas gets the desire to leave and get his plan accomplished. He might be…

“The representative work is one that exemplifies in a way that allows members of an audience to see that each of them can participate in the life of the work while recognizing that the same possibility holds for others” (Ananta, 2000 p.244) . Does an artwork have to authentically represent reality to be classified as ‘good art’? This essay will firstly explain what is meant by the concept of representation then will continue with using two supporting case studies including Yinke Shonibare…

I float in a sea of nothingness feeling numb as if every part of my body has fallen asleep. You would think that emptiness would be dark, but it's a drab grey. I float here for what might have been 5 minutes or even 5 days I wouldn't be able to tell you. "Am... I dead " I wonder out loud, I try to remember what happened but everything is a blur, I remember a colorful light, a key, guns firing and me jumping into what looks like a wall of light. Nothing that runs though my head makes sense.…

The following is a response to passage one that is an extract from Descartes “First mediation”. In the passage, Descartes reaches a point where he agrees that it is possible to doubt the truthfulness of all the things he at one point thought and felt as true and that, the decision is not a result of “frivolity or absence of forethought as said by Descartes”, but based on valid and considered reasons. The following is a description of some of the Descartes' ideas to claim that one can doubt all…

Studies on the formation of false memories have shown that through retroactive interference, you can alter an individual’s memory by giving them false information. Retroactive interference happens when there is an occurrence after an experience that affects the way you remember that experience. Consequently, this means that if an individual is given false information about a memory, it may mislead them to believe that they have experienced a certain event or occasion when in fact, they have not.…