Situated cognition

Judgement in Crisis Situation This Harvard Business School simulation focuses on the ability to make decisions under pressure. In this simulation, students played the role of a Product Manager at Matterhorn Health dealing with reported high inaccuracy rates in Matterhorn’s newest blood glucose monitor, the GlucoGauge. The GlucoGauge underwent three years in Research and Development and was the company’s most expensive product development to date. While the products performed well in field tests,…

As individuals, we are enabled to discover ourselves and the world around us. With this concept, it is essential that we face difficulties, which enable us to learn from previous experiences and transition toward success. Good morning/afternoon fellow students of year 12, teacher and attendees of today 's HSC Study Day. Today I will be discussing the concept of discovery and how individuals can interpret it. The statement “regardless of varied challenges and difficulties, the discovery process…

Memory represents a person’s perception of self and identity. Reflecting on past memories and experiences allows a person to recognize who he or she is and where he or she came from. In the novel, Brain on Fire, by Susannah Cahalan, a disease known as anti-NMDA receptor autoimmune encephalitis inflames Cahalan’s brain, inducing cognitive deficiencies such as hallucinations, paranoia, and slurred speech. Cahalan refers to her hospital stay as her “month of madness” because these symptoms…

Introduction: Coffee is a popular ubiquitous beverage in the daily life of an undergraduate student. For many it is a habit that gradually forms and stays. Its popularity lies in the key ingredient, caffeine, which decreases fatigue and instead increases alertness, features that aid an undergraduate student 's academic performance when studying on little sleep and going through the day (Giles et al., 2012). However, besides coffee 's use as a stimulant, can it be used to influence cognitive…

Gary Miranda 's poem "The Noon of Everything" uses mammals to metaphorically explains the realities of how delicate and cruel life can be. Sometimes, we can find ourselves encountering difficult situations. Sometimes it’s because we didn’t approach things with caution, we looked for it, or perhaps it could just be an uncontrollable thing that life tends to throw at you from time to time. Miranda does a well job of using animals and their natural instincts to explain how life is. The beginning…

Health and Physical Education Rationale Health and Physical Education (HPE) is vital for all children and adolescents to achieve their potential. As one of the five key learning areas, HPE develops lifelong skills, including improved social and emotional health, physical development and cognitive growth. The health and well-being of all students are considered, as developmentally appropriate skills are practiced in a positive and safe environment. While acquiring knowledge and understanding…

“We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them.” We are too easily adapted to the surrounding environment and it is through our experiences and the conditions that we grew up in and living in today that depend our thoughts and ideals. Thus, environments are not merely a place that we occupy. It could possibly be a place of where our inspirations, imagination or creativity occur. So how could we shape our surroundings to expand…

Article: Semaan, Gaby, and Kasumi Yamazaki. 2015. “The Relationship Between Global Competence and Learning Motivation: An Empirical Study in Critical Language Classrooms”, Foreign Language Annals, vol. 48, Iss. 3, pp. 511-520. Summary: This article studies how the global influences of different countries are related to the learning of these countries’ language, in the classrooms of the United States. The researchers believed that there was relationship between global competence and language…

toward the brand has been examined by (Batra and Stayman, 1990; Krishnamurthy and Sujan, 1999; Pham, 1996). The aspect of purchase intention has been evaluated by Zhang and Buda (1999). This scale is generally composed of nine questions. The need for cognition scale is used for the cognitive information processing style, which has been measured by Kaciopa and Petty (1984). It has 18 questions and its reliability in research is (α =…

How do we know what we know? That is a question that has been asked by many different people, and has many different explanations. These answers vary from saying we are born knowing certain things, to everything we learn comes from experience. Each of these have different arguments to them, however, they each have a different idea of the basic definitions of knowledge and belief. There are also the questions of whether or not beliefs are rational, and is knowledge justifiable. The standard…