Cognition

Meta-Cognition and Social Cognition Amy L Walker Grand Canyon University: PSY-354 September 27, 2015 Meta-cognition and social cognition both influence interpersonal behaviors by using knowledge, personal beliefs, and views and beliefs of others around us. Meta-cognition is how we view our own self and process to create the best me that we can be. Social cognition is what we perceive about others around and how it affects how we view ourselves and others. Every person needs to have both

Language and Cognition Axia College of the University of Phoenix PSY360 September 12, 2011 Language and Cognition Language is considered unique among humans. Language, as defined below, occurs only among the human species and does not exist elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Therefore, the study of how humans learn, process, and create meaning from linguistic utterances and the written word is a central feature of cognitive psychology. The many questions that arise from this line of research

Situated cognition is “the notion of learning knowledge and skills in contexts that reflect the way they will be used in real life” (Brown, Collins, & Duguid, 1989). A close relative of cognitive apprenticeship and constructivism, this concept encourages educators to construct an environment that mimics as closely as possible the setting in which their instruction will actually be put to use. Whereas cognition and the situation it was learned in had historically been considered separate entities

COGNITION Cognition has significant ties to the brain function, this leads to strong association. Although the brain is greatly impacted in a run, cognition is not in young adults. Cognition is benefited in those who are ”losing it” possible of age-relation, like those with dementia or heading there (Stroth, 2009). Middle age is when the cognition can start to be impacted because exercise seems to decrease tissue loss in areas around the brain. With the loss of tissue a counterside to not exercising

1. What does the amygdala contribute to social cognition? Choose two or three specific social cognitive processes and review the evidence in support of amygdala participation. (Please note that you DO NOT need to read outside of our articles. The importance of the amygdala in social cognitions has been examined in both primate and human studies. Use of primates to study the social brain suggests that the amygdala contributes to social cognition. Kluver and Bucy made large bilateral lesions in monkey

What are cognitions? It is a way of knowing, believing, judging, and thoughts (West & Turner, 2014, p. 110). Leon Festinger used the theory of Cognitive Dissonance to explain imbalances of cognitions. So Cognitive Dissonance simply is the discomfort that is caused by holding conflicting cognitions. The theory argues that dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling that motivates people to take steps to reduce it (West & Turner, 2014, p. 110). The reason to for wanting to reduce it is because when people

Cognition: False Memories Roediger and McDermott (1995) conducted a laboratory demonstration of false memory to what came to be known as DRM (Deese-Roediger-McDermott) task. What is interesting from this experiment is that false memories are linked with the memory of something that did not happen. Therefore, regarding content accuracy, the performance would be exactly what we would expect. For instance, in the DRM task, the participants were given words like bed, rest, awake, pillow, and sleep, and

A common trend on college campuses is the use of performance enhancing drugs for both academic and athletic motives. Most college students know of someone who abuses one of these drugs with the most common being cognition enhancers like Adderall and Ritalin. (Greely 2008) These medications are only available legally by prescription, therefore students are illegally dealing to each other for the buying and selling of these drugs. Their purpose for using is to have an advantage over their peers, despite

interventions, which includes the cognitive training that is combined practicing ADL skills (Korner-Bitensky et al., 2011). Most popular training of cognition during ADL or instrumental ADL tasks was also conducted in Australian studies. However, when the definition was further defined to indicate cognition-specific interventions, it does not relate to cognition. Regarding cognitive interventions, the practitioners scarcely used words such as ‘memory’ and ‘orientation’ to describe the practices. Thus, it

draws both similarities and differences to true human cognition. Within the world of the show, Hosts are controlled via a tablet and are programed to attend to Newcomer’s fantasies. While the Newcomers can do whatever they like to the Host, the Hosts literally cannot hurt the Newcomers. The Hosts operate without knowledge of what they are, aka not human. However, in many aspects they function similarly to human cognition. The components of cognition that Humans and Host can in common are all functions