Questions tagged [cognitive-psychology]
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Difference between Logan's Instance theory and Exemplar-Based Random Walk (EBRW) theory
I'm trying to find a clear explanation of the difference between Logan's instance theory (Logan, 2002) and the Exemplar-Based Random Walk theory (Nosofsky & Palmari, 1997). Am I mistaken that they ...
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Is the symbolic meaning of dark/black and light/white innate in humans?
Dark/black and light/white have symbolic meanings(1, 2). Dark/black represents, among others: Grief, evil, mystery (often with hidden threats), lack of knowledge, etc. Light/white represtents, among ...
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If stimulus triggers dopamine release, can dopamine release trigger memory recall of stimulus?
Modern science of sleep is starting to lean towards a viewpoint that dopamine has an important function in dreaming, and that dopaminergic pathways - mesolimbic and mesocortical are activated during ...
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What is the effect of displayed online personal identifiers on online communication?
Online interaction provides an interesting avenue for experiment and experience. People are able to hide or fabricate their personal details including age, sex, and appearance.
For the purposes of ...
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How true are Jordan Peterson's claims on IQ tests?
Disclaimer: I am aware that this topic has the potential of becoming high political, but I have asked it nevertheless in order to receive some clarification on the subject. Please back all of your ...
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Validity of the "Common Factors" perspective
Research and practice in psychotherapy has been deeply influenced by two different approaches:
the Empirically Supported Treatments (ESTs) movement, due to the development of Evidence Based Medicine (...
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Can our dreams tell us anything useful about ourselves?
This question is related to What is the current "accepted" science behind dream interpretation?, but here I am asking something more specific.
Dream reports, also known as sleep mentation ...
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Why is self-deception necessary to better deceive others?
Robert Trivers argues that we deceive ourselves in order to better deceive others, in part because self-deception can reduce unconscious body signals of lying (von Hippel & Trivers, 2011).
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Bayesian models of conspiracy theorists
Are there any theories in cognitive psychology that try to model the belief in conspiracy theories through the lens of Bayesian decision theory?
For reference, in Bayesian decision theory a rational ...
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Zimbardo’s Stanford prison experiment with women
In the (in)famous experiment by psychologist Zimbardo at Stanford, also called the Stanford Prison Experiment, my understanding is that only males were selected. Is there any other analogous ...
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Can you self-induce a derealization episode?
From The experimental induction of depersonalization (DP) and derealization (DR) in panic disorder and nonanxious subjects (Miller, et al., 1994)
DP and DR induction procedures were the following: ...
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Definition of cognitive load
Wikipedia's page on cognitive load starts with
In cognitive psychology, cognitive load refers to the effort being used in the working memory. Cognitive load theory differentiates cognitive load ...
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Confirmation vs peak-end bias - when does it make sense to "save the best for last"?
This question is inspired by Should I give the interviewers surprise?
on Academia.SE.
The strategy of "save the best for last" seems to be affected in conflicting ways by two cognitive biases:
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What to do when you have a speed-accuracy trade-off in your data?
Many studies report that a speed-accuracy trade-off (SATO) did not occur in the data since there is a positive correlation between RTs and error rates. In other words, people took longer to respond ...
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Why do certain activities seem to co-occur with well learnt skills (aka dual tasks)?
I have discovered that while I am doing certain activities, fully immersed in them, I am inclined to perform other activities, as well. Those other activities, come naturally to me and they do not ...
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Are unannounced tests unexpected by participants?
I was looking into whether unannounced (memory) tests were actually unexpected by participants, and if the benefits accredited to unannounced tests are well-founded. Considering that students are ...
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How seriously is the hedonic treadmill taken among psychologists?
To me the notion seems somewhat counter intuitive to suggest a person who lives a normal life, is then placed in a situation where for example theyre subjected to constant abuse and fear, would adapt ...
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What are Frameworks for emotions?
I have been fascinated by Pultchicks wheel of emotion and how it puts emotions into polar opposites and gives ways to combine emotions to derive others or break down a particular emotion to its ...
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Number of core feelings?
In Emotional Intelligence 2.0 it is stated:
We have so many words to describe the feelings that surface in life,
yet all emotions are derivations of five core feelings: happiness,
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Should I make all my decisions standing up?
Does the brain work better:
...sitting rather than lying down.
...standing rather than sitting.
...walking rather than standing.
I have found this research, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/...
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What are the neuroscience research findings on the importance of breaks in cognitive function and specifically learning?
When I say breaks I mean breaks between periods of the same course, breaks between two distinct courses, single days of, weekends, couple days of, few days of, longer periods of holidays of duration ...
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Can extrinsic rewards successfully sustain habits in the long-term?
With 2019 right around the corner, I've been reading about forming successful habits. Many non-academic sources (and Charles Duhigg's popular book The Power of Habit) have advocated for pairing a cue ...
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Is there a relation between the ability to recognize faces and the number of people one meets daily?
Does the average number of different people one sees daily affect one's ability to recognize faces?
Compare a person who lives in a crowded city (and thus sees many different faces daily) with a ...
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Is there evidence for people being afraid of something they cannot pinpoint?
A recent question here has highlighted a fairly common cliché in entertainment: a purported inability to identify/pinpoint the source of one's fears or anxiety.
In psychology there's an somewhat ...
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Why do humans fail to correctly repeat the same word over and over again?
My five year old daughter asked me why we can't repeat the same word ad infinitum.
I have never thought about it before but she is right. Most people when given the task of saying a word, almost any ...
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Why do male brains not detect extra "F"
Is there a neuroscience explanation for the behavior in the following experiment? Are there any papers or research conducted to find out why this differentiation happens?
Count the number of ...
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How sound is the psychology of Westworld?
Disclaimer: I am very much a layman in these areas of research, so please do amend the question in order to conform to conventional usage of terminology and definitions thereof.
In the series ...
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Are innate intersubjectivity and theory of mind opposing theories or are they reconcilable?
What I get from Trevarthen's theory of innate intersubjectivity (2010) and the theory of theory of mind (Perner, 1999) is that they don't agree.
A considerable number of studies in theory of mind ...
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Need a definition of Cognitive Simplicity (or Complexity) that would appeal to a wide audience
Everyone in my organization wants to make our products & website as simple as possible for our customers. My concern is that "simple" means different things to different people.
I'm looking for a ...
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Brainwave audio recordings and beta waves: how do they affect positivity?
I know a little bit about negative and positive energies of human bodies and how it all works.
Recently, on Facebook, I saw an ad promoting some sort of audio recording and that it has something to do ...
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How are sexual cues known by the brain?
Sexual cues have been well established in evolutionary psychology as indicators of genetic compatibility/useful genes.
How does the human brain know that a cue is an indicator of a useful trait in ...
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Human memory - remembering sequences of letters vs numbers
There are 10 digits and 26 letters. In computer science you'd need 4 bits to store a digit value and 5 bits do store a letter value.
Does the same apply to human brain? Is a statistical person able ...
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Do depressed people think that they always thought in such a negative way?
I feel like I may have read or heard a finding that depressed people may get the delusion that they always used to think in such a negative way as has begun since getting depression. Is it so?
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Can a person be hypnotized to act drunk?
I was wondering if a person could be hypnotized to act drunk? That is, can a person totally lose all his inhibitions while in hypnosis (similar to being drunk)?
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in this attentional blink experiment why is the second letter visible when the lag is low but not when the lag is high
this image is from the book Consciousness and the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene
the book describes the image as follows :
The attentional blink illustrates the temporal limitations of
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What underlying psychological mechanisms could cause a person or a group to experience the bandwagon effect?
People in a target audience are likely to experience the bandwagon effect [1] because they rely on others' assessment of information. Overall, taking advantage of the bandwagon effect can be ...
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Losing self-control during drug rehab
Is there any research or theories which can prove that exercising too much self control can lead to losing one's self-control regardless the work or activity a person engages into? From an article in ...
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Calculating Significantly Above Chance for 3-AFC Test
I am trying to figure out which participants who took a 18-item multiple choice test scored significantly above chance. Each item has 3 choices, so the probability of getting each question correct is ...
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Are perceptual defense and cognitive avoidance still recognized as existing mechanisms in psychology?
"Perceptual defense" is supposed to be a tendency to switch attention away from stimuli with negative valence; perhaps a kind of "cognitive avoidance". While doing a literature review on these two ...
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Is decision making inference?
Inference is the process of generating further premises from information. Sperber et al (2012) write:
'An inference, as the term is used in psychology, is a process that, given some input information ...
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Are there any career(s)/career fields that are advantageous for people with Asperger's in "theory"?
What is the psychology/cognitive validity of this post reply for this question on Quora?
"Most certainly, professions involving creating automation for processes that seem random. Hence, ...
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Which is easier for human perception: type of variable before or after its name?
In some programming languages type of variable goes before it's name.
In another - name goes first and then type.
For example if I declare string:
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Eyewitness testimony study from Power of Habit
In his book The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg refers to some study from the University of Western Ontario:
STEP THREE: ISOLATE THE CUE
About a decade ago, a psychologist at the University of Western ...
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Proven research about how to minimise Continuous Partial Attention?
Continuous Partial Attention seem to be a natural reaction to the Age of Information. However, as some authors have argued:
it leads to a higher level of stress in the brain, prohibiting reflection,...
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Intelligence Dataset
I'm looking for a standard and large dataset relating to cognitive performance. Ideally the data would look something like a standard IQ test, but including the raw answers, and designed to test more ...
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MATLAB n-back test
I am trying to find a n-back (also known as 1-back/one-back) test made in MATLAB.
In case you know how to make one (for instance by using psychtoolbox) or have some code you would like to share, that ...
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What are other methods for adjusting latency jitter in event-related potentials (ERPs) (P300 in particular) besides Woody filter and peak-picking?
Latency jitter refers to the phenomenon that an ERP component appears at various time in different trials, without adjusting this difference when averaging across trials will lead to diminished ERP (...
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What are some explanations for the relationship between social and spatial mapping?
Background: A study published last summer in the journal Neuron found that when participants were tasked with finding a new home and job by interacting with characters in a virtual roleplaying game, ...
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Why are there ads inside trams which ask me to use the tram?
When I sit in my local tram/bus/any public transport, I notice ads which ask me to use the transport system which I do currently use.
Seriously, I'm already using it at that time. Why placing ads for ...
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The meaning of a long gaze : supposed to indicate agreeableness in new-borns but suprise in infants
Several studies on new-born and infant are based on the gaze, but depending on the age of the subject, the assumption is different. For new-born, a long gaze is supposed to mean that what they look at ...
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