Questions tagged [cognitive-psychology]
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Paying attention: are we free to do so?
I got confused a bit after watching these two short videos: 1, 2 .
In first one it seems author suggests that: we aren't in much control on what to pay attention to? Did I get it correctly? Or maybe ...
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Detailed schedule of World Memory Championship 2019
I would like to get the detailed schedule of the World Memory Championship 2019 event. I am interested particularly at what date/time a player has participated. I don't find that information in the ...
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Is this obsessive behaviour? [closed]
I have a questions regarding a specific kind of emotion related behaviour and what it is, obsessive behaviour or something else, maybe just a spleen.
Whenever Iam exicted or in thrill of anticipation ...
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Do new thoughts raise from previous thoughts? [closed]
are new thoughts "generated" from previous thoughts? is it possible to remember something, or to think of something, that is completely unrelated to what we were previously thinking?
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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,
sadness, ...
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Do highly creative people dream more and/or differently than ordinary people?
Everybody dreams, and I'm trying to understand if there is a cause and effect relationship between ability to dream and recall dreams and creativity as an adult.
I would define the kind of ...
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Mental stress inducing task
Mental arithmetic stress test is used widely to induce mental stress in laboratories. Can this test induce stress to those who are really good at mental calculation or enjoy mental math?
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Why do our brains act in such a evil way sometimes that hurts other people?
I have seen some real evil acts. And I almost lost confidence in humanity.
Why do we become so evil sometimes that hurts other people?
I guess everybody knows the Renaissance novel Les Miserables by ...
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Why do usually economic people spend so much on entertainment? [closed]
As an example, someone might look at a T-shirt which costs £20 which might be part of their wardrobe for several years. And they might think, well that's a bit steep.
But, conversely they might go ...
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Why do some days feel fast and others feel slow?
As per the title, why is it some days it just feels like a day can go so fast, yet other days can feel slow? Every day has the same amount of hours, minutes and seconds after all. What is the actual ...
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Why is deltaE not used as a measure of error?
I've recently read a few articles pertaining to visual memory. Most of them (e.g. https://doi.org/10.1167/9.10.7) use the continuous color recall task where they ask participants to recall the color ...
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Is AFQT geared towards estimating crystallized intelligence?
In a few papers I have read claims that AFQT is geared largely (mostly?) towards measuring crystallized intelligence.
However, https://study.com/academy/popular/difference-between-the-asvab-afqt....
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What are the basis for developing envy and/or resentment?
Why do some people develop envy or resentment toward others, and other people with the same experiences do not? Is there a way to learn to let the envy and/or resentment go. Example would be someone ...
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Do modern personality traits exist with native people
I am wondering if there is any evidence of personality traits like intro versus extroversion existing in native people without any contact with modern society, or if they are a result of modern life.
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How would you differentiate “self hate” from “insecurities?” [closed]
Don't insecurities arise from self hate? For example if we are insecure about our face aren't we hating our face - hating ourselves?
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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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Are behaviourist practices and/or principles still valid and useful?
I understand how behaviorism is outdated for not considering the brain processes and cognition as ultimately responsible for memory and learning.
Nevertheless, after reading Learning Theories: An ...
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Could a failure of condensed inner speech be linked to slowed cognition?
Could a failure of "condensed inner speech" be linked to slowed cognition? It is a type of inner voice, and as conceptualized by Fernyhough it
involves the capacity to think in terms of pure ...
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How do congenitally deaf and mute people think?
If a person is born deaf and dumb, how can they think? In "what language" do these people think? Do they develop their own inner language?
Unfortunately I have not found an answer, and I actually ...
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What is the psychological explanation for the phenomena that a person sees the solution to a problem as “simple” once it has been found?
Is there in psychology an explanation and/or term that describes the phenomena that exists where people perceive a solution to a problem as “simple” after the solution has been found?
I have noticed ...
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Using CBT for a justified fear?
I am a speech language pathologist. I have a 19 year old patient who grew up with a number of different speech impediments (not a stutter). He was bullied a lot, and because of this he is very ...
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What can reduce the cognitive abilities in a common workplace? [closed]
There are many types of work that mainly create benefit by thinking, often called desk jobs.
The output is based on the cognitive abilities of the person.
It typically happens in an environment we ...
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How does intelligence or general cognitive ability vary with level of CO₂?
The cognitive ability of humans is varies with the concentration of CO₂ in breathing air. But how does it vary?
A very high concentration causes sleepiness, and sleepiness is a state of reduced ...
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Is there anything we can salvage and recycle from Learning Styles theory?
We know that the theory of Learning Styles has been debunked by cognitive research for some time now.
Nevertheless, if we thought about learning styles not as some sort of sense-specialised teaching ...
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Is Contagious Yawning a Result of Brain Electromagnetic Waves Transmission?
Do there is a possible electromagnetic wave transmission between two individuals' brains that may cause contagious yawning?
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Is it possible to think in a second language?
Those who have learned a second language are guaranteed to consciously think of words and their corresponding meaning in your native language or vice versa.
This is common with more "complex" ...
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How to learn how humans behave? [closed]
I have decided to study psychology as a hobby. I want it to understand better people that I am interacting with. Specifically, I want to know:
Why humans talk / behave in certain ways?
How they think ...
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What's the human behaviour called that often makes us warp realities to appease another?
Whenever people experience specific medical symptoms, they might research it online and find out that there is a possibility of a certain cancer being the culprit, they then might see that the chances ...
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How can I find literature about the connection between proprioception and thinking?
This is a seek for hints or references. Feel free to delete the question if it is not suitable to the rules in here.
I have heard people saying that our inner spacial perception is an important ...
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does the fact that Psychology Today take neurolinguistic programming seriously delegitimize the magazine?
According to Wikipedia, Neurolinguistic Programming is a pseudoscience and dismissed by most experts. However, Psychology Today, a popular magazine, appears to not thoroughly reject it. Does this fact ...
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Ways to treat disorganized thinking, other than pharmacotherapy
Disorganized thinking is a cognitive deficit symptomatic of thought disorders such as schizophrenia. This affects your ability to process and connect thoughts and ideas, rendering them disorganized, ...
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Is there a name for arguing with other people in one's mind?
Is there a name for the phenomenon of arguing with other people in one's mind?
I don't mean simply replaying memories of arguments (or modifications thereof), although that may fall under this too but ...
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Relationship between cognitive load and self-indulgent behavior in simple task completion
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A subject in an office-building setting is asked to memorize a list of numbers and to write them down on a whiteboard in another room on the opposite side of the building.
The subject ...
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Will acquiring a second language improves the person's general intelligence and reading?
According to this information will acquiring a second language improves the person's general intelligence and reading, even if the individual started learning and have learned it after the age of 18?
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Does this recent twin study contradict Anders Erricson's view on the hereditary basis of talent?
The Swedish Psychologist K. Anders Ericsson has published many reports stating that talent is "made and not born". In his book 'The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance', he has ...
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Assertiveness - should I have feeling that someone need to do something for me
I have seen a assertiveness training videos and there is said that the person should show assertiveness with "I" statements.
For example :
I feel seed due to the way you just spoke to me.
My problem ...
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What is the current view of which emotions exist? [duplicate]
I had previously drawn a map of which emotions exists based on this paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/114/38/E7900.
But now that I opened my college textbook 'understanding motivation and emotion' ...
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Why do people press elevator call buttons repeatedly?
Many people, particularly those in a rush, keep on pressing the elevator call button despite the light clearly indicating that it was previously pressed, and the knowledge that such action will have ...
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Perception Cardinality
While reading a science fiction book, Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer, I came across the following lines:
“Well, if I showed you one object - one rock, say - you would not have to count it. You ...
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Are psychopaths capable of counterfactual thinking?
Psychopaths are commonly known to have a decreased ability to plan, which lead me to research counterfactual thinking. I believe that psychopaths are impaired in their ability to think ...
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What happens neurologically and chemically when an individual is confused?
For example, trying to understand a mathematical problem and its solution, or abstract reasoning, but in the process get lost even have no clear idea of what part is 'not understood'
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What causes people to betray each other when facing the prisoner's dilemma?
When confronted with the Prisoner's Dilemma, people often refuse to cooperate. Instead, they choose to betray other people, even when cooperation yields a more favorable outcome.
Why do people ...
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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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Where can I study cognitive science - long distance program?
Just recently discovered the field of cognitive science. The more i read, the more I discover how complex this is. I would love to study this and be able to find out that specific segment for me and ...
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Has there been any research on the visual uniqueness (in terms of brain activity) of numerals from 0 to 9?
I need to carry out EEG experiments with stimuli being images of 5 digits between 0 and 9. In order to select these 5 digits, I wanted to know if there has been any research work that measures ...
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Yes-No question in 2AFC staircase test
I understand the task of a 2AFC test is to select one of the two stimuli presented (e.g. the stronger one), whereas in Yes-No test there is only one stimulus presented. But is it ok to ask a Yes-No ...
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how to train our brain to always use left part for thinking & deciding things?
how to train our brain to always use left part for thinking & deciding things?
How do I not take emotional decisions
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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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is there any psychological condition that fits what I describe?
I was observing some condition. most people (that I observed), if they do something (mentally) to someone, they will tend to have the same feeling like 'the someone' is doing the same to them.
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Where does action based on thought originate within the human brain?
A rather basic question, but I don't see answer in Google, so here it goes: Humans have thoughts, sometimes these thoughts carry with them motivations to act, urges, cravings, etc. All these can make ...
