Questions tagged [cognitive-psychology]
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Work that I reasonably do without publications post Ph.D (from an R2)? [closed]
I'm a fourth year student in an Experimental Psychology Ph.D program with an accepted MA also in Experimental Psychology from a different program. I'm posting here since I'm about to graduate in May ...
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Deja vu and some specifics
Deja vu is the feeling of having been where you are presently at some point in the past (usually pointed to dreams because you often cant remember dreams). What would you call that distant memory you ...
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How do Terence Tao's "three stages of rigorousness" relate to cognitive science? [closed]
This is an excerpt from There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs of Terrence Tao:
The “pre-rigorous” stage, in which mathematics is taught in an informal, intuitive manner, based on ...
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Functional/Cognitive Acuity/Manipulability
I'm trying to find an existing construct for what I refer to in my research as "Functional Acuity" (hereafter FA). The concept of FA is analogous to what one can see with v w/o one's glasses....
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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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Is the mathematician's activity psychologically healthy?
I am a professional mathematician, and I regularly meet other mathematicians.
I have come to wonder if there is something like a slight neurosis, specific to this activity.
To be more precise, let ...
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Does such a theory exist?
Is there any model that describes how people behave while taking compositions of emotions into account?
Such as, how different the behavior of a person is when he is (10% angry + 50% sad + 40% some ...
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visual memory improvement for mnemotecnics (method of loci)
I have used the method of loci(art of memory/memory palace) in the past and I was able at the end to memorize a deck of shuffled 48 cards in 20 minutes but I had a very bland capacity for ...
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What is the name of this experiment that showed that humans are innately inclined to ask questions?
Years ago I watched a documentary that was about how humans are unique compared to other animals. In it they highlighted an experiment that was done on both human toddlers and chimpanzees. The ...
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Can alter-personas of a person with MPD/DID have mental diseases of their own that other 'alters' don't have
Context: We are making a short film on different mental disorders.
The Question: If it is realistically feasible for a 'alter-persona' of a person with Multiple Personality Disorder to have different ...
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Leveraging emotional intelligence effectively in choice process
I am stuck between choosing between a few options. I have analyzed them rationally and yet I cannot decide what is the most suited for me.
I have read that a powerful tool here would be leveraging ...
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Understanding lack of compassion exhibited by Iranian experts in catastrophic situations
In recent catastrophic situations, there have been reports of Iranian experts displaying a lack of compassion towards ordinary people affected by these events. This raises questions about the ...
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What is the area of Psychology called that focuses on interaction and emotions?
Quickly to my background, I did communications studies for my bachelors and I am currently finishing my Psychology master.
In short, I should know what i am about to ask, but I don't.
When a person ...
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What exactly makes us find something disgusting and something else cute?
Most people find insects disgusting and most people find cats so cute. What is the reason? What exactly makes us find something disgusting and something else cute?
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Is it possible for someone to experience amnesia immediately after a traumatic event?
I was wondering if at the end of a painful experience, it is possible for a person to forget what happened before the traumatic event. Specifically, can the retrograde amnesia happen instantly after ...
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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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What introductory and advanced textbooks on cognitive psychology are recommended? [closed]
What introductory and advanced textbooks on cognitive psychology are recommended?
Thanks.
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Does being rocked in a cradle or sleeping on a ship improve sleep quality in the same way?
As we all know, mothers tend to rock the child in a cradle or in their hands.
Is there any research finding that supports the claim that rocked babies sleep better than ones only held still in their ...
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What is the name of the condition where you feel like you have been somewhere before?
It happens many times when you visit a place you have never been before, you feel subconsciously you have been there already. And the events and people you are ...
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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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Does writing something down help memorize it?
This is a question inspired by this recent question on the Chinese Language & Usage website.
Someone asked why they needed to learn how to write Chinese characters, since today we mostly use ...
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What is the primary source of the "mount stupid" graphic?
Online descriptions of the Dunning-Kruger effect are often accompanied by a "mount stupid" graphic similar to the below - from a Psychology Today article:
However, the research paper does not contain ...
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What is the psychology behind the need to be the centre of attention?
In conversations, there are often times when a member of the group will consistently divert the conversation back to their own topic (often to do with them). A 'pseudo-conversation' example:
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What is an effective way of working with core beliefs/schemas?
In CBT one of the core concepts is ANTs (automatic negative thoughts) that form the basis of depressive feelings: they are repetitive, conscious, mostly ungrounded negative thoughts about one's ...
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Is there a reasonable scientific backing for Carl Jung's type theories?
I have read a lot on how most psychologists reject the Myers Briggs Type Indicator for its lack of scientific backing, but I have yet to find much information on the acceptance of Carl Jung's theories,...
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What is the most comprehensive system of describing human emotions or states of mind?
Reading about the human mind, I sometimes come across attempts to classify human emotions using various scales. The one that comes to mind most often is the 6 scale circle model shown below.
Is ...
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Statistical analyses for framing effect study
I am running a study to determine if women are more influenced than menby the framing effect.
I designed a survey with three overall questions, each with a "positive frame" and a "...
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Can you use a test for clinical purposes if it is available in a public thesis?
The situation is as follows: say you find a Phd/ MSc thesis on a university's online library. In the Appendix part of the thesis, there is a copy of the psychometric tools used, for e.g the digit span ...
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What is the current status of mental models vs mental logic controversy?
From what I understand there is (or was) a controversy whether humans reason deductively by constructing mental models and surveying them or by following built-in inference rules of mental logic (...
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Do people with ADHD typically underperform on IQ tests? [duplicate]
To me, there seems to be a great disagreement about what IQ is supposed to measure. I have heard about psychologists taking ADHD/depression/other mental illnesses into account when deciding on the ...
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Simulating accuracy according to a predictor variable? (R)
I'm trying to illustrate a proof-of-concept by simulating some data in RStudio, but I'm not totally sure how to go about the first part of the simulation -- modelling response accuracy.
Basically: I ...
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What is the information storage capacity of the human brain?
Related/bonus points: I seem to remember reading about some equation that states the amount of information that can be held by a neural network with n neurons in it arranged in l layers, or something ...
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Observational Learning - Where does encoding, storage and retrieval occur?
It has been taught to me that there are 5 stages (or requirements) that enable observational learning to occur. That is, attention, retention, reproduction, motivation and reinforcement.
My teachers ...
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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 digital notetaking a variation of hoarding disorder?
In recent years, note taking apps such as ever note, obsidian, and such have gained immense popularties. It has become a passion of many people to create the maximum number of notes, organize and ...
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"Blindness" caused by being in a homogeneous and structureless space [duplicate]
Is it true that if you stay in a homogeneous featureless space for a long time (for example, in fog, cloud, darkness), then you can temporarily stop seeing or start seeing a black background?
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How do you export the summed score of a category on Qualtrics?
I'm doing some psych research for a class with a qualtrics survey. As a part of this survey, I have a quantitative performance task for which correct answers receive a score of "1" and ...
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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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Looking for Tutorials/Resources to analyze cognitive experiments data
I'm analyzing a dataset which has Go/No Go, Wisconsin Card Sorting, Stroop task. I wanted to know if there is a tutorial that follows a "best-practice" way of analyzing data. Like for ...
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Can someone get mentally retarded suddenly?
Can someone, after having anger to a large level or anxiety to a large level, develop mental retardation?
In simple words, can someone being normal and mental sound, become mentally retarded in just a ...
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Is a desire for a certain food related to the nutritional need for that food?
It appears that, from time to time, everybody has a strong desire for some specific food.
I want to know whether this is the feedback of the body needing certain nutrients or whether it's purely ...
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Looking for the name of a phenomenon
My old psych teacher talked to us about how after the first person ran a 4 minute mile, the subsequent year or so many others managed it too. And he said that when people know something to be possible,...
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Can I divide into groups? for a questionnaire and Factor analysis
My question is: If there are many targets to be evaluated, is it acceptable for the impression evaluation of the questionnaire to be done by another person? Can I divide into groups?
I'm thinking of ...
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Is there a theoretical maximum for IQ?
In "Eugenics: A Reassessment" Richard Lynn writes:
The intelligence level of the population would be expected to stabilize at its theoretical maximum of around 200 after six or seven ...
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Thinking Fast and Slow: Similarity of Linda problem and Dinnerware case
While reading Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" I've been stuck on the claim that Linda case and Dinnerware case have the same structure.
Linda problem:
Linda is thirty-one years old, ...
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How does understanding happen [closed]
What is the psychological basis of understanding a subject?
I have observed cases where a person in anxiety reads a chapter of a book and doesn't grasp anything after 1 hour.The same person was given ...
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Is there a term describing "doing activities", in relation to mental health?
Im trying to find a connection between mental health outcomes and how much stimulation people have. Particular in reference to older adults.
The extreme being sitting doing nothing.
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Is there a term for people who hate (or don't prefer ) things that are mainstream?
There are people who hate (or don't prefer ) things that are mainstream, is there a term for them ?
Any references to cognitive reasons for some people being odd in that way would be helpful.
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What is the mechanism that makes people more likely to act when provided with proof of non-new (and often trivial) information?
Is there a name for the psychological mechanism according to which a person is more likely to act when provided with proof of information they are already convinced about? Information which is often ...
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Does the brain get rusty if out of practice?
A couple of years back I was in the midst of a lot of competitive exams (for my career, degree etc.). I needed to put my mind to a lot of work. Maths problems, physics problems, logic and GMAT-type ...
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