Questions tagged [cognitive-psychology]
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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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To what extent is xenophobia not selective?
I read in the The Economist that
in most countries, anti-Semitism rises or falls in concert with nationalism and identity politics. David Feldman of the Pears Institute notes the importance of “...
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What is the learning/memory type which requires active contribution called?
I observed I best memorize information when I actively compile it into meaningful hierarchy. That encompasses creating PowerPoint presentations, explaining the topic to someone or writing summaries. I ...
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Why do errors such as typos happen?
Why do typos happen?
Why do we sometimes type the same word right, and sometimes wrong?
For the same reason, why does a player of Flappy Bird for instance crash at pipe 138? Why not any of the 137 ...
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Where can I find recent research on the role of context effect in perception of similarity?
BACKGROUND. I’m writing a paper on the role of similarity in the theories of concept empiricism developed by the British Empiricists Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, and how the idea of context effect from ...
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Is there a non-interactive alternative to the concept of SuperMemo/spaced repetition?
I recently wrote an open-source application that lets you practice Chinese writing and the decisions I made about its inner workings were related to my theories of how human memory works. I'm not sure ...
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How do I choose the correct sigma when applying a Gaussian filter to a fixation density map?
I am currently analysing some eye tracking data which I recorded in the lab.
For my fixation density maps I calculate tables showing the number of times participants made a fixation at a specific ...
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is the mind naturally conditioned to visualize the worst case to keep the body safe?
Mind has the ability to visualize something dangerous to keep the body safe, I would like to know are humans naturally built in such a way or do we learn to do so as we grow?
I have found that ...
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How do cults indoctrinate people? [closed]
You hear stories about cults and the like brainwashing people all the time. How do they psychologically break people down so that they'll join up?
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What's the best way to calculate an index score based on reaction time, variance and accuracy?
Say I have a go/no-go task and my output data includes 3 parameters:
average reaction time, variance of reaction time, and number of errors.
I want to composite all of the parameters into a single ...
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Is it possible getting into vegetative state by yourself? [closed]
Had a very crazy and intense dream last night where I swapped between different stages of dream depth which actually also included dreaming about the actual place where I was sleeping within a dream ...
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Depression Causing Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
Whilst trying to think of non-chemical/hormonal causes of low self-esteem when reading Is low self-esteem, a brain chemical imbalance problem, rather than a personality defect, and can't be fixed ...
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What is the bias that arises because a thing is way more common than the rest?
So I have a sentence: Hence this option is free of abundance bias
I've made up the phrase "abundance bias" and I want to replace it with the proper scientific term....
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To what extent does AFQT correlate with IQ?
Wikipedia has a pretty non-informative page as to the nature of the (US) Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) as it mostly talks of results ranges etc. What I could descipher from there is it that ...
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What is the name of the bias that associate a thing as good because it has a relation to another good thing?
A customer buys X from "brand A" and has positive experience with it. "Brand A" also sells Y. Now the customer things it is good to buy Y because of his/her positive experience with buying X from ...
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Scientific articles linking personal-professional growth
I am writing an allegation letter to obtain funds to enroll in an activity for personal development, although the frame in which I ask for the finds is in "transversal activities related to research ...
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Does practicing Ravens Progressive Matrices tests inflate your IQ score?
I'm 16 years old and a year ago I got obsessed about IQ. I took a Raven IQ test and scored 115. Then during the autumn and winter of last year I took some more IQ tests using RPM and scored 126 on ...
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Are there any types of meditation/mindfulness intervention not starting with breathing exercises?
It occurs to me that all meditation/mindfulness practice starts with focusing attention on breathing by either counting breaths or simply feel the sensation of the airflow
(Baer, 2003). Eventually, ...
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What is the neurophysiology of a thought?
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1) To find out if there is evidence in favor of one of Hebb's claim. In is book "The Organization of Behavior" he claimed that cell assemblies are the physiological foundation of thought. ...
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Research on how problem, presented in practical, real world format, is solved much more easily?
I read a description of this phenomenon in a book (can't remember which one).
Basically, if a problem is presented in a dry, academic format, it's MUCH more difficult to solve than a problem ...
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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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Differences in Cognition, Theory of Mind and their criteria
I´m writing an essay about the ToM in animals. My Problem is that there are a few hints of ToM in animals but there are also some interferences. I tried to set up a conclusion which uses Morgan's Law ...
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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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Do we know a priori any rules about the world?
1) Is there any set of rules that human beings or, more generally, other sentient living beings know a priori before any learning process?
In other words, do sentient living beings always were born ...
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How serious is my case and should I get help? [closed]
So I have been experimenting a bit with pshycadelics nothing too much , I did lsd twice in a period of 3 months , inbetween i have done mdma once.
Two weeks after my last use of lsd I started noticing ...
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NEO-FFI vs. NEO-FFI-3: What's the difference?
I just ran out of a large shipment of NEO-FFI booklets, so I went to order more from PARinc. This shipment has lasted since 2014.
It seems that the original version of the NEO-FFI that I was using (...
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I can sometimes 'erase' an active thought - how does that work? [closed]
When I'm trying to sleep but still awake, I sometimes get dream-like thoughts. I still twist and turn in bed, consciously moving (thus not sleeping) and hearing sounds in the room, but these thoughts ...
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Is there a difference between physiological stimulations and psychological stimulations?
From what I understand, physiological stimulation (or stimulus or sensation) "refers to sensory excitation, the action of various agents or forms of energy (stimuli) on receptors that generate ...
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Is the belief that a consultant knows more than the team a form of cognitive bias?
I've noticed that many people assume that consultants know more than they themselves do and/or more than their team does. That is, when a team is stuck on a problem, some people believe that a ...
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What are the other "first cognitive tools" beside analogy?
In the paper The Analogical Paradox: Why Analogy Is So Easy In Naturalistic Settings, Yet So Difficult In The Psychological Laborator, Dunbar says:
Analogy is one of the first cognitive tools that ...
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How the Brain Does Garbage Collection in Real Time [duplicate]
When we read a sentence we don't "pay attention to" each letter and the structure of each letter and the placement of the letter and color and lighting and all that. We just "end up with" the meaning ...
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Carl Jung Psychology Analysis Book
I am Computer Engineer, but i feel strong partiality towards Jungian Psychology. I would like to find the Analysis research book on Carl Jung about
The Process of Individuation
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I seem to ...
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Acceleration of subjective time with age [duplicate]
I came across this online paper, entitled Subjective Time vs. Proper (Clock) Time by Ronald P. Gruber, Stanford University, in which the following statement can be found:
The shorter the latency of ...
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What does science say about feeling appreciated/loved/valued?
I believe firmly that people who feel appreciated/loved/valued will (generally) experience all kinds of benefits for themselves and the people around them.
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Being more healthy
Experience ...
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Lottery question, why do we people think this is logic?
For a project we did a small survey, one of the questions was about the following scenario.
Last week the lottery was won by a ticket with the numbers x x x, this week you can make one choice. Pick ...
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Names of branches of neuroscience and related fields dealing with hunger, taste, attachment, and digestion, and their relationship to other perception
I would like to know what the branches of neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, and psychiatry related to what happens when the tongue touches and other possible related mouth sensors, touch, ...
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What research is there on how people go from examining/gathering evidence to executing on a decision?
I'm curious what research there is about when/how people decide to stop evaluating or gathering evidence, and actually begin executing on an action, and how the order of information presented could ...
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Negative Rewards(punishment) processing in Human Brain? [duplicate]
Can someone please tell me how negative rewards or punishments are processed in the human brain? Do we have a separate segment to process positive and negative reward and are the positive and negative ...
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Can calmness happen during the fight-flight response?
In the question How do certain individuals, like Quang Duc, develop the ability to remain calm when enduring significant nociceptive pain?, one answer says that it was the high level of cortisol that ...
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Does neurodynamics have any relation to psychodynamics?
From Neural oscillation - Wikipedia:
Neural oscillations are commonly studied from a mathematical framework and belong to the field of "neurodynamics", an area of research in the cognitive sciences ...
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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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Does getting any job (no matter how demeaning) builds up one's character?
A certain blogger claims that
[if you] Work a shitty job, it builds character [nonetheless].
I'm curious if there are any academic studies relating to this issue. Of course one needs to consider ...
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What is an appropriate background for cognitive modeling?
Awhile back, I picked up Cognitive Modeling by Thad A. Polk (published in 2002 by MIT Press - and yes, before anyone points it out, I do realize that that's probably somewhat out of date at this point ...
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What is the term for the "knowing what you think but can't explain it" phenomenon?
I think we all experience this phenomenon once in a while, and I am experiencing it right now. It's the feeling that whatever word one tries to say it seems to be wrong (for them) or confusing (for ...
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Is quick left brain vs right brain test fake?
When I saw it at first she did rotate to the right.
With some mental effort I could make her rotate either way in half rotations where it looks like she dances not rotating in my minds eye, but I ...
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Term for when the more you invest yourself in something, the less you agree to drop it
I have got a few examples::
For instance when someone buys something and it turns out that it wasn't worth it, and this person tries to convince himself that he made a good choice or that the product ...
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In general, how does one resolve two competing theories in Psychology?
In looking at a post on twitter from a somewhat well-known psychologist Tal Yarkoni, he references a paper which lists multiple sets of competing theories in Psychology that have not been resolved.
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How does the brain generate answers to questions?
Firstly, I would say that this question is probably beyond current knowledge.
But I would like to hear the latest theories.
Given an input "Can you name as many animals as you can until I say 'stop'?...
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Correlation of g and Honesty, Rationality, etc?
Are there any meta-analyses reporting the correlations of g (IQ, general mental ability) with:
Honesty-Humility (e.g. in HEXACO model).
I know Conscientiousness (of Big Five) generally has zero ...
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Why does having many options harm decision making?
I wonder what is the negative of having many possibilities. I sometimes find my self stagnate in some process when it comes to decision making. An the more opportunities I have the more I struggle. ...
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