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Short Answer
Yes. People estimate time differently, by focusing their attention on time in more or lesser degree. Also within a person, time estimation may vary due to stochastic variations.
Long answer
This is a really nice paper that tries to explain time-perception in a cognitive architecture called ACT-R. It is a model of human cognition that tries ...
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You are not far off from one of the classic tests of creativity! The Torrance Test of Creative Thinking scores for fluency (number of responses) as well as originality (statistical rarity of responses) and elaboration (level of detail) on a variety of different tasks--some of which are similar to your mind-mapping task. The validity of the TTCT has been ...
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It's called the Halo Effect:
The halo effect is a ... cognitive bias, where a person making an
initial assessment of another person, place, or thing will assume
ambiguous information based upon concrete information.
The term halo effect is used in marketing to explain customer bias
toward certain products because of favorable experience with ...
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As often the case, named after the person who first described it.
From Encyclopedia Britannica:
Wernicke area, region of the brain that contains motor neurons involved in the
comprehension of speech.
This area was first described in 1874 by German neurologist Carl
Wernicke.
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Like all models and modeling frameworks, the utility of the approach is often tied to how much it increases our understanding of the phenomena of interest. As summarized nicely by Smith & Thelen (2003), there are developmental questions that are better conceptualized through the framework of DST than through alternative modeling frameworks due to the ...
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About Psychoanalysis:
From the American Psychoanalytic Association:
About Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is a method of treatment that helps people understand themselves, their relationships, and how they behave in the world. Psychoanalytic treatment is based on the idea that we are frequently motivated to act by impulses that we don’t recognize ...
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In general, from my extensive experience, using a four or a five point response scale is not going to change much the psychometric properties of a typical psychological self-report scale (e.g., reliability and factor loadings). I also imagine that if you were to measure a multi-item scale with a four point version and a five point version that the ...
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Barriers to Psychologists Seeking Mental Health Care by Jennifer L. Bearse, Mark R. McMinn, Winston Seegobin, and Kurt Free of George Fox University asks a similar question.
Professional psychologists provide help to people in need, but how freely do psychologists seek psychotherapy themselves when facing personal challenges and struggles? What obstacles ...
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Whilst typing this answer I upvoted this question as it points to very interesting theories of drive, motivation, and personal development.
Short Answer
If you take on board the theories surrounding life-span human development, there is an element of truth in your hypothesis. Elements of immaturity and impulsiveness can still linger for various reasons ...
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Short answer
Human brain transplants have never been performed, so any answers to what will happen are mere speculations.
Background
Whole-head transplants have been performed on animals, the first reports go back to the 1970's (Canavero, 2013). The practice is still pursued today (e.g.., Ren et al., 2015)). Up until now, however, it has not been done in ...
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The problem with ADHD is that it doesn't really have its own trademark indicator, the way that schizophrenia or Asperger's might. There are several different subtypes of ADHD, and they tend to look different from each other, particularly in the instance of ADHD with hyperactivity and ADHD-PI (primarily inattentive). Even then, there are plenty of disorders ...
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That is a really interesting question. There are some studies that found that the emotional response is strong in one's native language compared to languages that are acquired later. For instance, a study by Harris and colleagues found that physiological arousal was stronger to swear words or childhood reprimands in the first language of the participants ...
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I think this is a rather difficult question to answer. Psychology Today sums up some interesting reasons why people totally aware of the risks involved in not wearing a seat belt (or in smoking tobacco products, alcohol abuse, dangerous driving...), still choose not to wear one (light up another cigarette etc.):
Justification of risky behavior may be re-...
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Yes, the psychedelic Renaissance/ third wave (as I've heard it being called) is steadily gaining momentum. I almost feel like mentioning How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan here is too obvious, but just to be safe, here's a few links and a cultural review. There is also an exhaustive summary on Trippingly.net!
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Cambridge Dictionary defines confusion as "a situation in which people do not understand what is happening, what they should do or who someone or something is." This means that confusion occurs in one's thoughts, in the brain.
I define emotion as "an irritation of the heart" or simply "a heart feeling." By heart, I mean a physical heart. Emotion is a heart ...
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Short answer: Representations are a noteworthy controversy in embodied or situated psychological theories. Can we explain behavior without reference to representations?
Long answer: Most modern theories presume that information is represented somewhere, such as the brain, and that behavior is organized because that somewhere is organized. Anti-...
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Both of my parents and I are multilingual. We come from Czech Republic and have learned multiple languages through our lives as we moved around.
I have noticed, even within myself that I "feel" different speaking a European language compared to English.
Not being able to go into the neurobiology of brain plasticity and change within when developing with ...
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Answering this question is very difficult without first agreeing what "cognitive science" is (a problem for this very site!). Unlike another answer here, to me, cognitive science is not necessarily about neuroscience methods (that would be cognitive neuroscience). Instead, cognitive science is an interdisciplinary hodgepodge of people doing empirical ...
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I do have to note this question is broad and opinion based, according to the stack conventions. Nonetheless, I think it's an important question, given that scientific publications may alter the behavior of people en mass and even generate entire movements that, e.g., argue and campaign against vital medical interventions.
A notorious example being the ...
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This is purely all about terminology.
Somatic means of the body; bodily; physical. whereas the psycho part of psychosomatic refers to the fact that the somatic problem (symptom or disorder) is created through psychological means (with no medical evidence of a physical problem e.g. broken bone and/or torn ligaments).
Symptom refers to an observable ...
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Short answer is that psychiatrists are medical doctors and (more often than not) medical researchers, and thus psychiatrists themselves often do not practice psychotherapy.
Psychiatrists
Psychiatrists are physicians, which means they have received a medical degree (M.D.) and have completed medical training, along with an additional four-year residency in ...
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I have not come up with a definitive answer myself as there is a wide range of figures online.
Michael Noll-Hussong states on ResearchGate
The total number of specific diagnoses was reduced from 172 in DSM-IV to 157 in DSM-5.
see, e.g., McCarron RM. The DSM-5 and the art of medicine: certainly uncertain. Annals of internal medicine. 2013;159(5):360-1.
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Just to help, here's an illustration of the sort of answer I'm looking for, though personally I'd be happy with any suggestions, even if less detailed than the first below.
Long answer: On one hand, Pinker and Bloom (1990) argue that our language faculty is similar to our physical organs, in that they evolved as adaptations to evolutionary pressures. On the ...
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Dynamical systems models is commonly used in the domain of perception and action. See Warren, 2006 for a comprehensive review. This work uses the mathematical formalism of dynamics and not just the metaphorical concepts. An exploration of the references of Warren's paper, as well as of papers that have cited it, will find many examples of dynamical models of ...
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The dilation of the pupil is under control of the sympathetic nervous system. The main role of the sympathetic nervous system is to get the body ready for fast response. The typical example is the 'fight-or-flight' response, but that can also occur in the presence of a potential sexual partner. Therefore, dilated pupils can be a sign of sexual arousal.
Now, ...
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Pupil dilation is a reflection of sympathetic arousal, and it seems to be related specifically to prediction error (Braem et al., 2015; Lavin et al., 2013; Preuschoff et al., 2011) and consequently predicts your learning rate (Nassar et al., 2012).
In the case where you see an attractive person amidst a sea of average faces, this violates your predictions--...
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The general symptoms (NOT the background scenario) may point to a psychological disorter called social phobia :
Social anxiety disorder (SAD), also known as social phobia, is an
anxiety disorder characterized by a significant amount of fear in one
or more social situations, causing considerable distress and impaired
ability to function in at least some ...
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Although Cognitive Inertia (as mentioned by hexadecimal) is a nice, broad way to point to the phenomenon, people have also studied it from other points of view. Two of them are from economic and cognitive angles.
From an economic level, what you are referring to is called the Sunk Cost Fallacy. Here is an example from Wikipedia that explains it from a ...
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When it comes to self-harm, there is not a lot of information available about the emotional form, but there is a lot about the physical forms of self-harm such as self-flagellation (as a punishment and not for religious rituals), cutting, burning etc.
According to the mental health charity, Mind, self-harm is
when you hurt yourself as a way of dealing ...
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