alteration in one of the attitudes‚ beliefs or behaviors to reduce the discomfort and restore balance etc. For example‚ when someone is forced to do something publicly that they privately really don’t want to do‚ dissonance is created between their cognition (I didn’t want to do this) and their behavior (I did it). The term was first coined by Leon Festinger in his 1956 book‚ When Prophecy Fails: A social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World. This book
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attributes of judging‚ abstracting‚ reasoning‚ imagining‚ and problem solving. Thinking about our thoughts and feelings‚ about our situations‚ goals‚ and our capacities is a mental process called metacognition. Metacognition is defined as "cognition about cognition"‚ or "knowing about knowing. Metacognition involves: * reflection - thinking about our experiences * projection - thinking about our future Concept Formation * refers to the judgment of properties common to a class of objects
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made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately.” (2)The quote above is in the introduction‚ "The Statue That Didn’t Look Right". The quote if in between the end of three of the author’s examples of rapid cognition and right before the author admits that snap decisions can also betray us sometimes. It represents the introductory tone of "The Statue That Didn’t Look Right and of the entire book itself. (3)The quote’s significance
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thoughts as real thoughts and irrational thoughts as untrue judgements that an individual may have about himself. Thoughts‚ whether rational or irrational‚ are the core of self-talk‚ defined as intrapersonal speech. Rational thoughts promote positive cognitions‚ actions and feelings and negative thoughts produce negative self-talk with undesirable consequences on the individual. For example: self-talks that comprise the words must or should allow predicting that negative consequences are inexorable if
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References: Anderson‚ J. (1983). The Architecture of Cognition Harvard University Press Anzai‚ Y.‚ and Simon‚ H.A. (1979). The Theory of Learning by Doing. Psychological Review 86 124 – 180 Collins‚A & Quillian‚M.R. (1969) ‘Retrival time from semantic memory ’ Journal of Verbal Reasoning and Verbal Behaviour
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presented the interpersonal psychoanalytic theory‚ which carried a modern view of biological roles and interpersonal relationships. Kelly offered up his own theory called the personal construct theory; the focus lies on an individual’s constructs or cognitions‚ which branch out to apply to emotions and behavior as well. The final theory comes from Abraham Maslow called the need hierarchy theory. This theory emphasizes the necessity of lower-order
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All across the globe millions of people are getting scammed out of money. Are you vulnerable because of your age? This study is to reveal what age is most vulnerable to be scammed‚ Young or old? This study deals with words that might be unknown. Cognition is the mental action of the process of acquiring knowledge. Exploit‚ to make full use of‚ derive benefit from. Scam‚ A dishonest fraud. I will also say older (forty and up) and younger (thirty-nine and down). Older people have many reasons to be
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and response. The cognitive approach builds on this theory yet examines the thought process between stimuli and response and examines how the information of these experiences are stored. The Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget through studying cognition (in his own children) developed his Theory of Cognitive Development. The Theory of Cognitive Development contains four stages: the sensorimotor stage (age 0-2) which deals with touching‚ smelling‚ tasting‚ looking‚ and listening; the preoperational
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In modern Psychology‚ cognitivism is considered the most dominant paradigm for understanding mental function. The dramatic shift from behaviorism to cognitivism occurred in the early part of the nineteenth century. After decades of almost exclusive behaviorist research‚ psychologists and scholars became dissatisfied with the limitations of behaviorism. Although behaviorism encouraged observable and measurable research in the field of psychology‚ it did not incorporate mental events. Therefore‚ this
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Information Processing and Cognitive Development Information processing is a perspective (approach) to the study of cognition and cognitive development in which the mind is likened to a computer. However‚ rather than focusing on mere input and output‚ psychologists who adhere to this approach place specific emphasis on the processes of cognitive development. Cognitive perspectives examine development in terms of mental processing. The two major views within this subject are cognitive developmental
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