What is psycholinguistics? http://www-psych.nmsu.edu/~pfoltz/psy301/overheadsfirstthird.html The three primary processes investigated in psycholinguistics •Language Comprehension •Language Production •Language Acquisition Psycholinguistics is a branch of cognitive science What will be covered in this class? • How do we produce and recognize speech? • How do we perceive words‚ letters‚ and sentences? • How do we learn and recall information from texts? • How can we improve
Premium Linguistics Semantics Psycholinguistics
Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.[1] A variety of biological‚ psychological‚ religious‚ and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources. Various research groups‚ including positive psychology‚ endeavor to apply the scientific method to answer questions about what "happiness" is‚ and how it might be attained. It is of such fundamental importance to the
Premium Happiness
Brain Sci. 2012‚ 2‚ 347-374; doi:10.3390/brainsci2030347 OPEN ACCESS brain sciences ISSN 2076-3425 www.mdpi.com/journal/brainsci/ Review Internet and Gaming Addiction: A Systematic Literature Review of Neuroimaging Studies Daria J. Kuss * and Mark D. Griffiths International Gaming Research Unit‚ Nottingham Trent University‚ Nottingham NG1 4BU‚ UK; E-Mail: mark.griffiths@ntu.ac.uk * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: daria.kuss@ntu.ac.uk; Tel.: +44-789-111-94-90
Premium Cerebrum Brain Addiction
"night of broken glass" was a planned series of acts of violence against Jews throughout Germany. November 10‚ 1938. On June 27‚ 1941‚ the Nazis burned alive about 1‚000 Jews in this temple. The temple was blown up by the SS and Police General‚ Jürgen Stroop‚ on April 16‚ 1943‚ as a sign of the completion of the "Great Operation" against the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Premium Adolf Hitler Germany Nazi Germany
Psychological Bulletin 1997‚ Vol. 121‚ No. 2‚ 219-245 Copyright 1997 by the American Psychological Association‚ Inc‚ 0033-2909/97153.00 Intelligence‚ Personality‚ and Interests: Evidence for Overlapping Traits P h i l l i p L. A c k e r m a n a n d E r i c D. H e g g e s t a d U niversity of Minnesota‚ Twin Cities The authors review the developmentof the modem paradigm for intelligenceassessmentand application and consider the differentiationbetween intelligence-as-maximal performance
Premium Intelligence Personality psychology Big Five personality traits
THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE • VOL. LXIV‚ NO. 5 • OCTOBER 2009 Driven to Distraction: Extraneous Events and Underreaction to Earnings News DAVID HIRSHLEIFER‚ SONYA SEONGYEON LIM‚ and SIEW HONG TEOH∗ ABSTRACT Recent studies propose that limited investor attention causes market underreactions. This paper directly tests this explanation by measuring the information load faced by investors. The investor distraction hypothesis holds that extraneous news inhibits market reactions to relevant news. We find
Premium Stock market Attention span
CHAPTER 1 Topic: The Science of Behaviour Textbook Pages: 4-24 THE NATURE OF PSYCHOLOGY Psychology: The Scientific study of behaviour and the mind. Behaviour: Actions and responses that we can directly observe. Mind: Internal states and processes‚ such as thoughts and feelings‚ that cannot be seen directly and that must be inferred from observable‚ measurable responses. Clinical Psychology: Subfield where psychologists study and treat mental disorders. Cognitive Psychology: Specializes
Premium Nervous system Neuron Brain
Introduction Due to the advanced technology nowadays‚ the use of computer is getting more popular in addition to that of the Internet. The age of users is also becoming younger. Most adolescents tend to stick to their computers everyday without caring the surrounding. Recently‚ a piece of news mentioned that the post 80s are having the symptom of relying too much on web search engines which help users find specific information by typing keywords only1. They think that searching by engines can
Premium World Wide Web Internet Web search engine
Entraining Tones and Binaural Beats - by Dave Siever of Mind Alive Inc. Sound can have profound effects on people. Although sounds appear to be a personal experience‚ humans around the world are hard-wired to have similar experiences to certain sounds. The sound of chirping birds in a forest produces even harmonics and will be more relaxing than the sounds from a factory (odd harmonics)‚ not just because of the associations people make with sounds of nature versus factories‚ but also because
Premium Electroencephalography
Emotion 2003‚ Vol. 3‚ No. 4‚ 378–393 Copyright 2003 by the American Psychological Association‚ Inc. 1528-3542/03/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.3.4.378 Effect of Negative Emotional Content on Working Memory and Long-Term Memory Elizabeth A. Kensinger and Suzanne Corkin Massachusetts Institute of Technology In long-term memory‚ negative information is better remembered than neutral information. Differences in processes important to working memory may contribute to this emotional memory enhancement
Premium Working memory Emotion Memory processes