CONTE NTS Introduction 1 WHY YOU SHOULD VISIT CEMETERIES: Survivorship Bias 2 DOES HARVARD MAKE YOU SMARTER?: Swimmer’s Body Illusion 3 WHY YOU SEE SHAPES IN THE CLOUDS: Clustering Illusion 4 IF 50 MILLION PEOPLE SAY SOMETHING FOOLISH, IT IS STILL FOOLISH: Social Proof 5 WHY YOU SHOULD FORGET THE PAST: Sunk Cost Fallacy 6 DON’T ACCEPT FREE DRINKS: Reciprocity 7 BEWARE THE ‘SPECIAL CASE’: Confirmation Bias (Part 1) 8 MURDER YOUR DARLINGS: Confirmation Bias (Part 2) 9 DON’T BOW TO AUTHORITY: Authority
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Claudia Francis Professor Margaret Fletcher English Composition II-Section 91 31 March 2014 Tilting at the Windmills of the Higher Education System In the article “Education, Democracy and the Life Worth Living,” Mark Kingswell argues that the modern perception and application of higher education has become too commonly linked with the concept of work and money versus creating well-rounded critical thinkers that have a world of diverse knowledge at their fingertips. Kingswell supports his claim
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According to Dillard (1993), there are several varying conceptualizations of attitude in social research. At different points in it history, the concept of attitude has been linked to emotional, cognitive and behavioural processes (Brecker & Wiggins, 1989). Therefore, the definition of attitude should consist of cognitive, affective and behavioural components (Rokeach, 1968, Ajzen, 2005). According to Thurstone’s definition of attitude, it is referred to an affect for or against a psychological object (Ajzen
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Introduction I learned and realized many things about the history and relationship between the Americans and the Filipinos upon reading this paper. It is quite intriguing what the main reasons really were for Americans in taking power over the Philippines. Was it for the good of the Filipinos or the Americans’ good? Whatever it was, they succeeded in almost every aspect of conquering the land because they knew the most effective way to subjugate the minds is by controlling their education. They
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have the ability to enhance mental or physical capacities. Of course, in psychology, we have Leon Festinger’s theory of cognitive dissonance that says, “If a person holds two cognitions that are psychologically inconsistent, he experiences dissonance: a negative state (not unlike hunger or thirst)” (Aronson 128). Elliot Aronson elaborated that Festinger’s theory of cognitive dissonance hold that the experience of dissonance is “unpleasant” and, thus, “the person will strive to reduce it----usually
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Cognitive psychology is the study of the mind. To be more specific, it is the study of how one thinks, remembers, learns, and perceives; the mental processes. It shows us how a group of people can view the same object and yet form different conclusions on what the object is. Cognitive is one of the newer fields of psychology. It is only 50 years old (Willingham, 2007). It was finalized as its own branch in response to the lack of information provided from previous branches psychology. No other
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Spencer Rohatynski Professor Zang Theory Application Paper December 3, 2015 The Perfect Combination “The human mind is everywhere one, and the same in that it has the same capacities.” Strauss uses the article “‘Primitive’ Thinking and the ‘Civilized’ Mind” to get a vast, relatable, and timely point across to readers. He discusses his thoughts on the differences between the ‘primitive’ mind, and the ‘civilized’ mind... The reason this article resonates so deeply with me, is because it relates
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The quick brown fox jump over the lazy dog. That is so cool every time it happen. People now and days are very interesting the fact that they are hard to read or determine as to what they might do next. With the society we live in now and days, there are many people from all sorts of life. It is important to keep in mind that we are all not the same. We all have our own though and way of doing things and that often reflect as to how we are thinking in our minds. We all have different thinking and
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There are many different theories of human memory, cognition, and thinking the most researched and articulated theory is the Information Processing explanations (Ashcraft & Radvansky, 2010; Bruning, Schraw & Norby, 2011; Sternberg & Sternberg, 2012) This essay will introduce Information Processing Theories and briefly explain the key concepts and explore the importance of these theories in relation to teaching in the classroom. The significance of these theories in relation to understanding childrens
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Course code: PSY-379-GS001 Course name: Social Psychology Assignment 4 1. Discuss the phenomena of persuasion and the cognitive processes that underlie it. Persuasion is a phenomenon that is a form of social influence in which an audience is deliberately encouraged to accept an idea, attitude, or course of action by symbolic means. We are persuaded to go along with someone's suggestion if we think that person is a credible expert (authority), if we think he or she as a trusted friend or
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