In chapter 7 the main topics that were discussed were thinking, language and intelligence. The aspect of cognition is defined as the mental activities involved in acquiring, retaining and using knowledge. Thinking involves be to manipulate internal, mental representation of information to be able to draw inferences and conclusions. With thinking there are two kinds of mental representation present which are, mental images and concepts. There are also types of concepts that are used with thinking.
Forebrain #3 The section I chose is the forebrain which controls the higher functions of the brain, such as thinking, decision making, and dreaming. I chose forebrain #3 which consists of the occipital lobes, parietal lobes, and the somatosensory cortex. The occipital lobes is the visual processing center of the brain containing most of the region of the visual cortex. The occipital lobes are involved in many functions including visual perception, color recognition, reading, comprehension, depth perception, and recognition of object movement.
After reading this week’s chapters from our textbook, one interesting topic that was discussed in chapter five was classifying instructional objectives. When a teacher wants to design objectives, it is important that they use three domains and they are the cognitive domain, affective domain, and psychomotor domain. The cognitive domain involves mental operations from the lowest level of the simple recall of information to complex, high-level evaluative process (Carjuzaa & Kellough, 2017, pg. 136). The affective domain involves feelings, attitudes, and values and ranges from the lower levels of acquisition to the highest level of internalization and action (Carjuzaa & Kellough, 2017, pg. 136). Psychomotor domain ranges from the simple manipulation
The authors attempt to determine the cause for this discrepancy
1. Introduction Trait theories focus on traits, that which is stable and relatively constant over different situations and times, as being the main indicators of personality (Prager, n.d.). The continuous aspect of traits offers a predictability of future behaviours across various conditions; thus allowing for personality archetypes to be created and assumptions to be made within the constructed archetypes. Multiple theories have been developed that establish various archetypes or models which allow people to be classified into personality types.
Therefore we then could have used inaccurate quantities when determining our answer. Another source of error that could have happened would be failure to account for a factor. An example of this would be station number four. To determine the weight of the board we used a leaning tower which had a “hidden” weight.
Therefore, some targets are not measured due to an issue of feasibility, and some are measured, but only in
Unconditioned response: An unconditioned reaction is conduct that happens normally because of a given jolt. Nonetheless, a jolt prompts a molded reaction just when somebody has come to relate that boost with another. For instance, when a man howls after being nibbled by a creepy crawly, the cry is an unconditioned reaction. (study.com) Conditioned response: An unconditioned reaction is conduct that happens normally because of a given boost.
The main aim of this assignment is to find out the strength and weakness, similarities and differences between the different approaches of psychology such as biological approach, behavioural approach and psychodynamic approach. I have chosen mental illness to evaluate these approach. The biological, behavioural and psychodynamic approaches of psychology are connected to the nature and nurture argument. The biological approach highly talks about nature side of the argument and states that all behaviour is biological and is treatable.
Trait theorist believe that peoples personalities can be identified by looking at traits or behavior that people show, are people showing characteristics of shyness or are they social, are they pessimist or optimist or are they passive or aggressive. Carl Jung helped in the launching of trait approaches, he did this by with his work of traits using the terms of extroversion and introversion in personality theories, and he believed that people can have tendencies of extroversion and introversion but one is more dominant than the other (personality). Extroversion is the tendency to look at things of the outside world and introversions look at things inside the self like feelings and experiences. Carl Jung used the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Perception and interpretation of emotions are crucial elements to effective social interactions in everyday life. Humans observe and analyze movements of others in an attempt to deduce their emotional states on a regular basis. Even without verbal communication, basic emotional states are conveyed through bodily movements. Research exploring emotion recognition has been pursued by utilizing facial expressions (Pollick, Hill, Calder, & Paterson, 2003), but other studies have demonstrated that even in the absence of vocal or facial cues humans are adept at identifying emotions. These studies have investigated a full range of biological motions for emotion recognition, such as static body postures (Atkinson, Dittrich, Gemmell, & Young, 2004), arm movement (Pollick, Paterson, Bruderlin, & Sanford, 2001), and whole-body movement (Atkinson, Dittrich, Gemmell, & Young, 2004).
What is emotion? A question that has been asked by many and been answered in many different ways. Cognitive psychologists may define this as an explanation of how emotional occurrences are realized in patterns of activity in the brain and nervous system. In other words, how emotions influence the way in which we think and act. It is because this can be tested by an experiment and it can be assessed in the light of established theories about how the brain works and how people behave and think.
Personality temperament or affective styles refer to individual differences in the quality and intensity of dispositional mood, as well as emotional reactions to similar events. The Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS) and the Behavioral Approach System (BAS) are the two most researched scales of temperament, and are what I will focus on related to my personality. Having high BIS is to have higher punishment sensitivity, whereas having high BAS is to have higher reward sensitivity. My z-score of BAS was well below the mean, with a score of -2.77. On the other hand, my BIS z-score was above the mean, with a score of 2.21, as well as receiving the highest BIS score in the class.
Emotion in humans is a universal concept yet a singular definition of the word remains dubious. Emotions may be a natural reaction to a situation or a behaviour that we have learnt through environmental factors, therefore the concept of emotion falls under the nature-nurture debate as scientists continue to research it’s evolutionary or social basis. Arguably if emotions are learnt via the environment, research has argued that emotions are consciously performed as the brain looks for the appropriate behaviour for each social situation. On the other hand, other research has refuted this idea and stated that emotions have evolved over time and hence are performed at an unconscious biological level. Hence, it can be argued that there is both a social and evolutionary basis to
A long standing debate exists in the social sciences and biological department regarding whether emotions were hard-wired and universal or rather, learned and culturally specific (Elfenbein, Ambady,Mandal, Harizuka, 2002) Since the beginning of the universality debate, the central goal has been to identify which face movement patterns were common across cultures and which ones were culture specific (Chen & Jack, 2017). Within the past decade, however, perspectives have begun to change (Chen & Jack, 2017). Researchers have recently started to explore the idea that emotion, and specifically the expression of emotion, may be more complex than commonly realized (Scherer, Clark-Polner, & Mortillaro ,2011). However, according to (Chen
