Essays on Mental Process

The new introductory lectures by Sigmund Freud are organized in a way that helps to carry the discussion on psychological analysis from one point to the other. The lectures are systematic, and start off by discussing the aspect of consciousness, which is where a person’s psychological framework starts. To these, he states the contradicting nature of the mental process and unconsciousness and cites that the psychological analysis is going to be based on that. He establishes that consciousness does occur in a mental state but that there are some aspects of the state that depict unconsciousness. The state of consciousness is ...

Cognitive psychology is one of the branches of psychology that is relatively young. It is worth noting that cognitive psychology has tremendously grown within a short period and become among the famous subfield in psychology. There are various research that have been undertaking in the field of cognitive psychology. The practical application of cognitive psychology tends to assert more meaning to the field. Some of the topics include memory, learning styles, language acquisition, as well as forgetting. Cognitive psychology refers to the division of psychology that studies the mental process, which include how individuals remember, perceive, learn and think. These ...

The book "Lives across Cultures: Cross-Cultural Human Development" focuses upon the human development from different cultures' perspective. There have been various similarities and differences amongst the cultures throughout the world. The author has provided the theoretical and application view of the cross-cultural function across the book. There are various stories and personal experiences narrated, on the basis of which we can determine the importance of various cultures in this world. The author through his humorous and conversational tone has created an exciting experience for the readers in this book. I shall be describing certain concepts, wherein I found difficulty ...

Lev Vygotsky believed that the way of life as a child is raised by influences in the operations of the child development. Every child learns actively and through hands – on experiences. A child development is a social constructivism and the development is determined by culture. Children are active learners and their knowledge is constructed socially. Its cultural values and customs dictate the importance of learning; children learn from expert members of the society who are responsible of higher order functions such as parents, peers, caregivers, and the culture at large and the zone of proximal development in learning occurs. It ...

Abstract

This paper explores the subject of cognitive creativity as an inborn human characteristic and not a learnt skill. It analyses views of various psychologist and authors that are in support of the proposition that cognitive creativity is an innate. The paper advances an argument that creativity is unique mental process that differs from individual to individual. This difference is as a result of difference in personality. Personality is a product of mental process and creativity is a component of personality that endures in a person from childhood to adulthood. Therefore, the paper takes the position that creativity is inborn because of its consistency. Other ...

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The paper is about personal theory of counselling. The theory is mutual to a person’s cognition and behaviour hence the paper shall discuss different terminologies and views concerning the personal theory in relation to cognitive behavioural theory. The personal theory also known as personal construct theory (PCT) developed by an American psychologist, George Kelly. The paper shall examine how the basic skills of development counselling facilitate the use this theoretical orientation (personal theory of counselling). In order to understand how the basic skills learned in development counselling skills facilitate the theoretical orientation, a wider and deeper view of the personality ...

The concept of cross culture is a psychological philosophy that refers to the scientific study of human mental process and behavior hat is exhibited through the extensive research of human behavior including both their variability and variance in different cultural perspectives. Through the expansive research exploited in various aspects to explore different cultures and behaviors as well as the languages, the meaning of cross culture therefore is vital in the psychological development thus the need to understand the meaning of this idea beyond the psychological context. There has been lots of concern in the field especially in the Northern America ...

Critical Thinking

Chapter 5 Learning is the processes of relatively permanent changes in behavior achieved after repetition or experience. Classical conditioning on the other hand is widely defined as the behavioral modification that a subject develops after previously repeated neutral stimulus that evokes a certain desired response. A Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov discovered classical conditioning in the early 20th century accidentally (Ciccarelli 2008). Certain elements are as the distinct characteristics of classical conditioning. The first is Neutral Stimulus (NS), which is a stimulus that does not induce a response. Unconditional Stimulus (US) is another stimulus that is innately capable of eliciting a response. Conditioned Stimulus ( ...

Cognitive psychology is one of the important disciplines to human cognitive understanding. It is actually a science that focuses on investigating human mental abilities. These mental abilities include understanding, thinking, reasoning, perceiving, remembering, as well as learning. In most cases, cognitive psychology is compared to aspects of behaviorism. As a matter of fact, cognitive psychology focuses on them nature of human psyche that cannot be observed and uses the abstracts constructs in producing the observable behaviors. In defining cognitive psychology it is worth noting that the discipline is related to linguistics, neuroscience, and philosophy. The contemporary study of cognitive psychology rests ...

Information Processing and Cognitive Theories 1950 - 1970

Information Processing and Cognitive Theories

The development and studies pertaining to information-processing and cognitive theories started to flourish between 1960s to 1970s, principles and theories prior to that period have shifted in terms of identifying how reading takes place. The perspectives of cognitive processing have provided a clear description that the underlying processes taking place in the human mind are inherited in the act of reading. The principles of cognitive processing framework are trying to explain that the unseen mind functions are engaged in more complicated mental activities. One of the models and theories such as information processing represents the ...

Japanese horror films through the years had made astounding contribution to the movie industry and to the horror genre in particular. One of the notable directors of great Japanese horror flicks is Kurosawa Kiyoshi who is often compared to Andrei Tarkovsky and Stanley Kubrick in terms of directing style and influence. Most of his films are focused on ho a general society affects an individual and how the society also reacts to adverse irrational and disintegrated social mechanisms. Japanese horror movies are not typical to the usual western made fright movies. As observed from many western horrors movies, they incorporate ...