Category Archives: Cognitive Psychology
Who is Forecasting Your Hope?
After getting up this morning, I looked at the temperature on my cell phone and the screen says it is 33 degrees in Live Oak Florida. It looks like the message this morning is that it is going to be … Continue reading
Filed under Attitude, Cognitive Psychology, Consulting, Index, Leadership, Perception
Finding Balance in Unbalanced Relationships: A Discussion about Conflicting Emotions.
Think about relationships that you have with significant people in your life, what is the first word that comes to mind? Is the word a reaction to how you feel about relationship or a descriptor of how interaction occurs? Something … Continue reading
Science, Misinformation, and Make-Believe Memories
In what we know about memory, our memories serve a purpose of enabling people to make sense of the past and incorporate it into the present experience of life. This importance of memories according to Loftus (2003) explains that people … Continue reading
Filed under Cognitive Psychology, Developing, Index, Memory, Perception
Science, Philosophy, Reason, and Life Without Memory
Watching this video is a very sobering look at the way that what the memory provides to an individual in the everyday activities is taken for granted and that without a functioning memory there is no connection with the past, … Continue reading
Filed under Cognitive Psychology, Index, Memory, Mental Health Issues, Perception, Uncategorized
Science, Philosophy, and Reason and the Mind-Brain Problem
A primary voice within the history of philosophy was Rene Descartes who coined the phrase, Cogito ergo sum — “I think, therefore I am”. It was Rene Descartes who suggested and early explanation of the nature of the mind that … Continue reading
Filed under Cognitive Psychology, Index, The Soul
Spirituality, Science, Philosophy and The Origins of Consciousness
¹”Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain comes joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency and lamentations.” From the F. Adams translation of The Genuine Works of Hippocrates. Francis Crick, Nobel prize laureate in … Continue reading
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How Abuse Defines Self-Concept
How to Understand Abusive Relationships No one plans to be in an abusive relationship, but, unfortunately many people find themselves growing up or living in or victimized by abusive people. A relevant fact that is well supported by studies is … Continue reading
