Cognitive science

I came into this class kind of dreading to take it, for I’m not a fan of writing essays. I’m glad I took this class, though, for a couple of reasons: one it was online, it was in the middle of the summer, and then the course was stretched over an 8-week course. I came in here just trying to get my credit for my major, but I’ve taken into liking of some of the authors we’ve covered and check out some of their works after this course. I would say or like to think, that I’ve become better and…

Thought Govern Self Our thought can become a self-fulfilling prophecy for ourselves. It had transcended time and space, where the fabric of reality alters as your thought changes. The notion of achievement is founded upon your thought and bounded by your thought. Somewhere in your lifetime you are lost in an abyss of the oceans drifting to find reality. Many people try to grasp what other people 's have, other people 's reality; happiness, love, wealth, and character. the majority of those…

1. Being Critical (Page: 213) Critical thinking is a way of thinking that does not need any form of education to do so. Critical thinking includes theory, reflection, and action based on the first two. Critical theory gives us a foundation for our critical thinking. It is our beliefs and values that our thoughts stem from. When we reflect we are taking our thoughts and beliefs and critiquing them in order to make them remain the same or change them based on when we know and what we have…

Assessment and Evaluation is the final on-line course required to complete the certificate of Teaching and Training Adults. It involved learning methods of assessment and evaluation in order to determine if learning has been successful. I first thought that evaluations for adult learners aren’t important but I now realize that it is important to know if the content has been delivered successfully. Evidence of learning can only by determined through evaluation measures. Evaluation is not just for…

Case Study: Allport and Monica Gordon Allport was an evolutionary scientist who explored previously untouched concepts to better understand the human condition. He developed a combination of new terminology and progressive ideas that formed the basis of his view on personality. He advanced the discontinuity theory which suggest that during development an organism experiences genuine transformations or changes (Engler, p. 239). Whether Monica of our case study would agree with this contradictory…

General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my classmates to rethink the process of stress. Thesis: Modifying the ideology of stress has beneficial effects towards people. Attention-Getter: How many people have low stress? How many people have moderate stress? And how many people have large portions of stress? Credibility: In a National Health Interview Survey there was a thirty-three point seven percentage increase in mortality in people who thought stress as a large…

“manning the house”. With one parent homes at an all time high in America, more and more young kids are starting to be accepting of breaking gender roles. That goes back to the fact in this millennium homeosexuality rate is at an all time high as well. Science proves that more people are “gay” than will ever come out of the…

Living a creative life is sensual, juicy and exciting. Going on a creative date with yourself will rejuvenate and inspire all of your senses and open your mind. Go somewhere that feels glorious and freeing for you. Find a place where the beauty brings you to your knees and speaks directly to your soul. When you open yourself up and allow creative energies to burst and then embrace the ideas, your life will change dynamically. You can also consider getting together with a group of friends…

In his paper, The Nature of Mental States, Hilary Putnam advocates for functionalism, the idea that the mind is defined by what it does, rather than what it is composed of. The mind serves a purpose similar to that of a machine, taking various inputs, performing a function, and producing certain outputs. He contests the arguments of the brain-state theory which claims that mental processes and brain processes are the same. I will claim that Putnam’s argument for functionalism is successful…

He basically states that the world, “…is a social activity – a mutual inter-change of messages and idea based on such social institutions as language, sciences, libraries, universities, and museums” (Watts, 90). By this, he is talking about a similar point discussed previously, that the world is built around language, which is learned naturally but also through others. The way in which we have come to…