When communicating with others, we assume that they have all the background information about the topic that we have already. Eg. when teaching others, the teacher can't understand why it's so difficult for the student to get it when it's so simple for themselves.
Published on Aug 14, 2024
Religious thinking is embedded in our cognitive process - its a mode of knowing.
Published on Jan 01, 2023
Identity labels: We are meaning making machines. We will assign labels or meanings to events - that will affect the way we process it.
Published on Jan 01, 2023
Cognitive Bias is a known error in the thinking process. These are generally caused by brain using shortcuts to process large amount of inputs.
Published on Oct 15, 2022
Learning is adding things to your long term memory.
Published on Sep 28, 2022
Exaggerated irrational thinking that can lead to anxiety/depression - or continue the state of anxiety/depression. This causes people to have a wrong idea about reality - often a negative one. It reinforces negative thoughts and emotions. Part of the CBT model.
Published on Dec 16, 2021
CBT is a Therapy model that focus on the reducing or managing symptoms of mental health conditions. CBT belongs to the Cognitive and Behavioral schools in Psychology.
Published on Dec 16, 2021
The science of understanding the mind and behaviors. This tries to understand why you do what you do.
Published on Nov 14, 2021
Bloom's Taxonomy is a hierarchical system that orders cognitive tasks that can be used to help teach and learn.
Published on Oct 20, 2021
In a constantly changing environment, it pays to be able to change your mind. You should know how to re-think - so as to integrate new information and also error check previous knowledge.
Published on Sep 13, 2021
Therefore, learning process should include unlearning.
Published on Sep 09, 2021
Intuition in philosophy is "an indirect way to grasp knowledge and morality". You intuitively know if an action is right or wrong - even though you can't work out why.
Published on Aug 03, 2021
All behavior is to reduce uncertainty - uncertainty brings stress.
Published on Jul 29, 2021
This is a tool that makes you think of the long term consequences of your decisions. Process...
Published on Jul 10, 2021
Shortcut Method: Try to explain the concept to a child(ELI5).
Published on Jun 23, 2021
When we encounter ideas that are contrary to what we believe, we have a mental barrier that automatically defends against it. We can only think of reasons why the new idea is wrong. We need to be mindful of this barrier - and have to learn how to disable it. Very important in having a Scout Mindset
Published on Jun 01, 2021
Environmental psychology: interplay between people and their surroundings - how our environment affects our behavior, our performance, and our well-being. Its used in many fields such as interior design, architecture, retail, education and more.
Published on May 07, 2021
Using a moral or emotional word in a tweet increase the likelihood of it being retweeted 15-20%.
Published on Apr 23, 2021
Anthropology is the study of humanity. It asks the same questions philosophers have asked - but only questions about humans(Why language? What is morality? etc). But rather than looking inward like philosophy, anthropology studies human cultures to get the the answers. Due to this, the answers Anthropology finds are not universal truths - its the truth of a set of people at a specific point in time.
Published on Apr 19, 2021
When someone holds beliefs, ideas, values that are contradictory to each other, it creates psychological stress. People will do all they can to change them till it becomes consistent so as to reduce the stress.
Published on Jan 22, 2021
Feelings are noisy signals about met & unmet needs.
Published on Jan 06, 2021
Psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them. Doing something many times makes us believe that we are good at it - independent of our actual skill. Used in advertising - seeing the advertisement of a brand multiple times will make us like it more.
Published on Jan 05, 2021
Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low competence in a field overestimate their competence.
Published on Jan 05, 2021
Issues that come with Metaphorical Thinking idea in Conceptual Metaphor Theory
Published on Dec 25, 2020
The mind is not only connected to the body but that the body influences the mind (in a way that the two always have to be considered together).
Published on Dec 25, 2020
Conceptual Metaphor Theory: Abstract concepts are metaphorically understood. Eg. "Affection"(Abstract concept) is understood in terms of "warmth"(metaphor).
Published on Dec 25, 2020
Embodied cognition, the idea that the mind is not only connected to the body but that the body influences the mind (in a way that the two always have to be considered together)
Published on Dec 25, 2020