Simply psychology is a website designed and written by Saul McLeod, he is a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Manchester, but before that he used to teach A- level psychology for 10 years at Wigan and Leigh College.He has a degree in psychology and a masters degree in research. He is also undertaking a PhD part time at The University of Manchester.
Q#1: How is it possible that every human being thinks differently?
A: Psychologists don't just look at a person's responses to a situation. They look at every aspect of the person to determine why they act/acted a certain way. Cognitive psychologists look at everything in a person including internal processing; "perception, attention, language, memory, and thinking. So, to the question I would have to say that no two humans are physically alike, so why can it not be possible for two people to not be able to think alike. We as individuals process and analyze things differently in order to comprehend the things happening around us. Therefore not everyone will understand our process, but our outcomes/responses are loud and clear.
Q#2: What kind of testing do you use to analyze a person?
A: Many people presume that cognitive psychologist help people by making them lay on a couch, and asking them questions about how they feel about a certain issue. This assumption is WRONG, in fact many people don't understand that this is a scientific study and we sometimes use laboratory experiments to study our cases. We study different aspects of the person. We might do questionnaires on their morals, we study eyewitness testimony, information processing, cognitive interview, language acquisition, and many other things.
Q#3: What type of things do cognitive psychologists not include/account in their studies?
A: As cognitive psychologists we always try not to blend biology into our work, for example we don't ask a person about their physical health, or any questions about heredity. If we do account for heredity we then have to account for all the factors that were relevant in their life. Its not that we psychologists are lazy, its because we don't want to mix the human capabilities and disabilities from different parts; like the physical disability may or may not affect a person. We like to analyze these things rather than finding out about it. Behaviorists believe that all humans are "born with a blank slate and don't have cognitive functions like schema, perceptions, or memory. Likewise we agree to that and we analyze the events that cause them to trigger their internal emotions about the certain situation.
Analysis:
From the article I learned that there are several aspects that contribute to a person's response to a stimulus. Even if its the the same stimulus given to two people, we should always expect different responses from every individual because in many ways no two people are the same both physically and mentally. I mean I kind of knew that no two people are alike, but didn't know that there were several aspects to it. It’s very interesting how cognitive psychologists don’t use any information about heredity and family traits. Also cognitive psychology “does not always recognize physical and environmental factors to determine behaviors.”
Future Research Question:
Where does psychology originate from? When and how where psychology grouped into different sections?
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