The Cognitive Powers Of A Person

Sports are an amazing part of my life, they keep me in shape, and allow me to have fun with my friends. I am involved in football and baseball for the Royalton Royals and have started varsity for both teams since my sophomore year. Sports not only require physical strength, but take a tremendous amount of mental strength as well. From past experiences, I have learned in order to be the best athlete possible, I must have great mental strength including qualities such as confidence, mental toughness, and discipline.

Two broad mental abilities are crystallized intelligence and fluid intelligence. Crystallized Intelligence involves accumulated knowledge and experience that all ties in with “wisdom”. Those who use this type of mental ability have good judgment and are experienced in social norms. This type of intelligence is measured on tests by vocabulary, general information, verbal comprehension and logical reasoning. Fluid intelligence is marked by the use of information processing skills. It involves the working memory, detection of relationships among visual stimuli, and the speed of analyzing information. This type of intelligence is measured on tests by spatial visualization, digit span, letter-number sequencing, and symbol search.

The theory that can explain cognitive ability is social cognitive theory. Based on literature review, social cognitive theory advanced a view of human functioning that conform a central role to cognitive, vicarious, self-regulatory, and self-reflective processes in human adaption and change. People are viewed as self-organizing, proactive, self-reflecting and self-regulating rather than as reactive organisms shaped by environmental forces or driven by concealed inner impulses. From this theoretical perspective, human functioning is viewed as the product of a dynamic interplay of personal, behavioral, and environmental influences. For example, how people interpret the results of their own behavior informs and alters their environments and the

First: In the visualization exercise in this week’s lecture, you were asked to choose an animal and consider how your animal exists in the world: how it lives, how it functions, how it moves through the world. What animal did you choose and describe what you visualized.

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, intelligence is “the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills,” though, there are many different perspectives regarding intelligence. Some believe the human species is born with a natural intelligence. Others, consider that possessed intelligence is developed by the interactions and experiences of an individual. The ongoing argument of whether a genius born or made is still inconclusive. However, one thing we are certain of is that intelligence plays into one’s financial status. There are no restrictions placed on what type of intelligence, just simply the intelligence one uses to thrive. Founder of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Howard Gardner, would likely agree. The Professor at Harvard University created the Theory of Multiple Intelligences which states that rather than intelligence being considered a single ability, intelligence is viewed by different “modalities.” (Lane et al.) Therefore, whether discussing Kim Kardashian-West who possesses interpersonal intelligence, allowing her to interact with others efficiently, or Albert Einstein, renowned for obtaining logical-mathematical intelligence, granting him the famous the ability to think outside of the box to analyze patterns and relationships, intelligence has an impact on income. Throughout this paperreport, the author will discuss what affects intelligence and how

Cognitive neuroscience categorised as one of the many approaches to human cognition, focuses on the study of both the brain and behaviour in collaboration. Evidence from such approaches can be used to understand in depth, the mental processes forming cognition. Consequently, this contributes to our understanding of the mind. Despite vast development in this field, various challenges are posed as no single method can answer every question raised due to its limitations and therefore must be combined in order to produce a more reliable understanding. Cognitive psychology was the first to make progress in the understanding of these areas and accordingly it can be noticed that the tasks used by cognitive neuroscientists for brain-imaging

On an evolutionary scale, the organisms of this planet each have adaptations, characteristics, and skills to help them survive. If we were to look at evolution as a simulation of quantifiable points towards a certain characteristic, many of the organisms of the animal kingdom put their points in the category of what we define as animalistic attributes. Attributes like strength, agility, senses, and tools like claws and teeth. Then there’re humans who, as a species, slowly evolved into a domesticated and advanced society. But what separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom that made us so much more advanced? The points that many animals took and invested in attributes that would facilitate getting their next meal were moved to the human frontier of intelligence. Humans traded the animalistic attributes for points in intelligence which allowed us to make advancements in technology that other organisms could not achieve. Humans are unique in the animal kingdom in the sense that they overcome nature with technology. Technology has become such an integral part of the human lifestyle that both technological and human evolutions become intertwined by means of a symbiotic coevolution. Gordon E Moore, co-founder of Intel, described a trend in which, basically the computing power of technological devices will experience constant exponential growth. This takes into account that people are the one who manufacture and create the parts of the computers that would increase computing

Every person views the world through their own lens. The mind and the brain differ from each other. The brain is our physical organ that is attached to our body. The mind is intangible in that it holds our thoughts, feelings, and imagination. It is the invisible object that allows us to apprehend to our surroundings. Everyone interacts with the environment differently from others; which does not make them abnormal in their community. People who are labeled with a disorder should be considered normal because they connect with society at their own pace.

The foundation to a human 's mind is based on the principals both taught into and gathered from experiences as a child. As children grow older, they soon start deciphering this information to decide for themselves which of their actions are right and wrong. What draws me to study psychology is this mental processing, and how it affects a person 's current and future character; particularly children. Childhood is a stage when a person 's individual identity begins to form; Children, more so than any other age group, are easily influenced by their surrounding environment; What they learn from these experiences, whether good or bad, they carry for the rest of their lives. Just likes ripples, each experience can be solitary or continue to amplify through social-emotional interactions, unless somebody or something is able to calm the disturbance. Having received my masters in applied psychology, my desire to obtain a Ph.D. in counseling psychology is motivated by a desire to build on my existing academic framework of psychological concepts to explore the link between behavior and trauma in order to better serve the communities that I work with: Adolescents.

The psychodynamics of a human mind are designed by nature to adhere to a certain thought process that makes up one's mindset. The said mindset acts as a shell when it comes to creating perceptions. This mental shell is something that acts as a hindrance to adapt to any changes stimulated in the environment that contradicts with an individual's behavioural pattern.

To certain extent, cognitivism could, nevertheless, be interpreted as a reaction to behaviourism. Similar to behaviourism, both families of theorists have the mutual opinion of learning occurs when stimulus and respond is connected. Yet instead of consequences determine, cognitivists emphasize the automatic innate mechanistic prevailing process in human brain which undergo intuitive receiving, organizing, storing and retrieving of information (Bigge, 1982). Cognition starts with sensory registers which input data whereas perception helps convert their senses into conscious awareness which later holistically kept in schema, or mental framework (Jordan, Stack and Carlile, 2009). The concept can be explained by one of Piaget’s main cognitive theory. Cognitivists tend to emphasis assimilation, the process which schema is expanded. When the newly added information does not correspond to pre-existing schema, the process of rearranging schema, accommodation, takes place in order to eliminate the contradicts within schema, enabling it to reach equilibration.

Explaining from a more traditional cognitive psychologist, studying the activities that relate to memory, perception, mental image, reasoning, learning, etc. This work aims to give an account of the mental

There are many different ideas as to the connection happiness and suffering have to each other and how these two things then tie into our lives. Religion and community as well as many other variables effect our ideas on our personal wellbeing and how we handle pain day to day. The stoic way of thinking, as presented by Roman philosopher Epictetus, would have us see suffering as a universal force in life that we may escape to achieve happiness. Others, like writer David Brooks, present suffering as the ultimate teacher, the force that shows us how to surpass our physical and mental limits. I agree with David Brooks and his idea about learning from the suffering we experience. I do not, however, agree with Epictetus and his stoic ideology. He believes that the forces of pain that we can control in our own lives should be avoided to insure our own wellbeing. This requires the disconnection from parts of our lives that I find necessary for overall happiness and contentment. The existence of suffering in our lives allows us to find our own forms of happiness, and through suffering, we collectively learn and teach one another to find happiness within our lives.

Of the seventeen insightful readings of foundational theories, case studies, and research into “understanding people,” I found that twelve were profoundly compelling to my understanding of human behavior in organizations. These twelve, in my judgement, form the rather extensive overarching theme of “the power of the mind and the personality.” In my paper, I aim to provide an analysis of how organizations are essentially directed by minds and personalities by synthesizing the concepts provided by the readings into four topics: people and organizations, values of an organization, attributes of positive leadership, and skilled decision-making. As I hope to make clear in the following analysis, these topics constantly inform and affect one another, creating dynamic organizations in both the public, private, nonprofit spheres.

Creativity and Intelligence, they couldn’t be any more different from each other. But maybe, just maybe could they be related in a sense? Or what does one have to do with the other? That’s what I always wondered when it came to both. In class we learned that they do met at a certain point, but after that no such connection happens between them. Creativity is the ability to produce new and valuable ideas; while Intelligence is the mental potential to learn from experiences, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.