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Questions tagged [cognitive-psychology]

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Cognitive psychology is a subdiscipline of psychology exploring internal mental processes. The tag is meant for questions focusing on the interaction of many internal mental processes. If your question involves only one of , , , , or then use the associated specialized tag instead of cognitive-psychology.

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Why do participants prefer to give input values that are "round numbers"?

Background I have just been analysing some data where participants attempt to control a dynamic system with integer numeric inputs between 0 and 100. I've noticed that there is a general tendency for participants to give responses that are divisible…
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Research on aversion to cognitive effort?

I was reading Danny K's recent book for fun (Thinking Fast and Slow, 2011), and he suggests briefly that some people's reliance on their intuitions (i.e., "System 1") might sometimes indicate a sort of aversion to cognitive effort (i.e., "System…
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Why do people often do unnecessary things while performing a main task?

And this is not about procrastination (I'm almost certain). I've been noticing it since childhood that people (me included) tend to do unnecessary side activity, especially if they're invested in the main activity. Examples of main activity: having…
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Comprehensive list of cognitive techniques in CBT

I'm not a cognitive science student, but I'm interested in CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy) and I'm using it to overcome some of the problems I have. However, I have difficulty in finding resources online for it. AMAIK CBT has a list of cognitive…
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Lottery question, why do we people think this is logic?

For a project we did a small survey, one of the questions was about the following scenario. Last week the lottery was won by a ticket with the numbers x x x, this week you can make one choice. Pick a ticket with the numbers from last week or pick…
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Does mental rigidity cause psychological problems?

Is there a correlation between mental disorders and mental rigidity? I suspect that when people have very strong beliefs and it happens that this beliefs are dysfunctional they can incur into mental disorders. To further clarify the question it can…
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What causes systematic under- or over-estimation of general knowledge quantities?

What psychological theories predict whether individuals will underestimate or overestimate when responding to particular kinds of general knowledge quantity questions? For instance, I have seen an unpublished study in which people were asked to…
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Does psychology have a name for the "click" experienced in mathematics?

To understand what I mean, for three days I stared at a formula that looked Greek. Its semantics of relationship was unknown. The mathematics was just one long blur without logic and making no sense. I came back and forth to it. Then one day it was…
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Standard Academic set of emotions, and cognitive functions

As far as modern psychology is concerned, do we have a "standard" set of emotions agreed upon by academics? For example, happiness, anger, sadness, etc. Is there a single list that contains all emotions? Also please pardon my novice understanding…
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CBT (or something similar): can it be used without a therapist?

Can one apply CBT without a therapist?Or is there something similar that can be used without anyone's help? Is there any danger in using it without anyone's help?
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How do people perceive subjective scales?

Let's take a picture of apples: Are there experiments conducted that study the distribution of the following answers to the question "How many apples are on this picture?": Very little Little Normal Many Lots of Well, of course, this specific…
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How seriously is the hedonic treadmill taken among psychologists?

To me the notion seems somewhat counter intuitive to suggest a person who lives a normal life, is then placed in a situation where for example theyre subjected to constant abuse and fear, would adapt to have the same base level of happiness in both…
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Is there a relation between the ability to recognize faces and the number of people one meets daily?

Does the average number of different people one sees daily affect one's ability to recognize faces? Compare a person who lives in a crowded city (and thus sees many different faces daily) with a person who lives in a small community like a village…
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Why do humans fail to correctly repeat the same word over and over again?

My five year old daughter asked me why we can't repeat the same word ad infinitum. I have never thought about it before but she is right. Most people when given the task of saying a word, almost any word, will sooner or later get tongue tied and…
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Study about how position of head influences thoughts

I'm wondering if there are any studies on how (or if) the position of the head changes our thoughts or dreams. Mainly I mean when lying down, as I experienced it is hard to keep the thoughts that where there moments ago when I turn from one side to…
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