Geometrical illusions are displays that give false impressions that observers take to be accurate. They have traditionally been cited as evidence against the naive realist claim that people see the world as it "really" is. Such illusions, however, often depend on their being viewed from a single...
AI in drug discovery might have some fundamental shortcomings in its current state, but it has only been able to advance to where it is today as a result of the contribution of aspects of human psychology, some of which are summarized in Box 2. Given that the future opportunities of a pa...
Ch. 15-16 Assignment: an Introduction to the History of Psychology, 6th Ed. by Hergenhahn Mental illness is a condition characterized by emotions, thoughts, or behavior that are substantially abnormal for a given time and place in history (p. 514). Historically, it has been broadly been def...
What is intuition? Explain the flaws in human judgment. What is a negative recency effect? How is confirmation bias adaptive? What does the term 'perspective taking' refer to? What are visual illusions? Define interviewer bias. What would be an example?
You might have felt it -- the feeling that you've experienced something before, but, in reality, the experience is brand new. There are over 40 theories that attempt to explain the phenomenon of déjà vu. Michael Molina explains how neuroimaging and cognitive psychology ...
Illusions are common misinterpretations of a stimulation to the senses. Hallucinations are misinterpretations in the absence of a sensory stimulus. Most people have experienced seeing, hearing, and feeling things in the state between wakefulness and sleep. The hallucinations that occur upon awakening ...
For example, Marshall Segall, Donald Campbell, and Melville Herskovits (1963) published the results of a multinational study in which they demonstrated that individuals from Western cultures were more prone to experience certain types of visual illusions than individuals from non-Western cultures, and ...
Split Brain Psychology (superbowl.substack.com) Markov Chains for Queueing Systems (two-wrongs.com) The mathematics behind monitoring (dejanualex.medium.com) Naming and Necessity by Saul Kripke (1940-2022) 152 Visual Phenomena & Optical Illusions (michaelbach.de) Reverse-Engineering Insect ...
How does your insight on visual illusions relate to research on Extrasensory perception? Explain the role of visual imagery in cognition. Is perception reality? Explain. What are the roles of sensation and perception in allowing you to recognize who a person is?
What are the types of critical thinking? What is upward counterfactual thinking? What is belief perseverance bias? What is the nudge theory? What is the overarching principle of object relations theory? What have illusions taught us about how we perceive the world?