# All Questions

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### Time passing faster now as compared to 50 years (or 1000yrs) back ? [duplicate]

I asked 200 people (who include my friends and family members in age group of 15 to 70 years living in cities) how they feel about time ? Do they feel that the time is passing faster as compared to ...
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### How does Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning really differ?

I was taking a practice ap psychology test and was curious how operant and classical conditioning are different. My test claims that the difference comes from the fact that Classical conditioning is ...
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### Super polymath feasibility: Is it possible to have the highest intellectual ability in every area?

Could a single individual have the abilities of Gauss in mathematics, play soccer like Messi, write like Dostoyevsky, play chess like Carlsen, have ideas in physics comparable to those of Einstein, ...
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### Sense of time: Evaluation and correlation with psychological traits and states

Some of us are often in hurry and always late. Some make mistakes while evaluating time-needs for tasks. How is our sense of time connected with our personality? Is it more correlated with the process ...
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### The function of pumps in forming the resting potential

I am confused by the following. Apparently the resting potential of -65mV is reached when the two forces, diffusion and electrical gradient are in equilibrium. So why does the book say "The ...
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### What are ways to explore metamathematics from a cognitive science/neuroscience lens?

What are ways to explore metamathematics from a cognitive science/neuroscience lens to understand the evolution of mathematics based on structural and perceptual processing biases introduced due to ...
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### What is the current consensus on if fMRI studies in blood flow actually match brain activity?

How good is blood flow (BOLD signal) as a measure of actual neural activity? What deficiencies exist?
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### How and why can movies take us out of our everyday physical reality and into a fantasy world?

Have you ever experienced that feeling after watching a really great movie (somewhat like a dramatic one) that after watching the movie, you got carried away? Even though the movie ended well in a ...
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### Why is surprise, sudden loud sound or movement an element of fear?

Why is it that a sudden loud sound or movement, or some kind of surprise tends to invoke fear? This phenomenon is not restricted to humans and can also be observed in animals Sheldon Cooper brought ...
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### Does procrastination imply knowledge of what is being delayed?

When someone says he is procrastinating, does that imply that he knows which exact action is better than the action that he is currently doing? Is it called procrastination when you know that your ...
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Can an observer of women in red lipstick or more darker shades interpret anything related to their psychology?
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### Why does one's mind swing between different moods based on external circumstances?

This is an objective question even though the example I have mentioned below is subjective. Is this a universal phenomenon, or is it only something that I have perceived? Scenario1: Event: ...
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### How are inherited instincts related to deprivation states?

In Psychology and Life (Chapter 1, 18th edition), the authors (Gerrig and Zimbardo) write that According to the psychodynamic perspective, behavior is driven, or motivated, by powerful inner ...
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### Psychological explanation for perceptions of the Loch Ness monster

I previously asked about whether physics could explain the occurrences of the rogue waves which could psychology explain the eyewitnesses' perceptions of the Loch Ness monster? (The Physics.SE ...
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### What causes behavioural inhibition?

There are obvious consequences that prevent people from behaving anti-socially or criminally. However there are many behaviours that are within the bounds of social norms, yet there seems to be some ...
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### Are there any serious neuroscientific theories of emotional valence?

Could anyone tell me if there are any serious neuroscientific mechanisms that have been proposed to explain how feelings of body states take on a positive or negative character (valence)? An example ...
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### How we can control unconscious functions? Is this a proof we can?

I am confused because I think I controlled unconscious function by mistake. I don't know what actually caused it. I did serious-joke with my friend after we calculated the money I need to spend in ...
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### Neural robots vs conventional robots

My friend is working on a robot that can be mind controlled. He basically wears a headset, and that headset translate brain signal into control signal to move a robot. ...
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### Transforming data with a limited range (0,1,2) for parametric testing (ANOVA) [migrated]

I've collected data on accuracy of recognition of images. Accuracy is a score out of 2 with points 0,1,2.. participants can score a 0. I am aiming to use a parametric test (ANOVA mixed design) to ...
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### Is there a name for a personality trait (or psychological condition?) for adopting the accent, mannerisms, idioms or traits of others?

Is there a name for a personality trait (or psychological condition?) for adopting the accent, mannerisms, idioms or traits of others? I mean, unconsciously adopting, not "consciously making fun of". ...
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### Analysis according to Jung's Psychological Types

Recently I read Jung's Psychological Types out of self-questioning. I would like to analyze myself in such a fashion more "professionally", however I do not profess to be able to do that myself, ...
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### What are the different types of cognition?

I am not a cogsci person trying to get a basic understanding of cogsci. I have just heard of the terms embodied cognition and distributed cognition. Are there other kinds of cognition theories as ...
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### Body Language: Why do we act differently around someone we're attracted to?

Many professionals have said that when you're attracted to someone, you tend to fidget, run your hands through your hair, sit with your legs facing them, and that our faces light up around them, which ...
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### How does performance relative to others affect motivation and absolute performance?

Suppose someone is given performance feedback relative to others, for example via a ranking procedure like a leaderboard. Is it best for later performance and motivation to receive feedback showing ...
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### Conceptual thinking [closed]

Can you recommend any good books about conceptual thinking? You know some guys say physics in some point is a procession of concepts. Originally our knowledge is based on our concept of stuff ...
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### Does nearing sleep onset distort our conscious imagination?

My imagination is pretty real, when I imagine lifting my hand there, I instantaneously feel it. But I tried to imagine at night on the bed that I am diving in the ocean, and every time I dive 1-2 ...
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### Are there validated measures to perception of decision making process alignment?

I want to test an idea about how the perception of decision making process alignment with another party influences the tendency to accept information from that party. For example, if my wife and I ...
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### How to web scrape images of famous individuals to build mnemonic dominic system?

I know the following question may not fall into the Cognitive Sciences community, but perhaps you have went through this situation, and could have an answer. I am building my system of 100 names ...
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### What is the relation between general and linear prediction in espicifice and Evoked Potentials signal behaviour?

Prony's Method based on Linear Predictione , which is used to model an Evoked Potentials signal , my question is what is the relation between prediction in general , and linear prediction in ...
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### Personality disorder beginnings in parental narcissism and eating disorders

During childhood, are parental narcissism coupled with a pre-teen eating disorder good indicators of adult personality disorders, such as classic or covert narcissism? If an eating disorder occurs at ...
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### What is the modern definition for problem solving?

Apart from Polya's definition of problem solving in 1981, "finding a way out of a difficulty, a way around an obstacle, attaining an aim that was not immediately attainable.", is there a better modern ...
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### What evidence is there to suggest that delayed gratification is taught and learned and not genetic?

Every evening I spend considerable time and energy trying to get my kids to eat their dinner, holding off treats such as chips or dessert. My experience was that my parents did the same. I have ...
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### Do people prefer to buy items from bigger stores vs. smaller stores?

Do people prefer to buy items from bigger stores rather than from smaller stores, even if prices are the same in both? I'm just trying to make a case to my boss about a software product, and I'm ...
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### How does childhood incidents or upbringing affects one's sexuality?

Does sexual teasing in the childhood can lead to bi-curiosity. I mean if someone becomes shy and start feeling inferior or bad about his/her sex(sex organs) due misbehaviour, assault and continous ...
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### Is Anyone Working on Problem Solving Learning Environments?

Prof. David H. Jonassen of the University of Missouri was a stalwart in designing problem solving learning environments in teaching learning situations. His books give good theoretical framework for ...
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### Is there really a Shiny Object Syndrome?

The term "Shiny Object Syndrome" is used to describe the tendency to start new ideas without thinking them through, especially in business. Does this phrase represent an actual clinical diagnosis? ...
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### why self-hypnotise for focus

There's a book on self-hypnosis called "Instant Self-Hypnosis" that says: ...Slurring of words, intense focus, strong emotions or other signposts that you are hypnotized... Why then hypnotize ...
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### Can reading [self-help] books aid in therapeutic treatment of the narcissistic rationalization pattern?

I've dealt with a few people having a narcissistic personality trait / disorder. For me it's interesting to see the defense pattern they adopt through rationalization to defend their self-image and ...
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### What are the sources and effects of Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)?

EDIT: Rephrasing my question but I am keeping the original intact. It seems that a lot of discussion is around compulsive use of social media to make sure they are staying up to date. But can this ...
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### Does the brain reconstruct informations from modalities?

Are brains reconstructing the information that come into the modalities? For example if I see a chair, has my visual cortex built a chair and placed it where the lower layers reported the parts of ...
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### What approaches has there been to resolving the “symbol grounding problem”?

The symbol grounding problem can be summarized as the problem of defining a mapping between dogs-in-the-world and the concept of dog in your head. What approaches have been used in cognitive models to ...
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### Best way to capture effect of making people upset? [duplicate]

I am an undergrad, I am planning to do some research to see how much I enjoy it before I apply for graduate programs. I am researching the effects of a certain characteristic of a presenter making ...
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### How to make an AI for a game

I realise this isn't a programming Q&A site, so bear with me. I'm interested in finding out the kind of information someone who is good at a game naturally filters out of the vast information from ...
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### is it good to study more than one subjects the same day?

I have personally never been able to do that! by saying "study" I don't mean doing "home work" or reading a book; I mean research. for example: trying to solve a difficult mathematical problem in ...
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### What's the difference in the consequence of lack of desire and lack of affect?

Let's imagine 4 children. One feels like not being loved by the parents One feels like not being desired by girls Another one feels like not being "enough" One lost the mother. Lack of self ...
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### average attention time and average attention compensation time

I'm currently looking for better study patterns and habits, i was wondering if there is any good source for statistics regarding average attention span and more specifically- what is the average ...
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### Why do we have so many wishes and desires?

Two years ago I started to learn (as self-education) evolution theory and neurobiology for to understand - who we are and where we came from? Now I see clearly that we are our brains, which are the ...

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