What I Learned This Semester




Schemas Assimalation and Accomadation

I found this video explaining the difficult concepts of schemas, assimilation, and accommodation. With this, the author describes the differences between the three and how they connect to one another. The difference between assimilation and accommodation is that when you assimilate something, you add more to that original schema so that different things can fit into it(such as the fouton example). Accomodation is when you completely alter or cross out the schema you original had to make an entire new one. This connects to the course in whole because it was a lesson that was taught in class as well. I hope this clarifies!

Piagets Stages Of Development

This video demonstrates Piagets Stages of Development. It shows each stage with an example of a child doing them. It shows what each stage consists of and how they are different and how cognitive ability and abstract thinking grows as you age. This relates to class because it talks about an aspect of cognitive development and the different phases that a developing mind goes through.

Confidence based decision making

I found this video where he talks about how all decisions we make are founded on confidence. He talks about how when in a near death situation, we think all about us, but once that situation is over we begin to think about everyone else around us. Why is that? He says that it all has to do with confidence. He goes on to talk about a lot of different situations where confidence gets in the way of decision making throughout the video. This connects to cognitive psychology because it is about decision making which is an important part of how our brain works.

How our minds can fool us

This video talks about cognition. One of the things that it mentions is prototypes and how we all have a specific vision in our mind about things that are said. Like if he said bird, we would automatically picture a type of song bird instead of something like a penguin. He talks about trial and error and how its not the best way to solve problems even though it works. He also talks about algorithms and heuristics.He also talks about confirmation bias and how most of the time we are overconfident in our answers. Problem solving is very complex and there are many different ways to problem solve in different situations.

The Technological Method of Problem Solving


Language Aquisition

This video talks about language acquisition. I thought it was interesting because she talked about the nature verses nurture debate in learning and how some believed it is innate and others believe it is learned. She talks about how people who learn English as a second language usually have accents. This is due to the different phonemes present in different languages. However, she talks about how babies can distinguish between any phoneme in any language. Overall, this was very interesting and relates to the topic of language in cognitive psychology.