perception – Cognition in Class

November 28, 2021March 12, 2024

Perceptual Organizing Our School Work

By Zachary Briggs

As a business major at the college I am enrolled in, I initially anticipated my psychology course to not have any meaningful value to my life in the future. Do not… I repeat, do not approach this subject with that mindset. This semester I learned about many concepts within psychology that affect our lives daily such as sensory & short-term memory, long-term memory, attention, reasoning; the list can go on. One concept that was very intriguing to me and I would like to share my understanding and knowledge about is Perceptual Organization. Perceptual Organization is something we all use in our daily lives without even knowing as college students. We are using Perceptual Organization when studying for quizzes, finishing projects, taking tests, completing math problems, or even organizing our dorm rooms, we are constantly using Perceptual Organization.

November 29, 2020March 12, 2024

Started from the Bottom Now We’re Here

By Kayla Enochs

Studying has been something that a lot of students struggle with. Finding the perfect method is way more difficult than it should be. Every person is unique and not everyone can study the exact same way. So, this blog post is dedicated to giving students another studying style that they can try to their utility belt. In this blog, students will be able to learn about what the bottom-up and top-down processes are and how they can be used to study.

December 1, 2017

You Know What They Say About Assuming: The Likelihood Principle and Unconscious Inference

By Hannah Schultz

Have you ever taken a class in which on the first day, the professor immediately initiates actual learning? You take your seat, and all of a sudden there is a Power Point presentation on the projector and you’re supposed to be taking out your notebook. All the while, you’re wondering why there’s no entertaining ice breaker to let everyone introduce themselves. It is from this day forward, you know this is going to be a class that requires immense effort, and your professor even says, “There is a lot of material to go over, so I will start class at exactly 8 a.m. and end exactly at 9:30”.

We have all experienced our fair share of classes such as this, and if you haven’t yet in college, you will. However, proceed with caution because when it comes to studying for an exam, most students decide to wait until the last minute to cram as much information as possible. While going over the twelve chapters of content, you are more than likely skimming over the information and relating it to other subjects in order to remember. Due to Helmholtz’s likelihood principle, we should alter how we study. Continue reading “You Know What They Say About Assuming: The Likelihood Principle and Unconscious Inference”