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Is it possible to erase problematic memories?
This question is inspired by a question I answered on Health.
Can we erase problematic memories to aid recovery from depression?
A depressed person asked how to erase specific unpleasant memories in order to manage his depression. My answer was…
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Savant syndrome and Cognitive bias
Take the case of an autistic savant with exceptional memory skills.
Is this person less prone to cognitive biases involving memory skills such as availability heuristic bias than a normal person due to his exceptional memory skills?
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Does more…
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How are humans able to read scrambled text/characters (e.g., CAPTCHA)?
So I'm doing a research on developing a new text-based CAPTCHA system. I've devised a scheme where characters in a text are broken/split individually and randomly, making it difficult for OCR machines to decode it. (See figure for example) This…
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How can fear be a positive emotion?
Fear is something we all feel, and we typically experience it as negative. It seems difficult to treat it as a positive emotion or find any satisfaction in overcoming it.
So my question is: Can people learn how to have positive experiences with…
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Does working memory have a role in creativity?
What role does working memory play in creativity?
Creativity in this context being easily measurable creativity, so performance on things like the uses task etc. Divergent thinking is the ability to consciously generate new ideas that branch out to…
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Face-Blindness: Have I seen you before?
Sometimes when I meet new people, I feel like I have seen them before. Their faces might look similar to people's faces, I have really have met before.
The wiki article on Difficulties with Facial Recognition states that:
Prosopagnosia is an…
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Spontaneity as object of investigation in the cognitive sciences
What are known studies, experiments, thoughts and literature on spontaneity? I am looking for anything relating to questions like "What does it mean for someone to be spontaneous?" or "What factors are involved in being spontaneous?" or anything…
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Why are counsellors not supposed to give advice or lead the client? Is it possible for a counsellor not to be leading?
I’ve taken a course on counselling psychology and have attended a counselling sessions myself. All the literature I’ve read has said counsellors should not give advice. My question is why is this possible?
I know when talking to a counsellor they…
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Questionnaire regarding the motivation to be physically active
Does anyone know a questionnaire regarding the motivation to be physically active? That is, the motivation to move more (i.e. walk, cycle, run) and sit less on a daily basis.
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How can we realize when a sociological question is impossible to answer?
In my language there is a famous common sense statement which tells the populations are swinging back and forth from one extreme to the other.
The idea behind is that, at a sociological level, the influence of many psychological factors (such as…
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Do researchers and laypeople understand statistics differently?
I'm looking for references related to how researchers and laypeople understand concepts of statistical inference. In particular, I'm looking for articles in which subjects could demonstrate statistical competence by evaluating statistical claims.…
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What mental illnesses cause different performance on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task
I am aware that the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task (WCST) has been used multiple times to demonstrate differences in executive function control in schizophrenics, but what other mental illness sufferers have been demonstrated to have significant…
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Why can't subjective utilities take probabilities into account?
If my understanding of expected utility theory is correct,
it is rational for a decision maker to have subjective utilities for objective consequences. For example, it can be rational for a decision maker to value 5 dollars twice as much as 4…
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Why is empathy not a part of the Big 5 personality traits?
I have looked at the big 5 personality traits, and they include 5 basic factors: openness, extraversion, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and agreeableness. Why is empathy not on the list?
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What kind of Psychometric test is this
I’ve taken this exam as a requirement for a job. Unfortunately, I forgot what the exam was called. All I can remember is that the exam has 100 items grouped into five or four. Each group of five or four questions contains numerical, logical, and…
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