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behavior and that unlike the toxicologist, for
example, who has skills and tools to examine the blood, the
psychiatrist has no special skills or tools with which to
investigate the mind.A third source of discontent over the
M'Naghten rule concerns its cognitive moral theoretical
orientation.
when cognitive ... 5) Tools, tools, and more tools. I love everything Tim
Allen did, except for everything that wasn't Home Improvement. This
Old House is like porn to me.6) Hands. Now, I'm totally setting
myself up for a tragicomic hubris thing in the future, but hands
let one work with tools and
photography , physics ,
poetry , politics , polyamory , power tools , psychology , quantum
mechanics , queer , rain , ... growth,
mental health, knowledge, wisdom, life, teaching, cognitive
structures, practical psychology, practical cognitive science,
politics, -isms, people, how people interact*
, information
science , computer science , human-computer interaction , cognitive
psychology , aesthetics and critical theory , architecture and ... of time thinking about bricolage ; in
particular, how people appropriate tools and techniques to serve
emergent needs and how this process drives
Journal Posts (31)
by irish888maiden8
objects into functional tools and provides ... the
potential that cognitive development bestowed: a psychological
basis for misogyny. Biological Foundation + Evolutionary Psychology
= Misogyny? As human cognitive capacities developed the potential
for misogyny appeared. The ‘cognitive fluidity’ that
by meijd
So
what kind of tools did you bring for the job? A shovel, sledge
hammer, wheel barrow?” I asked. The large bald dude holds up his
hands and grins. “He needs no tools. Tools are for lesser men and
wimps! ... by analyzing the
weather with my cognitive tools, which we have assumed to
by tacit
1 Carl Sagan, in the
book The Demon Haunted World, sets out a list of cognitive tools he
describes as a "Baloney Detection Kit." It's a great set of tools
for spotting flim-flam or sloppy reasoning, and I highly recommend
this book.
by Certainteed
bandwagons are meant to be tools, much like stereotypes. ... this is rare,
it does happen, and should always be considered for study since
other cognitive biases are likely to be the cause for the aversion.
Journal Comments (8)
Comment by PlaySerious
The tools of law enforcement are largely the tools
of criminals. ... are more likely to have difficultly
dealing with the cognitive dissonance of respecting the humanity
even of serial criminals,
Comment by LifesZamazing
of spear-crafting is just
another small step in more closely comparing their cognitive
abilities with those of humans. Just calm down, Spicy. This is
nothing new, okay? ;) When they cross the threshold of crafting
tools that are designed for crafting other tools, that's when I'll
be impressed.
Comment by daedalus2u
When times are hard, better
to optimize the brain to understand physical reality so as to make
tools, and get what you need from the environment. ... xenophobia, but feeling xenophobia toward your own child
invokes such cognitive dissonance that the hatred must be displaced
onto something else.
Forum Comments (5)
Comment by crabbie_patty
More white matter – the
wiring in the brain – may provide liars with the tools necessary to
master the complex art of deceit, Raine said. ... long-term implications in a number of
areas," said Yang, a doctoral student in the USC department of
psychology's brain and cognitive science program.
Comment by HighlyAnimated
a separate “domain where one form of teaching
holds the appropriate tools for meaningful discourse and
resolution” with regards to their own ... away
inconsistencies or reinterpret old dogma regardless of the
cognitive dissonance involved in unifying interpretation and an
infallible divinity.
Comment by acynicaldream
tools) and those who Don't Give a Shit. That's fine and your
choice. However there is a price to that weirdness and I think
that's what you're talking about here. Part of it is just the
cognitive machinery we've evolved to appraise people.
Comment by Fasilyce
we have a lot of evolved cognitive tools that actually shape our
perception -- vision is a very difficult thing.
Comment by MuppetHands
guys and watching how successful guys work and
trying to emulate the guys, is that kind of thinking can build
what's called a 'cognitive illusion'. ... good advice that makes me more successful, it just
means they can't use my tools like I can; which doesn't shock me,
as most girls don't have much