Wednesday, May 6, 2020

How Placebo And Reachability Bias Effect Cognition

How Placebo and Reachability Bias Effect Cognition Jennifer D. Byrd Wake Technical Community College Abstract The purpose of this paper is to identify and compare how placebo’s and reachable bias effect our cognition as a whole. Two journal articles found on the (internet) have been chosen. One being Draganich and Erdal’s (2014) experiment telling the participants how many hours they spent in REM sleep and then testing their cognition. The second one by Bar-Hillel, Peer, and Acquisti (2014) involving a coin toss and the bias of the first choice participants hear. These experiments however different, give us some insight on cognition and the mysteries of how we learn. How Placebo and Reachability Effects Cognition Introduction Cognition is a person’s ability to think, learn, and attain knowledge or information (Cherry, What Is Cognition?). In fact, you are doing it right now as you read this paper. Some papers, books, lessons, etc. are easier to understand and retain than others. Ulric Nessar has been known as the â€Å"father of cognitive psychology† since 1967 when his researched was made public on such topics as perception, problem solving, and remembering (Hyman, Remembering the Father of Cognitive Psychology). However, in my opinion the start of cognition began much earlier with Greek philosophers such as Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates (History of Philosophy). They started schools and groups devoted to thinking and talking about life and other

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