Forman Christian College University
Course Code: Psyc 315
Course Title: Cognitive Psychology
For this final assignment, you should look back over the semester and think about all
you’ve learned and how you might have changed. What were the most interesting things
you learned? What surprised you? Has anything you learned changed the way you
think about the world? Have any of your behaviors changed because of what you
learned in Cognitive?
Also, reflect on the process. What activities did you enjoy? Which ones did you find
more difficult? How did the activities help you to learn? What will stick with you after
this class is long gone? Especially discuss what you will take with you and remember
and use in the future.
This journal should be about your experience rather than a boring list of the things you
learned. Please be original and do not plagiarize. I will not mark according to grammar
or English proficiency, but according to how much you explore your experience and tell
about what you thought was most interesting and how it applies to your life. The
minimum word limit is 1000 and the maximum is 1500.
Concepts that were most interesting to me throughout our course were TMS, motion parallax,
template matching models, stimulation of the mind, cocktail party effect and confirmation
bias. Each had their own reasons:
Reading about the transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was pretty surprising because I
had not known technology had become so advance that it was literally able to use machines
to shit down particular brain parts. I wanted to know more about it and was interested to
know whether it could work for a friend of mine who has been depressed for the passed 3 to 4
years. I was also wondering how common or not it is in Pakistan.
The idea about motion parallax was interesting. The only time I had previously read the word
parallax was in physics where we were taught the parallax error. It had never even occurred
to be why cars seemed to go slower when they were at a greater distance and why they were
faster when the distance was shorter. I’m glad I’ve been made to think about this now.
The theories on template matching models were interesting because these are things that we
normally never think of and continue our lives just as they are. We never question what
makes us recognize letters written in different handwritings even though as children we were
taught through only a single font of writing.
During a discussion maam once stated “our minds crave stimulation”. She explained that this
is why we are always imagining things or making things up in our heads. We have always
known that the brain never stops working and even when we sleep, we dream. But it is
interesting to now know that it is because our brains crave constant stimulation.
The Cocktail party effect was an interesting concept because of its name. It is funny how
among all other scientific labels we have one known as the cocktail party effect.
Course Code: Psyc 315
Course Title: Cognitive Psychology
For this final assignment, you should look back over the semester and think about all
you’ve learned and how you might have changed. What were the most interesting things
you learned? What surprised you? Has anything you learned changed the way you
think about the world? Have any of your behaviors changed because of what you
learned in Cognitive?
Also, reflect on the process. What activities did you enjoy? Which ones did you find
more difficult? How did the activities help you to learn? What will stick with you after
this class is long gone? Especially discuss what you will take with you and remember
and use in the future.
This journal should be about your experience rather than a boring list of the things you
learned. Please be original and do not plagiarize. I will not mark according to grammar
or English proficiency, but according to how much you explore your experience and tell
about what you thought was most interesting and how it applies to your life. The
minimum word limit is 1000 and the maximum is 1500.
Concepts that were most interesting to me throughout our course were TMS, motion parallax,
template matching models, stimulation of the mind, cocktail party effect and confirmation
bias. Each had their own reasons:
Reading about the transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was pretty surprising because I
had not known technology had become so advance that it was literally able to use machines
to shit down particular brain parts. I wanted to know more about it and was interested to
know whether it could work for a friend of mine who has been depressed for the passed 3 to 4
years. I was also wondering how common or not it is in Pakistan.
The idea about motion parallax was interesting. The only time I had previously read the word
parallax was in physics where we were taught the parallax error. It had never even occurred
to be why cars seemed to go slower when they were at a greater distance and why they were
faster when the distance was shorter. I’m glad I’ve been made to think about this now.
The theories on template matching models were interesting because these are things that we
normally never think of and continue our lives just as they are. We never question what
makes us recognize letters written in different handwritings even though as children we were
taught through only a single font of writing.
During a discussion maam once stated “our minds crave stimulation”. She explained that this
is why we are always imagining things or making things up in our heads. We have always
known that the brain never stops working and even when we sleep, we dream. But it is
interesting to now know that it is because our brains crave constant stimulation.
The Cocktail party effect was an interesting concept because of its name. It is funny how
among all other scientific labels we have one known as the cocktail party effect.
