Sentences with phrase «cognitive psychologists believe»

Many cognitive psychologists believe that the long - term memory is divided into two distinct types: explicit memory and implicit memory.

Most cognitive psychologists believe that kids really start to have dreams with a real plotline when they are about 5 to 7 years old, about the time they develop a sense of self, which is necessary to insert themselves into dreams.

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They must have suffered very much from what modem psychologists call «cognitive dissonance» — the painful disagreement between what we believe and what others maintain with assurance.

The study — published in Scientific Reports — was the first to challenge a growing trend among cognitive psychologists over the past 20 years that has attempted to show that believing in the supernatural is something that comes to us «naturally» or intuitively.

Many evolutionary psychologists believe that the cognitive and emotional makeup of human beings represents an adaptation to our ancestral environment.

As a psychologist trained in cognitive development, I believe that human beings continue to learn in similar ways across the generations — we don't sprout new brains or new minds.

In a 2011 article published in The Chronicle for Higher Education, we learn that in the late 20th century, the study of metaphor became increasingly popular with «philosophers, linguists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and others...» Some believe that metaphor is «the concept at the crux of all thought, and maybe all human understanding.»

Humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers believes that the use of laboratory experiments by cognitive psychology have low ecological validity and create an artificial environment due to the control over variables.