Cognitive Psychology In and Out of the Laboratory
Video and Multimedia
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Video
What Is Critical Thinking?—Definition, Skills & Meaning
Summary: Critical thinking is a term that we hear a lot, but many people don’t really stop to think about what it means or how to use it. This video will tell you exactly what it means and make you realize that the average person largely ignores critical thinking.
Common Barriers to Critical Thinking
Summary: In this video, we will discuss critical thinking and the barriers that can prevent us from thinking clearly and making good decisions.
Dimensions of Critical Thinking
Summary: The process of thinking critically can determine coming to the right or the wrong conclusions. This video helps you to learn about five dimensions of critical thinking.
Summary: A brief discussion of the value and evolutionary basis of unconscious processing.
Incubation in Creative Problem Solving
Summary: This video outlines some recent studies of divergent thinking using the Alternative Uses task that we have carried out regarding immediate vs. delayed incubation.
Website
Summary: Cognitive schemas. AllPsych Online is one of the largest and most comprehensive psychology websites on the Internet. Inside the site you’ll find over 920 individual, cross referenced, web pages and an estimated 3000 pages of printed material.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, PNAS
Summary: Unconscious processes. PNAS is one of the world’s most-cited and comprehensive multidisciplinary scientific journals, publishing more than 3,100 research papers annually.
American Psychological Association
Summary: Empirical Perspectives on the Psychoanalytic Unconscious.
Summary: The unconscious mind. Sigmund Freud didn't exactly invent the idea of the conscious versus unconscious mind, but he certainly was responsible for making it popular and this was one of his main contributions to psychology.