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Category Archives: Cognitive Psychology

Articles on the acquisition, processing, and storing of information, and the exploration of internal mental states

Visual illusion – Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe

Look carefully at this picture of Albert Einstein. Keep your eyes on the picture and slowly take a few steps backward. The picture will change to Marilyn Monroe.

This entry was posted in Cognitive Psychology, Fun Facts And Optical Illusions and tagged albert einstein, attention, marilyn monroe, perception, visual illusion on February 27, 2012 by WIP.

What is The Stroop Effect?

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Task: Do not read the words above. Instead, say the COLOR of each word in each column, in a loud voice as fast as you can. Continue reading →

This entry was posted in Cognitive Psychology, Definitions, Fun Facts And Optical Illusions and tagged automatic processing, congruent stimuli, conscious visual control, incongruent stimuli, interference, sematic interference, stroop effect, stroop effect definition, stroop test on February 24, 2012 by WIP.

What Do You See?

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Bill Clinton or a Woman?

This entry was posted in Cognitive Psychology, Fun Facts And Optical Illusions and tagged attention, bill clinton or woman, cognitive illusion, optical illusion, perception, vision, visual illusion on February 15, 2012 by WIP.

What Do You See?

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This entry was posted in Cognitive Psychology, Fun Facts And Optical Illusions and tagged attention, cognitive illusion, eskimo or face, optical illusion, perception, vision, visual illusion on February 10, 2012 by WIP.

Psychology and Advertising

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This entry was posted in Cognitive Psychology, Fun Facts And Optical Illusions, Social Psychology, Videos and tagged advertising, affect, affect heuristic, central route, colors, cues, elaboration likelihood model, influence, information, involvement, media psychology, peripheral route, persuasion, psychology on February 2, 2012 by WIP.

Change Blindness Experiment

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This entry was posted in Cognitive Psychology, Fun Facts And Optical Illusions, Videos and tagged attention, awareness, change blindness, cognition, daniel simons, perception, unconscious on January 23, 2012 by WIP.

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