People don't resist change, they resist being changed. Awareness enables individual, organisational, and social transformation.
Note: This research is part of a series of assignments for Cognitive Psychology, part of my MSc in Psychology. Autobiographical memory (AM) is memories from past experiences of our own lives (Fivush, 2011). This type of memory contains episodic memories (specific events) and semantic memories (personal semantic memories, facts related to those events) (Cabeza &... Continue Reading →
Note: This research is part of a series of assignments for Cognitive Psychology, part of my MSc in Psychology. My first childhood memory comes from being separated from my brother at five in kindergarten. I found out that not having memories as an infant is called childhood amnesia/infantile amnesia, as the earliest memories in children... Continue Reading →
Note: This research is part of a series of assignments for Cognitive Psychology, part of my MSc in Psychology. People make decisions based on past experiences and learning by using shortcuts or “rules of thumb” to reach the correct conclusion and take action. These shortcuts are called heuristics, and they play an essential role in... Continue Reading →
Note: This research is part of a series of assignments for Cognitive Psychology, part of my MSc in Psychology. Growing up in post-communist Romania, we always knew what our future held for us: my brother was meant to study mathematics, and I was meant to study humanities. However, 90% of girls in high school were... Continue Reading →
Agents of Awareness 