Discussion: Cognitive Neuroscience Research, Intelligence, and Memories

Explain the empirical findings presented in your assigned article, applying appropriate citations and references. Describe, in your own words, how the research relates to your own experiences as well as how this area of neuroscience may have affected your past or current beliefs about knowledge development. Do the research findings refute or support your current beliefs, and in what ways? Are there variables about knowledge development for which you were unaware based on your article?

Based on the information presented in the five articles from the text, how prevalent are false autobiographical memories in your own life? In your own words, describe how emotion and episodic memory development affect these memories. Apply the basic research findings from the “Intelligence” article (Sternberg, 2010) that intelligence is highly inheritable and fixed to your own experiences and compare them with the suggestions you drew from the findings of your assigned article.

The relationship between cognition and emotions has been studied extensively since the advent of the effective revolution. The findings in the given article show that it is possible to have emotional reactions without the effect of cognition; the reverse way is also true, where cognition can occur without emotion (Eich & Forgans, 2003). However, it has been documented in several studies that emotional reactions are the result of the manner in which peoples appraise various stimuli from the mind, body, and environment.

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