Project Tags: Cognitive Psychology

Cognition in Context

Overwhelmingly, our knowledge about how the human brain perceives the world is based on WEIRD samples. WEIRD refers to participants from Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich and Democratic societies. Due to…

Effects of Emotional Arousal on Mathematical Learning

Realistic “word” or “story” problems represent one of the most difficult areas of undergraduate mathematics learning (Bessant, 1995). The situation is unfortunate as story problems have the power to stimulate…