Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Elevator Pitch


  1. Who are you
  2. Background
  3. Connection 
  4. Ask 
Hi, I'm Kong Chen. I'm a freshmen wanting to major in Psychology and Social Science. I saw your previous research on belief bias, deductive reasoning, conditionals. I am trying to do a ACURA project on the effect of visual stimulus on thinking. It would be a great help if you could be my professor for this project.

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

PB2A Part 3-5


  1. Does enivromental stimulus affect a person beliefs
  2. Does acoustic stimulus effect a person judgement.
  3. Can visual stimulus effect a person choice in desires.


  1. Psychology
  2. Plasticity
  3. young adult
  4. environmental stimulus
  5. acoustic stimulus
  6. stimulus effect
  7. behaviorism
  8. thinking
  9. free will

Lourenco, F., & Casey, B. (2013). Adjusting Behavior to Changing Environmental Demands with Development. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 37(9 0 0), 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.03.003. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.03.003


Paraskevopoulos, E., Kuchenbuch, A., Herholz, S. C., Foroglou, N., Bamidis, P., & Pantev, C. (2014, June 11). Tones and numbers: A combined EEG–MEG study on the effects of musical expertise in magnitude comparisons of audiovisual stimuli. Retrieved August 10, 2018, from https://psu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?bookMark=ePnHCXMwdV27TsQwELRQpDse33BaiYoikJcdQgco3DXXHbUVJ7a4IneIkB6-gT_kS5i1k-voUmxWiuP1zCarmQsRoW-1YhLxSbK7N9PfYtfI-zP-8cjinyANEV8rGVc4HJfzV3-Qk3QhlugIWPUqORffOxasJ_TUFAwyhgd6JLwKdI22o7pe_379bOs1eS1WOh4IrImmSQg6OupH_6zk5fLZ3Zj2B-obHswZO0vtyevPRzcjT4DuhxF3oMB4PulKRJ8fI07q15d697yJJ4eCuAW0of2SeVsVyiVl1aL0S4f6KF1qrFEtuBR6mUI6oyxA2HWNKlJbZAZooExqpJFdfimuQ94ZB_S0hQYNKpZXCknYt_kmRM3Iqd-DFIUOosOZxhprv8aIXU0ZPZ6eIudFZRPoEOC5-P-Z9OZpG1L-Af-GiSI


Cardinali, L., Jacobs, S., Brozzoli, C. et al. Exp Brain Res (2012) 218: 259. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-012-3028-5


Tetzlaff, C., Kolodziejski, C., Markelic, I., & Wörgötter, F. (2012). Time scales of memory, learning, and plasticity. Biological Cybernetics, 106(11-12), 715-26. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/10.1007/s00422-012-0529-z




Oakes, L. M. (2017, March 1). Cognitive Development Plasticity may change inputs as well as processes, structures, and responses. Retrieved October 11, 2018, from https://psu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?bookMark=ePnHCXMwfV1Ni8IwEA1SWFf9DZIfYKFfpu3Fi7jsYQ8eFLyFJJ0uCmppq-C_35lOs0dPDeQLpm3evPTldSYC5K0gxlNqg5TK3X8reJKOKh8MMuNkgjSoyMsQwf8UDHneGu9XnE39BwCFyP8hpkQHUmQcn-Jnj9kkCY37l7yal-RzsfJ8ax59J00naa-Lrg0L7KFbSbZgfbRURl4uW5adQrcQAVbh-nv82h223-H434HQ0QMelmDWZVRHdZJWkQJnVGmhrqsEkCyo1GQOX0qVWleQe5qNbVHlNjdA7nbOAjmKZjyuRzrdsHWE9pqqi-aYaIqJjhJNqc1cLLkbQ-F_Jx8EbLDhBh429QiTDH8aV8H3M_wB1kB38A


Monday, October 8, 2018

PB2A part 1&2

Gayle Schwark, Ph.D - studies social cognition, error in reasoning and ability to apply logic.

I find her studies in reasoning the most intriguing because it is used in everyday life. It can also be view in different field of psychology, such as humanistic that focus on free will and behaviorism which believe behavior is caused by the enivorment. I would devote my long time study in critical thinking and error in reasoning