Situated cognition Puns

I'm planning to use her concept of legitimate peripheral participation and communities of practice she based on the idea of situated learning/cognition, as a framework for my Master Thesis in cognitive Anthropology. I know her works recieved a positive response among cognitive Anthropologists, but I wonder if it is also the case for cognitive psychology researchers since her works are centered in the relation between cognitive Psychology and Anthropology, cognition and culture/environment.

Edit : I didnt mean her concept but her use of the concept, since she did not invent the concept

How do you slowly get in touch with reality?

So often that I am faced with two difficult choices on a multiple choice exam, I am leaning towards to correct answer choice, but because the stakes are high I end up becoming overly critical of it that I just end up selecting the other (wrong) answer choice without much scrutiny at all.

But had I compared the two answer choices fairly, it is obvious that the shortcomings of the right answer choice is much smaller. But what I end up doing is judging the right answer by a higher standard, doubt myself, and then choosing the wrong answer without the same level of scrutiny.

Thanks so much！

I constantly sound like an expert advice giver to others and have genuinely helped them out of terrible situations, but then am utterly incapable of doing this for myself lmao I wanna say it could be related to using Ti-Fe(or maybe Ne-Fe considering spotting patterns would more be Ne I suppose). This was something I developed into my adulthood, not naturally good at in my childhood. For Fe, as an aspirational cognitive function, one would expect that to happen later.

I don't know though, what do you all think?

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My father in law is 80. No daily medications. 5’6ish, slightly overweight but not obese.

Previous smoker, but quit 30 years ago. Had colo-rectal cancer that was caught early and treated 20+ years ago. Surgery for cataracts a couple years ago.

A little background info- Husband’s Dad. Married and living with my MIL (husband’s Mom). It was FIL's second marriage and there a 17 year age gap. Their kids (my husband, SIL, BIL) are all grown and out of the house. My MIL is a busy body, and spends a large chunk of her time out of the house, which leaves FIL home alone (and unable to drive) for significant chunks of the day, every single day. FIL retired many years ago, but had a job a few days a week to keep busy until covid. Since then, he had surgery for cataracts, which was successful, but no longer drives (a good thing).

There has been a very noticeable decline in my FIL in the last 4 years, which seems to have really picked up in the last 2ish years.

Cognitive:

• he has (for as long as I’ve known him) repeated stories semi frequently, but it’s basically constant now. Like a loop of the same chunks of memories that he cycles through when we see him.

• a few years ago I noticed that when several of us are together and he isn’t actively involved in the conversation, he seems to be in a dissociative state. He stares across the room with a blank look on his face. When it’s happening, he isn’t listening to what’s going on around him. MIL got his hearing checked a few years ago, and it was normal. I think she got it checked because of the incidents described above, but didn’t notice that he “can’t hear” in isolated episodes.

• the above mentioned issues used to only happen in group settings, but 1 v 1 or 2 v 1 with him he would be more active in conversation. This has slowly declined though, and when I saw him 1 v 1 the other day, he was silent and disassociated the majority of the time if I didn’t actively keep his attention with conversation. I discreetly watched him from across the room, and could see him get lost in thought, slip into a dissociative staring trance, his mouth would just kind of hang open with a blank look on his face, and then after several mins, he would make a face/have body language like he was "startled" back into reality.

• We have a 6 and 3 yo. When our 6 year old was younger, FIL would sit and watch him play/ engage with him/ comment on what he was doing. This slowly stopped over the years, and I’ve noticed it more since our

- sweet pasta from https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueAtheism/comments/hlybmk/my_experience_and_struggle_with_atheism/fx2szrp/

Greetings everyone,

I've done a bunch of moocs, read a bunch of books, watched some documentaries on cogsci, and I took some from lessons I would like to share with you.

The idea is:
if you were explaining cogsci 101 to a random stranger in an academic setting, that stranger consenting to listen to you / learn from you,
what life-lessons regarding the brain would you tell them?

These are my generalizations, if not over-generalizations.

Do you agree with them?
Would you add or substract anything?

in this case, we = humans, especially with no training in psychology cogsci/neurosci. Training would lessen the negative impacts, but not cancel them entirely.

• we're irrational most of the time, borderline-stupid
• we rely on assumptions, and we make confusions between facts/rumors/delusions/lies and deceit
• we are prone to snap judgment
• once the snap judgment is implanted, we will look for any fact to support it, regardless of its quality or reliability
• the brain is pattern-pattern-pattern based, it lives for patterns, to a point it will see patters where there are no patterns
• it is my understanding that at this point in time, IA sucks at pattern recognition, and that's one of the great differences between computers and the human brain
• we live in a comfort zone of our own fabrication, sometimes that comfort zone is even objectively uncomfortable
• and stepping out of this comfort zone is perceived as dangerous, risky, painful and effort-inducing
• when placed in front of a cognitive dissonance, we will have a tendency to just reject it altogether
• our attention/focus is very limited. We're prone to tunnel-vision effect
• our willpower is a joke in modern days, we never stood a chance once the first screens came out on the market. We're like rhesus monkeys pushing buttons for a quick dopamine fix
• we're a collection of routines - automatisms - habits, like sentient robots
• and it's very difficult to replace or reprogram them
• we're predictible for the most part, hence marketing / street magic / mentalism / persuasion / manipulation / etc, they heavily rely on brain bugs to actually work
• we are prone to tribalism, group-thinking. Depending on circumstances, the "us vs them" mentality is never far off

I would appreciate some correction here, professors.
Thank for your time and consideration.
Cheers.

Study Referenced:
https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/pdf/10.1289/ehp.1510037

>Cognitive function scores were 15% lower for the moderate CO2 day (~ 945 ppm) and 50% lower on the day with CO2 concentrations of ~1,400 ppm than on the two Green+ days (Table 5, dividing the average Green+ estimate by the moderate CO2 and high CO2 estimates, respectively).

Are algae scrubbing setups an efficient solution to converting the CO2 in the air into O2?

edit: I should clarify that I'm looking at solutions an individual can use in their home.

That is an analogy to the minds reactions to mundane discrepancies, but I also meant it literally. I decided to take a cigarette and a book with me outside to enjoy them in my backyard. I have an obnoxious back door neighbor with an obnoxious, large, loud, barking dog. Typically I avoid my backyard because the dog is just so aggressive and barks so loudly. Today however, I analyzed my reaction to it and instead of being frustrated or angry I just sat and waited. I waited and listened to the dog for a good 10 minutes before my neighbor woke up and took him inside. The problem solved itself for me, and then I was able to smoke my cigarette and read my book in peace. There was no emotional reaction necessary, and I feel happy that I was able to remain calm and still enjoy my book.

my significant other lacks emotional intelligence/empathy…. he doesn’t seem to be able to understand feelings, he laughs when i cry, or try to explain what’s wrong with me or anything really, always seems to shift the problem to me, making is seem like i’m always the problem, he gaslights pretty hard too 😐 i don’t feel anything anymore but i’m just tired of him not knowing how to understand someone else, how can someone lack that??

The reality is that we (humans) are not very good at taking inventory of our perspectives and opinions and measuring them against one another. That single fact alone means that no matter how dire a situation is, we will not act to create change until the consequences of not acting are immediately damaging, in particular to our opinions of ourselves.

Why? Because we operate based on incentives that we measure by our own internal metrics. Here’s what I mean.

Some people choose to drive hybrid cars, like a Prius, and that choice is based on an internal need to feel good about oneself, nothing more. Deep down these people still know that even hybrid, or even all-electric vehicles are unsustainable, but they buy them in an effort to satisfy their need for validation and higher self-worth. They understand that these cards still require plastic, rubber, oil etc. to produce, distribute, and so on. Even if they don’t directly require all of those materials, the entire supply chain for those products does, so there’s really no escaping the need for an abundance of resources and energy even IF the end product is all-electric.

So it’s really about incentives. Those that choose to purchase these vehicles tell themselves that they’re doing good somehow, but they don’t balance that single decision against their other decisions, such as living in a 4,000 square foot house, or their decision to live miles to work, or their decision to take an annual family vacation by plan to a foreign country… and the list goes on and on and on…

In a nutshell, peoples’ wants for more and better will never be outweighed by their desire to FEEL good about themselves by making token gestures like buying hybrid cars, or not using a single plastic straw at lunch. These token gestures allow each of us to feel good about ourselves, but given our other requirements (like food that’s not out of a dumpster, entertainment that’s more than playing with sticks and rocks, and possessions that are more than those sticks and rocks) we will never sacrifice enough to actually reduce our footprint.

The naysayers in the group are likely to say I don’t know what I’m talking about and claim that THEY have reduced their footprint. “Look, I moved into a tiny house, I bike to work… etc.” Well then, how can they explain the fact that they’re on the internet in the first place? Either using a smartphone or a computer is an example of a sacrifice they weren’t willing to make to reduce their footprint.

Hey everyone,

I’ve realised, through the help of my psychiatrist, that I’m a real harsh critic of myself.

• I dismiss or talk down compliments or things I do well
• I compare myself to others and feel behind
• I am mean to myself when I stuff up -I feel guilt and regret over small things
• I take too much blame for my past relationship not working out

I’ve decided that I need to drown my thoughts with much better self talk, rather than convince myself that I’m not enough/ not going to find someone/ behind in life.

My ex recently reached out and mentioned that she was really grateful for her time with me and that’s helped me a lot.

Now to focus on being content with my phase of life, accept hard feelings rather than fight them, and be nicer to myself.

Thanks for reading!

Hi.

I'll be honest, I'm quite nervous asking this, because I'm hoping that this question isn't... offensive. B4 you ask urself: no, I'm not asking if I have NPD, but it's slightly related to that in a weird way.

I was with my therapist and i was going over... rather concerning results I got on a test about NPD. I believe there were like-- 50 questions, about? But my results weren't good in any aspect (except in the "exploitation" division... tbh i feel like exploitating people imo is quite worthless, because i feel like they're gonna figure out when I'm exploiting them, so there's no real "advantage" if i get found out, right? thus why i seem like a doormat to most.) and i took this concern to my therapist to see if this was a possibility. Then she told me something that threw me through quite the loop.

"You see, people who actually have that disorder, can't feel any empathy." And I was just-- stunned, I suppose? because I'll be honest, I've been lurking on this subreddit for quite some time, and I've seen a share of stories where people do seem concerned about things, and realizing that what they've done in the past was wrong... but the fact that she said "No empathy at all." just made me astonished. She then asked me about borderline personality disorder, and she said i fit into that much better because I've done some stupid shit to others, but "still feel empathy." I've seen some people in this reddit speak about feeling some empathy, but i suppose I'll just straight up ask:

Do people with NPD feel different varieties of empathy, depending on who you're talking about?

Again, I hope this isn't a stupid or insensitive question... I'm just asking because I've been doing a lot of research on cluster b's (am 100% sure i have borderline) and I've been desperately trying to figure out what's wrong with me lately.

If this is a bad question, I'll delete it.