Reflection By Louis Mumford

Cognitive psychology is a relatively young branch of psychology. Although it is young, it has quickly grown to become one of the most popular subfields of psychology. Aspects such as thinking, decision-making, problem-solving, learning, attention, memory, forgetting, and language acquisition are just some of the numerous practical applications of this particular science. In our society, success is measured by how well a person can interact with the social world. This affects our development of the cognitive field. The humanistic approach to cognition is often used to prove this point. The humanistic perspective is an approach to psychology that emphasizes empathy and stresses the good in human behavior. The positive and negative social experiences,

Although there are positive things about technology, Louis Mumford decides to focus on the negative in his article “Reflections”. Mumford believes that technology makes us use our cognition for the evils instead of the good. Although technology advances in a series of things varying from medicine to industrial, Mumford focuses on the negative side of technology. Maladaptive cognitive processes were brought out as technology advanced in the world wars and it wasn’t so easy to adapt. These maladaptive cognitive processes lead us to lose control in critical situations. Mumford’s idea of maladaptive cognitive processes is exemplified in “Dr. Strangelove”. In the movie, advancement of technology is the reason for the destruction caused. Humans lose control of the destructive weapons and cannot gain it back. This is when maladaptive cognition comes into place; humans depend on the technology more than there own cognitive abilities. In the movie there is also technology that is positive for humans, but this was very little. Everyone adapted to the destruction and evils, which made him or her think it was positive. This is why some of the soldiers asked for rewards and etc. Technology in this case gives a false account of the cognition and society then gets maladaptive thoughts that they thing is acceptable and

In the article “The Transformation of Man.”, Solomon talks about of how humans gain a fully developed mind due to society. Through society we gain the foundation of our though processes and this feature is self-reflective. We can develop cognitive thoughts from what we experience. This helps us to adapt in any situation from what we know. For example, my tire popped on me on the turnpike last week. I used my basic knowledge and self-reflection to figure out how to change the tire. Solomon also says that a man who lacks society cannot actually develop into a human and will have animalistic characteristics. In “The Wild Child,” this is the same idea shown. Victor a character in “The Wild Child” grew up in an environment, which lacked a real social environment. Victor is considered to be animalistic and has used several functions of cognitions to survive. Victor was living in the wild before Dr. Itard found him. When found, Victor was considered to be more animal like than human like at the time. But when Victor was introduced to the social world, his cognitive processes began to develop. This helped him turn into a real human. Dr. Itard slowly introduced the society to Victor. It was a slow process. Victor went from a negative society to a positive society and starts to develop all the basic functions of cognition. Victor gains the ability to understand his emotions