Zach Tran

Zach Tran Intro to Cognitive Psychology Week 3 Perception     An example in which I believe illusion was very imaginatively and powerfully used to alter one's senses of perception with the aim of deceiving them was in the movie Inception by director Christopher Nolan. In Inception , characters are able to control with great detail and power what takes place not only in their own dream but the dreams of others. The protagonists of the film build a team made up of specialists with the goal of constructing a dream that is so illusive and detailed that it fools their target's sense of perception and actually fools them into believing that their dream is real life.     The first sense of perception in which one is fooled in Inception  is visual perception. A member of the team focuses entirely on constructing a detailed world for the target. The world must be so detailed and realistic that the target believes they are actually in the real world and not a dream. In th...

 Zach Tran PSY 3051 9/17/23 Introduction to Cognitive Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience      Cognitive psychology, as defined in my own words, is the study of human mental processes from the human-centric viewpoint. This viewpoint focuses on human perception and how humans think about and perceive mental processes, rather than from a physiological or philosophical standpoint. Cognitive psychology is a field of study dedicated to learning more about and discovering more about what makes human minds work and think.     Why is cognitive psychology important? Cognitive psychology is important because it studies human cognition, a key part of both human society and the day-to-day lives of human beings. Many of the experiences that human beings go through everyday can range from very simple to incredibly complex, and yet we become so used to them that it becomes commonplace and expected. Once we take the time to delve into these complex interactions an...