Cognition

As entertaining and interesting some of the cognition aspects were such as Von restorff Effect, serial position effect, and progressive discolure were there are actually two things that I really wanted to discuss. It was stated that having friends over seas that come to the US buy some of the most absurd things that you never knew existed and I find this to be completely correct. Having many friends from overseas and being overseas myself I find that I buy things that have the more creative labels or have the most obscure pictures and My friends that come over to the US do the exact same things. My friend Francesca buys by far the weirdest things when she come over here for the 2 weeks every summer. I am not an adventurour person when it comes to trying new things but I always try things that she buys simply out of curiosity and sometimes it is amazing and sometimes it is a complete failure but I always look forward to those two weeks and trying new things that I would never have the courage to by on my own. The other idea that I found fascinating and had never thought about until listening to this lecture was the idea of the exposure effect. I can not even count the amount of times I have listened to the radio and heard a new song and completely had no emotion towards it or I thought it was absolutely horrific and yet when i hear it the next time it begins to grow and then after hearing it 8 or 9 times its my favorite song and i want to go buy the CD or download it. But then once the song is downloaded I get sick of listening to it and it become just another song that I have in my playlist. And the Geico commercials are insanely irritating. Cognition and memory are amazing things. I know that there are products that I had as a child that went away and if I see them is some specialty story I force myself to get it because it has tied into a good past memory. I also was amazed but the chunks of memory and the whole 7 seconds for 3 chunks and 70 seconds for 1 chunk that is something that personally to myself I have never thought about when it comes to memory but then trying to remember those 5 chunks was so difficult but remembering door was so simple. Memory is a wonderful yet crazy thing and cognition is so important when it comes to packaging materials.