Various Cognitive Development Assignment

Assignment 2: Major report
DETERMINATION OF THE RELATION BETWEEN ANXIETY AND
HAPPINESS BY THE USE OF COGNITIVE LOAD FUNCTION
Name of the student
Name of the university
Author note

Abstract
The study is going to discuss about the various cognitive development in an individual
that might affect the individual from the recognition of the pairs of the words and the
speaking related skills. The aim of the study is to determine the amount of words that can be
written and heard by the individual. This will help in the identification of the problems of the
students who are suffering from learning disabilities. This will help in the identification of
those problems as well as the methods that will help in addressing those problems. This
research proposal will include the various procedures like word stimuli and Individual
differences measures that will ultimately help the researchers to relate the emotions and word
type that are either being heard or said by the participants. Finally, this research proposal will
help in the analysis of the results that will show the most effective way for the determination
of the method that will improve cognitive activities of all the individuals especially those who
are suffering from learning disabilities.

Introduction
1. Topic statement
There are a number of stimuli that will help in the determination of the behaviour of the
individuals. These stimuli can be either in the conscious or in the unconscious state of an
individual.As per, Deutsch & Deutsch (1963) the selection of certain specific messages needs
the discrimination from the other messages that is shown by the behaviour of an individual.
This is due to the activity of an individual on the selective attention of an individual. The
authors show that the alertness or attentiveness as demonstrated by an individual might be
limited by a number of factors. For instance, if someone is continuously instructed on what to
say on a telephonic conversation then the person might not be able to concentrate effectively
on the conversation.
The level of awareness is also related to the perception of an individual. There are certain
research papers in which the authors describe the different approaches that show that the
perception of an individual without awareness. Research highlights that awareness is
regulated by the manipulation of the stimulus or by instructing observers to divide their
attention. The results of the research highlight that there are four basic methods that show that
the individuals perceive a stimuli only when they are not aware of that stimuli. Thus, there is
potential evidence for the topic statement of this research proposal which states that there are
a number of factors that can link awareness is linked to the perceived stimuli (Merikle,
Smilek, & Eastwood, 2001).
2. Establishing the method (masked semantic (repetition) priming) to be used to
study the topic
Priming is a process where there is exposure to one of the stimulus which influences the
response to the other stimulus. This can be done without the use of the conscious guidance or

the intention (Neelay&Kahan, 2001). For instance, NURSE is more quickly recognized in
comparison to the word DOCTOR. Priming can be of different types that includes sematic,
perceptual or conceptual.On the other hand, repetition priming are the improvement in the
behavioural response of an individual by the repeated use of the stimuli. The improvement in
the response of an individual is measured by the terms of accuracy or the time of reaction.
This usually occurs when the stimuli that are used repeatedly are either identical or even
similar to that of the previously used stimuli (Heyman et al., 2015). Keep in mind that the
researchers have used the masked semantic (repetition) priming where the primes were in
UPPER CASE and at the same time the targets are the exact words in the lower case for the
related conditions, or other words for the unassociated condition. Our primes were presented
below the threshold of conscious awareness. As per Bodner and Stalinsky (2008) the authors
uses a cognitive testing in order to test the automaticity of the masked priming effect and the
proportion of the masked repetition. The outcomes show that the priming is automatic and the
influence of the masked priming can be adjusted.
3. Building an argument for the experimental manipulations used in our study
As per, Merikle, Smilek, & Eastwood (2001) there are basic four methods that can be
used to demonstrate the perception of the individual without describing the awareness. Each
of these approaches reflects one of the two sort of the experimental logic. The experimental
logic is used to show the perception of the individual to that of the awareness. Perception is
referred to as the manner in which the sensory data is being organized and is consciously
experienced. It helps in the determination of the information that can be identified and can be
used in order to interact with the immediate environment.
There are a number of evidence which shows that the attention might influence the
manner in which individuals process the various stimuli. For instance, if there is continuous