In the Pawn Broker, Mr. Nagerman was always a very sad man because of what happened to him in his past, and that turned his life into a sad life. Human cognition is self reflective, so we have the ability to know that there is a past, present, and a future. We are also aware of death. An animal like a chimp for example, will only grieve a family members death when they see the corpse, but as soon as they walk away from it, they stop grieving over it. However, humans will grieve a family members death for their entire lives. The last feature of human cognition is layered. It is our conscious verse our unconscious. Freud said that we are all little id's. Our unconscious is formed by pleasure vs. reality.
Adaptive uses of cognition are used for survival. Some examples would be language and communication, and our uses of technology and medicine. Maladaptive uses of cognition are used to destroy. Some examples would be smoking, and the exhaust from .
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cars that pollute the air. We tend to focus on immediate rather than remote contexts, because the future is unpredictable to us. When things go wrong, we want to feel good, so we make ourselves believe that it was not our fault. however, when something goes right, we believe it was our fault that caused it to work, so we feel good about that too. Wanting to make ourselves feel good is called self efficacy. .
The community that exists between all of us is a society. All societies have a culture which is a way of life. Everyone follows a plan, and rules, and work for survival. Society produces the human minimum. Whatever we define as a human can only happen through living in a social world. Everyone has a private self that they try very hard not to let anyone see. People also have conflicting emotions which means that you love someone and you hate that same person at the same exact time. In the Transformation of Man article written by Solomon Asch, he basically wrote that the society changes people, and we become human by changing for the better.
