Cognitive Control (Z. Hussain)

• Cognitive control refers to the ability to manage one's thoughts and actions in a controlled and purposeful manner.
• Maier Cords are a type of cognitive control that involves the ability to inhibit one's own behavior in order to comply with social norms.
• The Bystander Effect is a phenomenon where the presence of others reduces one's tendency to help a victim.
• Nisbett and Wilson's research on associative influence and word choice highlights the importance of considering the context in which a word is used.
• Prefrontal cortex includes orbito frontal, lateral prefrontal, frontal pole, medial, and WR ego.
• Kinetic mutism is a condition where a person is unable to move or speak due to a neurological disorder.
• Visual sequence learning refers to the ability to learn and remember a sequence of visual stimuli.
• In infants, language development occurs around 8 months and involves the ability to produce syllables.
• Reber's 28 sentence grammar is a type of artificial grammar that is better than 78% correct.
• Two systems of thought are system 1, which is associated with the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and involves working memory, and system 2, which is associated with the anterior cingulate cortex and involves automatic conflict monitoring.
• Deliberate thinking is slow and flexible, while automatic thinking is fast and inflexible.
• Task switching is faster with repetition.
• The Stroop task involves slow, incongruent trials and large congruent trials, and is used to measure attentional selection, context-specificity, and specific proportion (50%).
• The Eriksen flanker task involves left-right trials.
• Yes in control refers to the ability to have both deliberate and automatic thoughts.