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Hi, need to submit a 2000 words essay on the topic A View of Sherlock Holmes and Friends Through Cognitive Psych.It does not insist that the mind is little more than a fancy computer we haven't fully

Hi, need to submit a 2000 words essay on the topic A View of Sherlock Holmes and Friends Through Cognitive Psych.

It does not insist that the mind is little more than a fancy computer we haven't fully understood, yet it also acknowledges that there are internal mental states that can play a role in how mental processes occur. In the study of these ideas, many scientific, physical, and metaphysical elements must be considered. Understanding these concepts might be easier when one attempts to apply them to a real-life, or near-to-life, representation such as through the analysis of a video clip from the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes.

The particular segment to be analyzed is the dinner scene in which Sherlock Holmes meets John Watson's fiancée, Mary Morstan, for the first time. It begins with Sherlock sitting at an empty table in a busy restaurant, proceeds through Watson and Mary's arrival, a brief discussion between the three of them, and Holmes' analysis of Mary's character before Mary becomes offended and leaves with Watson trailing behind her. The clip ends with Holmes carelessly tucking his napkin into his collar and happily biting his freshly delivered meal.

Within the clip, Holmes demonstrates many of the elements of cogitation listed by Smith and Kosslyne. He shows his awareness of perception, "the processing of information from the senses," as an important tool in determining information about others. However, he seems relatively unimpressed by hints of emotion shown by Watson or Mary, even going so far as to ignore any of his own emotion when Mary throws her drink in his face. His assessment of other people comes out in a stream, as if the process of encoding occurs in direct relation to his words, relating the information he perceives to elements stored in the long-term memory as well as working memory to create an idea of Mary's past. His attention is very clear as he studies Mary, but his executive processes are weak, as he blurts out everything he deduces without filtering it first to ensure he doesn't offend her. Decision-making, problem solving, and reasoning all play a part in his ability to assess Mary's past as well as his determination not to buffer his words. Holmes also demonstrates the concept of levels of abstraction as he analyzes the details he sees in front of him at ever-deepening levels until he is finally stopped by Mary's wine splashing in his face. It seems clear that as Holmes' assessment progresses, Mary's emotions are beginning to get the best of her. As chapter 1 of our book explains, the ANS system which plays a key role in emotions will do several things to prepare an organism to deal with an emergency. These things include increased heart rate, increased breathing rate, dilated pupils, causes the palms of the hands to become moist, reduces digestive functions, and relaxes the bladder (Smith &amp. Kosslyne, 2006, p. 19). Although it is difficult within a film to see all of these reactions in Mary, the actress did a fantastic job in allowing her breathing rate to increase. the camera zooms in to show her eyes as if they had dilated. she rubs her hands together both to hide the tan line around where a ring used to be and to show how her hands are clenched and presumably moist. As Holmes begins to make his own inferences about the meaning of the clues he's pointed out, she takes a few sips of her wine, swallowing hard, as if her mouth has suddenly gone dry. This assessment of her reaction might easily be classified as a behaviorist approach. Although Holmes is very good at analyzing the perceptions he has of Mary, he proves that sensory information does not contain enough information to form accurate perceptions.

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