Question 1: Description

Please reference the course modules and textbook content, and answer the following questions:

What have cognitive researchers discovered about the connection between so-called rational, conscious activity and reasoning?

How does a person’s language and word choice reveal one’s mental state?

1. What are the eight categories of Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences (MI)? What are the characteristics of each of these categories? What types of professions do you feel would best fit each category?
2. Purpose
3. The purpose of this assignment is to review and discuss the distinctions between rational and irrational thinking and consciousness, the impact of language on emotion, and Gardner’s multiple intelligences using psychological theories covered in the textbook and module content.

Question 2: Description

Jackson Pollock’s Number

Discuss what you see as you meditate on Jackson Pollock’s painting entitled Number 31.

Helpful Tip

Let your unconscious come up with it. Try, but don’t try, to get the answer or answers. Other clues: Your answer will be abstract vs. concrete. Also, it relates to the concept of Janusian thinking.

How does what you see in this painting relate to our previous discussion in Module 4 on “seeing with our brain?” To refresh your memory, you can revisit the Module 4 discussion by clicking on the “archived topics” tab.