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Two Ways The Ted Talk Overlaps

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In many ways, the Ted Talk overlaps with the psychology textbook. Two ways that it overlaps in my option is cognitivism or cognitive psychology and social influences. To begin with, let's start with cognitivism. Cognitivism is the framework for understanding behavior. In this school of psychology, they focused on the aspect of thinking; they believed that “thinking affects behavior in powerful ways” (Lilienfeld et al., 2016, p. 9). This relates to the Ted talk because while Jill was talking about her experience while having the stoke, she says that her mind was going back and forth between reality and “La La Land” while that was happening her behavior changed as well. In her La La Land she was not thinking rationally, she was a carefree human

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